Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 535 - 529: Demon Sect Twelve

Chapter 535: Chapter 529: Demon Sect Twelve

Lin Xin reached out and drew his sword, striking like lightning, slashing out three hundred and eighty-six times in an instant.

The three of them clashed in the Polar Region like a violent storm.

The dense crackling sounds continued to fly about with the sparks of explosions.

Hiss.....

Lin Xin spun like a top, his form slightly blurred, creating friction like a grinding wheel between himself and the two opponents, igniting large amounts of purple and gold sparks.

Thump!

Suddenly, the Demon Venerable’s brow shone with an intense purple light, vibrating like a heartbeat.

Lin Xin’s movements halted for a moment, struck in the chest by the purple light.

Boom!!

A ring of transparent ripples spread out in the Polar Region.

Lin Xin stood in place, stopping dead, with the purple light striking his chest, burning a dark mark that didn’t penetrate even his skin. However, it completely immobilized him.

The two had initially been testing each other’s strength, but at this moment they hadn’t expected Lin Xin to fail to dodge the purple light.

Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor’s aura changed slightly as he exchanged a look with the Demon Venerable.

"Kill him!"

Almost instantaneously, they agreed, Lin Xin’s threat was too great, his potential too vast, compared to the indifferent Huang Yuerong, he was the biggest threat to the rest.

As their souls intertwined, they also exchanged a great deal of information.

One in front and one behind, the two attacked at the same time, the scythe and the long halberd smashing toward Lin Xin’s head and chest.

In the blink of an eye, a smile curled on Lin Xin’s lips, and he suddenly reached out to grab the scythe and the long halberd.

"Supreme presence, descent of the Demon God! Open!!"

He roared, his body suddenly ignited with black flames, engulfing both opponents at once.

The flames seemed to dance around countless beating eyes.

Three massive hearts appeared in the flames, quickly merging into one, then splitting into countless strands, twisting and knitting together to form a giant semi-form of a three-headed black shadow.

The three-headed shadow stretched out its arms, pressing down on the tangled spot between the three of them.

The entire cylinder instantly exploded apart.

The three of them emerged in the vast and boundless Illusory Sea.

Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor shot backward, a massive white shadow emerging behind him.

The Demon Venerable had a strange monster behind him, with the upper body of a fish and the lower body of a snake.

Both were injured slightly but did not pause for a moment.

The moment they emerged, they lunged at Lin Xin together.

To both the Heavenly Cloud Way and the Shape-shifting Cave, the Yuan Dou Demon Sect had been an unresolved deep-seated grudge for a century.

As the foremost Sect of the Demon Path, the Yuan Dou Demon Sect pressured the world, and Lin Xin, as its Sect Master, had clashed with the two covertly and overtly countless times.

But this time, in actuality, was the three’s very first face-to-face engagement.

The two attacked with a probing nature, but as soon as Lin Xin showed the slightest flaw, they were ready with unreserved killing intent.

The three interlaced in the Illusory Sea, overlapping each other from time to time.

Within hundreds of miles around them, everything was entirely still, unable to move in the slightest.

This was the effect of the Polar Region’s reach.

Their speed was too fast, having reached an inconceivable level.

For them, everything else seemed relatively still, and that’s why most Divine Skills were ineffective.

Time slowly passed.

As the three engaged in combat.

The outside world was in utter chaos.

Yuan Dou Demon Sect, in cooperation with numerous other large and small Demon Sects, directly attacked the Shape-shifting Cave.

The Heavenly Cloud Way lent its aid, but could not withstand the countless Demon Insects at the Golden Core Realm that belonged to Lin Xin.

The mass of Demon Insects, with their strength forcibly elevated by Lin Xin’s Attributes to the Golden Core Realm, were incredibly powerful besides being able to attack the soul, with immense strength, astonishing speed, formidable recovery abilities, and exoskeletons also providing shock-absorbing qualities.

And the most troublesome aspect was that, once these insects died, all their enhancements vanished instantly, reverting to something even a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator could crush—worthless little bugs.

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Within the territory governed by the Shape-shifting Cave, the Demon Shadow Nation.

Countless white insect swarms, like tidal waves, blanketed the sky as they flew toward the defensive towers constructed by the Demon Shadow Nation.

Below the insects were neatly arranged formations of Yuan Dou Demon Sect cultivators, each forming a large seal overhead, steadily advancing towards the towers.

The Demon Sect and experts from sects like the Pine Forest Sword Sect hovered behind the battle array, looking toward the Demon Shadow Nation’s defensive lines from afar.

Hua Shenxi had an indifferent expression as she stood at the forefront, with Keke Sai, who had come to command in person, behind her.

Keke Sai was not very strong, still only at the Golden Core Dao Seeking stage, but he possessed a notable Divine Skill talent.

Similar to Qian Yunzi of the Shape-shifting Cave, he had a parasitic ability.

He could divide himself into many subsidiaries, infesting the bodies of others, and should a host perish, the parasite within would rapidly absorb all of them, then split into two and emerge from the body, continuing the fight.

