Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 642 - 637 Revealed 1

Chapter 642: Chapter 637 Revealed 1

Lin Xin was greatly alarmed and ready to fully resist, feeling a hint of despair in his heart. In an instant, layers of sword barriers formed around him.

These sword barriers could kill dozens of Void Realm lesser demon spirits with each layer, but the number of Void Realm lesser demon spirits surrounding him was not in the dozens, but in the thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands!

"I will not die!!"

Lin Xin roared in his heart, and his battered ten wings vibrated once again, ready to unleash a massive amount of white Purification Light at any moment.

Hum!!

Suddenly, all the surrounding demon spirits violently trembled, then took flight upwards, actually speeding away into the sky above.

All the demon spirits glowing red, not one remaining, disappeared into the Void in just a short moment, like a tide receding.

Just as Lin Xin was puzzled, gasping for breath.

Huff!

Another large swarm of Void Realm lesser demon spirits flew in, encircling him in a protective formation.

Lin Xin could no longer hold on. His eyes rolled back, and he completely lost consciousness.

A few Void Realm lesser demon spirits held him and flew towards the remaining intact part of the fortress.

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Darkness enveloped everything.

Lin Xin lay in a daze, lost even in his consciousness.

This state persisted for an unknown length of time.

Suddenly, he felt a pulse from his heart spreading throughout his body.

Opening his eyes, he was met with bright white light. He was lying on his back in a gray-white room within the fortress, resting on a stone bed with no one else in the room, just himself and the bed.

"I....."

He shook his head, his mind a blur.

Exhaustion, like a sea of weariness, filled his brain, and he didn’t want to think of anything but slowly sat up, holding his head in his hands, breathing quietly.

The relentless fighting he maintained was cruelty he had not even experienced in the dark abode.

Such intensity, such duration.

Never before had Lin Xin come closer to death than this time.

He was nearly at the point of his lamp burning out, his life ending, his path extinguished.

Even now, having survived.

With no elixirs to heal his bodily injuries, dragging out internal wounds for a long time, fighting with high intensity until exhaustion, he disastrously overdrafted his strength multiple times.

Lin Xin glanced at his attribute bar.

His heart sank immediately. Even though he was mentally prepared, he was still shocked by the severity of his body’s injuries.

All attributes in his attribute bar had significantly decreased, to an alarming extent.

’Lin Sherie — Damage 235 (6102), Defense 112 (6102), Evasion 78 (6102), Constitution 244 (6102).’

There were also several status markers.

’Life Overdraft: Continuous overdraft of bodily potential, resulting in severe structural damage to the body. Permanently reduces average attributes by 2000 points.’

’Heavenly Demon Army Master’s Intimidation: Due to severe injuries, the intimidation effect is intensified, reducing physical resistance and self-healing ability by eighty percent.’

’Death Qi Invasion: Affected by the blood sacrifice ritual, weakening physique, decreasing by 50 points.’

’Demon Spirit Energy Contamination: Body severely injured, invaded by demon spirit energy, if not cleared within one month, will completely transform into a demon spirit.’

"Permanently reducing attributes by two thousand points..." Lin Xin took a deep breath, feeling an unspeakable frustration.

This time, the overdraft was really too much.

Fighting continuously for more than ten days, he didn’t dare to divert his attention for a moment; any slight carelessness, and the Dragon-head man would suddenly launch an attack.

Furthermore, the special pressure looming in the darkness signified the presence of an even mightier entity waiting for an opportunity, coveting him at all times.

This pressure was something he had never experienced before.

No one could help him, no one could save him.

He could only rely on himself and the sword in his hand.

Enemies surrounded him as far as the eye could see, this feeling was almost an amplified version of his time in the dark abode.

"Luckily, the gains this time aren’t small."

Upon looking at his free attributes, his previously sunken mood began to recover slightly.

’Free Attributes: 46442’

Adding the original accumulated attribute points, it meant that in these over ten days, he fought tirelessly and slaughtered a whopping four million Void Realm lesser demon spirits.

Of course, actual combat cannot be simply calculated by maximum efficiency,

The Void Realm lesser demon spirits varied in strength, each with different attributes, including the Elephant Trunk Turtle, the Dragon-head man, all differing in attributes.

What puzzled Lin Xin was where these many Void demon spirits came from.

Several million, although almost negligible for demon spirits since they breed rapidly and double in numbers once they find ore.

But with the Void Spirit Tower ahead, how could there be so many slip through?

"I need to recover from my injuries quickly."

Lin Xin, without saying a second word, began adding attributes directly.

His first choice was constitution.

His gaze fell on constitution, and as he watched, the free attributes started to increase slowly at first, and then faster and more rapidly.

A few seconds later, it was reaching a hundred points per second.

Constitution rose from the current 244 to 500, 600, 800, 1000.

Lin Xin slowed down, visibly feeling a warm current flowing through his body, clearly the result of the added physique coming into effect.

The gap between attributes must not be too large, and attention must be paid to the ratio.

He began to enhance his Defense, Evasion, Killing Power, and the other three items.

With experience on his side, he swiftly raised all his attributes to 1000 points.

