Told You I Can Turn Back Time
Chapter 357 - 288: Metamorphosis

Chapter 357: Chapter 288: Metamorphosis

Gang Qi surged around Yun Hezi’s body, and as it roiled, the flesh on his two arms and three tails suddenly shattered, replaced by feathers sprouting under the impact of the Gang Qi.

A trace of enlightenment flashed in his eyes, and he couldn’t help but roar, "Feather Transformation, Heavenly Ascension! Blissful Immortality!"

With five feathered wings surrounding him, Yun Hezi’s original charge transformed into flight, carrying tremendous Gang Qi that created a long sonic boom, like a fighter jet, as he charged towards Lin Xing.

"Heaven and earth are in harmony, all things are one."

Joy colored Yun Hezi’s face; he felt his spirit magnifying infinitely with each flap of his wings, as if connecting to every corner between heaven and earth.

As the five wings on his body fluttered, they stirred up a sky full of Gang Qi.

And within every thread of that Gang Qi seemed infused with his Martial Arts will, ultimately transforming into a giant white lotus tens of meters high that fiercely burst forth.

As the white lotus blossomed, the Gang Qi exploded, causing a rain of blood to burst from the Star Beast, which howled in anguish and slowly fell toward the ground.

Witnessing this scene, Yun Hezi laughed wildly, and boundless ecstasy surged from his heart with the explosion of Feather Transformation Ascension.

"This is the power of the Tao True Form Fist after I’ve undergone Feather Transformation Ascension."

"Lin Xing, did you ever anticipate that I would make another breakthrough in this battle and unleash such a powerful, absolute, and dominating Taoist secret technique?"

Yun Hezi’s five wings spread, with the Gang Qi white lotus expanding once more, seemingly ready to completely tear apart the hundred-meter-tall beast before him.

And the frenzied will contained within that Gang Qi provoked continuous howls of agony from the giant beast, a visage of pain.

"Hahaha!"

"Lin Xing, are you now regretting? Regretting that you didn’t completely obliterate me just now, so that you now face defeat under my fist?"

Just as Yun Hezi was about to direct the sky full of Gang Qi infused with his Martial Arts will towards Lin Xing, he discovered that Lin Xing was no longer on the dragon’s head.

At the same time, a voice came from behind him, sending a chill down Yun Hezi’s spine.

It was Lin Xing’s voice: "Impressive momentum, but where’s the killer move? Why isn’t it released?"

What shocked Yun Hezi was that he had no idea how Lin Xing managed to break through the layered defense of the Feather Transformation Gang Qi and get so close to him.

He spun around abruptly and spat out a breath, transforming the surging Gang Qi into a shockwave that blasted out, but it swept through emptiness.

Yun Hezi exclaimed, "Where are you?"

Lin Xing’s voice came from all directions: "Are you asking about me? Isn’t it... everywhere?"

Looking at the blood mist he had just blasted open, Yun Hezi instantly realized,

"This giant beast is formed from Lin Xing’s own flesh; such wounds not only fail to harm the beast, but make him... be everywhere instead."

Even Yun Hezi started to feel strange movements inside his own body, as though something was growing and writhing within.

At the same time, Lin Xing’s voice came from inside him, "Do you fancy turning into a chicken?"

Yun Hezi, in horror, found that more and more feathers were growing from the torn flesh all over his body.

But these feathers were made entirely of flesh and blood, crooked and distorted, looking as if they were clumsily molded out of clay by a child.

Lin Xing said with an apologetic tone, "This is my first time creating feathers, so I’ll need to get a bit more practice in."

At the same time, those flesh feathers spread and even began to grow on Yun Hezi’s head.

Lin Xing asked indifferently, "For the head, would you prefer to turn into a rat or a duck?"

Roar!

Yun Hezi let out a thunderous shout, activating the Gang Qi within him in an attempt to completely destroy the foreign flesh and blood inside and outside his body.

But he soon realized this action was in vain.

The flesh and blood shredded by the Gang Qi would become finer and harder to detect, then cause greater turmoil inside him.

"The flesh and blood of Lin Xing cannot be attacked or even touched; once his flesh and blood are damaged, things only become far more troublesome..."

But by the time Yun Hezi realized this, it was too late.

Onlookers saw him screaming as he plummeted to the ground, and they could vaguely see a monster with a deformed rat head and the body of a bird rolling in pain, shrieking agonizingly.

The Divine Dragon Gang Leader, sensing this scene, retreated explosively, quickly withdrawing from the field.

Xingxiao, however, took a deep breath; at some point, his entire body had been enveloped by strands of Martial Arts Gang Qi.

He roared at the Divine Dragon Gang Leader, "Old ghost, do you think he will let you go if you escape today?"

"Without thoroughly suppressing him today, all of us will live a fate worse than death."

Upon hearing this, the Divine Dragon Gang Leader ran even faster.

"Damn it, I just need to run faster than you all, if worse comes to worst I can hide back in the Mirror World. Let’s see how he can find me then."

And in the sky, accompanied by a Buddhist chant, the Great Bright Buddha had completely manifested himself and looked down upon the battlefield, saying, "Mr. Lin Xing, your spiritual practice has gone awry, leading you deep into the Demon Path; if you do not turn back now, I fear it will be too late for regrets."

