Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 530 - 524 Demon Sect Seven

Chapter 530: Chapter 524 Demon Sect Seven

To know, the Desolate Vault Demon God is not the only one; there are strong and weak among them.

And his Sacred Body definitely belongs to the strongest tier.

Even after his attributes had increased, leading to a qualitative change in himself, he still felt a hint of apprehension towards the True Monarch of the Underworld, who ranked within the top five of the Heavenly List.

In the depths of his heart, he felt that the level of the Underworld’s True Monarch, which was among the top five of the Heavenly List, was vastly different from those below on the list.

Whoosh!

Suddenly two streaks of Escape Light interrupted his train of thought.

It was people from the Jade Purity Sect and the Shape-shifting Cave, turning away to flee.

The two Daoist nuns had pale faces, not daring to say a word while in their Escape Lights, for fear of alarming that demon.

But before they had flown even a mile, they suddenly felt something fall to where they had just been.

With a heart-to-heart connection, both looked down at the same time.

To their horror, only their two heads were flying in the Escape Lights; the rest of their bodies had, unbeknownst to them, been reduced to a mass of flesh and blood.

The Escape Light dimmed, and with a bang, it exploded in mid-air, like a greenish fireworks display, without a trace of the might one would expect from the fall of two True Monarchs.

The group of people in yellow from the Shape-shifting Cave suffered the same fate, bursting into flames before they had escaped half a mile, dying without a chance to resist, not even aware of how they died, and turned entirely to ash.

At this time, Lin Xin’s combat power compared to before was a difference like that between heaven and earth.

Oftentimes, when one’s speed breaks through the enemy’s reaction time, everything naturally undergoes a qualitative change.

True Monarchs are indeed formidable, but when none of their techniques can be deployed, not even able to lock onto the target, no matter how strong they are, they are simply targets.

Lin Xin also felt a sense of awe within.

He had merely added less than three thousand points to his attributes compared to before, yet the effect it brought about in actual combat was many times stronger.

Once there is a qualitative change, the difference is astronomical; perhaps that’s what this situation illustrates.

For a moment, all that were left at the ambush site were Guan Mingyue and Lin Shan, whom he was holding up.

Guan Mingyue was anxiously administering first aid to Lin Shan, who seemed to still have a faint chance of being saved.

Lin Xin waved his hand and collected the remnants of the crowd, storing them in his Storage Crystal, then made a gesture towards the Society Cloud Cauldron.

Suddenly, the massive Society Cloud Cauldron began to spin, quickly shrinking down, absorbing all the Qiushui around it, and then became palm-sized, falling into his hand.

After completing everything, he finally turned to look at Guan Mingyue.

"I avoided the soul’s Heart Core, just temporarily obscuring and blocking the consciousness. Elder Guan, bring her and follow me."

"Yes!" Guan Mingyue was overjoyed and quickly helped Lin Shan fly towards Lin Xin.

"You follow as well." Lin Xin glanced at the Jade Casket Palace Master, who was hiding far away, and indifferently said.

"Yes...."

The person in white twitched his face, nodding his head and daring not to refuse.

The three of them gathered close together, and a black vortex suddenly opened, instantly engulfing them all and disappearing without a trace.

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"Hahaha!!! Now the people of the Immortal Alliance must be feeling good!!" Zhou Huaisha laughed heartily.

Alone in the palace, he looked at the intelligence in his hands, his expression pleased.

"Heavenly Cloud Taoist Lin Shan, Qian Yunzi from the Shape-shifting Cave, Tian Rong and Tian Qing from the Jade Purity Sect, and the three from Hong Gui, hehehe, they were actually all killed in one fell swoop by the Red Flower Sword Devil, and even lost a Society Cloud Cauldron! Tsk tsk!"

Zhou Huaisha expressed his admiration and surprise. He had not expected that the man whose realm and cultivation had been so far beneath his own would have grown to such a level.

"The Immortal Alliance’s True Monarchs were already few, and now with so many lost at once, their foundation has been shaken."

Another woman’s voice rose in the great hall.

"It seems the plan was very successful. Those hypocrites are indeed very interested in secret treasures. Pretending to snatch treasures under the guise of excuses, they deserved to be slaughtered in the end!"

A woman slowly emerged from the darkness.

Dressed in a goose-yellow gown, with a graceful figure, wearing two egg-sized yellow sapphire earrings, and a treasure bead necklace flashing red light on her chest, revealing flickering runes. It was none other than the Dawn Demoness, Meng Xinruo.

"But with that boy’s strength, how did he kill so many True Monarchs? Three True Monarchs working together plus a peak Sixth Grade Society Cloud Cauldron, that’s not a small matter, even you and I would have to be certain to overwhelm them." Zhou Huaisha slowly calmed down and frowned.

"That guy has a bow called the Extremely Abyssal Sacred Heart Jade Immortal Bow, a treasure from an outer realm alien. It accidentally fell into his hands later. Its power is boundless." Meng Xinruo recalled the bow and her expression soured, "I was driven back by that little bow in the past."

"An outer realm alien?" Zhou Huaisha pondered. "Then, what happened to that alien?"

"He killed him." Meng Xinruo casually said.

"Interesting." A gleam flashed in Zhou Huaisha’s eyes. "Where is the Sect Leader now?"

"You don’t know and yet you’re asking me?" Meng Xinruo said irritably. "What? You want to find the Sect Leader to pressure him?"

"How could I? He wouldn’t care about these minor issues." Zhou Huaisha shook his head, "I just want to ask him some questions." He seemed to have thought of something, contemplative.

"It seems now that little guy is unstoppable in the Immortal Alliance, and with Yinji not out, the world belongs to his Immortal Killer Alliance," Meng Xinruo said with some reluctance, "Should we take action and eliminate him?"

