Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 796 - 791: Lurking Shadow I

Chapter 796: Chapter 791: Lurking Shadow I

Hong Tian smiled slightly, turned around and looked into the distance, a trace of melancholy in his eyes.

"It’s enough, just right that the Golden Yao Venerable is also in seclusion to heal. Although an intact Heavenly Venerable can’t be dealt with, ordinary threats can be handled."

"Really?"

Fang Yu nodded.

"I see....."

Suddenly, he shot forward like lightning, space and time seemed to pause for an instant, and his figure appeared directly in front of Hong Tian.

One punch!

BOOOOMMMMM!!!!

The huge shockwave, accompanied by the sound of tidal waves, slammed heavily in the middle of Hong Tian’s back.

"Then I...shall have peace of mind...."

Hong Tian’s chest exploded in an instant, countless blood and flesh flew out along with shadows.

His face showed an expression of disbelief. He stretched out his hand, trembling, trying to grab Fang Yu’s arms.

"Little Yu.....you....!!!"

"Brother Hong Tian, thank you for your meticulous care over the years." Fang Yu’s eyes flickered with malicious and cold expression.

"In return, I’ll leave you a whole corpse...."

Slash!

He pulled out his right arm, holding a constantly jumping shadow heart.

The heart seemed to be completely made of shadows, without any substance.

A slight smile appeared on his lips, and he directly stuffed the heart into his mouth and began chewing.

Hong Tian’s eyes revealed an empty, unwilling, puzzled look.

But the core of his cultivation was destroyed, leaving him powerless.

He was not a Heavenly Venerable with countless avatars. Only at the Earth Immortal level, this body was his true self. Unlike other Earth Immortals, he refined his Land for God Worship into this Shadow Heart.

This heart looked small but could actually expand to cover a huge range of several thousand Spirit Miles.

But at this moment, it was destroyed by his most trusted Great Saint Fang Yu, whom he had adopted and raised from a young age.

He couldn’t understand, couldn’t fathom why Fang Yu would do this.

Blood flowed down his body.

Fang Yu casually released his hold, letting Hong Tian’s body fall. Swallowing the heart in a few bites, his eyes returned to initial calmness.

"Maybe this is the price of power. Supreme Forgetfulness, transforming into infinity, too bad....Brother Hong Tian, you hindered my path."

He took one last look at Hong Tian, memories flashed in his mind of countless scenes of Hong Tian taking care of him, teaching him, and caring for him from childhood.

Carefully feeling the subtle sorrow deep in his heart.

Fang Yu suddenly looked up, his eyes wet without knowing when.

"Brother Hong Tian, your death is not without value, it will transform into my power, forever existing in this universe....."

He stretched out his hand, gently pulled a Green Crystal from his chest, and held it in his palm.

Click.

The crystal shattered.

"Rest in peace...." His eyes abruptly turned cold.

Fine green powder scattered in the wind, falling into the bottomless abyss below the mountain, seemingly as burial offerings for Hong Tian.

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A burst of brilliant silver slowly exploded outside the window, blooming like a giant silver flower.

Lin Xin slowly withdrew his gaze.

"Teacher, how’s it going on your side?"

From the other side of the communication Jade Talisman came a series of hissing noises, seemingly due to interference from massive radiation energy.

After a few seconds, Dragon Snake’s slightly weary voice came through the Jade Talisman.

"The offensive is strong. The speed at which we’re producing Dao Soldiers can barely keep up with the consumption, but the resource depletion is immense, and now 80 percent of the stored resources have been used up.

The Heavenly Alliance headquarters has specially formed a resource collection department."

"No news yet on the Daoist Ancestors’ battle?" Lin Xin frowned.

"The Daoist Ancestors’ fight for victory is slower than even the Heavenly Venerable, it will take at least a thousand years. As long as they don’t completely collide, even we Heavenly Venerables need hundreds of years to completely obliterate someone. This is not urgent."

Dragon Snake smiled.

"Practice your cultivation well, nurture the Land for God Worship, anything you need, I will do my best to provide. Don’t hesitate to ask."

"I’m fine here, just want to participate in the Shadow City encirclement."

Lin Xin said solemnly, "My elder sister is poisoned by Shadow City’s deadly toxin, need to find a cure."

"I’ll arrange it for you later. You’ll join our academic institute’s team. In addition, soon, the headquarters might issue a mobilization order, summoning all disciples of us Heavenly Venerables to gather for a total assault against the Void Spirits. Prepare yourself mentally."

Dragon Snake explained.

"I understand." Lin Xin naturally understood that as the pressure increased, it would only be a matter of time before they were forcibly deployed.

"Now half of the disciples of Venerables have voluntarily entered the battlefield, seeking to practice their cultivation, if you wish, you can enter the battlefield early to adapt, otherwise during the final battle, it might be troublesome.

Your Master Jiūqū’s eldest disciple, Yuan Lu Xian, recently joined the battle zone, leading a charge against the Demon Spirits." Dragon Snake reminded.

