Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 867 - 862: Hidden Danger II

Chapter 867: Chapter 862: Hidden Danger II

Boom!!

Qi Sword and Spear collided, and the spear easily tore the Qi Sword to shreds.

"Huh?"

Lin Xin was genuinely surprised this time.

He had to acknowledge that his current strength had already reached the level of a terrifying seeker, surpassing even the Heavenly Venerable. At this level, even a casually released Qi Sword should have left the Heavenly Venerable in a fluster.

Unexpectedly, the opponent received it effortlessly.

He now somewhat understood the trouble that Red Leaf had mentioned.

"They rely purely on physical strength, breaking ten thousand techniques with strength alone. Be careful," Red Leaf reminded from the side.

"Breaking ten thousand techniques with strength alone?" Lin Xin revealed a cold, stiff smile. "That’s only because the techniques they encountered were too weak...."

He extended his eight arms simultaneously, each hand gathering a Qi Sword.

The eight sword blades made a slight swing, tearing the space and leaving behind black cracks all around.

Because this world was fragile, tearing space was the same for everyone, but the power levels within couldn’t be manifested through superficial means.

On the surface, it seemed like everyone could tear the space, but the differences in power within were beyond words.

At this moment, the two-horned general had already charged in front of him.

The eerie, powerful wave once again swept through the surroundings, greatly suppressing and interfering with the flow speed of True Yuan and Elemental Energy.

This gave Lin Xin a nauseating feeling, as if he were stuck in a quagmire.

"Divine Spear Lu Dian! Kill!!!"

General Berend roared, and with a flash of the Red Spear, it descended upon Lin Xin with terrifying power.

Red dots flickered one after another on the spear shaft, each representing a different symbol.

When the eighth red dot lit up, the weight of the spear had increased by eight times.

This immensely boosted Berend’s confidence.

With this spear, he even had the confidence to cleave a Constellation in two!

As the spear fell, the entire world seemed to tremble violently.

Clang!!

The spearhead struck Lin Xin’s left shoulder collarbone.

The piercing, numbing collision sound echoed, sending actual sound waves that tumbled and flew up the grass on the ground for tens of thousands of meters around.

The clouds in the surrounding thousands of miles dispersed, leaving only the vast, blue sky.

"Are you trying to tickle me?" Lin Xin lowered his head and glanced at the Red Spear. Even though Berend was on horseback, he could barely match Lin Xin’s height.

Just a moment ago, he hadn’t even meant to block the strike but allowed the opponent to hit him.

"How...how’s this possible!!?"

Berend’s eyes widened, his entire body cold.

Even if this wasn’t his full-force strike, it had at least seventy percent of his strength.

Yet it couldn’t even cut through the opponent’s skin.....

He could see clearly that where the spear struck, there was only an inconspicuous white spot on Lin Xin’s skin.

Not just him, even Red Leaf, who was floating nearby, was staring with eyes wide open in astonishment.

No one had expected Lin Xin’s body to be this strong.

The aristocrats watching from afar were even more stunned, some timid ones already sneaking off. Those who could barely stay conscious were all crying out monster-related words.

In mid-air.

"The interference with True Yuan and Elemental Energy is indeed quite significant," Lin Xin carefully analyzed the opponent’s power. "Bullying those who don’t practice body cultivation or are too weak in it might work. Without True Yuan, they are just trash. But for me... you are like a toddler just learning to walk, incredibly fragile...."

"Kill!!" Berend couldn’t hold back any longer. A terrifying sense of threat surged into his heart at this moment.

He no longer cared whether this world would be destroyed.

With a sudden recoil, the Red Spear’s twelve red stars lit up in an instant.

The spearhead, like a venomous dragon, carried the weight of tens of millions of tons and smashed towards Lin Xin with all his might.

This was his full-force strike.

Although it didn’t look fast, it gave the illusion of being unavoidable.

Perhaps it was not an illusion but an inevitability.

Berend had once devoured the Star Cores of two Dead Star planets to fill his spear with enough weight.

His Divine Spear Red Rain had an actual weight of 1.6 billion tons, which, by native measurements, was about 80 million tons.

Once his power was fully driven, the Time Dragon could amplify this weight by twenty times.

The final impact was nearly 3 billion tons crashing down on his opponent!

This was a catastrophic blow for any practitioner who couldn’t use True Yuan and Heaven and Earth’s Elemental Energy.

A medium-sized mountain, five to six hundred meters tall, would weigh around a billion tons.

Yet, three billion tons meant combining three such mountains into a three-meter Red Spear.

Such density was causing gravitational collapse around Berend when he unleashed his full power, revealing spatial distortions due to the high-density material.

Just like a cloth suspended in the air, placing a metal weight on it would cause an unavoidable dip at the point of impact.

