Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 668 - 663 Ruined Tomb Seven

Chapter 668: Chapter 663 Ruined Tomb Seven

"Distract?"

Lin Xin noticed that he had said "distract" instead of "eliminate."

Clearly, they were also unsure about handling this servant of the Evil God, hence they opted for this method.

His expression remained unchanged. He observed how Zeng Zhuo and his siblings coped while he began to carefully calculate the gains, losses, and arrangements in his mind.

On the other hand, the Zeng siblings looked distressed as they were assigned their roles. Lu Qiaoqiao, with her hand on the hilt of her sword and a murderous look in her eyes, was obviously ready to act at any moment.

In such a coercive situation, there was really only one choice.

Having made their decision, the group swam towards the Black Water Palace.

The palace doors were wide open. Each door was etched with twisted symbols of unclear meaning.

Behind the door was a long, dark corridor that went straight down to a very deep part of the underground, its floors and walls hard and cold, forming a square tunnel.

The five of them swam rapidly, and soon, they could see a blinding red light emanating from the end of the corridor.

Humming sounds, akin to chanting, continually emerged from the red light.

"This is the place," Yuan Xiasan People transmitted in a low voice.

"Go,"

he gestured towards Zeng Zhuo and his sister.

"You two, split up and move to either side."

Zeng Zhuo and Murong Jun wanted to speak, but Lu Qiaoqiao’s intimidating gaze and the chill in their hearts made them comply reluctantly and slowly swam toward the red light.

"You, go over there," Yuan Xiasan People glanced at Lin Xin and pointed in another direction along the wall.

Lin Xin narrowed his eyes and said nothing, obediently swimming in the direction pointed out. However, his body was tensed, ready to act at any moment.

Just after he reached the designated spot, suddenly a rope of yellow sand materialized and surrounded Lin Xin.

He tested it slightly—it was a technique of the Fifth Rank, Fourth Level Spiritual Realm, reasonably powerful, but it was fanciful to think it could restrain him.

The same situation befell Zeng Zhuo and his sister Murong Jun.

"You!!"

Their cultivation was merely at the Fifth Rank, Second Level Transcendental Realm, and they were utterly unable to break free from the Yellow Sand Technique. They were now extremely frustrated.

"Hurry!"

Yuan Xiasan People didn’t bother with them. With a fierce shout, his body transformed into a cloud of yellow sand and shot towards the red light like an arrow.

"Don’t even think about it!"

Lu Qiaoqiao, who was already waiting for him, also clenched a sword technique, turning into a flash of white light and shooting out.

A chase of yellow and white ensued, and they both disappeared into the red light in the blink of an eye.

Lin Xin narrowed his eyes and reached out to grab the yellow sand rope in front of him, rubbing it gently.

The technique instantly collapsed and disintegrated, turning into fine sand grains and falling down.

He casually adjusted his stance and also walked towards the red light.

As he neared the red light, he casually cast a fire spell, transforming it into a large hand of firelight which swiftly unraveled the yellow sand ropes binding Zeng Zhuo and his sister.

"What’s going on?"

Because of the distance and different angles, and enveloped in darkness, they did not see how they were freed, only feeling suddenly that the rope technique had disappeared, leaving them puzzled.

"We must escape from here first!"

Murong Jun didn’t care about how they were freed; involving themselves with those two powerful opponents would mean nothing but death.

"Yes!"

Zeng Zhuo felt the same.

They looked around the corridor on both sides; it was pitch black with no light.

The only light was the red glow at the end of the tunnel, shimmering like mist.

"Let’s go in the opposite direction!"

Zeng Zhuo whispered.

Both of them suddenly rode a tri-color Escape Light, shooting off into the distance, and quickly disappearing into the dark corridor.

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Lin Xin slowly stepped into the red light.

Immediately intense clashing and explosion sounds came from within.

The red light revealed a spacious blood-red hall.

The floor was densely covered with spikes rising from the ground, impaling many bloody corpses, both male and female, still slowly bleeding. Some even twitched occasionally.

Yuan Xiasan People and Lu Qiaoqiao were attacking a two-meter-tall figure in a purple robe.

This figure was bare-chested, exposing a robust muscular contour, and had a silver ring embedded in its chest.

Most bizarrely, it had three heads, each with a face. In addition to a mouth, each face lacked any other organs, the rest of the features were blank.

"Xila... Ancient Arthur... Roll and Vah..."

The figure’s three mouths chanted simultaneously, the air in front of it violently twisted and burned, igniting invisible, transparent flames.

A sense of indescribable terror and crisis instantly surged into the hearts of everyone present.

Lin Xin hid in the shadows, quickly bringing out a pre-prepared Fire Qiong Shield Magic Artifact.

This artifact, once refined by him, was significantly amplified in attributes; it was originally just an ordinary Fifth Rank defensive artifact of the Fire System, dark red in color and hook-shaped.

Now in his hands, there appeared a milky white texture, with a small bundle of golden flames constantly burning in the middle of the curved hook. It was surrounded by a slightly rotating ring of red runes.

After the enhancement of attributes, this magic artifact was no longer just an ordinary fifth rank. Lin Xin was not clear about its specific power since he had not yet tested it, but now, in terms of attributes alone, he could compete with a fifth rank perfection pinnacle Black Fire Lion.

