Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 489 - 483: Dark Sun 18

Chapter 489: Chapter 483: Dark Sun 18

"Shorty is right. All right, while we still have time, let’s hurry."

The team leader quickened his pace, leading the others swiftly towards the center of the plain.

The further they went, the stronger the smell of blood became in their noses and mouths, to the point that even Shorty, the most determined treasure hunter, began to hesitate.

Luckily, they found a few broken Foundation Establishment Cultivator Magic Artifacts along the way. Although broken, they could still be disassembled into materials and sold for a good amount of money.

This encouraged the team to continue scavenging.

"The smell of blood is too strong. Once we cross that hill over there, we’ll return the way we came. I’m afraid the core area might have already spawned resentment spirits."

The team leader expressed his concern.

"Okay."

"Let’s listen to the captain."

"Whatever brother says is good. After all, we’ve already found quite a few nice things."

Nobody objected.

The team members carefully navigated the rugged terrain, constantly avoiding deep, bottomless cracks in the ground, and being cautious not to step on the inner walls of the deep pits.

It was unknown what had caused these deep pits. Days had passed, and even now, touching the inner walls would emit an intense heat of at least hundreds of degrees.

The team struggled to slowly overcome the hill in front of them. The team leader had just reached the summit of the hill when he looked down.

At that glance, his expression became completely blank. Standing there motionless at the summit, he couldn’t even hear his teammates calling him from behind.

The other members, seeing this, panicked and hurriedly climbed up to check on the team leader, but as soon as they reached the top of the hill and saw the horrifying sight in the distance, they too were stunned.

"This...what is this...!?"

What lay before them was a vast black plain, riddled densely like a honeycomb with countless pits.

These pits were filled with thick, blood-red plasma.

Each pit contained swirling, scorching blood plasma.

At a glance, there were easily over a thousand!

Powerful blood Qi and negative energy surged upwards, forming a distorted human face above the thousands of blood lakes.

Seemingly detecting the presence of living beings, countless faces of resentment howled and violently rushed towards the squad.

"Run!!"

The squad members desperately retreated, but before long, two of those who were behind were instantly caught by the resentment spirits. With a tearing sound, they were ripped into several pieces and devoured by the spirits mid-air, leaving no intact corpse.

Despite being pursued, two siblings desperately made their way out. They also spread the news of the anomaly at the Great Yuan Plain.

Thousand-Eye Blood Lake.

The alliance army of the Six Sects of the plain was targeted for assassination by Pine Forest Sword Demon alone, turning the entire land into a charnel ground, with all the blood of living beings enveloped by resentment, forming the Thousand-Eye Blood Lake, violently killing any living being that dared to set foot in it.

The whereabouts of the five great Yuan Jing ancestors are unknown, and the fate of thousands in the alliance army is grim.

This news shook the entire Southern Prefecture.

The reputation of Pine Forest Sword Demon became unparalleled for a moment.

The wounded Six Sects also ceased all attempts at retaliation. They didn’t dare utter a word of resistance, let alone act. The entire Southern Prefecture was subjected to Lin Xin’s terrifying shadow.

The act of slaughtering over a thousand cultivators, including the six Yuan Jing, with his own power nearly destroyed about half of the Southern Prefecture’s military strength.

For a time, even Central Prefecture and other regions heard faint rumors of Pine Forest Sword Demon’s notoriety.

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Several days later.

Within the Great Song territory, on Mount Yuanyin, Shagula Evil God Temple ruins.

Lin Xin was casually seated on the roof of the temple, gazing at the distant scenery.

The sunlight poured down, causing the layers upon layers of pine forests to stir up waves of dark green, like an ocean of green.

At this moment, his Free Attributes had accumulated quite a few points.

’Attack 900, Defense 900, Dodge 900, Physique 900. Free Attributes 692 points.’

By killing those five Yuan Jing and plus the thousands from the alliance, up to now, with the previously accumulated Lord’s Power not yet fully digested, he had already received six hundred points in return, and it seemed that half of the Lord’s Power in his body was yet to be fully transformed.

"No waiting anymore."

He planned to break through to a thousand average attributes right now.

He could feel himself becoming stronger every moment; it was a side effect caused by the last rapid enhancement, as his body had not yet fully adapted.

Originally, he planned to wait until his body fully adapted before continuing to add points, but now he could not wait to break through the thousand-point threshold.

He felt it internally; a thousand points in attributes were a special segment for him.

With a wave of his hand, a large number of silver and red sands flew out of his hand, spreading around him.

In an instant, the surrounding area was shielded into an absolutely quiet barrier formation.

Soul Domain opened, forming a black light circle, encompassing an area of a hundred meters around.

After making preparations, he took a deep breath, instantly drew in all the gases within the formation into his lungs, compressed them, and then, with a swipe of his hand, tore a rift in space.

He exhaled the compressed gas into the unknown black space, sealing the space. The entire formation was instantly vacuumed, void of even bacteria.

