Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 906 - 901: Pursuit 1

Chapter 906: Chapter 901: Pursuit 1

After waiting for several months.

It was finally confirmed that no Taoist Ancestor had emerged from inside the gate.

Lin Xin slowly gathered his breath and approached the gate.

The brass gate quietly burned, surrounded by layers of white calamity aura, with only a thin layer of flame enclosing the door frame.

Lin Xin approached slowly, gradually feeling the heat emanating from the flames on the gate.

This heat was even hotter than volcanic magma, so intense that even ordinary metal and steel would likely melt if they came too close.

The closer he got, the more intensely red the gate appeared to Lin Xin.

What began as a light red hue deepened to vermillion, and by the time he was a few hundred meters away, the entire door had turned a dark red, burning with ominous blood-like flames.

It was completely different from the scene seen from the outside.

Inside the gate was now entirely occupied by the white calamity aura, with no trace of the previous yellow liquid.

Carefully, Lin Xin walked to the entrance and extended a hand inside.

He felt the touch of the calamity aura, confirming that the great calamity had devoured and dominated the place.

A slight sense of relief washed over him; he didn’t fear the calamity aura, only unknown means that were difficult to confront. Especially worrying was accidentally alarming a Taoist Ancestor who hadn’t left.

After waiting for a while with no disturbances, Lin Xin decisively dove headfirst into the gate.

Plop!

A dull splash echoed in his ears.

Immediately, he sensed the terrifying high temperature that even his Protective Aura could feel.

Lin Xin plunged into a pale yellow viscous liquid that emitted countless white fumes.

It was as if he had dived into a boiling ocean.

All around him was the roiling high-temperature liquid with a formidable corrosive effect, and in mere moments, Lin Xin’s Protective Aura eroded away, leaving only a thin layer.

He decided to retract the aura and make contact with his bare body.

The robe transformed by the Purification Light was fine, directly repelling all liquid, but Lin Xin’s own flesh faced trouble.

Large amounts of hair were instantly corroded and burned away by the scorching liquid.

When his skin touched the liquid, it made a strident sizzling sound, but due to his exceptional physique, it couldn’t break through Lin Xin’s physical defenses.

The liquid initially appeared pale yellow, but soon turned to a pure yellow,

allowing visibility through the liquid to distant views.

This entire layer of the abyss was filled with completely yellow, semi-transparent liquid.

The temperature was frightfully high, making movement similar to being in boiling water.

Lin Xin searched all around for the Taoist Ancestor’s remains, but nothing appeared in his sight—just a stretch of pure yellow with no residues.

He sped up the search nearby, but after some time, he found nothing but the yellow liquid and the ever-expanding calamity aura.

"The Ancestor’s remains.... they can’t just disappear.... Where could they be?"

Lin Xin flew rapidly, searching everywhere. Yet, even after more than a month, he found nothing.

"Could it be....?"

Suddenly, he recalled the Heavenly Demon Army Masters who had left last.

"If there truly were Ancestor-level remains, they might have devoured them or taken them away."

In his heart, he understood that he was extremely close to the truth.

The Heavenly Demon Army Masters were known for possessing Devouring Divine Ability.

Moreover, out of the many Army Masters who entered previously, only a few returned, indicating that many of them had also perished.

Realizing this, Lin Xin felt a heaviness in his heart.

After waiting so long for this opportunity to loot the place, he hadn’t even been left a morsel of soup.

He swam through the yellow liquid for a while longer but found nothing.

Finally, Lin Xin sighed and headed back the way he came.

He was now certain that the Heavenly Demon Army Masters had devoured or taken away the Taoist Ancestor’s remains.

Retracing his steps, he rushed out from the gate.

He hadn’t completely emerged from the red flames of the gate when he heard a series of piercing rumbling noises coming from the abyss.

It was as though some heavy object was repeatedly colliding.

Lin Xin quickly restrained his breath and dashed to the shadows on the side of the gate, disappearing into the darkness.

From his hiding spot, he could faintly see through the calamity aura two colorful light clusters colliding furiously in the distance.

Within one of the colorful lights stood a middle-aged man, colossal as a planet.

His arms were spread, and his arms bore numerous deep blue gashes like knife wounds.

From each slash-like mark, beams of blue light entwined with black lines constantly emanated.

Countless beams crazily shot toward the other light cluster.

"The All Saints Birth and Death Light; I didn’t expect you to have secretly mastered this divine skill!"

In the other colorful light, a giant man holding a giant serpent had a sun-like ball of light suspended above his head, shouting fiercely.

He swung the black serpent to meet the beams.

The serpent opened its mouth and instantly spat out three pale yellow small stars arranged in a triangle.

The stars collided head-on with the beams.

With a loud crash, the heavy impact echoed.

"Don’t think I don’t know what you did inside the gate!"

The giant with countless blue slashes on his arm shouted angrily.

"Now that the two old men from Green Lake Mountain can’t vouch for you, let’s determine life or death today!"

He charged forward, a spiky blue screen suddenly spreading over his body, like a walking hedgehog, ramming into the giant man.

The two of them tumbled, crashing in the abyss, creating a massive hole.