"You’re thousands of years old, and yet you still have such a temper. The Secret Treasure has been with us for so long, it’s possible that the guy has already digested it," Zhou Huaisha shook his head, "People in the Immortal Alliance are against him, so we should attract him to our side. I’ve also come to realize during this time that so many people from our Sandstone Divine Palace went there, but in the end, a guy who had never entered before got the Secret Treasure. What happens in the world is due to cause and effect, karma, and retribution. It’s not easy to reverse that simply."

"So what you’re saying is...." Meng Xinruo was somewhat unwilling to accept this. After years of reign and dominance, to be outsmarted by some brat was something she had been harboring and fuming over.

"Don’t rush...." Zhou Huaisha smiled, "That Lin Xin who originated from the Pine Forest Sword Sect has flourished in the Yuan Dou Demon Sect, advancing a thousand miles a day in his practice of Demonic Arts, and has reached such a terrifying level in just a few decades. He truly is a rare talent blessed by nature. The Yuan Dou Demon Sect is already a major force in our Demon Path, why should the Immortal Alliance take him in to establish some Righteous Path great sect? Isn’t that laughable?"

"You mean, to lure the Yuan Dou Demon Sect into our trap??" Although Meng Xinruo was more brawn than brain and accustomed to solving problems with violence, she was, after all, the head of a great power. She caught on in an instant.

"I don’t agree!"

Her expression turned cold.

Zhou Huaisha smiled.

"For a demonic genius with such a terrifying talent like the Red Flower Sword Devil, tell me, has he caught the attention of the Sect Leader?"

Meng Xinruo’s expression changed immediately.

She knew the temperament of the Sect Leader, who cultivated talents and yearned for a match. Facing such a genius, he would be more than happy and would definitely not allow other influences to kill the potential before the individual had fully grown.

"You’re worrying unnecessarily, I’m currently willing but unable," she said, laughing awkwardly, and her figure vanished in a flash.

Zhou Huaisha stood alone in the great hall, sneering quietly.

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The battle at Absolute Bull Peak had completely silenced the entire Central Prefecture.

The Red Flower Sword Devil Lin Xin instantly killed the Elders of Heavenly Cloud Taoist, Jade Pure Sect, and Shape-shifting Cave, as well as several True Monarchs. His strength was so formidable that even Yinji gradually drew attention to his existence.

The Desolate Jade Pavilion updated the rankings on the Heavenly List in a timely manner.

They directly promoted Lin Xin to the eighth position previously held by Meng Xinruo, and the original eighth, the Qi Chen Witch, automatically fell to ninth. This was originally the position held by the True Monarch Huang Yuan.

Huang Yuan had completely perished.

In his place emerged the new Sect Master of the Yuan Dou Demon Sect. Fewer people called him the Red Flower Sword Devil. After the battle at Absolute Bull Peak, more cultivators directly addressed him as True Monarch Yuan Dou, without any other titles.

This title spread from the older generation of cultivators who understood the battle at Absolute Bull Peak; they were aware that the power of True Monarch Yuan Dou was incomparable to an ordinary Yuan Jing, although they did not know the extent of the difference from Yinji.

But that domineering momentum of being invincible below Yinji was revealing itself.

The reputation of the Yuan Dou Demon Sect also reached an incomparable level of glory with this battle’s victory, even grander than during the time of Huang Yuan.

And all of this, was actually because Lin Xin was simply too young.

As time went on, there were no other changes in the Yuan Dou Demon Sect, which maintained its status quo without expansion or further actions.

The Sect Master True Monarch Yuan Dou did not release any other news either. Everything gradually calmed down again. After the chaos, all the major sects, suffering heavy losses, had no choice but to rest and recuperate, ceasing other activities.

Peace once again came to the entire Five Prefectures.

The name of Lin Xin began to be mentioned alongside those long-standing giants of evil, becoming one of the great demons of the Underworld.

His infamous name terrified the world.

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Seasons changed, and years flew by; in the blink of an eye, ninety years had passed.

The entire Underworld maintained the same situation as when Lin Xin had receded from view. All the sects and great schools were in the stage of recovery.

The Red Spine Sect also became quiet because the Sect Leader Huang Yuerong went to the Outer Regions, followed by a cessation of hostilities.

Some rumored that they had seen Huang Yuerong and Yuan Qiuque, two great masters, venture to the Outer Regions, vanishing into the vast sea of clouds together.

Decades went by without them reappearing. Whether it was true or not, no one knew.

But after the news spread, none, be it the Righteous Path or sects like the Red Spine Sect of the Demonic Path, made a move. They were wary of each other, and while there were minor skirmishes, they each restrained themselves, maintaining peace.

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Wuding Mountain — Primitive Demon Palace.

Lin Xin sat at the top of the palace, carrying five Magic Swords on his back, his expression grim, his eyes tightly shut.

The void around him constantly twisted and trembled. One could faintly see many spatial cracks intertwined like black smoke, appearing and disappearing intermittently.

Two Soul Pearls floated and danced around him, within which the Righteous Soul Pearl was no longer pure white, but now showed a multitude of blood strands, and the large ’Righteous’ character also faintly glowed red, with a hint of eeriness.

"The Lord’s Power... too vast... Without the Righteous Soul Pearl’s ability to convert, the remaining ten percent can only be borne by myself. But even this ten percent is more than I can fully handle."

Over the years, he had killed too many people, especially numerous Golden Core Cultivators with memories as vast as mountains, all sedimented in his mind.

Compared to these memory fragments, his own memories were like specks of dust, barely visible. They were like ticking time bombs that could explode at any moment.

Especially after the battle of Absolute Bull Peak, he had suddenly obtained massive memory fragments of several True Monarchs, and the Lord’s Power had also increased by more than five hundred points.