His gaze fell on the attributes panel, and the first thing he focused on was attack.

Attack determined speed and strength, a crucial attribute.

The 900 points slowly began to rise.

901, 902, 904, 908... The increase started little by little, but soon escalated to ten points at a time and even tens of points at a time.

In just a few breaths, the 900 points in attack reached 1000.

The moment he broke through a thousand points, Lin Xin faintly felt as if he had stepped into a mysterious and wonderful special state.

His eyes suddenly turned red, and everything in his sight seemed to change color. Countless black dots and cracks emerged everywhere in space, and he seemed to be able to easily see these points and lines.

Everything else was the same; every object, including the small stones on the ground, had tiny dots and lines.

They were dense and innumerable, constructing the entire boundless world.

Lin Xin looked up and saw that the distant endless points and lines seemed to connect like a spider web linking small balls, stretching to the invisible horizon.

Suddenly, his head felt dizzy, but he quickly snapped out of this state.

"What is this?!" He was shocked as the long-lost memories of Earth resurfaced.

"Is this the Dot-Line Demon Eye? The Direct Death Demon Eye that can see the weaknesses and cracks of all things?"

He took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and continued to add the remaining attributes.

The next one was Defense.

The nine hundred points in Defense also soared like a rocket, reaching a thousand points in just a few breaths.

Boom!

That strange state appeared again.

The whole world turned red, and all the objects were covered with dots and lines.

This time it seemed not like before, much more stable than last time. There was no strange dizziness either.

But after half an hour, that state faded away once again.

Lin Xin faintly understood and proceeded to add over a thousand points to the subsequent attributes of Evasion and Constitution.

He left the remaining 292 points alone for now.

After all attributes had exceeded a thousand.

The world seemed to be permanently dyed in red.

Lin Xin’s eyes naturally emitted a red light, and then fine black fragments floated around him.

These fragments swirled about him like gravel, disappearing and mysteriously reappearing, cycling endlessly. After a while, the black fragments slowly vanished.

Lin Xin clearly felt that he could freely enter and exit this strange state now.

He slightly closed his eyes and mentally exited the state. Suddenly everything in front of him returned to normal.

Feeling his body at that moment, he sensed something was off.

It wasn’t that there was something wrong with his body, but the power within him was too terrifying and too concentrated.

If it weren’t for his Soul Domain enveloping him, isolating contact with the outside world, he feared that once he went out, the space around him would instantly collapse, creating a huge gravitational pull and sucking away everything and every life nearby.

"My power is too strong. It seems I have undergone a qualitative change."

Lin Xin now understood why he seldom saw those at the very top ranks in the world.

Just their mere presence in this world could trigger disasters; their very existence was already taboo.

He recalled those Demon Gods and Heavenly Venerables he had encountered before.

Including some information obtained through Soul Search from Vermilion Bird Master’s mind.

The Supreme Heavenly Venerable Wuyan Yuqing of Desolate Jade Pavilion and the Universal Heavenly Venerable of Radiance Society should also possess extremely formidable powers, but why wouldn’t they cause space to collapse?

After briefly pondering, he understood.

The fundamental reason was those beings all possessed immensely large bodies.

Becoming gigantic increased the contact surface with space, thus not placing too much burden on a small area of space.

It distributed most of the pressure over a larger area of space.

As for him, while his power had increased, his size had not changed, which led to the small areas around him needing to withstand extremely terrifying pressure.

"Fragile world." He sighed, then refocused his attention on that mysterious state he had experienced earlier.

On the attribute panel, in the original position of Innate Divine Ability, from Divine Shadow it transitioned to another complex and elaborate strange symbol.

Lin Xin concentrated on it, and suddenly a stream of information flowed into his mind.

’Innate Divine Ability unknown capability—can see the traces of space, dots, lines, folds.’

"Unknown ability, huh?" Lin Xin extended his hand and gently traced one of the dot lines in his view.

Shh!

Space suddenly split open, unleashing countless darkness and terrifying suction force, attempting to swallow everything nearby into it.

Lin Xin touched another small dot on the edge, and instantly the crack closed, everything returning to normal.

"It’s said that True Monarch Yuan Jing could step into other worlds, travel thousands, and Red Leaf Sword Master once mentioned that Huang Yuerong survived untold calamities. It seems at this level, this world can no longer confine True Monarch level experts. Moving to other worlds is as easy as breathing or drinking water, and traveling to other worlds is also natural."

He understood clearly.

Looking at the ability in the attribute pane that had not yet been named.

He squinted his eyes.

"Capability named as: Fragile World."

He stood up, stepped forward into the air, and countless space cracks naturally exploded with his every move as if crushing many invisible black glasses.

Lin Xin, however, was unconcerned; he looked up at the sky.

"Reviving decrepitude, Mother of Yuan Dou!"

The Mantra of Yuan Dou Demonic Technique resonated slowly.

In an instant, the wind rose, and the clouds surged...