True Solution of the Sword Dao
Chapter 260 - 248 Blinding 2

Chapter 260: Chapter 248 Blinding 2

"At least the error wasn’t too big." A man with purple hair jumped down from the other side of the car.

Immediately after, at the back door of the car, a voluptuous blonde woman cursed as she got out.

"Damn it! When the leader gets back..."

"Shut up!" the purple-haired man roared, "Keep it up and I’ll end you!"

The blonde woman paused and, with a grunt, indeed fell silent.

"The issue now is, if this aura is the target we are looking for," the man said grimly. "Avril, you confirm it."

The woman with a black ponytail nodded. She crouched down, placed one hand on the ground, and slowly closed her eyes.

Suddenly, countless blue currents spread like a spider web around her. The hissing sound of the electricity was continuous, each blue strand as thin as a hair. They kept spreading until they reached a radius of ten meters around her and burrowed into the ground. The light emitted was just a speck, and from a distance, it looked as if someone was continuously shaking a flashlight.

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Lin Fei was moving at high speed, all the scenery around him melting into streaks of light, completely blurring any discernible shapes. Only the path ahead was clear. This was a spectacle that happened at extremely high speeds.

Everyone on the street could only feel a breeze blowing past them, seeing no shadow at all.

This was the speed of Lin Fei’s Tracing Shadow Sword Art when fully mastered. It had almost reached the human limit. Now, his speed had completely surpassed that of the Sword Dao master of the Infinite God Path he had encountered previously. If he faced him now, just relying on speed, he could instantly kill the opponent.

In the Sword Canon Space, such speed wasn’t terrifying, and in terms of strength, it only provided a certain advantage, not a complete overwhelming victory. After all, the Sword Dao masters inside were all battle-hardened warriors, facing any type of opponent without being immediately defeated, each having their own countermeasures.

But the real world was different.

The Sword Canon Space recorded, if not the top geniuses then high-level powerhouses, definitely no mediocrities. However, in reality, having a few people reaching that level out of ten thousand was already quite remarkable, not to mention the rare strong ones from the Inner World. Picking such individuals from the strong ones of the Inner World was extremely rare.

"The aura is in the direction of Yizhong, indeed headed for the Energy Scepter," thought Lin Fei, the streets and vehicles around him swiftly zooming backwards.

From Feiyun Inn to Yizhong almost meant crossing a third of the entire diameter of Ping City—about six or seven kilometers.

But for Lin Fei, it was merely a matter of minutes.

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Next to the SUV at Yizhong’s sports field,

The black-haired ponytailed woman straightened up, blue currents flickering over her right hand.

"Although it’s inconsistent with the information we received, it has the same aura as the Energy Scepter," she said, nodding at the purple-haired man.

"The mission states that as long as it’s an Energy Scepter, it works. One by one," the purple-haired man calmly stated. "Get started, two of you at D-grade peak together, slowly wore him down then capture. If any ordinary people witness it, handle it as usual."

"Who’s there!" suddenly the man shouted sternly, looking toward a shadow on one side.

Tap! Tap! Tap! Crisp footsteps gradually approached.

Lin Fei slowly emerged from the dark spot, a longsword hanging at his waist, a breeze lifting his hair tips, his face partially enveloped in a dark haze.

"This is the end," he said.

Swoosh! Lin Fei vanished from the spot.

The purple-haired man’s face changed dramatically, countless purple currents suddenly appearing around him, and in a flash, both he, the others, and the vehicle vanished into thin air.

Swoosh!

Just as he disappeared, a sword’s edge swiftly crossed where he had just been standing.

Lin Fei’s figure then appeared.

"This is... spatial ability?" he frowned.

Spatial ability, as recorded by Shueisha, had many types, mostly revolving around movement and attack, recognized as the only ability system without any defensive capability. However, most spatial abilities don’t include other effects like electric sparks. Yet, he had never seen such an ability before, making it hard to figure it out.

Other than the natural rarity of spatial ability holders, there was also the derived ability holder, some of whom, when developing their unique powers to an extreme, exhibit certain derived capabilities like Spatial Teleportation.

And there was a fundamental difference between the two. Derived abilities and innate abilities differ significantly in energy consumption, costing numerous folds more to use. Not only are they less enduring, but their spatial effects are also several grades inferior.

Whereas innate spatial abilities could continuously use their powers without any issues until reaching their own limits.

"If it’s an innate spatial ability, that would be trouble," Lin Fei muttered, disappearing once more.

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Lin You was breathing heavily, staring fixedly at the still-standing enemy opposite him. Sweat slowly trickled down from his temples.

"Hold on! Hold on!" Fil’s voice echoed in his mind.

