Told You I Can Turn Back Time
Chapter 557 - 420: Defeat

Chapter 557: Chapter 420: Defeat

As streaks of Red Gang Star River traversed the bodies of the star beasts, the sky appeared filled with dense networks of rivers weaving into the fierce, twisted behemoths.

Although Xingxiao did not know what Lin Xing intended to do, he understood that during combat, one must not allow the enemy to smoothly execute their plans and abilities.

At his low shout, the roaring star beasts each twisted their bodies, attempting to escape from this river of blood, but found that no matter how they struggled or dodged, those blood rivers followed like shadows, always preventing a complete escape.

At the same time, Lin Xing reached out towards the direction where Bai Yiyi was.

"Master Bai, it’s time for you to unsheathe again."

Bai Yiyi, who had just been watching the battle, was stunned for a moment, and the next instant, with a thunderous shattering of her physical body, a sword shadow shot out from the exploding blood.

"Chk!"

Catching the short sword transformed from Bai Yiyi, Lin Xing thrust it backward into the river of blood beside him.

A surge of invisible fluctuation burst forth from the sword, like waves in the blood river, and in an instant, swept toward every giant beast pierced by the red celestial river.

The star beasts who had been roaring fiercely paused slightly, and the next moment, like frozen puppets, they not only stopped moving but also one by one sank into the Red Gang Star River.

Simultaneously, various lights and shadows flowed out from the bodies of these star beasts, surging along the Red Gang Star River and filling the sky-high river.

"Memory is the foundation of consciousness."

"Even so-called evil thoughts and desires equally rely on memory for support."

Kill? Whom to kill? Why kill? How to kill?

Plunder? Whom to plunder? What to seize? What to do with it after seizing?

Every desire, every thought, inevitably relies on memory as the foundation.

As streams of memories entwined with malevolence flowed along the Red Gang Star River, the star beasts that fell into the river had essentially become hollow shells.

Such a tactic from Lin Xing, naturally, could not be concealed from the extraordinary experts present. Or rather, he never intended to hide it during his actions.

"Lin Xing..."

"This is a method of the Taiqing Sect, and you don’t know this lineage at all."

"What you are using is the remnant soul of the swordswoman, it’s Yiyi’s memory."

Xingxiao watched this scene furiously, his killing intent appearing almost tangible.

The memory of the swordswoman originated from Xingxiao’s daughter, and also from Bai Hai Liu’s sister Bai Yiyi; it could be considered Bai Yiyi’s reincarnation.

After knowing this, Xingxiao held complex emotions towards the swordswoman.

But regardless of the emotions, when he knew all this, he already had no opportunity to express them because his daughter, his sister Bai Yiyi, had died completely by Lin Xing’s hands.

And now, Lin Xing had fashioned Bai Yiyi’s remnant soul into a swordswoman’s tool, employing the Taiqing Sect’s methods of manipulating memories, and used it during their battle.

At the side, Tian Jizi, sensing this scene, also felt a heaviness in his heart.

He thought to himself that Lin Xing’s method was comparable to using the opponent’s father’s ashes as lime in battle, achieving both physical and psychological effects to the utmost. It seemed certain that Xingxiao would now fight Lin Xing to the death.

But upon further reflection, the reincarnated sword version of Bai Yiyi had long been by Lin Xing’s side, like a cherished pet, an important character. Neither she herself nor Lin Xing would probably acknowledge any familial relationship with Xingxiao or Bai Hai Liu...

"Ah, the relationships among these three are truly overly intricate and complicated; even they themselves might not be able to clearly understand their own grudges and affections."

"Perhaps this is destiny then, a destiny that even extraordinary experts cannot escape."

As Tian Jizi’s thoughts raced, Xingxiao burst out with a thunderous roar on the other side.

The next moment, he brought his hands together, and streams of Martial Arts Gang Qi, accompanied by sword light, spewed from his palms like flames.

Just like the Xingxiao from the past, who had now stepped into the Fourth Inheritance Realm, he was also undergoing Martial Arts Dual Cultivation.

However, unlike his previous battle with Lin Xing beyond the heavens, besides inheriting the Taoist art from the Xingdou Sect, his Martial Arts had taken a different path.

"Heart without boundary, sword without limits..."

Six years ago, when the Immortal Palace Leader Bai Hai Liu had passed the various memories regarding the Taiqing Sword Dao from the swordswoman to Xingxiao, he had sensed the swordswoman’s emotions from these understandings—her confusion, her fear, and her relentlessness and finality.

After spending a month in contemplation, Xingxiao successfully comprehended the swordswoman’s own advanced version of Sword Dao.

Heart without Boundary, Sword without Limits: The heart as the edge, thought as the blade, nature as the spine, life as the hilt, heaven and earth as the sheath, slicing through all beings in two realms. Creator’s note: Scram.

Later, Xingxiao, building on the foundation of the Taiqing Sword Dao and the swordswoman’s insights, mastered the Fourth Inheritance of the Taiqing Sect’s Martial Arts—Heavenly Sword.

With the enhancement of the swordswoman’s advanced creation, this breakthrough after the fourth inheritance became even more fearsome and unimaginable than in history.

"If my unfortunate daughter were still alive, she too would have reached this realm by now."

"Today, you will defeat Lin Xing using your father’s body, proving your Sword Dao."

As Xingxiao spoke, figures of various young girls, whether angry, joyful, or cold, slowly emerged from his memory, all different states of Bai Yiyi.

These were the manifest memory incarnations created by Xingxiao using the Taiqing Sect’s Supreme Heart Sword Technique.

Simultaneously, with all the Bai Yiyis and Xingxiao pointing together, under the touch of their sword fingers, the battlefield suddenly surged with Sword Intent, and the lights which had flowed from the bodies of the star beasts into the river began to stir.