In other words, killing one would split it into two, and in Yin Mantuo’s coordination, the insects also carried deadly poison. Once they launched a sneak attack, they were practically unstoppable and extremely troublesome.

This simple move, combined with countless swarms over nearly a century, had cost the Righteous Alliance countless deaths and injuries, leading to deep-seated hatred.

"The master should have already entered the main mountain of the Shape-shifting Cave," Keke Sai said fervently.

"What’s the meaning behind this attack?" Hua Shenxi asked coldly. "The heritage of the Shape-shifting Cave is long-established; it’s impossible to annihilate it, so we can only end up inflicting mutual damage. What good does that do for us then?"

"We have an endless army of bees for cover; why should we fear mutual destruction?" Keke Sai sneered. "You need not worry about the master’s affairs."

"If I had just a bit more time, I could have completely...!!" Hua Shenxi said resentfully but ultimately didn’t finish.

With a cold snort, he looked at the countless swarms covering the sky like white clouds, descending upon the Demon Shadow Nation’s high towers of the Shape-shifting Cave.

Countless demons from the Demon Race soared into the air, leveraging formations to fend off the bee swarms. Both sides fought fiercely and were inseparable.

Glorious formations and high-end magic artifacts continuously exploded in midair or on the ground, filling the world with cries of battle and ceaseless booming explosions and colorful lights.

A group of minotaurs riding giant black beasts thundered out from behind the towers, roaring as they charged towards the bee swarms.

Bang!!

The leading minotaur swung a black Meteor Hammer, crashing into one of the demon bees with fury.

The demon bee was smashed into the distance but quickly regenerated its severed waist, emitting a piercing hiss as it took to the air and dove back towards the minotaur.

The minotaur demon soldiers, formed of Golden Core Stage cultivators, were one of the strongest cards held by the Shape-shifting Cave, but they were being pushed back by the overwhelming attack of the demon bees.

Only after exhausting all their strength were they able to kill over a dozen demon bees, then they self-destructed in the end, destroying hundreds of demon bees.

In just the time it takes to burn an incense stick, all the Golden Core demon soldiers were lost, and the minotaur chieftain, with tears streaming down his face, lifted the Meteor Hammer and roared as he too self-destructed.

The generals of the Demon Shadow Nation behind felt a chill run down their spines.

The demon bees of the Yuan Dou Demon Sect had not been so powerful before... In just a few decades, they had become such a horrifying force.

Hundreds of thousands of Golden Core demon bees... Ordinary Yuan Jing cultivators wouldn’t even think of confronting them, let alone Integration Phase or even True Monarchs.

The mere power fluctuation emitted when they gathered together could subtly twist space itself.

Not to mention, Lin Xin had also ordered them to cooperate with each other, forming formations.

The resulting terrifying might had even left one of the True Monarch Elders of the Shape-shifting Cave seriously injured, and he had yet to recover.

"On this side, the Bee Imperial Clan is making its move, but what about Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor?" Hua Shenxi regained his composure and, seeing the situation had been breached in the distance, asked coldly with a huff.

Keke Sai’s laughter turned shrill.

"The Whale King and the Terror Clan went to Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor. They’ve got enough to handle," he said.

Whale King...

Hua Shenxi’s pupils constricted.

He had recently succeeded in entering the Solidification Realm.

But this was not solely due to his own efforts; he also had Lin Xin’s attribute-enhancing ability, so he knew very well how formidable this god-like body refining ability was.

The Whale King was the king of the sky whales Lin Xin had subjugated in the Outer Regions over forty years ago. After gaining the attribute enhancement, its naturally formidable defensive power had skyrocketed to levels even Lin Xin could not reach.

Now it was following Lin Xin’s orders and charging directly into the Capital of Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor.

Elsewhere, far away in the sky.

Countless black ants were grappling and battling with the soldiers of Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor.

Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor’s soldiers were made up of thousands of elephant-like creatures, each with a skin as tough as jade, wielding various talismanic magic artifacts. Each would cast their spells in unison, launching attacks that would change the color of the sky each time.

Their power had truly reached the level of True Monarchs.

But these flying ants were even more dreadful.

Each of the flying ants was the size of a small elephant, with an armor that seemed indestructible, showing outstanding resistance. True Monarch level attacks only dented their bodies, and as long as they didn’t hit a vital spot, the ants would quickly recover.

The most fearsome part was their mouthparts, which could directly devour and ingest even Yuan Jing magic artifacts.

This was the Terror Clan, another powerful species Lin Xin had subjugated later, like the demon bee queen. They were the Terror ants, and their existence was one of the main reasons why the Yuan Dou Demon Sect was so formidable in the Outer Regions.

The Terror King was a more potent hidden entity than the Bee Queen, and when tough protectors of relics in the Outer Regions proved too difficult for Hua Shenxi, it was the Terror King who would step in to gnaw them down.

Roar!!!

The Whale King let out a ferocious roar and, hefting a chunk of the earth’s crust thousands of miles long like a stone, fiercely threw it towards Liao Country’s Capital in the Central Prefecture, aiming for the Statue of Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor, the symbol of Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor’s territory.