Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 490 - 484 - Demonic Flame One

Chapter 490: 484 Chapter Demonic Flame One

Boom...

The once sunny sky suddenly became overcast, with large dark clouds accompanied by rumbling thunder slowly spreading.

The horizon instantly darkened.

Crackle... Boom!!

The black clouds were fiercely penetrated by a deep blue beam of light that descended from the sky, breaking through directly.

The Star Force beam hit Lin Xin at the Evil God Temple directly, with a width of a hundred meters, it fell like a massive pillar within the boundaries of the Evil God Temple.

With a thunderous roar, the entire Evil God Temple vanished in an instant, as countless fragments and debris flew in every direction, and the air was compressed into a clear ring that expanded outward.

The entire Yuan Jing Mountain trembled as if a pile of sand had been forcefully punctured by the blue pillar from the very top.

At this moment, Lin Xin’s efficiency in drawing in Star Force was at least ten times higher than before!!

The Yuan Dou Demonic Technique ran wildly, pulling vast amounts of mother Star Force into his body, merging with his flesh.

Lin Xin’s flesh, after the thousandth point, had reached a frenzied state, as the endless Star Force was devoured like by a bottomless abyss, crazily absorbed into his body.

Under the massive storage of Star Force, the Yuan Dou Demonic Technique was quickly surpassing the progress unimaginable to other cultivators.

With a refining speed beyond imagination, and an equally unimaginable rate of drawing in Star Force, Lin Xin’s Yuan Dou Demonic Technique was improving with terrifying efficiency.

As time slowly passed, a circle of murky mist became visible around Lin Xin.

Unbeknownst to him, the Yuan Dou Demonic Technique had unfolded, the Sixth Layer had quickly stabilized, and he was gradually beginning to step into the Seventh Layer.

"The Sixth Layer is just slightly weaker than my current Damage Attribute, which is why I was able to reach it quickly. The attribute achieved in the Seventh Layer should be higher than my own. It has always been my use of attribute points to push and improve the cultivation of the Yuan Dou Demonic Technique. Perhaps this time it will be reversed. After improving the cultivation level of the Yuan Dou Demonic Technique, it will in turn improve my own attributes."

Lin Xin’s heart became even more enlightened. Each improvement of the Yuan Dou Demonic Technique would temper the flesh and improve its strength. It’s just that his own attribute strength had always far surpassed the demonic arts, so its effects were not evident.

But if the demonic arts could surpass the attributes, then they could achieve the same goal of enhancing the body’s strength.

However, the improvement of the demonic arts had always depended on long-term tempering like grinding water.

Using this to cover up his unique attribute abilities was just perfect, as most demonic arts strengthen physical qualities.

His Nascent Soul was constantly swallowing vast amounts of deep blue Star Force, and his body’s structure was also rapidly changing, moving closer in the direction of the Ancient Demon God of the Desolate Vault.

A large amount of Star Force was condensed into liquid, then solidified into countless tiny grains of sand, which slowly rose and sank within the colorful halo around his Nascent Soul.

The Nascent Soul’s face, after absorbing countless Star Forces, gradually matured from a child into a slightly larger youth.

After an indeterminate amount of time had passed, Lin Xin’s body suddenly shook, and the intricate patterns of his cultivation techniques within him all lit up at once.

The pillar of Star Force above his head finally began to slowly shrink and dim down.

From a hundred meters thick, it slowly turned into more than ten meters, a few meters, and finally became thinner and thinner.

With a ’puff,’ the beam of Star Force suddenly dissipated and shattered.

Lin Xin opened his eyes, with faint blue arcs of electricity flickering within, and his Yuan Dou Demonic Technique silently broke through to the Seventh Layer.

"The reason why the Yuan Dou Demonic Technique is called a demonic art, there’s another key reason," suddenly from a distance came a clear and tranquil female voice.

"That is, it has the most significant characteristic of demonic arts, enhancing the flesh. And without reaching a certain level of flesh, one cannot step into the next layer."

Lin Xin slowly turned around, and in the Void behind him, stood a slender and graceful beautiful woman.

She was in a white dress, carrying a similarly pure white fluffy umbrella.

"Life has its limits, and talent is one way to show those limits. Red Flower Junior Brother, can you tell Sister how you managed to enhance your flesh so rapidly?"

The umbrella was raised to reveal Quan Sheying’s beautiful and delicate face.

Lin Xin looked at her quietly.

He did not know which layer of the Yuan Dou Demonic Technique Quan Sheying, as the Senior Sister, had cultivated to, but it was certainly more than just the mere Fifth Layer.

Both being at the Solidification Stage, she was among the strongest with Divine Beast Bloodline under the Heavenly List.

Unlike those characters from earlier in Nang Fu, she was one of the renowned masters in Yuan Jing.

"When did Sister arrive? This is Junior Brother’s territory in Nang Fu. If you had come, you should have notified me in advance, so I could have arranged for someone to receive you," Lin Xin said, standing with his hands behind his back, blandly speaking.

"I’ve been here for quite a while, but seeing Junior Brother breaking through, I decided to wait here for a bit," Quan Sheying said with a smile, "Speaking of which, the Qichen Yao Girl personally came to look for you. Master commanded you to return to the Yuan Dou Demon Sect’s Undetermined Mountain. Although our sect is not as powerful as the Red Spine Sect, we are a member of the Immortal Alliance, and self-preservation is not a problem."

"Do you believe that?" Lin Xin laughed.