The two massive figures rolled directly into the entrance of the cave, and there was no more sound.

Lin Xin waited for a while, still sensing no movement from the two, before he slowly revealed himself.

His gaze was fixed on the large hole where the two had left.

"These two, judging from their aura, should be Yuzi and Song Ri, but I don’t know why they harbor such hatred for each other, even wanting to determine life and death amidst the great calamity."

For terrifying existences like the Taoist Ancestor, whose lifespans are calculated in hundreds of thousands of years, it is impossible to engage in such a decisive life-and-death battle unless absolutely necessary.

"It seems something bad must have happened on the Fortieth Layer, causing them to turn against each other."

Lin Xin speculated in his heart.

Judging from the posture of these two Taoist Ancestors, it is likely a fight to the death.

Lin Xin squinted his eyes and simply flew towards the large hole that the two had crashed into.

Although his speed was not as fast as the Taoist Ancestors, it definitely surpassed any other creature.

After half a month, he quickly flew to the large hole created by the two Taoist Ancestors.

Without another word, he crashed directly in.

Inside the black hole was a massive gravitational pull.

Evidently, the crushed abyssal space was instinctively devouring surrounding material energy to mend the wound.

Lin Xin unleashed all his strength in the black hole, swimming deeper.

He could vaguely feel that the black hole’s walls were very long, long enough to be measured in light-years.

He exerted all his effort, flying forward, struggling against the enormous gravitational pull in the desolate darkness.

After spending more than half a year, he finally saw a faint glimmer of light exposed at the bottom of the hole.

He accelerated forward in a rush.

Thud!!

He plunged into a blinding white light.

The white light twisted and moved, revealing itself as an enormous semi-transparent jellyfish.

The jellyfish swam slowly, surrounded by milky white seawater, filled with a rich milk aroma.

Lin Xin rolled inside the jellyfish and popped his head out, finally seeing where he was.

He was on the back of a gigantic jellyfish, below was the milk ocean.

Above was a dismal white sky, with an unbelievably large black hole.

It was exactly the place he had fallen from.

"This should be another layer of the abyss, but I don’t know which layer it is."

Lin Xin used his divine sense to control and influence the jellyfish.

This big guy was thousands of meters large, but it was not very smart, with intelligence comparable to a young child, and was easily controlled by Lin Xin. He swam following the tracks of the two Taoist Ancestors’ battle.

The jellyfish’s speed was very fast, just slightly slower than Lin Xin.

But otherwise, it had no special abilities. It didn’t even have the poisonous tentacles that ordinary jellyfish possess. It’s unknown how it survived here.

Lin Xin sat cross-legged on the jellyfish’s back, reaching out to gently scoop the seawater nearby.

A stream of milky white seawater immediately shot up, twining around his fingers.

He sniffed it; it had a milk scent, with a slightly sweet and thick feel.

He tasted a bit and found the flavor quite good, much like hot milk with sugar. The temperature and texture were just right.

"This place shouldn’t be the Thirty-Eighth Layer, the Thirty-Eighth Abyss is the Scorching Hot Canyon, I’ve been to all previous abysses, and I’ve never seen this place before.

Could this be the Forty-First Layer or above?"

He frowned slightly, unable to figure out where in the world he was.

"But no matter how you look at it, the power level of this place is very high, at least higher than the Thirty-Ninth Layer Abyss. Otherwise, the two Taoist Ancestors wouldn’t break through the space to come here."

He continued to pursue along the aura, yet he couldn’t even see a shadow ahead.

The Taoist Ancestors’ speed was incredibly fast.

Compared to his current speed, the gap between them was at least a thousand times.

The distance a Taoist Ancestor covers with a wave of the hand is measured in hundreds of light-years.

And for hundreds of light-years, at Lin Xin’s speed of five hundred thousand kilometers per second, it would take at least sixty years to travel...

This is the gap.

For the two Taoist Ancestors, perhaps they just slightly moved their bodies in place to engage in combat.

But this little movement of distance would take Lin Xin decades or even hundreds of years to catch up.

The disparity caused by a qualitative change has reached a jaw-dropping level.

He waved his hand to scatter the milk on his palm.

Lin Xin frowned deeply, realizing this disparity.

He still had over a hundred million free attribute points left.

"It seems now I can’t afford to save them...."

He glanced at his current damage attribute, which was only over forty million.

All at once, he added all the free attribute points to the damage.

Before long, the damage attribute changed drastically, more than quadrupling! It reached a staggering one hundred and sixty million points.

Lin Xin extended his hand and pointed at the jellyfish he was sitting on.

Then forced it to be refined into his mount. For a creature with such low intelligence, using powerful divine sense and soul pressure to subdue it, binding it under a master-slave contract, was just a matter of extending his hand lightly.

After completing the contract, Lin Xin decisively flooded all the attribute points into the jellyfish.

Buzz....

Massive waves of white light madly surged into the jellyfish.

Unexpectedly, the jellyfish’s soul was exceptionally pure, though weak, its endurance was incredibly resilient, and only after Lin Xin poured in over a million points of attributes did it show signs of imminent collapse.