Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 689 - 684 Chaotic Battle Four

Chapter 689: Chapter 684 Chaotic Battle Four

"People from Shadow City?" Dragon Serpent’s face grew solemn. "You really came."

His attention was immediately drawn to the three people in front of him.

But he didn’t notice the strange and faint fluctuation that disappeared in a flash beneath him, rapidly approaching the Wasteland.

"Many years ago, when I saw the Realm Master, he was still vigorous, brimming with True Yuan to an extreme extent, like an ocean, like an abyss. I didn’t expect that in less than a millennium, the Realm Master’s health would deteriorate. What a pity, what a shame," said the one with the flat voice among the three people.

"Deteriorate?" A flicker of disdain crossed Dragon Serpent’s eyes. "Indeed, I have many concealed injuries, and my cultivation has greatly declined, becoming more and more powerless. But..."

In his hand, a black flame materialized, converging into a huge long knife.

"Even so, dealing with you is still effortless."

"Is this... the Divine Blade Black Sui?"

One of the figures in black robes expressed slight surprise.

"I didn’t think you could still conjure a divine blade of such rank."

Dragon Serpent frowned as he looked at these three people. Although he had intercepted them, he still felt an inexplicable unease at the bottom of his heart.

"If you’re thinking about targeting my disciple, you’d better honestly roll back to where you came from. This isn’t the Sculpting Star Realm."

The Sculpting Star Realm had been subjected to several assassination attempts, and key figures’ disciples had met with mysterious deaths, with the assailants nowhere to be found. He didn’t want his own disciple to suffer the same fate, so he sent an avatar to secretly protect Lin Xin early on.

As expected, Shadow City had sent assassins hoping to make a move.

He really intercepted the assassins, three Sixth Rank, which would be considered a big move anywhere.

Sixth Rank Earth Immortals aren’t cabbages; they each have their own Land for God Worship, and should their identities be exposed...

A person might be able to escape, but the Land for God Worship cannot; to assassinate key disciples of a major sect, such a crime would make the entire human society intolerant of them, and they would certainly be attacked in unison.

The Land for God Worship can’t be moved, and once it’s besieged, it is almost certainly doomed.

Though Earth Immortals are much stronger than Fifth Rank, because of this, they are cautious and not reckless.

Dragon Serpent’s thoughts raced as he carefully sensed his surroundings, finding nothing suspicious. But the alarm in his heart was undoubtedly real.

He raised the flame-forged Black Sui, his eyes firmly fixed on the three people in front of him.

"Rather than worrying about us here, you should be more concerned about your disciple practicing his worship in the Wasteland."

One of them suddenly chuckled.

"Though the three of us aren’t your match, we can still hold you off for a while. But your disciple, I’m afraid he’s not going to make it."

Dragon Serpent’s heart chilled. "What do you mean?"

The unease in his heart grew stronger and stronger.

"It’s almost finished,"

said the man, suddenly shifting his gaze toward the direction of the Wasteland.

Dragon Serpent was taken aback and hurriedly looked towards the Wasteland as well.

The Wasteland, still wrapped in countless Void Demon Spirits, appeared as a large black sphere. But close to the edge of the black sphere, a spatial rift suddenly appeared and split open, from which a familiar figure emerged.

"Huan Niu!!!"

Dragon Serpent’s eyes widened, and the sense of dread in his heart instantly skyrocketed.

He turned and rushed towards the Wasteland, his speed surpassing that of lightning, as if he crossed thousands of kilometers in the blink of an eye.

But it was already too late.

From afar, all could see Huan Niu’s five heads tilt back slightly, his right arm swelling violently, with muscles expanding and enlarging, grotesquely twisting as if numerous huge grapes were being forced into his arm.

A sinister smile cracked along his mouth.

"Heaven’s Scaled Wounds..."

His right arm swelled to dozens of times the size of his body in an instant.

"Star Shatter!!!"

Huan Niu roared, sound waves detonating and dispersing in all directions, as he stepped forward and threw a punch.

It was as if every ounce of substance in his colossal arm was being squeezed and ejected at once.

The arm shrank rapidly, while his fist, in contrast, expanded instantly to nearly a tenth the size of the Wasteland.

Boom!!!

A terrifying surge of power slammed into the surface of the Wasteland.

"No!!!"

Dragon Serpent’s eyes were wide in horror; despite reaching his highest speed, it was still too late.

The entire Wasteland shook violently with the direct impact of the punch, the numerous Demon Spirits on its surface shattering away.

Huan Niu plunged directly into the earthen yellow formation.

The Golden Origin Formation was torn apart like paper, followed by the layers of formation beneath it.

The Fifth Rank Nine Mountains Formation lit up with black light. Before it could fully react, Huan Niu’s punch drove into it.

The immense rebound force fell upon him, leaving him utterly unshaken.

Transforming into a gray meteor, he passed through the nine layers of mountain illusions in the Nine Mountains Formation, descending directly onto the next layer of formation.

"There’s more?"

Huan Niu was somewhat stunned, but still undeterred, as a Fifth Rank formation was nothing but something to punch through.

The formation on this layer was the Earth Fountain Wind Formation, another standard Fifth Rank formation, albeit with a slightly excessive power supply, making it robust and not easy to break through.

Huan Niu exerted extra force, the Star Shatter Fist once again blanketed with a thick grey aura. The momentum he lost from breaking through the formation swelled anew.

Ink-like water from all sides gushed toward him, blocking his path.

Thump!!

The water was smashed apart with a single punch.