Quan Sheying laughed as well.

"Whether I believe it or not, does it have anything to do with whether you return?"

"So Sister intends to forcefully take me back?" Lin Xin sighed.

"How could that be? Since Junior Brother doesn’t want to return, at most I will test your cultivation strength. Whether you go back or not is up to you," she said as her figure began to change gradually, a deep purple Soul Domain emanating from her, enveloping her completely and forming a dark purple magnificent Armor.

Her figure also grew visibly stronger and more robust from a woman’s form, quickly morphing into a three-meter-tall werewolf clad in dark purple armor.

The umbrella in her hand vanished.

Shhh!

The white dress beneath was torn apart by the swelling muscles and skin below which expanded like being inflated.

In just a few seconds, Quan Sheying transformed from a pretty human woman into a giant dark purple werewolf.

She was wrapped in dark purple full-body Armor, emitting Demon Source Qi related to Lin Xin, which spread like countless tendrils of smoke in all directions.

A blood-red starlight shone from her forehead.

Hum...

Behind him, a gigantic pitch-black two-headed dog shadow, over a hundred meters large, slowly emerged.

"Dear junior brother, let me check your current cultivation level... whether you really can withstand the Star Morning Demoness,"

As the last word left her mouth, a white vapor exploded behind her, her entire figure turned black, and a thunderous booming sound instantly spread through the air.

Boom!!

Lin Xin raised his right arm, blocking the werewolf that suddenly appeared beside him.

His eyes glowed red, and he was similarly enveloped by the Soul Domain Primitive Demonic Realm, neutralizing the same origin’s Primitive Demonic Realm Yuan Jing and Demon Source Qi.

The surrounding air became viscous, and countless points and lines emerged.

In an instant, both entered a state of extreme speed, where everything in the world slowed down drastically; air became as thick as a highly viscous liquid, and raising a hand once required several times more strength than usual.

Yet in this marsh-like, sticky and difficult environment, their exchange of blows was so swift, that one could barely see afterimages.

Quan Sheying activated her Divine Beast Bloodline Demon Body; her speed and strength escalated to an extremely terrifying degree, with tufts of black fragments scattering about—these were traces of shattered space.

Before the spatial rifts could heal, they would be slashed through again by Lin Xin’s arms, sharp as blades, on the very edges.

The resulting spatial cracks multiplied, the fragments grew larger, gradually coalescing into gaps.

More and more black gaps started to surround the two of them.

Boom!!!

Amidst the massive explosion,

The environment around them completely shattered and collapsed, and they were both sucked into a mysterious pitch-black space.

In the dark space, gravity and resistance vanished, replaced by a much stronger compressive force, which constantly attempted to crush them completely.

This force was at least several times stronger than the resistance of air and the healing force of space.

It instantly reduced their speed to a level where they could be clearly seen with the naked eye.

Whoosh...

Above them came a sound like vast ocean waves.

It was Lin Xin’s first time here as well; this was the Illusory Sea, as recorded in the classics.

Bang!

He fiercely repelled Quan Sheying with a strike, and a slight wound that appeared on his arm healed instantaneously.

Looking up towards the source of the sound, his pupils suddenly contracted.

"Do you see? It seems you’re here for the first time...," Quan Sheying licked the blood from her lips, which had just been sprayed out from a chest wound inflicted by Lin Xin’s palm.

But the more injured she became, the more excited her eyes grew.

"This is the Illusory Sea... a battleground that only True Monarchs can enter..."

Lin Xin remained silent.

He looked up.

Darkness was all around, except for directly above.

There was a dark green ocean.

Waves surged, countless droplets of water splashed and fell, and at a glance, the edge was almost invisible.

The vastness of the boundless green sea imposed an immense oppressive feeling.

Even for Lin Xin, as his eyes were filled with dark green, his heart felt a hidden heaviness.

"As expected of the Illusory Sea," he sighed softly. "The classics say that beyond True Monarch, tearing space apart with bare hands becomes the norm, and only then can one see the true world. So, this is what they called real."

Quan Sheying’s tall body slowly began to merge with the two-headed dog shadow behind her.

Upon hearing this, she also laughed softly. What should have been charming and alluring now struck an oddly ferocious and discordant note.

"The Illusory Sea exists between the infinite universe and the infinite interstices of worlds... Oh, I forgot, as the son of Ghost Domain, you must have visited other worlds before, right?"

Lin Xin narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at her.

"Of course. What are you getting at, senior sister?"

Both were of True Monarch level, and even in the mysterious and unpredictable region of the Illusory Sea, they were in no hurry.

Quan Sheying smiled faintly.

"Then, what I want to tell you is, this place is the transit station to other worlds."

"Other worlds..." Lin Xin’s gaze flickered. Ever since he stopped using the Demon Talisman Seed long ago, he had not stepped into other worlds, but now, he might have a chance to enter once again.

"Well, that’s enough chit-chat," Quan Sheying integrated the two-headed dog shadow behind her completely into her body.

Purplish-red fur began to grow all over her body, and two balls of purple electrical halo automatically lit up on her hands.

"Next... if we don’t get serious, someone’s going to die..."

Slice!

Her figure flashed like lightning, and in the blink of an eye, she was behind Lin Xin, pivoting for an elbow strike!

A sword suddenly blocked in front of her elbow.

Clang!

Lin Xin’s body shook, and he finally showed a look of serious consideration.

’This power, it’s almost akin to a damage of over a thousand points...’