As soon as the Great Bright Buddha finished these words, a heart-curtain large enough to cover the entire battlefield was finally prepared by him and it descended, centering on Lin Xing’s body.

Lin Xing, who was just about to pursue the attack, was momentarily stunned to find that everyone on the scene, whether it was Yun Hezi lying on the ground or the other powerful figures, had completely vanished from his senses.

Lin Xing exclaimed, "What a vast range for this heart-curtain illusion; it seems, Great Bright Buddha, you’ve been preparing this all along. No wonder your attacks just now were so weak."

Meanwhile, the Great Bright Buddha’s vast voice spread throughout the area and with the live broadcast, surged towards every corner of the world, heard by countless people.

An explosion of comments and bullet-screen texts erupted on various platforms in an instant.

"Is he talking to Lin Xing? Isn’t Lin Xing dead?"

"Could it be that the monster just now was Lin Xing?"

"So many powerful beings from the Mirror World are here, what exactly are they planning to do?"

Obviously, the live broadcast did not reflect Lin Xing’s primordial spirit, leaving the audience confused about the entire battle and clueless about what was happening.

To them, it seemed as if suddenly there was a flash of bloody light, then suddenly a monster appeared, and suddenly the powerful beings started fighting the monster again.

And just as the current world was being stirred by this battle,

The Great Bright Buddha’s voice once more echoed in the ears of the powerful figures on the battlefield, "Lin Xing has been trapped in my heart-curtain."

"But after all, he has ascended through Corpse Disintegration, and the heart-curtain will not hold him for long."

"I call upon you all to act together, to quickly subdue this demon!"

Immediate realization dawned upon everyone as they saw Lin Xing’s primordial spirit floating in mid-air, not launching an attack but looking around blankly at the surrounding sights.

As the Great Bright Buddha finished these words, three intense, cold, and terrorizing auras appeared in the airspace above the battlefield.

It was the Emei Sect Leader Bai Mei who had been arranging the Sword Array on the periphery, ready for a long time.

And what Bai Mei had set in motion at that moment were the three Divine Swords he had initiated from within the Emei Sect: the Heavenly Demon Slayer Sword, the Blazing Sky Sword, and the Nine Thunder Tribulation Sword.

From the beginning of the battle, Bai Mei had taken the lead using three thousand-year-old Divine Swords to form the Sword Array, sealing the entire battlefield.

Since then, aside from a limited few supportive moves, he had been continuously perfecting the Sword Array, connecting the power of the three great Divine Swords.

These three Divine Swords were usually enshrined on Emei Mountain, rarely ever initiated.

Even Bai Mei, the Emei Sect Leader himself, had never employed these three swords all at once before.

Originally, he had thought that Xingxiao was overreacting; with so many powerful figures ambushing Lin Xing together, there was no need for him to use these three thousand-year-old Divine Swords.

But at this moment, Bai Mei could only be grateful for Xingxiao’s arrangements.

"If it weren’t for their help in delaying for so long, I wouldn’t have had the chance to set up the Sword Array so calmly."

"And now..." Bai Mei looked in Lin Xing’s direction, his eyes suddenly bursting with endless jealousy, greed, and desire, "Lin Xing’s essence I must claim!"

He clenched his teeth tightly, staring fiercely at Lin Xing, the jealousy in his heart seemingly enough to swallow his heart, "How can such a naturally gifted individual exist in this world? This is against the Heavenly Dao, against reason, against the public’s will."

"Such a person should die!"

With the sudden explosion of Bai Mei’s envious Sword Intent, the three Divine Swords’ powers converged and slowly enveloped Lin Xing.

Under the curse of Emei Sect’s jealous Sword Intent, the more brilliant and talented, the more exceptional one’s gifts, and the more envied and jealous one is by others, the more powerful the Sword Intent could erupt.

The Heavenly Demon Slayer Sword covered half of the sky, turning into endless night.

The Blazing Sky Sword stirred up waves of fire, turning into half of the day.

The Nine Thunder Tribulation Sword brought down layers of thunderbolts, zigzagging between his day and night.

Under the control of the jealous Sword Intent, the three Divine Swords at the same moment erupted with boundless rage and unwillingness, gradually converging and transforming into a form of Invisible Sword Gang Qi.

The Sword Gang Qi was shadowless and formless, plain and unadorned with supreme strength, yet so understated and unnoticeable.

Hidden deep within was the intense jealous Sword Intent, waiting to burst forth with the Invisible Sword Gang Qi, to let the world witness its might.

The next moment, unnoticed and undetected by anyone present, the Invisible Sword Gang Qi had already pierced through Lin Xing’s primordial spirit.

Even Lin Xing himself seemed unaware of the Invisible Sword Gang Qi’s movement, until his primordial spirit snapped apart, splitting in two, only then did he feel a sharp pain starting to sear through his primordial spirit.

Both the unique magical powers of the three Divine Swords and the burst of jealous Sword Intent’s power could launch exceptionally effective attacks on the primordial spirit.

And under the deployment of the Invisible Sword Gang Qi, let alone the people present, even Lin Xing himself had no idea what had wounded him.

Looking at the primordial spirit that had been split in two, a confident smile already appeared on Bai Mei’s face.