Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 741 - 736 Rest and Reorganization Part 2

Chapter 741: Chapter 736 Rest and Reorganization Part 2

Wang Kongyan’s father, Wang Tong, was born with excellent aptitude, and his mother was the even more extraordinary Yao Yuanhui, favored by the heavens.

Once he started his cultivation practice, he improved daily. Under the honest and down-to-earth guidance of Wang Tong, he was well-read and sensible, with his only flaw being a little bit too lively.

The intense Solar Heart Physique of Wei Qing, if brought to the Mortal Realm, would probably earn him a spot as an official disciple of Green Lake Mountain without question.

Now, these two are the fastest to break through the Human Immortal level.

Not long ago, Zhou Songyun finally accumulated enough and met the requirements, successfully stepping into the Polar Region and achieving Human Immortal status.

In addition, a dozen other disciples, due to the different flow of time in the minor world and their hard cultivation reaching a bottleneck, were enlightened by Lin Xin and became Human Immortals.

Out of the several hundred disciples, a good half of them have broken through this barrier.

But that’s as far as the simplified Green Yuan Decision goes.

There’s no way to extend it further.

Lin Xin was helpless and could only slowly create a follow-up Cultivation Decision for them afterwards.

The original reason for imparting the simplified Green Yuan Decision to them was that the spiritual energy concentration in the minor world was too low for them to get started.

But what was a benefit at the time has now become a shackling limitation.

However, they would need at least a thousand or even several thousand years to break through, so even without a suitable cultivation technique, it’s still fine to accumulate cultivation in the meantime.

With the Honored Master’s breakthrough, a large expanse of Dragon Serpent Realm’s territory has completely disappeared. That was the land for god worship of the Dragon Serpent Honored Master, raised up among the stars.

The entire Dragon Serpent Realm was now managed by Lin Xin, stationed at Deep Fire Palace in place of the Master of Earth Immortal Realm.

The Earth Fire Realm’s army, seeing the situation turn sour, had long since retreated back to the Earth Fire Realm, not daring to show their faces again.

Everything once again settled down into a quiet tranquility.

Lin Xin also began to attend to his own affairs.

One matter was his silly sister Lin Yaoyang, and another was to refine the Earthfire Nine Spirit Beads into his Lifebound Magic Artifact.

After all, the Red Flower Sword is far inferior to a Realm Artifact like the Earthfire Nine Spirit Beads. It’s only suitable for offensive use.

And as for his core magic artifact, Lin Xin ultimately chose the Earthfire Nine Spirit Beads.

Being inherently a powerful and terrifying Realm Artifact, if it’s further enhanced by his own substantial attribute boosts...

You must know that Lifebound Magic Artifacts can be enhanced by attribute points.

Once the refinement process is finished, Lin Xin is very much looking forward to seeing just how much stronger the Earthfire Nine Spirit Beads will become.

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The refining process is extremely boring and dull.

Lin Xin had people plant many fruit orchards in the Dragon Serpent Realm and restricted them with formations, producing fruit from time to time.

For everyone to eat.

Sitting in the side hall of Deep Fire Palace, Lin Xin munched on newly ripened Purple Jade grapes while watching a troupe of dancers and singers recently sent by his disciples perform below.

He disliked lasciviousness, so the performance emphasized pleasing the eye rather than inflaming desires.

As the dance went on, Lin Xin was somewhat distracted as he ate his grapes.

Seated on the benches on both sides of the side hall were his senior brother Oro, several disciples, and two newly accepted young disciples of Lin Xin’s own.

One was the son of a minor realm master, with a learned family background, named Geboruo.

The other was the daughter of a secretive, well-established family; she was of exceptional beauty, figure, and aptitude. Her name was Xia Xue.

Both of their families had extensive connections with Dragon Serpent and were among the powers that continued to support Dragon Serpent in times of crisis.

Lin Xin, tired of the deluge of discipleship requests, casually selected the two of them and dismissed the rest.

He had too many disciples already and was now considering whether it might be time to take some of them out for travels.

But after some thought, he decided it was too dangerous to take any action before the simplified Green Yuan Decision was revised.

"Does the Honored Master have something on his mind?"

Xia Xue, clever as frost and snow, noticed Lin Xin’s preoccupied demeanor and voiced her concern.

This girl, barely in her teens, was perceptive and endearing.

"I do have something on my mind," Lin Xin smiled and said, "Let’s end the performance."

The dancers, currently in motion, promptly stopped, aligned to bow to Lin Xin, and after paying their respects to those seated, gracefully exited the hall.

"Is uncle worried about the Shadow City affair?"

Feng Wuxiu ventured cautiously.

Feng Wuxiu, nominally, Feng Huai’s niece, sent to the Dragon Serpent Realm for foster care, was actually his daughter. She now stood tall and elegant, her cultivation having reached the Golden Core Stage.

Seeing her, Lin Xin felt she truly was the spitting image of Feng Huai; she was like Feng Huai in a woman’s dress, only with more delicate features.

She had been placed in the care of his senior brother Oro, while Lin Xin, the one entrusted, had seldom visited, which now made him feel somewhat ashamed.

"Niece, you see clearly," he said with a warm smile. "Shadow City has repeatedly offended Green Lake Mountain, and the headquarters has already taken action. So..."

"Does junior brother intend to accept the hunting order?"

Oro continued the conversation.

"What does senior brother think?" Lin Xin asked, smiling.

The headquarters had already sent out invitations to Earth Immortals like him, issuing hunting orders.

It was for Shadow City.

In recent times, Shadow City’s assassins had grown increasingly brazen. Despite the headquarters deploying large numbers of the Golden Crown Winter Hunting Team, they were still stretched thin and struggled to contain the frequency of the assassinations.

