Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 519 - 513 Desolate Vault Six

Chapter 519: Chapter 513 Desolate Vault Six

"Is this the Demon God Pool?"

Lin Xin looked at the emerald green lake below and did not feel there was anything peculiar about it, just an ordinary small lake.

But in the heart of boundless Wuding Mountain, at the headquarters of the Yuan Dou Demon Sect, the most crucial place, why would they waste such a large area for just an ordinary artificial small lake?

Clearly, it was impossible.

"Junior brother doesn’t know, the Demon God Pool, is right here." Quan Sheying waved his hand and pressed down, and immediately a path opened through the lake, leading straight to the lake bottom.

"Please," Bai Suozi gestured with his hand, indicating for Lin Xin to go down first.

Lin Xin nodded and glanced at the lake bottom.

There, in the water’s depths, lay a square, merely a dozen meters wide, blood-red pool. The water was full of bubbling bubbles, and adjacent to it was a sculpture of a beautiful woman with three human heads, except the sculpture was entirely pitch black with only the face covered in silver-gray scales, like those of a snake.

Huang Yuan, the True Monarch, was standing by the pool with his hands behind his back, quietly meditating.

Lin Xin shifted his gaze from the Demon God Pool to True Monarch Huang Yuan.

Demonic qi started boiling around him, faintly exuding the prowess of the Seventh Layer of Demonic Arts, the Soul Domain. Then he flew down alone.

A black line descended gently, landing not far to the right side of True Monarch Huang Yuan.

"Disciple pays respect to the teacher," he said respectfully, his eyes flickering.

"I wonder how long it has been since we last met, teacher? Has everything been well? As a disciple unable to serve by your side, I feel deeply ashamed."

He was utterly respectful, humble, and polite, leaving no room for criticism.

Huang Yuan was tall and thin, wearing a purple-black crown and a black robe embroidered with a silver Desolate Vault human face on the back.

At this moment, his eyes glinted sharply, fixated on Lin Xin.

"You’ve done well,"

he said deeply.

"What do you mean, teacher?" Lin Xin chuckled lightly. "I traveled thousands of miles to rush back to the Sect, intending to help ease your worries. As clear as my heart is in its sincerity, why would you say such a thing?"

Huang Yuan gave a forced smile.

"So, should I thank you instead?"

"If the teacher truly means that, the disciple will not refuse," laughed Lin Xin, pausing momentarily. "But the Demon Sect is vast and intricate, and with your advanced age, having worked so hard for so long, it’s time for you to enjoy your twilight years."

"I should indeed thank you for your filial piety," Huang Yuan’s expression grew even colder.

"The disciple dares not," Lin Xin responded hypocritically.

"Enter the Demon God Pool," Huang Yuan said curtly, no longer wanting to waste words with him.

Entering the Demon God Pool in front of him, if his concentration was disrupted midway, it would surely result in severe injury.

But for Lin Xin, Huang Yuan truly held great dread.

For others, being disrupted would indeed cause great harm.

But for Lin Xin, with his mighty recovery ability akin to an undying body, it likely meant that, aside from delaying his advancement, attacking him would be futile.

Lin Xin no longer spoke; instead, he stepped out in front of everyone and walked into the small square pool.

The water was not deep, reaching only to his waist.

He stood there in the center, closing his eyes to meditate.

The Desolate Vault statue at the edge of the pool, with its farthest left head, slowly lit up its eyes, emitting purple-red glows.

The long, enormous arms of the Desolate Vault sculpture embraced the Demon God Pool, apparently having a special connection that caused the water to gradually boil, releasing more and more bubbles.

Duan Chizi, Quan Sheying, Bai Suozi, and a group of arriving Elders all stood not far from the pool’s edge, quietly watching the changes.

Duan Chizi also replayed the recorded contents of the trial to everyone.

After watching, not only did Huang Yuan fall into silence, but even Bai Suozi and Yin Pengzi, two True Monarchs, couldn’t help but be shocked.

The second trial wasn’t much to see; it was mainly the first one. All three had undergone the trial, and upon seeing Lin Xin directly smash the divine power into a single hair, they all fell silent, their faces solemn and speechless.

Quan Sheying, however, was carefully observing Lin Xin in the pool.

"Desolate Vault Demon Pool, three heads represent three activation levels and also represent the total amount of Demon God Blood it can absorb. The more it absorbs, the greater the potential. Now that one head has already lit up, it seems there’s no problem with solidifying the heart of Qi," she said.

No sooner had her words fallen than the eyes on the skull of the Desolate Vault sculpture on the left also lit up with purple-red glows.

"The second head now," Guan Mingyue couldn’t help but exclaim. Who would have thought that when he first met Lin Xin as a Crown Prince, he was merely a lowly being beneath the Yuan Jing, and now he had reached such a terrifying height.

"Back in the day, Duan Chizi and I were only in such a situation," Quan Sheying’s eyes glimmered brightly, growing even more fervent.

"Junior Brother Lin is indeed a natural-born genius..." she murmured softly, rubbing her legs together, her eyes misty, her cheeks blushing pink, clearly somewhat moved.

Whoom!

In an instant, the third head explosively lit up.

The entire Demon Pool trembled, the center where Lin Xin stood, slowly ripple-like circles emerged on the surface of the water.

The water ripple didn’t spread, just fixated in one position, neither growing nor shrinking, and it perfectly enclosed Lin Xin within it.

Seeing this, Huang Yuan finally sighed. When he had been there, he had only activated the third head.

And after so many years apart, seeking a successor to bear his mantle hung upon the condition of activating the third head.

He had specially designed a set of special secret techniques to test a person’s aptitude based on this, yet he never expected the very person who once showed no hope..

