Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 536 - 530: Secret News 1

Chapter 536: Chapter 530: Secret News 1

Hum!

A faint halo emerged on the surface of the statue, suspending the giant rocks directly in mid-air.

Roar!!

The Whale King let out an angry roar and smashed his fist into the ground.

Instantly, a massive wave of soil surged from beneath his feet, streaking in a straight line and smashing directly against the halo emitted by the statue.

With a crash, the entire statue exploded violently, and the thin layer of protective light that enveloped the Capital’s sky also dimmed simultaneously.

Initially, the Capital had some suppression over the invading creatures, which allowed the Taoist soldiers to cope with numbers far exceeding their own from the Terror Ant Tribe, but as the light dissipated, their defense crumbled like a landslide.

The entire Liao Country Capital collapsed in an instant.

Countless buildings sunk into the earth, collapsing one after another.

Amongst the dark masses of Terror Ants, the gigantic body of the Whale King advanced step by step with the army, each step causing a massive tremor.

The remaining few Elders of Heavenly Cloud with ashen faces led the remaining Taoist soldiers in a disgraceful retreat.

There was no longer any power to resist.

Roar!!

With no prey left, the Whale King became irritable and furiously bellowed, pounding on his chest.

The clouds above his head dispersed with his roaring voice.

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Clang clang clang clang!!

Lin Xin, holding a sword with one hand, exchanged over a hundred blows in an instant with the Great Demon Venerable.

Behind him, Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor, with both hands circled, condensed an oval white Talisman Formation in front of him, within which countless ant-like runes swiftly flowed, converging at four points.

Boom!!

The four points connected instantly, forming a square gap from which a robust beam of light surrounded by white points shot out.

The beam of light hit directly at Lin Xin’s back.

Lin Xin caught it with a reversal grip, supporting the light column straight away and firmly blocking it behind him.

Facing two adversaries alone, his terrifying physical strength became extremely formidable, amplified by the Golden Light Formation.

The Mystic Heaven Formless Golden Light Formation, even though it was only of fifth-tier power, was unfathomable because he layered it too much. It didn’t need to be used for direct attacks, only needing to accelerate explosively at critical moments.

Both the Great Demon Venerable and the Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor found it extremely tough to bear.

"Stabilize!"

The third eye of the Great Demon Venerable emitted purple light again, but this time Lin Xin shifted aside, avoiding it with precise accuracy.

Above the heads of the three, three enormous beings were also clashing frantically.

The Sacred Body of Yuan Dou’s mother possessed immense strength; even though only half her body was condensed, it still tripled Lin Xin’s physical strength, bridging the vast gap accrued over years with the seasoned extreme Yin experts.

It also possessed formidable defense, recovery power, and most critically, evasion.

The Evasion Attribute brought not only concealment of presence and an instinct for danger but also a very useful ability.

That was force dissipation.

Five thousand points in evasion brought about a special effect of dissipating fifty percent of the force from attacks of the same level.

This was the foundation of Lin Xin’s confidence in facing two against one.

The mother of Yuan Dou punched fiercely at Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor’s chest, while three heads turned and viciously opened their mouths towards the other side’s Great Demon Venerable’s Sacred Body, spewing out three tongues intertwined with poisonous snakes.

Compared to the original bodies, the two Sacred Bodies struggled even more in combat, their attacks on Yuan Dou’s mother’s Sacred Body only half effective, and even these half could hardly breach the skin. After barely increasing the force and causing a wound, it was immediately healed by the terrifyingly strong recovery power.

Towards the end, Lin Xin simply stopped blocking and dodging, attacking relentlessly.

He floated within the Illusory Sea, his arms phantom-like materialized hundreds of arms in an instant, handling attacks from Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor and the Great Demon Venerable on both sides.

Only the Great Demon Venerable could confront him face-to-face, matching him in strength and speed. Only his recovery rate was extremely slow, similar to Huang Yuan, the True Monarch.

And Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor would sometimes approach, sometimes leap away, with one-handed Talisman Techniques morphing endlessly, diverse and numerous in styles.

It wasn’t much trouble at the beginning, but later on, it became various entanglements and disturbances.

Within the Polar Region, it was unknown how he managed to find so many techniques.

In the Illusory Sea, where the concept of time does not exist, the three had been clashing for three months.

All three were exceedingly patient, and after three months of full-on engagement, they were only slightly fatigued.

Yet, the outcome was not as wished.

Lin Xin’s demeanor remained calm; he had been immobilized several times and pierced through, but he could recover swiftly every time. Yet, he seemed utterly unconcerned, still not dodging or blocking.

The Great Demon Venerable was better off, his Undying Body having its head blasted off four times in a row, yet still, it recovered.

However, the Celestial Garments Daoist Palace was slightly flagging in strength, his white robe peppered with holes and wounds, and no flesh could be seen inside, only a mist of white, as if his entire body were made of this mist.

And after a long time of full-on explosion, his Sacred Body was severely damaged, missing a large chunk straight from the middle of the waist.

From being able to confront directly at the beginning, to now only being able to assist the Great Demon Venerable from the side, his strength had declined too much.

At this moment, the advantage of the Demonic Cultivator began to slowly emerge. Immense strength, amazing speed, extraordinary endurance. Ancient Demon Gods were almost always such characters.

However, Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor was still only a mortal of the Human Race; although refined countless times with astonishing strength, he was still incomparable to the Body of a Demon God.