Using the water of the fifth rank True Yuan Tai Qing to resonate, Lin Xin had no idea what level of power the artifact would reach, but he was quite excited about it.

He took out the Fire Qiong Shield and placed it in front of him.

The palm-sized Hook Jade small shield immediately disappeared in front of him.

He tried hard to restrain his breath, and the powerful effect of the evasion attribute was now fully demonstrated without a doubt.

Lu Qiaoqiao was right in front of him on the right, with layers of white sword light in front of her, setting up dozens of defensive sword barriers. Yet, she had not noticed him at all.

Bang!!!

Just then, an explosive sound erupted, instantly exploding in the hearts of the three people.

The invisible flame of the evil god’s servant exploded, but there was little commotion; only the space a little bit in front of it showed intense distorting fluctuations. The other areas were completely unharmed.

However, an invisible mental assault instantly surged into the minds of the three, dazing them all. They nearly collapsed to the ground.

Blood seeped from Lin Xin’s nose, mouth, and ears. The Fire Qiong Shield did not have the ability to defend against mental attacks. Mental attack magic artifacts were extremely rare, and they were far beyond his financial reach.

He touched his nostrils, wiped away the flowing blood, and then looked at the other two.

Lu Qiaoqiao and Yuan Xiaman appeared disheveled, like mad tigers, with blood flowing endlessly from their seven orifices. They also had one or two blood holes blasted open on their bodies, obviously suffering considerable injuries.

Sword lights and the Yellow Sand Technique furiously blasted toward the evil god’s servant. They themselves were retreating fast to the outside.

The first direction they fled was toward the position Lin Xin had been previously assigned to stay by them.

"They indeed planned to use us as bait."

Lin Xin scoffed, but still didn’t show himself. Although the two were desperate, there was still a hint of danger in the air, clearly indicating they had yet unplayed cards.

He was not in a hurry. With the evasion attribute, he could completely feel that the evil god’s servant regarded him as mere air or stone, completely ignoring him.

The Sword Qi and Yellow Sand Technique that landed in front of the moaning singer were all blocked by a transparent twisting barrier with no effect.

The sword techniques and spells driven by the fifth rank perfection True Yuan were unexpectedly ineffective against this singer.

Lin Xin’s heart chilled, but Yuan Xiaman and the other person did not find it strange at all. They quickly exited the red light, heading out through the corridor.

The moaning singer also followed them out, seeming to have little intelligence and only acting on instinct.

After the three left, Lin Xin contemplated checking out the hall palace but decided against it after some thought. He remained hidden in a dark corner under a protruding eagle sculpture in the hall.

His position was right below an eagle-like relief, in the shadow, and with the evasion attribute, it was very difficult to be detected.

He waited for a while.

Soon, Yuan Xiaman hurried back in a disheveled state and entered the hall palace.

Seeing his appearance, it seemed he had managed to lose Lu Qiaoqiao and the evil god’s servant.

"Hey, Lu Qiaoqiao, now see if you don’t die! If it weren’t for those three mysteriously breaking free, and all sacrificed together, even this servant of the evil god could have been killed! Such a pity....."

He couldn’t help but murmured.

Then he looked around, and his gaze suddenly landed on a spike of corpses erupting from the ground in the center.

In an instant, his hands formed dozens or hundreds of Seal Decisions, and streams of silver and yellow Spiritual Energy, like currents of air, gathered from his body and whizzed toward that spike of corpses.

"Prohibition."

A grand voice emanated from the spike.

"Open."

Yuan Xiaman urgently shouted.

"Permission to open."

The voice sounded again, spreading with a special mental tremor.

Buzz.....

The spike gradually melted into a red liquid, which was extremely thick and intense, emitting strange scents of blood and sweetness. Then, it began to slowly congeal again, forming a cylindrical red device.

Click.

The device issued a crisp sound and split open from the middle, revealing the hollow inside, where an odd woman’s mask, silver on the upper half and transparent on the lower, was placed.

"This is it! This is the Xila mask!! Hahaha!!"

Yuan Xiaman immediately burst into laughter and dashed like lightning toward the mask.

"Flawless Jade."

Suddenly a cold female voice rang from the side.

Lu Qiaoqiao appeared unknowingly, with the white sword blade in her hand snapping abruptly into countless light points that dissipated.

At the same time, right in front of Yuan Xiaman’s flight path, a dense thicket of spiky sword tips materialized, perfectly blocking his way forward.

"This is mine!"

Yuan Xiaman’s face changed. He surrounded himself with a large amount of swirling yellow sand, which rapidly condensed into five sand shields in front of him, and he crashed into them head-on.

Bang!

Sword Qi and yellow sand splashed out, clashing with the highly condensed power of the fifth rank perfection.

The space directly distorted and tore open, revealing the black void of the Second Layer beneath.

The cosmic self-healing generated immense gravitational pull, rapidly drawing all nearby matter to fill the spatial rift.

A violent and intense space-healing gust tore through, creating a small black hole vortex, producing a tremendous gravitational force.

Lu Qiaoqiao snorted coldly, apparently having sustained a blunt injury. She rose from the ground, pulling a somewhat curved flight arc, and grabbed at the Xila mask.