Lin Xin naturally knew that "under a collapsed nest, no egg is left intact," the Void Spirit front line must not collapse. Once it does, no matter how strong he is, his Land for God Worship cannot withstand the vast erosion of countless Demon Spirits, not to mention any time a Heavenly Demon Army Master might strike.

"Alright, the battle is about to start. You prepare yourself and await deployment from the Heavenly Alliance headquarters." Dragon Snake reminded one last time.

"Okay."

Lin Xin agreed firmly, then disconnected the communication.

He stood by the side of the battleship, gazing out the window.

For a moment, he was silent.

Cloud Light Lord went to rest, the Escort Ship guarding outside, ready at any moment.

He had time to ponder his matters carefully.

"I must accelerate.... ten days, if still no arrival, I’ll act directly, clearing the concentrated Void Spirits around."

Thoughts flashed in his mind.

The final battle was imminent, he couldn’t drag it out any longer.

Boom!!

Suddenly, a large red firework exploded in the distance.

Lin Xin’s eyes narrowed.

"They’re here!"

He didn’t expect that right after talking with his Honored Master, the awaited Void Spirit army would timely arrive.

Narrowing his eyes slightly, he flashed, directly piercing through the battleship window, appearing outside in the void.

"There’s also in the north. Hold them off for me."

Throwing down an order, without waiting for the Escort Ship’s response, Lin Xin flew straight toward the sighted red Demon Spirit army.

In the void, what seemed close often turned out to be tens of thousands of Spirit Miles distant.

It was such at this moment for Lin Xin.

His speed increased instantly to ten thousand miles per second, equivalent to five thousand kilometers per second.

A few strides away from the fleet, his speed surged again.

From five thousand kilometers per second to ten thousand kilometers per second.

Then twenty thousand, thirty thousand, fifty thousand kilometers per second!!

The speed seemed to be reaching its limit.

Around him, countless light trails stretched infinitely, as if he entered a kaleidoscope, surrounded by variegated lights.

A few breaths later.

Lin Xin slowed down, soon hovering in the void.

In front of him floated a huge red sphere, almost planetary in scale, stretching from left to right out of sight.

On the red sphere’s surface, innumerable Void Spirits could be seen, mainly small Void Demons and Elephant-Men, crawling like ants on the sphere.

Lin Xin hovering before the sphere was smaller than dust.

From a distance, without careful observation, even pinpointing his location was exceedingly difficult.

"This is it."

Glancing back to where he came from, only blackness was visible, not even the fleet’s shadow in view.

"Is this a phenomenon of time reversal at the peak of speed? I exceeded the speed of natural light, returning to a space-time before the fleet’s arrival, still in that moment before its appearance?

Then why could I previously see the Void Spirit army?"

He speculated in his mind.

But such complex topics were not his focus.

Dealing with this thing ahead was key.

He drew the Sword of Joy, pointing it downward.

The void’s fierce wind blew his robes dramatically, billowing backward.

"The scale is about ten million, ripe for harvesting."

Lin Xin lightly lifted the Sword of Joy.

Vertical in front.

’Supreme Divine Wind.....’

His eyes slowly brightened with white light.

"Star Burial."

Slash slash!!

Two sharp sounds, two red sword lights suddenly appeared in the void before Lin Xin, crisscrossing and slowly rotating toward the huge red Demon Spirit planet.

The two red sword lights, initially a meter long, began to lengthen with the increasing distance.

From a meter, to five meters, to ten meters!

Twenty meters! Fifty meters! One hundred meters!!

Soon, the two sword lights transformed into gigantic sword scars thousands of meters long, rapidly extending further.

Within a few breaths, upon reaching the huge red globe, the sword lights had extended to tens of thousands of meters of terrifying length.

Stab!!

The sword light pierced into the red Demon Spirit sphere as if falling into a red ocean, even such lengths only stirred a large area of spirits rising into the air.

Lin Xin gripped the sword with his right hand, his left hand slowly forming a grasping motion towards the red Spirit Sphere.

Then suddenly clenched!

Snap!!

Hand turning into a fist.

BOOOM!!!

At the same time, the entire red Demon Spirit planet’s core exploded violently, as if something ignited within.

The sphere shook fiercely, then slowly cracked with white fissures.

Slash!

A beam of white light shot from within, streaking into the depths of the void.

Countless spirits panicked, attempting to flee in all directions.

But it was too late.

First erupted were the white cracks, then immense white light burst from within.

About one breath later, with a resounding boom.

The entire Demon Spirit planet exploded, as if a watermelon smashed violently. Countless white, glowing liquid erupted from the core, scattering everywhere.

BOOOM!!

The planet experienced a secondary explosion, raising a circle of dazzling red light, engulfing it in white-red flames.

Massive shockwaves swept through Lin Xin, his robes flapping wildly in the radiation storm.