Told You I Can Turn Back Time
Chapter 553 - 418: Old Friends Reunite

Chapter 553: Chapter 418: Old Friends Reunite

Watching the woman known as the West Emperor King before him, Lin Xing’s heart swelled with confusion and a sense of familiarity.

The reason was that her appearance closely resembled the puppet prototype that Bai Yiyi had once used, that female swordsman from the Evil Sect.

And the consciousness emanating from her, that feeling which made Lin Xing extremely disgusted, was also all too familiar.

With a delicate laugh, the woman known as the West Emperor King lightly set her feet on the ground, and at that instant, the surrounding tents and encampments vanished without a trace.

They seemed to have been directly transported to another space, amidst a radiant astral expanse, entirely free from the bounds of the earth.

Gazing at the starry heavens spread before her, the woman smiled and said, "Lin Xing, your senses are even sharper than I anticipated."

"I thought you wouldn’t be able to detect it."

"Yet to think, after six years, I am still etched so deeply in your heart..."

Beside them, Zheng Yong, sweating profusely, listened to their exchange: "These two know each other?"

"But this atmosphere... it feels like they must have a grudge."

"And they could start fighting at any moment."

To be able to engage in such a conversation with the West Emperor King, one of the world’s most powerful beings, even just thinking about it, Zheng Yong could guess how formidable the other person must be.

Two top fighters were about to clash, and he, unfortunately, was stuck right between them.

All he could do was try to move his body, attempting to make himself as inconspicuous as possible.

But in this strange starry space, without the ground beneath his feet, his whole body was floating, making it difficult for him to move.

Neither Lin Xing nor the West Emperor King could possibly fail to notice Zheng Yong’s movements, but naturally, they didn’t care about such things.

At that moment, the only thing in the eyes of both was each other, as cold fighting intent erupted from them both, seemingly about to set off a cataclysmic battle in the next instant.

"Xing! Xiao!"

Lin Xing glared at the woman in front of him, whose skin was fairer than snow, whose grace was boundless, and said word by word, "Stop talking to me with this nonsensical visage, revert to your original appearance."

"Original appearance?" Xingxiao laughed, and her body began to tremble, "Is appearance so important to you?"

"At our current level, be it gender or outward form, what does the shell matter? Does it really mean so much to you what this husk looks like?"

Lin Xing answered Xingxiao with a cold snort.

"Meaning?"

"Don’t talk to me about meaning... Xingxiao."

"The significance behind our actions is solely determined by our own will’s judgment of this world."

"If I find your ghastly face displeasing and you refuse to change back, then I’ll just beat you until you do."

In the next moment, thousands upon thousands of sword lights began to emerge.

Each sword light was extremely fine, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, as if formless and intangible.

But as the number of sword lights swelled, from 1000 to 5000, then to over 10000...

The entire space was filled with these countless sword lights, forming layered, endless webs of swords that completely enveloped both Xingxiao and Lin Xing.

And watching this scene, Zheng Yong felt as if his entire field of view was filled with dazzling sword lights, edges close enough to graze his body, making him feel that the slightest movement would cut him to pieces.

Feeling all this, Zheng Yong was utterly shocked.

"Any one of these sword lights would be enough to found a sect and rule over a territory in this world."

"But how many are there now?"

"When did such an extraordinary Sword God appear in this world?"

"Damn, to witness such an unparalleled fighter’s battle before dying, it’s worth it."

Just as Zheng Yong thought himself certain to die, caught in the battle between two peerless fighters,

He felt another oppressive force intervene between the two combatants.

"Lin Xing, don’t be hasty."

A white-haired old man wearing a purple Daoist robe appeared in this starry space, standing between Xingxiao and Lin Xing, and slowly said, "With a great enemy before us, fighting with Xingxiao will only destroy the grand scheme."

Lin Xing, eyeing this suddenly emerged old Taoist, focused his gaze.

This man was none other than Tian Jizi, who had once been part of Xingxiao Sect, then betrayed it for the current world and had even controlled missiles to annihilate the Taiqing Sect.

However, the current Tian Jizi appeared much older than before, his hair white and face covered with age spots, his wrinkles deep as ravines, like an old man at death’s door.

Looking at this long-lost old acquaintance, Lin Xing said indifferently, "Tian Jizi, have you gone senile?"

"Don’t think that just because we’ve collaborated in the past, you can stand here and play peacemaker."

"Keep talking nonsense and I’ll hit you too."

As he spoke, the sky-obscuring sword lights slashed towards Xingxiao, nearly enveloping her figure completely.

But in the next instant, a giant beast formed of starlight roared out from inside Xingxiao, tearing apart the incoming sword lights.

The woman’s laughter rang out wildly as a mad surge of consciousness swept through the area, "Come on! Kill me! Lin Xing!"

"You kill me, I kill you, what will it all come to in the end?"

"Let the mortals of this world become fertilizer for the Immortal Court!"

Seeing the two ready to fight again, Tian Jizi’s face darkened, he sighed, and then said, "Xingxiao, change your form."

"Lin Xing, if Xingxiao reverts to her original appearance, could you stop and listen to me for a moment."

"The Immortal Court is powerful now, not something you can handle alone."