But even so, to take over his position as Sect Master, the performance displayed before him now was not enough!

His eyes hardened, True Monarch Huang Yuan’s body shook abruptly, the Primitive Demon Domain slowly spreading out.

The Eighth Layer peak Soul Domain, like a circle of pitch-black ink, spread out in all directions, interspersed with countless skulls flying about, emitting sharp cries.

Whoom...

The pool water vibrated.

Lin Xin faced Huang Yuan, abruptly opening his eyes, which emitted purple-red demonic light, eerily astonishing.

Similarly profound, pitch-black ink spread from him, among which numerous blood-red Qilin void shadows flickered in and out, dying the water around him red.

Their four eyes met, their breaths intertwined and opposing, neither yielding an inch.

Boom!!

In an instant, dark energy collided and exploded, one cold and one hot, the same Primordial Demon Domain, but the two had completely different properties, triggering an explosion instantly.

"Retreat!"

Bai Suozi barked sharply, quickly becoming the first to withdraw.

She hadn’t expected them to really go at it from the start. With a slight change in her expression, she was the first to grab Nan Shunqing and appear hundreds of meters away in the air like lightning.

The surrounding Duan Chizi and others, along with Quan Sheying, also swiftly backed away to temporarily avoid the brunt.

They all hovered hundreds of meters away in the distance, looking towards the direction of the Demon God Pool.

The fierce wind howled, blowing on everyone, making their robes and hair flutter loudly.

Between the two’s confrontation in the Void, a huge pitch-black sphere exploded directly, inside which Demonic Qi churned, with skulls and Qilin void shadows biting each other, even the dispersing aura was enough to make Golden Core Cultivators suffocate.

"So...so powerful!" Nan Shunqing felt the legendary True Monarch-Level strength for the first time and was shocked into speechlessness.

In his previous life, the strength he prided himself on couldn’t even last a second against these two forces.

Meanwhile, the crowd around him had displayed a series of powerful movement techniques while evading the dark Primordial Demon Domain, which also deeply shook him.

Each one of these seemingly ordinary Elders turned out to be at the Yuan Jing Level!

Gulp...

He struggled to swallow his saliva and looked down, only to feel dizzy, nauseous, and wanting to vomit.

"Don’t look anymore."

A hand suddenly covered his eyes.

It was Bai Suozi.

"Their Soul Domain is too overwhelming for you right now, you lack the cultivation level, watching too long could be problematic," she explained softly.

Before she finished speaking.

Another earth-shattering explosion erupted, with a massive boom.

Above Mount Wu Dong in the sky slowly appeared an enormous Void shadow.

"The supreme arrival, Demon God descends!!"

Huang Yuan spread his arms wide, his hair and beard flying wildly, his demeanor extremely ferocious.

Behind him, massive amounts of black, snake-like Demonic Qi continuously rose and condensed into a huge shadow behind him.

The shadow was a thousand meters tall, like a mountain, floating above Mount Wu Dong.

With three heads and a silver-scaled face in a female form.

It was indeed the form of the Desolate Vault Demon God Holy Body.

Almost simultaneously, Lin Xin’s lips moved slightly, almost overlapping with Huang Yuan, as he recited the Saint Body Mantra.

Behind him instantly appeared numerous black and red auras, burning fiercely like flames.

A similarly thousand-meter tall giant shadow slowly emerged.

Three heads, silver-scaled face, female form, exactly the same as Huang Yuan’s.

Seeing this scene, everyone could not help but exclaim in shock.

"Is this... really the Seventh Layer?" Yin Pengzi’s expression changed; even the Holy Body he released was just like that.

But he was a True Monarch of the Eighth Layer of the Yuan Dou Demonic Technique! Not Integration!

The two thousand-meter tall Desolate Vault Holy Bodies confronted each other face to face, their arms brutally reaching towards each other.

Both opened their mouths wide, with the middle face spewing countless gray-black toxic snakes towards the other.

The toxic snakes seemed to be their tongues, growing in their mouths, entangling and fighting mid-air.

The icy cold and blazing hot Demonic Qi were still fiercely rubbing against each other.

The Holy Bodies entangled in combat, with fierce winds and churning Demonic Qi all around.

Lin Xin’s body floated up, naturally revealing his Demon Body state.

His body was filled with countless Star Forces, almost instantly condensing the Heart of Qi silently as he entered the Demon God Pool.

Once the Heart of Qi was formed, most of the Holy Body materialized by itself, with endless Demonic Qi at the wave of a hand.

It continuously supplied power, limitless and infinite. As long as it didn’t exceed the output limit, his own power was endless!

The reason Ancient Demon Gods could destroy heavens and claim the creation force for themselves was because they had nearly infinite power to mobilize.

This was the reason for the Heart of Qi.

Bang!

The four arms of the two Desolate Vault bodies mercilessly collided.

The countless icy and scorching Demonic Qi exploded in all directions.

Almost at the same time.

Below, True Monarch Huang Yuan’s form drastically changed, transforming into a massive humanoid ape, over ten meters tall, with wild yellow hair fluttering.

He let out a furious roar towards the sky, and suddenly threw a punch towards Lin Xin.

Hiss...

Before the fist arrived, the space shattered into several black holes, revealing the dark Illusory Sea below.

The sheer brute force pressed fiercely towards Lin Xin.

This force was so strong that even before it reached Lin Xin, it completely suppressed all the laws around him, leaving him unable to move.

Lin Xin’s body swayed.

Clang clang clang clang!!!

Four Longswords soared into the sky behind him, transforming into four streams of colored light.

His whole body displayed golden Talisman Formations, and with the backhand grasp, he caught a Longsword out of thin air and slashed through the air!