Then came dark stone blocks, black streams of air, and black corrosive poison fog.

Four different transformations of the formation assaulted him in succession.

But none of them bothered Huan Niu; he passed through the whole Earth Fountain Wind Formation and continued his descent.

Subsequently, another layer of earthen yellow protective shield appeared before him.

With a frown, Huan Niu powered up the Star Shatter Fist, resolutely smashing it down relentlessly.

The earthy yellow protective shield shattered instantly, accompanied by a large dispersion of elemental force.

But beneath the broken light barrier, there unexpectedly lay another layer of the same protective shield.

Huan Niu began to grow impatient.

He continued to smash down with another punch.

The formation cracked open, revealing yet another new layer of earthy yellow light membrane!

Smash open again!

A new light membrane emerged once more.

Smash open!

Smash open!

Smash open!!!

Smash! Smash! Smash! Smash!.....

Finally, the power of Star Shatter Fist reached its limit, weakened layer by layer by the formation to the utmost limit, and completely disappeared.

Huan Niu’s expression twisted somewhat.

True Force coursed madly through his body.

"Celestial Rupture!"

His hands both swelled with massive muscle bulks, then suddenly contracted and compressed, spewing forth two streams of pitch-black, sharp scythe-like energy.

The energy streams surged towards the wasteland, and in an instant, similar black scythe energy streams appeared by the hundreds all around.

Each stream wielded the same power.

This layer of the formation was once again broken through, revealing a new layer of earthy yellow protective shield beneath.

"There’s still more!!!"

Huan Niu’s eyes widened with a rising fury.

"Even the defense of the Holy Land is only four or five layers! I want to see just how many layers you have!!!"

Summoning all his strength, he delivered another Star Shatter punch.

Star Shatter Fist combined with Celestial Rupture, forming a terrifying joint force that continued to smash downwards, breaking through new layers of the earthy yellow protective shield.

One layer was broken, yet another lay beneath it.

The force of the punch, amidst the protective shield, was besieged from all directions by the strength of the formation, already no longer as fierce as before.

Huan Niu’s demeanor became more and more agitated, the protective shields before his eyes seeming endless.

Even after breaking through the thirteenth layer, there was still more!

He continuously surged his True Force, bursting forth with all his might, by now somewhat drained.

But he knew he absolutely could not stop; any slight pause would allow Long She to catch up in an instant. By then, not to mention killing someone, even escaping himself might not be possible.

"All in!" One of his heads shook slightly, spitting out a stream of white light into his chest.

"Divine Shadow of the Heavens!"

In the blink of an eye, a mass of white light erupted from his back, like a jet engine, propelling him to a frightening speed.

With the explosive force of this blast, Huan Niu brought his hands together and delivered another Star Shatter Fist towards the wasteland direction.

New layers of the protective shield shattered.

Finally, after breaking through several layers of protective shields, Huan Niu at last caught sight of the last layer of semi-transparent shield; below it, Lin Sherie was looking up at him, nothing but indifference in his eyes.

"Die!!" Huan Niu’s eyes flashed with joy as he smashed his fist onto the last layer of the Thick Earth Formation membrane.

Crack.

In that instant, everything froze.

Everything in Huan Niu’s field of vision was instantly tinged with earthy yellow.

His consciousness, body, and the force of his punch all came to a sudden standstill, as if time itself had completely stopped. The only thing he could see was the glow, growing ever brighter yellow, from where his fist made contact.

"This... This is...!!!"

Intuitively feeling something was terribly wrong, he tried to dodge and move away, but it was already too late.

Boom!!!!

In an instant, innumerable earth system elemental forces desperately surged from this vent, pouring out wildly.

The entire wasteland, once a sphere of earthy yellow, now deflated rapidly, with a massive outflow of earth system elemental force bursting from the breakpoint where Huan Niu was.

The long-compressed mixed earth system elemental force had already become a colossal bomb.

As it ruptured, the one facing its brunt directly was Huan Niu at the breach.

A pillar of earthy yellow light, several tens of meters thick, surged furiously out from the breach, slamming with brutal force into Huan Niu at the forefront.

This was the cumulative earth system elemental force of many layers of the Thick Earth Formation, gathered over a substantial duration, combined with the simultaneous explosion of more than ten cores.

The cores were already unstable, and now, triggered by the elemental forces, they too exploded in unison.

Huan Niu only felt darkness before his eyes and excruciating pain throughout his body. The sacred shadow of his divine shrine appeared behind him, barely shielding him.

After that, he knew nothing more.

The light pillar slowly thinned and vanished. Every creature and demon spirit that had ventured too close was instantaneously crystallized, a result of erosion by the earth system elemental force.

Lin Xin looked up at Huan Niu, who was struck down in an instant, and shook his head slightly.

"Poor fellow. The collapse of a formation naturally results in an explosion far beyond the usual power. Twenty layers of formation exploding all at once, and all of them fifth rank..."

He originally thought he would need to take action personally with his own physical body, but now it seemed that the intruder’s survival would count as the greatest luck.

Following this explosion, countless members of the Void Legion were instantly crystalized and perished.

And thus, the Void Legion suffered heavy losses.

The Demon General with bull horns quickly issued a retreat order.

With a Sixth Rank Earth Immortal involved, the situation had slipped beyond his control; it was better to retreat for now.

If it were just one of them, he would not fear, but with five appearing successively, one exuding an aura so terrifying that even the void seemed to burn dry, it prompted his immediate decision to retreat swiftly.