Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 481 - 475: Dark Sun 10

Chapter 481: Chapter 475: Dark Sun 10

Then there was the state of the cultivation technique.

’Yuan Dou Demonic Technique—Fifth Layer, Demon Mechanism Realm at 11%, nine layers in total. (Last four layers—Demon Image, Demon Cloud, Demonic Flame, Demonic Intent.)

Yuan Jing Soul Domain—Primitive Demonic Realm (Opponent’s all attributes weaken by 10-50 points, those with fragile wills are likely to develop a fear of heart demons, defeated without fighting.)’

"Over seventeen hundred points... not bad... The power of the lord together with memory fragments have become much purer under the purification of the Righteous Soul Pearl. They can also be absorbed little by little in batches."

He closed his eyes and browsed through the memory fragments of the slain elderly Yuan Jing ancestors one by one.

An enormous amount of Taoist intent and comprehension, various divine skills and spells, as well as different life segments surged wildly into his mind.

But after such a long time of being bombarded by memory fragments, Lin Xin’s spirit had already been tempered to be unbreakable, his mind firm as a rock. The purely purified memory fragments, also divided into several batches by the Righteous Soul Pearl, did not pose a significant burden on him.

More often, he viewed them as though they were movies, attempting to find some relatively complete cultivation techniques and divine skill inheritances.

Unlike the slain foreign races from the Outer Regions, as a Yuan Jing of the Human Race, the memory fragments he obtained this time contained a massive array of various spells and techniques.

Although most of them were not to his liking, after all, the slain Yuan Jing did not start off being so powerful; they also had a long growth process.

And among the randomly obtained memory fragments, more were from their memories before they had grown to strength.

Lin Xin had previously sorted through the fragments, selecting from them a suitable Forbidden Method called Wan Suo, meant to alleviate the pain of physical-after effect, and it could also suppress the essential harm of the inherent attributes of Youfu to the greatest extent.

Soon, most of the remaining memory fragments were absorbed, leaving only some deeply ingrained fragments.

There were five pieces in total, representing five Yuan Jing.

Lin Xin steadied his mind and began to carefully browse through them one by one.

The first to be absorbed was the memory fragment of the Shang Yang Daoist Master. There was nothing much to see in it, mostly large segments about her cultivation practice when she was young and fights with others.

The second was from that unnamed Yuan Jing Cultivator who excelled in assassination. The fragment recorded the moment of unintended killing of his own wife, overwhelmed by remorse, and established a set of rules of three kills and three not to kill.

The third was from the Plum Blossom Celestial Maiden, which also yielded little. Her cultivation methods were mostly exclusive to female cultivators, filled with the tedium of cultivation practice within the memories.

The fourth, the Vice Sect Leader of the Red Spine Sect. This fellow had a somewhat strange blank. It seemed that all memories were forcibly erased just in time, mysterious and inexplicable.

Then there was the fifth, Daoist Master Dong Xie. Lin Xin had obtained the Wan Suo Forbidden Method from his memory fragments.

The last piece of pure white memory fragment was the final one Lin Xin planned to absorb, coming from the mysterious elder who possessed the Jade Immortal Bow.

That elder seemed not to belong to any Qi Cultivation system, nor was he a body cultivator, demon cultivator, or demon cultivator.

Physically weak to such an extent, yet he could possess and operate the exceedingly powerful magical treasure, the Jade Immortal Bow.

This completely unequal pairing of offense and defense gave Lin Xin a faint and peculiar sense.

Quickly, he began to slowly introduce the old man’s memory fragment into his mind through the Righteous Soul Pearl.

His eyes closed slowly, and his mind was filled with brilliant light.

There was nothing but countless white lights bursting forth before his eyes, completely blinding him to anything else.

Then he opened his eyes again.

He found himself in a vast white foggy space, unable to see his own hands in the thick mist, completely blind to his surroundings.

He was kneeling upright on the ground, head bowed forward, as if in worship to some presence.

"The Underworld is in chaos, demons run rampant, the cycle of reincarnation is clouded, the Sect Master commands you to intervene and investigate immediately."

A grand and peaceful voice came to his ears.

"Disciple’s mana is weak, Taoist fetus is not formed, I fear I cannot bear the heavy responsibility."

At that moment, a slightly familiar voice came. Lin Xin recognized this was the old man’s voice. Clearly, he was conversing with the owner of the voice.

"I grant you the Jade Immortal Bow. With the Asura rampant in the Underworld and demons proliferating, you should reap some benefits gradually."

As soon as that voice fell, a streak of golden light suddenly descended, hanging directly in front of Lin Xin—it was indeed the ’Tai Yuan Holy Heart Jade Immortal Bow’ that he had obtained.

Seeing this, Lin Xin’s eyes suddenly darkened, and all the images completely disappeared. What followed were scenes of the old man’s encounters in Youfu after arriving there, owing a favor to the Vermilion Bird Holy Court.

After watching all the memory fragments, Lin Xin took a deep breath. He opened his eyes and his gaze flickered with excitement.

"The Underworld indeed... as deduced from that voice, the Underworld is just an area where they are located.

Just as I regard the Two-Faced Kingdom, Giant Kingdom, and the like."

Although not much information was obtained, Lin Xin’s mood was like a roller coaster, violently fluctuating.

No wonder that the elder was so frail, yet his magical treasure was so formidable. It turned out he was not the one who refined the Jade Immortal Bow but was merely bestowed with the treasure.