Then the frenzy continued.

1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000...

When he had added over five thousand points, Lin Xin felt a jolt in his body.

It was as if faint ripples emerged all over his body before quickly vanishing.

Adding to the two thousand points that had been stripped from his remaining attributes, he now had a total attribute limit that broke ten thousand.

’Lin Sherie - Killing Power 5235 (11102), Defense 5112 (11102), Evasion 5078 (11102), Physique 5244 (11102).’

The sensation of breaking ten thousand in attributes was extraordinary, as if some form of restraint had been expelled from his body.

Lin Xin felt entirely pure and untainted; particularly when his Evasion broke ten thousand, he distinctly felt intangible threads forming around his body, encircling him.

These things resembled silk threads, others seemed like mist, but they all had one thing in common.

They all carried auras of different natures.

Among them was the aura of Xia.

"This must be the scrutiny of the great powers vested upon me," he murmured.

A moment of enlightenment welled up within him.

Evasion is for avoiding everything, not only attacks but also attention – that is the essence of the Evasion Attribute.

With a slight tremble of his body, Lin Xin suddenly felt like a free-swimming fish, escaping from several scrutinizing gazes.

In the distance, he faintly heard the sounds of light exclamations echoing through the void.

The mist and thread-like substance continued to swirl and dance around him, yet failed to discover his physical body sitting still in its place.

"Continue!"

Lin Xin’s heart leapt with joy, knowing the effects were real.

He continued to add points without pausing.

Starting from the previous addition of 5000 points, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000, 10000! 11000!!

In a blink, another 6000 points were averaged across each attribute.

A total average of eleven thousand points were added per attribute, an unprecedented and first-time increase for Lin Xin since acquiring his ability.

Having used all his attribute points in one go, Lin Xin vaguely felt his body inflate like a balloon, with countless warm currents growing inside him, becoming more numerous and denser.

His flesh was strengthening continuously. Expanding like a balloon, terrifying ripples initiated waves of space distortion around him.

His skin quickly took on a silvery sheen as if forged from silver metal, transforming his entire being as if made of iron and silver.

The toughness and resilience of his skin were rapidly increasing, and his muscular contours and body structure were undergoing all-around enhancement.

Compared to before the great battle, his attributes had nearly doubled at this moment. Although uncertain of what level his strength had reached, Lin Xin gauged that at the very least, it had increased by a factor of two given his combat readiness.

His reinforced physique granted him greater recovery power and soon, the injuries on Lin Xin’s body started healing rapidly.

His resistance was getting stronger in the process, shedding most of the negative conditions.

The Demon Spirit Qi and Death Qi Invasion were automatically expelled.

Only the ’Deterrence of the Heavenly Demon Army Master’ remained fixedly rooted within his body, unmovable.

This negative condition could weaken eighty percent of his self-healing ability and resistance.

Having increased his attributes so significantly, even after cutting down eighty percent, the remaining portion still expelled the other negative states.

For other cultivators, even self-healing might have been impossible, dependent only on external help from pills, Formations, and the like.

His skin faintly shimmering silver, Lin Xin slowly opened his eyes, his attributes now in an entirely new state.

’Lin Sherie - Killing Power 17102 (17102), Defense 17102 (17102), Evasion 17102 (17102), Physique 17102 (17102), Free Attributes 2442. Special Status: Ten-Winged Chanting Star Clan. Cultivation Technique: Green Yuan Decision, Fifth Rank Third Level Void Realm (Human Immortal Third Level).’

"Reaching the Fifth Rank Human Immortal and adding so many attributes doesn’t seem as evident as it did at lower ranks."

Lin Xin was unaware of the actual level of his current strength.

But fortunately, through the increase in attributes, his powerful constitution allowed for rapid healing of his body’s injuries.

The real-time attributes, previously reduced due to his condition, were now fully recovering.

"Based on previous combat comparisons, my physical body alone, combined with various methods and Sword Forms, could reach a standard of Fifth Rank Third Level. Now, with my attributes nearly doubled, I should be able to reach the Fifth Rank Fourth Level."

He himself was uncertain.

The exact difference between the Third Level Void Realm and the Fourth Level Spiritual Realm was unknown to him. There was no clear reference point.

"Sadly, with a Dragon Leader lying in wait to launch a sneak attack, I dared not go all out in slaughtering the lesser void demons. If each of my sword strikes could have been at full force, a thousand demons with one strike, I could probably have eliminated ten million Demon Spirits by now."

He felt a tinge of regret.

Slaying thousands of Demon Spirits with one strike was the result when he slashed with full force.

When activating the Extremely Speed Sword Talisman, with a flicker of ten thousand swords, the power of each individual sword would be greatly reduced.

This was the difference between two kinds of Sword Forms: one focused on power, the other on speed. Killing thousands of demons relied on extending the reach of the Sword Light over a vast area.

Whereas the Extremely Speed Sword was about unleashing ten thousand swords, which could be dispersed or concentrated on one point but affected only a small area around the user.

It didn’t mean that a flicker of ten thousand swords could kill ten thousand void lesser demons in an instant.