Everything around the depression would irresistibly be drawn and twisted toward this gravitational collapse.

The ground, the gravel, the black spatial rifts, and the red Spiritual Light emanating from Lin Xin were all being stretched and distorted by this gravitational collapse.

Three billion tons, like stacking together three mountains, smashed down on Lin Xin.

For this fragile world, it was an unbearable strike. The silhouette of the Eternal Slumber Serpent began to appear in the space, indicating permanent damage.

But for Lin Xin....

Clang!!!

The spearhead precisely struck Lin Xin’s forehead.

The enormous impact caused Lin Xin’s body to sway slightly, stepping back half a step.

Everything fell silent.....

Berend gripped his spear tightly, his eyes revealing horror, disbelief, and fear.

"Without your interference...." Lin Xin grabbed the spearhead and said, "You don’t even qualify to get close to me...."

In Berend’s despairing gaze, he gently squeezed.

Snap.

The Divine Spear’s red spearhead broke off.

Lin Xin swung his four right arms with Qi Swords lightly.

With a boom, Berend was flung away.

He spat out a mouthful of blood mist, his bones and internal organs seemingly shattered, crashing into the prairie below, creating a deep, dark pit.

The surrounding prairie now had a crater the size of a lake, all from the impact force.

Holding the Divine Spear in one hand, Lin Xin drove the long spearhead into the black hole in his chest.

Hiss....

The black hole rotated violently, wildly devouring the Divine Spear’s substance.

The substance essence continuously transformed into exceedingly dense Free Attribute Points, flowing into Lin Xin’s mind, becoming his growth fuel.

The entire three-meter spear shaft was fully inserted into his body and completely devoured.

The moment he finished devouring it, he distinctly felt Berend’s spirit dissipate.

Clearly, the Divine Weapon was the core of his being. With the Divine Weapon devoured, he too perished.

Having done all this, Lin Xin then turned his gaze toward the fallen Black Light Army in the distance.

After defeating General Berend, who had condensed the Time Dragon’s Void Shadow, it was akin to defeating the entire gathered strength of the Black Light Army.

The conclusion was long decided.

The once mighty and countless Black Light Army was annihilated by Lin Xin in a single glance.

Lin Xin didn’t waste any time, opened the black hole in his chest, and unleashed the devouring force.

Hiss....

Thousands of Black Light Army members were swiftly drawn, shrinking, spinning, flying into the black hole, rapidly being digested and devoured.

"Five million points... not bad."

After devouring them, Lin Xin found the harvest quite satisfying.

He turned back to look at Red Leaf.

Red Leaf watched him with a complex expression.

The young man he once sent away from the mansion had grown to this extent, with an aura that now seemed infinitely perilous.

"Let’s go, find another place, and have a proper talk."

After a moment’s silence, he spoke in a low voice.

"Alright." Lin Xin nodded.

Red Leaf reached out and grabbed Lin Xin’s shoulder. With a swooshing sound, they disappeared into the sky.

***********************

Just as they had left,

another rift suddenly tore open in the sky above Yongyang Song City.

A bare-chested bald man in black pants slowly stepped out from within.

The bald man’s muscles were like cast metal, and his entire body was enveloped in a thin layer of golden light.

"Escaped...?" He scanned the area below with concentration.

The vast plains were already turned to blackish-yellow.

Pits of various sizes were everywhere.

From one of the deep holes, faint waves of Berend’s despair and rage emerged.

"Even War Dragon General has fallen.... Seems the power level of this universe is not low. Baron Berend was a Five Stars-level strongman, yet he’s dead. There might even be Nine Stars, possibly Ring Level beings here."

The bald man made an assessment. The colony’s purpose was resource plundering, but if the cost exceeded the gains, it wasn’t worthwhile to expend military power.

"Everyone, prepare for immediate retreat." He sent out word, turning his right hand and twisting the Dark Gold Ring on his index finger.

The ring had a dragon head engraving, which morphed into a black, sinister snakehead as he turned it.

"This universe needs a reevaluation of its danger and resource levels. Suspend all development actions and await further instructions."

His voice reached the distant noble teams.

The nobles wailed in despair.

"It’s over...." Hugo, the chubby noble, wept bitterly.

He had wagered everything he owned on this colonial development, never expecting the unbeatable Black Light Army to suffer a loss.

Lady Laura remained composed.

"Berend’s death is partly my responsibility. The opponents were too powerful and we were somewhat arrogant, leading to our downfall."

"But...this defeat is only temporary..." Her family wouldn’t give up so easily.

The wealth of this universe was too tempting. Plundering Elemental Energy, resources, even lives and souls, could easily establish a Silver Ring family.

That was the ambition behind her and Berend’s family.