Tian Jizi, feeling Xingxiao’s Sword Intent, thought to himself, "If Lin Xing’s move was akin to scattering ashes, then Xingxiao’s is like directly smashing someone with their memorial tablet. Both the power and the realm have risen to a higher level."

Bai Heliu silently nodded as he watched the scene unfold, "The Xingdou Sect’s Four Inheritance Taoist Skill can refine the endless malice of the starry sky for its own use, its power limitless in the fourth inheritance, and its mana robust, arguably the foremost among the four."

"However, this starry sky malice is difficult to control, and the divine skills it manifests are too crude and clumsy, resulting in a severe reduction in actual combat power."

"But if one practices Martial Arts Dual Cultivation and uses the Taiqing Sword Dao as an aid, one can thoroughly harness this endless starry malice—not only the various exquisite martial arts and Taoist skills but even complex arrays as well."

"Furthermore... with the power of one person, one can set up a grand array spanning thousands of miles..."

Under the infusion of Xingxiao’s Sword Intent, the light shadows that initially flowed into the blood river reversed their course, returning to the star beast’s bodies.

At the same time, the previously ferocious roaring star beasts contracted and transformed, turning into beams of sword light flashing with the colors of the stars in the blink of an eye.

The heavens full of stars seemed to transform into sword light at that moment, all aiming towards the direction of the battlefield.

Xingxiao’s eyes were filled with madness as he gazed at the celestial sword lights, as if he could see his wife and daughter shimmering among them.

He murmured, "Fang Fei, can you see this?"

"The ultimate realm you bestowed on me, allowing our daughter and me to advance this Supreme Sword Dao together."

"This Celestial Stars Sword Formation was the ultimate move created by our family together..."

In an instant, endless starlight began sparkling, casting reflections into the blood river transformed by Lin Xing.

The starry battlefield also burst open in an instant, transporting everyone back to the oasis above.

At this moment, the entire starry sky of Moon Kill Country shimmered violently, the densely packed stars so bright that it scared countless people into kneeling on the ground, praying to the heavens.

Feeling the intense threat emitted by Xingxiao at this moment, both Bai Heliu and Tian Jizi retreated hastily.

"Damn it, this guy has gone mad."

Both knew that at this moment, with Xingxiao fully activating the Celestial Stars Sword Formation and using the Supreme Heart Sword Technique to harness the endless starry malice, he had also entered the most chaotic realm.

...

Moments earlier, located below the battlefield, Zheng Yong, who had just been pulled back into the starry space, had discovered the secret of his immortality.

He watched as shockwaves from the clashes struck him, saw the dissipated Sword Qi slash across his chest, saw various attacks’ aftershocks sweep over him, yet they all only left him vomiting blood and severely injured.

Zheng Yong realized it was not only him; all the merchants seemed only to be injured but somehow never died.

"Is there a powerful being protecting our lives?"

"Could it be the West Emperor? Looking after the Master of Taihe Sect, deliberately preserving the lives of Ming Mountain Sect’s envoys?"

Zheng Yong felt his guess might be right, so he simply relaxed or rather, had no other choice but to seriously watch the battle between the two sides.

But those twinkling stars, the blood river spanning the sky... He found he couldn’t understand any of the battle’s extraordinary phenomena.

Until the starry sky shattered, and the caravan was returned to its original place, the sky once again the dark night of Moon Kill Country.

"This..."

As he looked at the increasingly piercing starlight in the night sky, Zheng Yong felt a great terror surge from his heart, causing his whole body to tremble uncontrollably under this celestial might.

"Is this the true power of the West Emperor?"

Infinite, great, vast, strongest, unbelievable... All kinds of extreme adjectives surged through Zheng Yong’s mind, but none fit his current state of mind; it seemed no words could describe his feelings at this moment.

The next moment, the blooming starlight illuminated the entire heavens and earth.

The entire Moon Kill Country seemed to instantly return to daylight, and even the stars in the sky had completely disappeared.

This was because the intense starlight had driven out every bit of darkness.

And Zheng Yong, at that moment, could no longer see or sense any of the battlefield’s details, simply because the power released under the radiant starlight far exceeded his comprehension, and the speed of events surpassed his sensory limits.

In his observation, he could only sense, first, the earth cracking in all directions, followed by the sudden evaporation of the far-off expansive blue waves.

Then, all man-made constructions around the oasis were completely shattered.

No, not just the constructions, but all man-made objects, be they houses, furniture, or utensils like wooden barrels and vegetable knives, and even everyone’s clothes.

Even the ground under their feet had disappeared without a trace at some point.

When everything was disintegrated or evaporated, leaving only individual "people" unharmed, floating beneath the boundless "star space."

Experiencing this scene, Zheng Yong marveled even more, "Under such an unparalleled battle, can the West Emperor really ensure every spectator survives?"

As the starlight grew even more dazzling, the heaven and earth quickly turned into a vast white expanse, and even Zheng Yong could no longer see anything or sense any presence.

In this pure radiance without knowing how much time had passed, when Zheng Yong came back to his senses, he found himself standing naked in the desert, surrounded by his companions from Ming Mountain Sect.

Just then, he saw three red shadows in front of him suddenly open their mouths in disbelief.

He saw, hundreds of meters ahead, three giant red square steles standing on the sand dunes.

Each of the square steles was entirely red, as if made of rubies.

And inside these ruby-like square steles, one could clearly see three human shapes, similar to three insects made into specimens, tightly sealed within these three red steles.

"The West Emperor... defeated?"

Looking at the beautiful woman in the middle stele, Zheng Yong felt his heart trembling, "Not just the West Emperor, but the three unparalleled powerhouses who arrived together have also been defeated?"