This time, the Dragon Serpent had almost perished before achieving Heavenly Immortal status, which infuriated the six higher-ups and prompted a decree to establish the Shadow Hunting Team.

All Earth Immortal cultivators with potential were invited and issued with hunting orders.

Invited to join the Shadow Hunting Team. To punish the killers of Shadow City and uphold the dignity of Green Lake Mountain.

On one hand, Lin Xin wanted to unlock the Door of Mystery and explore other worlds.

Having the powerful Ancient Divine Artifact like the Qira Mask and not making full use of it would be a waste of heavenly gifts.

But on the other hand, he was concerned about Shadow City’s recent assassination attempt, which came perilously close to success.

If it had actually succeeded, what then?

"In my opinion, Junior Brother has just advanced to the Sixth Rank, which is precisely the time to stabilize his realm. It wouldn’t hurt to decline the Hunting Order for now. He can join later without any issue," Oro proposed.

"Senior Brother speaks the truth."

Lin Xin nodded slightly without indicating his stance.

After achieving the Earth Immortal Realm, he could feel every moment that his consciousness seemed to split into many parts.

Each fragment could easily attach to any object, and in a single thought, myriad hearts arose.

Perhaps this was the principle he was realizing.

He had not yet sealed the Chenning Realm and had not fully stabilized it.

He was always waiting for more disciples to advance to Human Immortal.

As his thoughts reached this point, suddenly, a fiery red streak of light shot into the Deep Fire Palace from outside and landed precisely in Lin Xin’s palm.

It turned out to be a Spirit Talisman Fire Jade.

"A message from Honored Master," Lin Xin smiled and gestured to his Senior Brother Oro.

"Do as you wish, and bring back more fruits when you return. I’ll be stepping away for a moment," he said as he rose to his feet.

"Understood."

All the younger generation responded in unison.

"Might as well take them to see the Earth Fire Pillar," Oro said as he got up, smiling.

"Then I’ll be troubling Senior Brother."

"What’s there to be polite about between us?"

Oro didn’t say much more and immediately arranged the itinerary.

Lin Xin took the Jade Talisman and went to the small garden at the back.

He ordered the guards to secure the entrance and then gently crushed the Jade Talisman.

Suddenly, streams of information flowed into his mind.

"As your master, I am now ranked among the twenty-one Realm Masters, holding the position of vice president of the academy. Lieshan, I’ve also clarified the matter you wanted to inquire about," the voice of his Honored Master, Dragon Serpent, came from the Jade Talisman.

"Lin Yaoyang has followed Song Danhao into the Secret Serpent Immortal Realm to purify the tainted sealing powers there, to prevent them from leaking and threatening the masses. He is still in there and has not come out yet.

He is temporarily safe, so there’s no need to worry.

This purification process is lengthy, and there won’t be any major changes for a century."

After reading the message, Lin Xin finally felt somewhat relieved.

He took out the Hunting Order once again.

A glint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes.

"Shadow City...Repeated assassination attempts against me, do they really think we have no fire in us?"

He clenched his fist fiercely and directly crushed the Hunting Order.

Hiss...

In front of the small garden, an oval light gate in pale red unexpectedly appeared, its energy flows flickering and eye-catching within.

Lin Xin thought for a moment, swiftly took out another Jade Talisman, input a message, and casually tossed it so it hovered mid-air in the small garden, spinning idly.

Yet his gaze turned cold, and he stepped forward into the light gate.

The Door of Mysteries was meant to continue the search for new worlds, but before that, he had to pay back the favor to Shadow City.

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Inside the Winter High Tower of Green Lake Mountain, the headquarter of the Golden Crown.

In a not too large or small green hall.

One after another, figures leaped out from a pink light gate and took their places.

"Please take a seat," a middle-aged man softly called out from the main seat in the hall.

"Greetings to Shen Lue Heavenly Venerable," the first figures to emerge, who were all earth immortals with an aura as heavy as the earth and exceedingly solid, said with respect as they saw the Primordial Spirit Holy Light behind the middle-aged man, and went forward to pay their respects.

Lin Xin, who had just come out, recognized Shen Lue Heavenly Venerable at first glance.

This was also one of the three Heavenly Immortals who helped his Honored Master Dragon Serpent advance.

He had not expected it to be him leading the team personally.

"Thank you for your hard work, everyone. Thirteen consecutive teleportations without rest," said Shen Lue Heavenly Venerable with a calm demeanor.

Lin Xin glanced around and indeed saw the other Earth Immortals with slightly tired expressions, apparently exhausted from enduring thirteen consecutive spatial transfers.

Not wanting to attract attention, he subtly showed a hint of weariness on his face.

"As the Heavenly Venerable leading the seventh assassination team, there’s no need for small talk. The assassination target has already been found. We will work in groups of three for pinpoint deployment!" Shen Lue Heavenly Venerable said succinctly.

Those who came here were all for the purpose of eliminating the monks of Shadow City, so without further ado, he began discussing the operation.

He waved his hand, and immediately Formation Patterns appeared on the ground, which were for long-distance teleportation.

"Get ready. The target assigned to us is one of the six Wang Zhu of Shadow City, specifically the Circle Heart Lion Wang Zhu division," he said as streaks of light flew from his hand, landing in the hands of the seven or eight cultivators present.

"Here are the details of the mission, location, characteristic aura, and other information. Once you enter the small world, you have two hours to eliminate the target. If you exceed the time, reinforcements will arrive. Have you got that?"

"Understood!"

All the Earth Immortals voiced their acknowledgment in unison.

Standing among them, Lin Xin did the same. Although he was not clear about the cultivation levels of these surrounding Earth Immortals, they surely couldn’t be worse than his own, having just advanced.

Such a large force, and only the seventh team at that, spoke volumes about the hidden strength of Green Lake Mountain.