Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 670 - 665 Grudges of the Demon of Affinity Part 1

Chapter 670: Chapter 665 Grudges of the Demon of Affinity Part 1

The Huiqiong Shield slowly revolved around Lin Xin as he looked around and squeezed the mask in his hand.

"Since that is the case, then thank you both for the generous gifts," he said.

He focused his attention on the two of them.

At the Fifth Rank level, the fact that these two dared to openly post missions and offer Contribution Points to recruit others showed that they had great confidence in their own strengths.

Whether it was Yuanxia Shanren or Huedong Fairy, either one of them was a formidable expert comparable to his senior brother, the Lava Giant.

Their accumulated experience also far surpassed his own, and against such opponents, no amount of caution was excessive.

Clouds of mist began to rise under Lin Xin’s feet, carrying him towards the exit.

"Thinking of leaving?"

A cold laugh escaped from Lu Qiaoqiao as she pointed a finger into the void, and a white circular disk reappeared in front of her, spinning like a wheel. Soon, with a click, it stopped on an image of a silver lion.

Boom!!!

In an instant, Lin Xin and Yuanxia Shanren made their moves simultaneously.

In front of Lin Xin, a torrent erupted and spewed out a vast amount of flames, as over a dozen fire spiders ferociously leapt forth, followed by several gigantic firestones each five to six meters in diameter.

The dark red flames surged wildly towards Yuanxia Shanren and Lu Qiaoqiao.

Yuanxia Shanren released a large quantity of yellow sand from his hands, forming a twisted monster with the head of a serpent and the body of an ox. It charged into the sea of flames, clashing with the firestones and fire spiders.

With each pounce, it scattered a clump of flames and repelled a fire spider.

Violent explosions submerged the entire hall in a sea of red light.

Seizing the opportunity, Lin Xin flew backwards, hastily retreating towards the exit.

The Huiqiong Shield orbited beside him, blocking any incoming spell attacks.

This magic artifact, comparable to an Ancient Divine Artifact, perfectly deflected all the spray of the shockwaves and the residual force of the explosions.

Lin Xin was almost unaffected and quickly reached the exit amidst the red light.

He stepped out.

"Hm?"

Suddenly, everything before him began to distort.

The space in front of him bent and twisted, became round for a moment, then flat the next.

"It’s that Karma Taoist Technique!" He recalled the scene that had also occurred before.

When Yuanxia Shanren reached for the mask, he was only a hair’s breadth away but couldn’t quite get it, no matter what.

"Think you can leave?!"

Lu Qiaoqiao charged out from behind him, her body surrounded by countless white Sword Qi. The void shadow of a white-haired woman wielding a sword slowly emerged behind her.

"Hua Lian, Grand Summon!" she roared and her longsword suddenly transformed into a white crescent hook sword, twisting as it stabbed towards Lin Xin.

Lin Xin’s eyes widened as he prepared to dodge, but suddenly his vision blurred.

Unbeknownst to him, he found himself sitting at the center of a gigantic white lotus flower.

All around, sharp and pointed lotus petals encircled him.

Shick!

All the petals instantly elongated and bent, wrapping around him from above.

Lin Xin struggled hard but found no matter what he did, he couldn’t escape the white lotus’s binding. It was as if some irresistible force had him trapped in the center of the flower.

Clang!!

Suddenly, the sound of metal clashing reverberated, jarring his head into darkness.

His vision blurred once more and Lin Xin was shocked to find the tip of the crescent hook sword stopped by the Huiqiong Shield in front of him.

Lu Qiaoqiao was less than two meters in front of him, sword in hand, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, her eyes glaring at him with venom.

"Die!!!!"

She screamed, her entire body’s strength surging wildly, all of it pouring into the blade.

Crack!

The Huiqiong Shield finally emitted a faint sound of fracturing.

"Just a Formation Talisman Master..." Yuanxia Shanren also emerged behind Lin Xin, his hands holding a large earthy yellow Great Seal, which he stamped vigorously towards Lin Xin’s back.

Boom!!

Lin Xin raised his sword to block, and in his haste, he failed to defend completely. He was pulled down by the two forces.

With a thunderous crash, he smashed into the ground, creating countless cracks in the unusually sturdy floor tiles of the hall.

The other two were also at their limit. After unleashing that strike, they too were hit by the Fire Technique he had released, striking their bodies.

Thud, thud.

The fire spiders were blasted apart by their Protective Auras, while the Firestone Technique directly exploded, shaking the hall violently.

Lu Qiaoqiao tumbled out and coughed up blood, collapsing to the ground, too weak to rise.

Yuanxia Shanren was thrown against the wall and slid down, his face as pale as paper, his breath shallow, his consciousness slipping into haziness.

Having invoked the Ancient Divine Artifact Fragment so many times, it was fortunate he didn’t die on the spot.

"Primordial Spirit Great Method!"

In this moment of dire emergency, Yuanxia Shanren knew he absolutely couldn’t afford to fall unconscious; he rapidly employed the forbidden cultivation method he had always practiced.

At the cost of a hundred years of life span, countless blood-red threads appeared on the surface of his skin, and new life force rapidly replenished his body from within.

As he got to his feet from the ground, he looked towards the others.

Lu Qiaoqiao was half-lying on the ground, white Sword Qi swirling around her, with strands of grey mixed in.

This was due to insufficiently firm consciousness and will, resulting in impure Sword Intent.

A Sword Cultivator is like that, powerful and sharp, but if the will driving the sword blade wavers, its power diminishes greatly.