For a moment, Lin Xin’s mind was in chaos.

"Since there is mention of the Underworld, what is the place they are in called?"

"Could it be that the place I’m in now is the Underworld from the myths on Earth in a previous life? Then why aren’t there the so-called Yama and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva?"

"If this old man can enter the Underworld, then perhaps I can also follow the vine to find the melon, discovering a way to leave the Underworld and go to the realm he is in!"

"Which other worlds are connected to this dark abode, and what about those shadowy figures in the Lion’s Plain...."

Questions kept surfacing in his mind.

Um!

His body suddenly shook as the intense pain struck again, abruptly disrupting his train of thought.

"Forget it, I must focus on enhancing my cultivation and strength first."

He endured the pain and quickly submerged his consciousness into his chest and abdomen, where a swirl of colors was increasingly devouring the surrounding specks of blue luminescence – the unique cyclone of the Yuan Dou Demonic Technique.

An infant, bearing a seven to eight parts resemblance to him and equally dressed in the splendid Sect Master’s Taoist Robe, was sitting cross-legged with eyes closed, right at the center of the vortex.

"A revival from decay, the mother of Yuan Dou."

Lin Xin’s arms lifted, dragging along numerous chains that made a crisp clattering sound, then he abruptly smashed them down in the middle, clasping his hands together.

Hum...

Above his head, in the distant cosmos, a star suddenly lit up, its shining blue halo slowly falling like a gauzy veil, piercing through the barriers of the pine forest, the rooftop of the Sword Sect’s Taoist Palace, the chamber walls, the sealing formation, and landing precisely on Lin Xin’s crown, slowly seeping through the Baihui acupoint.

The blue starlight formed a straight column of light, connecting Lin Xin to the mother of Yuan Dou in the cosmos above, also known as the location of the Heavenly Elemental Stars.

A surge of violent, irritable, and nauseating thoughts continuously tried to spark the desires deep within his heart, but Lin Xin suppressed them in a flash.

Having experienced the agonizing aftermath of the Underworld, he faced these much weaker desires without a hint of wavering, instantly crushed by the pain of his willpower.

Star Force flowed continuously into his body, and Lin Xin began to construct a Star Force channel with demonic arts.

Moments later, once he had established a stable connection with the Star Force, he directly looked at his attribute panel.

"Now that I have sufficient attributes, it’s time to increase them evenly to prevent any side effects."

His gaze fell upon his attribute panel. With over one thousand seven hundred Free Attribute Points, he had more than enough to smooth over the extreme imbalances created by his previously one-dimensional damage output.

First was damage, adding ten points.

As far as his eyes could see, the attributes rapidly climbed, and soon they stopped at a value of 900 points.

Then came Defense at 247 points; Lin Xin wasted no words, staring intently at it.

Immediately, the Free Attribute Points sharply decreased like a waterfall, rapidly depleting.

Quickly, a total of 653 Free Attribute Points vanished, all loaded onto Defense, which also directly reached 900 points.

Lin Xin distinctly felt a great change in his body; within, whether organs, bones, or flesh, everything seemed to be under tremendous pressure, compressing and condensing forcefully.

All over his body, he seemed like a crystal glass figure; all impurities and superfluous matter were slowly being expelled under this immense pressure.

Lin Xin even had the illusion that each breath he exhaled carried with it the toxins and waste gases expelled from his body.

"It seems that the quality change brought about by over six hundred points of Defense is a long, gradual process. I mustn’t rush."

The third item: Lin Xin’s eyes fell on Evasion. This was a magical attribute, not only providing a premonition-like effect but also aiding in concealing oneself, allowing him to more effectively hide his presence and avoid danger.

With 247 points in Evasion, Lin Xin, who was not averse to spending, instantly added 653 points, quickly reaching around 900 points.

As the Evasion attribute rapidly soared, Lin Xin clearly felt the innate sense of premonition for threats in his mind growing stronger.

It was like a balloon gradually being inflated, getting bigger and bigger, and seemingly brewing something.

"Then comes Constitution."

Lin Xin took a deep breath, looking at what he considered the most important attribute.

Indeed, Constitution was the attribute he always deemed most crucial—it could enhance resistance, recuperative power, withstand poisons and toxins, and one highly essential hidden ability.

That was the recovery rate for Spiritual Energy, Demonic Qi, Inner Strength, etc.

With every enhancement in Constitution, any amount could increase the recovery speed of these powers.

Up to now, he had also discovered a key effect of Constitution—it could increase the upper limit of the explosive power output of his meridians for Spiritual Energy and Demonic Qi.

Whereas an ordinary cultivator of the same level could at most burst forth with half of their strength without injury, with the increase of attribute points, he could instantly unleash a hundred percent of his power in one breath.

This was also why, in battles among cultivators, he remained unmoved until he struck, and when he did, he displayed terrifying explosive power.

"Many cultivation techniques essentially aim to continuously enhance a human’s various attributes and recovery powers. Without practicing any cultivation techniques, I can improve my bodily attributes. The effect of this special ability is comparable to the world’s top cultivation techniques," Lin Xin sincerely remarked.

Finally, his gaze quickly fell on his Constitution attribute, which had 684 points.

The Free Attribute Points rapidly decreased again, and soon Constitution shot up to 700 points, then 750, 800, 850, 900!!

The attribute boost halted instantly at this point.