Yet upon hearing Tian Jizi’s words, the normally laughing woman’s expression suddenly turned violent, her eyes filling with ferocity.

"Change?"

"What right does Lin Xing have to demand that of me?"

"Do I want to look like this?"

"Lin Xing! Have you forgotten that it was you who turned me into a dog?!"

Violent thoughts swept out in all directions, and on the woman’s back, heaving surges appeared as one after another enormous beast, shimmering with starlight, burst forth, each exuding the imposing pressure of a fourth-tier legacy.

"To turn back into a human, to have this power of the mighty again, that’s why I’ve become what I am now."

"Six years! Do you know what I’ve gone through these past six years?"

"Do you know?!"

Dozens of these starlight behemoths roared in unison, their bodies revealing one constellation after another, radiating boundless power infused with pure malevolence. It was as if the evil will of thousands of people had converged within them.

Watching this scene unfold, Tian Jizi also felt a chill upon sensing the malevolence within the star beasts.

The reverence for the starry sky has been part of humanity since ancient times.

It could be said that ever since people began to believe and worship, they have prayed to the celestial bodies above.

Tian Jizi knew that the malevolence in these star beasts originated from centuries of humanity praying to the starry sky, making wishes upon the stars, treating them as divine beings, and projecting their desires upward.

However, on this land, these desires were all filled with murderous looting, violations, and atrocities.

The star beasts before him were divine entities born from generation after generation of wicked wishes, rightfully called the vilest evil gods of this world.

Based on generations of human imagination about celestial divinities and fueled by an endless supply of dark desires, these supremely vile star beasts were forged.

To tame such ferocious beings would mean to endure the relentless assault of their endless malevolence.

Any normal person would surely lose their sanity under such circumstances and collapse utterly.

Thus, Xingdou Sect created such divine secret techniques, but no one has ever succeeded.

"But to let someone like Xingxiao, who had already gone mad hundreds of times over, subdue these star beasts..."

"That’s just reckless."

Thinking thus, he immediately erupted with a burst of purple lightning and exclaimed, "Xingxiao, stop right there."

"Lin Xing, you see,"

"Both Xingxiao and I are fourth-tier legacies; you cannot easily confront us."

"If you persist in this battle, you will only be the one to suffer; sit down and let’s talk properly..."

However, the other party, Lin Xing, glanced at him indifferently.

"Get lost, clown."

A weighty pressure swept across, forcing Tian Jizi backward.

With a fierce clench of his teeth, Tian Jizi felt that Lin Xing was too arrogant and domineering, thinking to himself, "Perhaps letting him suffer a bit at Xingxiao’s hands, to reacquaint himself with our power, would allow us to have a proper talk."

On the other hand, Lin Xing looked toward the ferociously clawing star beasts, his body suddenly erupting in intense luminance, like the sun itself shining down upon the entire scene.

As he stepped through the void toward Xingxiao, even the brutal star beasts, which shone like stars obscured by the sun, grew dim.

They glared at Lin Xing with murderous intent, letting out a roar that shook the very starry sky in front of them.

Just as a cataclysmic battle was about to commence, a sigh echoed throughout the cosmos.

Another elder figure slowly appeared: "Lin Xing, stop."

Seeing this elder, the fighting spirit in Lin Xing’s eyes surged once again.

He couldn’t help but laugh, "Bai Hai Liu! You old dog, you’re here too, aren’t you?!"

It was Bai Hai Liu, the former Sect Master of the Evil Sect, the mastermind who had instigated the endless strife between Xingxiao and Lin Xing.

Bai Hai Liu looked at Lin Xing and spoke calmly, "If you make a move, I’ll join them against you."

"The three of us against you—one, we could definitely kill you here today, even if it means our plans for the future fall through."

"Will you still come at us?"

Watching Lin Xing, who didn’t continue his attack, and surrounded by star beasts, Xingxiao laughed softly, "Not fighting anymore?"

"Lin Xing, you weren’t this cowardly before."

"How did you become so timid... losing even your courage after your defeat by the Immortal on the Moon?"

Tian Jizi spat out a mouthful, and a purple thunderbolt exploded in front of Xingxiao, "Shut up."

He turned his head and said, "Lin Xing..."

But before he could finish, streams of crimson starlight burst forth from Lin Xing’s heart.

In an instant, blood rivers split and meandered, turning half the sky blood-red with starlight.

The rivers contained twinkling stars and countless fleeting shadows.

"Now... this body can no longer bind me."

"Let’s continue."

In this moment, to everyone’s senses, Lin Xing seemed to vanish from sight yet was everywhere, pervading the entire starry sky.

Xingxiao laughed softly, "I told you before, there’s nothing to discuss, but you two just wouldn’t believe..."

"Shut up!"

Feeling this scene and the murderous intent of both sides, Tian Jizi lamented, "Lin Xing, don’t be rash. That old ghost isn’t joking with you; do you really want to fight to the death with us now?"

Lin Xing’s domineering will filled the battlefield along with the crimson rivers, compressing and trembling the space around them.

"Am I... joking with you?"

"Three against one, you think you have me cornered?"

"Can you even manage it?"

"You three trash couldn’t do it back then, either."