"Do the three of you intend to keep fighting me like this?" Lin Xin asked, his hands moving simultaneously, his demeanor calm.

"With the way things are, even continuing the fight for three more years would likely lead to no result."

The Demon Venerable’s black long halberd was already badly damaged, and he stepped back into a stationary stance.

"Daoist friend indeed possesses extraordinary cultivation. It seems that the two of us cannot stop you."

Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor also timely ceased his attack, landing in another part of the void, his right arm hidden behind him, trembling slightly.

"You command your massive army to aggressively attack our Heavenly Cloud Taoist Palace and the Shape-shifting Cave. What exactly are you planning?"

His tone was also grim at this time. Seeing that even joining hands did not trouble his opponent, it seemed that continuing the battle would be futile.

Just like when the Demon Venerable first came into existence, also an Undying being, the Demon Venerable possessed an extremely horrifying regenerative ability as well.

They had besieged him for years initially, to no avail, which led everyone to finally acknowledge him as an existence of the same caliber.

Among the Formlessness Sect members, who wasn’t at the pinnacle of existence?

If two members from the Formlessness Sect couldn’t handle Lin Xin, then adding any more people would also be pointless.

Lin Xin smiled.

"I want information about the Mortal Realm, all the information.

The Demon Venerable’s face tightened slightly.

"Are you thinking of Breaking Through the Realm?"

"What I intend to do, you need not bother yourselves with." Lin Xin reached out his hand and a mass of Demonic Qi immediately condensed in his grasp.

The Demonic Qi expanded, instantly forming a pitch-black portal.

"The Mortal Realm...is not what you think it is..." Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor said gravely, but before he could finish, a crisp crackling sound emanated from his body.

"Not good!"

He immediately stopped speaking, pulling a small jade statue from his person, which was a carving of himself. However, at this moment, the statue was rapidly cracking.

With a snap, the entire small statue shattered into countless fragments.

"How dare you!!!" Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor exclaimed in shocked anger, glaring at Lin Xin.

The Demon Venerable’s expression also drastically changed. He drew a semicircle in front of him, and the situation inside the Shape-shifting Cave appeared immediately.

Numerous members of the Demon Race were being slaughtered, with rivers of blood flowing, and a large amount of these rivers converging in the center of the Demon Shadow Nation, forming a massive sea of blood.

The dark red liquid flowed from all directions into the sea, a pungent smell of blood soaring into the sky.

The entire Shape-shifting Cave was nearly annihilated, only the main mountain remained, sealed and protected by the Ancient Formation, impregnable.

Seeing this tragic situation, Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor quickly checked his own headquarters, the Celestial Garments Daoist Palace.

Inside, the Ancient Formation was activated, with countless giant ants surrounding it, both in the air and on the ground.

The formation occasionally shot out beams of light, each one sweeping away a large number of the Terror Ants, but there were too many of the Terror Clan members; as soon as one group died, another filled the gap immediately.

Decades of accumulation in the Outer Regions had allowed Lin Xin’s forces to grow to an extremely terrifying level.

Be it the Terror Clan or the giant bees, their numbers had grown to the millions.

The Ancient Formations of both the Celestial Garments Daoist Palace and the main mountain of the Shape-shifting Cave were sufficient for defense but insufficient for attack. Breaking through was impossible; even Huang Yuerong did not opt for that laborious and thankless task in those days.

But surrounding without attacking was feasible.

By trapping all living beings inside for hundreds of years, the outside world would thoroughly forget what the Heavenly Cloud Taoist Palace or the Shape-shifting Cave were ever even about.

Unable to propagate their teachings, they could only be trapped within the mountain and perish.

Both Sects would thus be indirectly destroyed.

"So ruthless, are you not afraid that the heavenly cycle will bring retribution?" Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor said, somewhat desperately.

The Demon Venerable’s expression turned cold, his eyes brimming with murderous intent.

The power of the Yuan Dou Demon Sect was too strong.

So powerful that even a two against one battle seemed easy, with millions of insect swarm members continuously entangling in battle, disregarding casualties, all of them above the Golden Core level; such a terrifying force, if not for the protection of the Ancient Formation, would have presumably crushed the two Sects dozens of times over.

The insect swarm under Lin Xin had killed too many people.

Be it the Human Race or the Demon Race, just this battle alone had killed at least hundreds of thousands of lives.

And those were just the soldiers and Cultivators of the Demon Race. Ordinary civilians and others affected were countless, probably numbering in the millions, which was quite normal.

The Human Race was inherently weak, and this massacre left even the Demon Path madmen feeling fearful.

"The grand scheme of the world dictates, the weak can only go with the flow. As this Sect controls the grand scheme, whatever it does is right. How can there be a talk of ruthlessness?"

Lin Xin calmly responded.

"Given such a bloodthirsty nature, aren’t you afraid that the whole world will rise against you?" the Demon Venerable said coldly. His life’s work was almost entirely wiped out by Lin Xin, to say he wasn’t angry would be a lie.

"The world?" A flash of red light appeared in Lin Xin’s eyes.

"The trend of the times dictates, I am the world."

"What exactly do you want to do?" Heavenly Cloud Taoist Honor asked gravely. "Don’t tell me you’re satisfied only when the Human Race is in chaos, and the Outer Regions invade?"

"I want all your years of accumulated scriptures and books about the Underworld, the Mortal Realm, and the other races."

Lin Xin said lightly.