The opposite Crim was also covered in sweat, a patch of white frost on his chest from the recent attack.

"Although less experienced, I admit you’re strong," Crim said intermittently, clearly also heavily spent. "But... I won’t give up!"

"Do you know? ’Never give up’ was something my team leader once told me. She was my sister, my biological sister."

Both his hands fired at the same time.

Bang bang bang bang!

Four consecutive gunshots.

Almost simultaneously, a crisp tingling sound resonated on the diamond-shaped ice crystals floating in front of Lin You. Ice blue shards splattered out like mini blue fireworks breaking open in the sky. All the bullets were embedded in the ice crystals without any effect.

However, Crim still noticed that the ice crystals’ recovery speed had become much slower than before.

"It seems your energy is almost depleted too."

"Same for you, your bullets are far less powerful than at the start," Lin You retorted defiantly.

"If it weren’t for the injuries I had earlier, you wouldn’t have pushed me to this point," Crim laughed mockingly at himself.

"There aren’t so many ’ifs’ in the world," Lin You retorted. "All I know is that you are as weak as I am right now."

"Is that so?"

The pistol in Crim’s left hand flared up with a faint white light again.

Bang!!

A gunshot sounded.

Suddenly, numerous white lights and ice-blue ice shards scattered everywhere. The surrounding air also quickly cooled down.

Lin You clenched her teeth, her face turning pale as she was physically forced back several steps by the power of the bullet.

"Lin You!" Feil’s worried voice came through the glove.

"I’m fine," Lin You shook her head.

The ice-blue ice crystals in front of her were completely shattered in half and were slowly repairing themselves.

Crim gave a bitter laugh. He tried to emit a white light from his body again, but this time there was no movement.

"Reached your limit?" he murmured softly.

"I guess so. I don’t have any strength left," he quietly told Lin You. "Anyway, everyone else has left, it’s only me now. Swift Wolf? Haha... What an ironic nickname. They thought I was fast, but they never knew it wasn’t my speed, but that my friends died for me!"

Lin You bit her lower lip.

"I know your pain, I know!! The pain of losing friends by your side, I’ve experienced it too!"

"You? What do you know?" Crim sneered, smiling sarcastically. He staggered closer to Lin You. His feet stepped directly on the ice layer formed by the ground ice shards, immediately a layer of frost slowly spread up from his shoes.

"Are you relieved now?" The cold intensified, and slowly, his feet were actually fixed to the ground by the forming ice blocks.

Lin You gently clenched her empty hands, and a sharp, diamond-shaped icicle appeared in her glove. She walked a few steps forward.

"Go ahead," said Crim faintly.

But Lin You just remained silent.

For a long time.

Crim looked at the white ice blocks that were slowly spreading up and fixing his feet.

"Why won’t you kill me?"

The white icicle quietly clenched in Lin You’s hands, as she stood right in front of Crim, biting her lips hard.

"Go ahead," Crim’s lips curved with a faint indifference. "After all, the most important thing in this world to me is already gone."

He suddenly remembered the first time he killed someone, that middle-aged man with a face full of scars. He lay quietly leaning back, clutching a lighter in his hands as if it was everything to him in his final moments.

Thinking of this, he trembled and slowly reached into his coat pocket, gently pulling out a copper-yellow badge full of wear and scratches. Crim tenderly gazed at the badge, as if it was his whole world.

"They always patted my head, called me a child, said they’d buy me a house and find me a good woman when I grew up. They always said that. They always kept me out of missions, even at the time of their death, they didn’t let me join! Who gave them the right!! Who!!!" he shouted loudly.

"Why should they decide everything for me!! Why abandon me!!" he raised his face, his eyes blood-red as he looked at Lin You.

"Kill me!!"

Slap!!

Crim was stunned, his face instantly turning to one side, a clear red palm print emerging on his left cheek.

Lin You was already in tears.

"The people I despise most are people like you!!" Her voice trembled with sobs.

"Thinking you’re so tragic? Thinking you’re the only one in the world who’s the most miserable? Hahaha...." Lin You suddenly laughed lightly, her laughter filled with sarcasm. "Always thinking about yourself, yourself, yourself! Who do you think you are!? Should the whole world revolve around you?? You think when your teammates and your captain risked their lives to save you, it was for you to avenge them? Ridiculous!!"

"No one has abandoned you! Unless you abandon yourself!!"

She looked up, tears sliding down her cheeks, both hands gently holding the icicle which then melted into countless white points of light. Behind her, the ice crystals reflect a bright light, illuminating a bright background.

In the corner, Lin Fei quietly bowed her head, silent and speechless, darkness behind her. (To be continued. If you like this work, we welcome you to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets on qidian.com, your support is my greatest motivation.)