"Heh... hehe, Lu Qiaoqiao, who would have thought you’d see such a day!"

Yuan Xia Shanren looked towards the direction where Xin Daoist lay.

Lying on the ground motionless, with blood slowly seeping out around him, it seemed he had fallen into a coma due to the severe injuries.

"Still not dead?"

He spit out disdainfully.

When the last blow struck him, he could clearly feel something on the man’s body blocking it, and his body seemed quite hard, almost akin to those skilled in defense with Divine Beast Bloodlines.

So it wasn’t surprising that he didn’t die instantly.

But the combined power of their strike was terrifying.

The Karma Taoist Technique and the Dharma Seal from his sect, when combined, were as powerful as a full-on strike from a true Sixth Rank Dust Condensation-level Earth Immortal.

The result was clear.

He coughed a few times and turned his gaze toward Zeng Zhuo and Murong Jun, who were cowering in the distance.

A trace of ferocity flickered in his eyes, but considering his own physical condition, he refrained from dealing with the two of them.

He carefully walked over to Lin Xin’s side and upon close inspection, confirmed that there was no breath left in the man – he was indeed dead.

Thump!

He landed a palm on Lin Xin from a distance, causing him to roll, and more blood flowed from the wounds on his back and chest.

In his hand, he formed a few probing Decrees, all confirming that the body in front of him was indeed a corpse.

Yuan Xia Shanren finally breathed a sigh of relief and approached to take the peculiar mask held in the corpse’s hand.

Shick!

Suddenly, his hand froze in mid-air, just a little distance from the mask. It was only a slight distance, yet now an insurmountable chasm.

A hand was fiercely piercing through his chest.

Lin Xin, wearing a smile, propped himself up. Drenched in blood, one hand penetrated Yuan Xia Shanren’s chest, piercing out through his back.

"You...!!?"

Yuan Xia Shanren couldn’t believe it, clenching Lin Xin’s hand fiercely, yet he couldn’t accept that he would actually fall like this.

Blood foam continuously bubbled from his lips as the immense force vibrated within him, tearing and destroying all the meridians and Spiritual Energy it could reach.

"Didn’t expect...I..."

Lin Xin’s expression suddenly changed dramatically, and he violently yanked his hand trying to get away, but Yuan Xia Shanren had gripped his arm so tightly that he couldn’t move.

"Let’s die together..." Yuan Xia Shanren’s face twisted.

No sooner had he spoken than his whole body exploded violently, the Great Seal within him releasing countless yellow lights, triggering the Golden Radiance Robe to oscillate violently as well.

Boom!

A massive noise erupted, and a vast amount of debris shot out in all directions at unimaginable speeds, creating a storm of gravel far more fearsome than any bullet or bomb.

The whole hall was instantly engulfed and buried in sand.

Lin Xin, Lu Qiaoqiao, and the siblings Zeng Zhuo all took the brunt of the massive explosion simultaneously.

Lin Xin managed just in time to protect his head with his sword, unsupported in other areas directly impacted by the blast.

In an instant, he felt excruciating pain all over, followed by complete numbness.

Boom, boom, boom...

The explosion lasted for a full five breaths before stopping.

The hall was littered with sand, transformed instantaneously into a desert chamber.

The ground had risen more than three meters from before.

Lin Xin stood still, his body riddled with fist-sized bloody holes.

The edges of the wounds were all seared by the scorching temperature, even beginning to blacken.

Besides his head, there were more than ten bloody holes on his torso, his left arm had been blown off completely, and only bones remained of his legs, the flesh torn to shreds.

"Cough..."

He coughed up a mouthful of blood.

This was the power of a peak Fifth Rank self-destruction. Having always had favorable circumstances and a body with special attributes as a trump card, he had almost no equals in his own rank, but this time, although he won, it was a very desperate victory.

With defense attributes reaching over seventeen thousand points, his skin alone was comparable to the Protective Aura of a Fifth Rank Perfection.

Add to that the True Yuan of a Fourth Level Spiritual Realm enhancing the Protective Aura, along with the Evasion Attribute strengthened fire qiong shield Magic Artifact.

Even with three layers of defense, he was still blown apart by the explosion and severely injured.

"These undying old creatures, one cannot be too careful with them..."

Lin Xin revealed a bitter smile on his face.

Glancing at the others, Lu Qiaoqiao was lying on her side, her life and death uncertain, showing no sign of breath.

Zeng Zhuo and Murong Jun, too, were pale as ghost metal sheets, unconscious against the wall motionless.

The bulk of the explosion’s force had been taken by him; the rest suffered only the aftermath, yet all were in a near-death state.

Yuan Xia Shanren had indeed concealed his strength too well.

Lin Xin looked down at his own injuries and could only smile wryly.

If not for his seventeen thousand plus Defensive Attribute, combined with his Evasion Attribute to neutralize some of the force, and also various resistances from his physique...

Had his body been totally obliterated, it would have been considered normal.

The fact that he was still alive was simply because of his great fortune.

He searched around for any remnants of Yuan Xia Shanren.

Soon, something twinkled faintly in the corner of the wall.

Lin Xin moved towards it slowly.

With his body so heavily damaged, he couldn’t even manipulate the Elemental Energy in the air; he could only move bit by bit.

In the corner, scattered pieces were a small part of the fabric from the Golden Radiance Robe.

It seemed like the Ancient Divine Artifact Fragment had been completely torn apart.