True Solution of the Sword Dao
Chapter 365 - 342 Final One

Chapter 365: Chapter 342 Final One

Hisss!

The two brushed past each other.

Behind the white figure, two huge white wings fluttered, circling back to the original position.

A clean, blood-colored cut slowly appeared on the left side of his face.

"Very good. I will come to find you in the next match," the white man stared at Lin Fei, "I am Snow Demon. Remember that!"

Lin Fei didn’t even glance at him as he casually closed the Black Demon Sword.

Like Xia Longque, this man clearly thought too highly of himself. Lin Fei had thought he was strong, but as it turned out...

"That’s it?" he frowned. "Can you stop with the threats and just fight a good battle here and now?"

"Now?" Snow Demon said indifferently, "I can do that. I was just thinking of sparing your life for a moment."

Lin Fei was completely speechless.

This guy’s self-perception was overly exaggerated. If someone overheard that, they would think Snow Demon was the one who had disadvantaged earlier.

Snow Demon continued talking to himself. "Since you’re seeking your own death..."

Lin Fei flicked his fingertip. Hisss!

A streak of black air instantly shot out, forming a black line.

The long white hair behind Snow Demon dispersed, instantly stretching into countless threads that interwove in front of him to form a white triangular shield. The shield’s surface had a deeply grooved hexagram with silver patterns around it, looking extraordinarily luxurious.

With a loud bang, the black air smashed fiercely against the white shield, bursting open a cloud of black smoke like fireworks.

"Let’s clear the field before we fight," Snow Demon said lightly.

Lin Fei felt inexplicably stifled.

"Tell me, are you going to fight or not? So much nonsense!"

"Clear the field first," Snow Demon said earnestly.

"I..." Lin Fei’s desire to fight had just been provoked and holding it back now was extremely frustrating.

The Black Demon Sword lifted slightly, and a bewitching silver light suddenly brightened the blade. Countless silver lights quickly formed a silver sphere.

Lin Fei vibrated the longsword slightly.

The sphere suddenly burst, shooting silver beams in all directions.

A distant column was lightly grazed and the touched part silently dissolved away as if it had always been missing a chunk.

"Star Shattering Sword Technique. With the True Force mixed with True Qi in my body now, the attack power is undoubtedly many times stronger," Lin Fei realized internally, "Just the Star Burst, which Yuhua once used, such a large-scale attack, yet every beam has an attack power equivalent to level C. This power truly befits the Stellar Domain Swordsmanship."

Countless silver lights, like silver ribbons, silently shot out in all directions, as dazzling as fireworks. The entire grey protective membrane of this area was completely lit up.

With Lin Fei at the center, a large area around him for hundreds of meters was instantly cleared, whether it was columns or armored figures. Some armored figures were instantly slain, while others awkwardly dodged in disarray. Those originally engaged in battle were caught off guard and injured, forced to flee, naturally halting the battle. The surrounding area instantly quieted down.

"Can we start now?" Lin Fei closed the Black Demon Sword and looked up at the space not far away.

Snow Demon’s expression was indifferent.

"We shouldn’t have fought in the second match, the third match is where we were supposed to battle. I will be back." He dropped the sentence and turned, flying away from the spot, seemingly not intending to return.

Lin Fei had never encountered such a person before.

"Having such great strength yet such a weak battle spirit. Being timid is one thing, but to utter threats before leaving..."

He scanned the surroundings. All armored figures kept their distance, clearing a large area around him.

"Let’s quickly move on to the next phase." Lin Fei didn’t want to waste more time here, resolving the match quickly and finding Xia Longque was the correct course of action. There was no identity of successors in the match arena, and the last match couldn’t be influenced by successors from just one sub-division. It would be a final battle directly in the first arena.

"Need to knock down fifty people." Lin Fei’s figure instantly disappeared.

In an instant, an armored figure tens of meters away was split in half, starting from the waist, each half of the body falling separately to the ground.

His upper body still carried a look of astonishment until it hit the ground, not having had enough time to react.

"Retreat!! It’s a level B powerhouse!!" An urgent voice rang out from the group of armored figures, and everyone’s body lit up with protective films of different colors as their totems on their backs rapidly spun and scattered.

Lin Fei appeared in front of the man who had been split in half, holding the Black Demon Sword, his hand slightly numb.

He frowned.

"Indeed, they are not simple characters. Much stronger than in the first match." He glanced at the body on the ground; he had intended to simultaneously kill several people with one sword strike, but just the dying backlash of potential energy from one person was enough to jolt his sword strike off track, losing its intended effect.

With his current strength, after using the totem and Blue Fire, his power would increase a notch. Using the special move of the Star Shattering Sword Technique, the killing power could be enhanced further. If he abandoned all disguise and went full force using Extreme Shadow State, he hadn’t specifically tested how strong that would make him. It had been a very long time since Lin Fei had fought with all his might.

Actually, being the person who manipulated situations from the shadows, it was rare for him to have an opportunity to make a full effort. The more powerful the influence, the more subordinates he had to resolve a multitude of issues, rarely necessitating his personal involvement.

With a slight sound, Lin Fei disappeared again.

"Ah!!" Another scream.

Retreating about ten meters away, a bulky armored man clutched his chest, blood spurting out like a fountain.

Lin Fei gently pulled out the sword, and the blood on the front part of the longsword swiftly disappeared, as if absorbed by the Black Demon Sword, a faint blood-red luster subtly emerging on the silver blade, seeming to have absorbed a substantial amount of blood and begun evolving.

"The Black Demon Sword was originally a replica of the Blood Demon Sword, which evolves through continuous slaughter until it evolves into the complete form of the Blood Demon Sword, but how long it will take to reach that stage is uncertain," Lin Fei raised the blade, the Black Demon Sword trembling slightly as if excited.

"Kill!! Kill everything!! Charge up and kill!!" A crazed voice transmitted from the Black Demon Sword into Lin Fei’s mind.

Lin Fei stretched his hand and lightly flicked the blade.

Ding!!

A long sword cry resounded.

A faint scream emanated from within the Black Demon Sword and then it was silenced.

"If there’s a next time, I will erase you," Lin Fei said gently.

The Black Demon Sword became completely silent. Its body was still trembling, but this time it was under Lin Fei’s gaze, seemingly showing submission and fear.

"Now, onto the next," Lin Fei’s gaze swept toward the direction of the black-armored figures.

Five minutes later...

Lin Fei rose again within a beam of light. All around him, the black-armored figures were littered on the ground.

"Feilin, qualified for the finals."

"Several beams of white light also rose in the distance.

"Snow Demon, Ziling, qualified for the finals."

Lin Fei looked into the distance, and within one beam of light, the Snow Demon was covered in wounds, her originally white hair now a disheveled mess, with dark red clots of dried blood all over her body, indicating she had been through a fierce battle.

In another beam of light, Ziling too was in disarray, cautiously bandaging her right forearm. Her original long purple dress had transformed into an ultra-short skirt, a section of which she had tied around her right thigh, evidently using it as a bandage.

Both of them noticed Lin Fei.

Seeing Lin Fei unharmed and rising midair, a hint of terror filled their eyes.

"How could he possibly be unharmed!?" Ziling’s face turned extremely ugly. "Everyone here has C-rank strength at least, and occasionally there are B-rank fighters; how could he knock down fifty people without a scratch!"

She herself had struggled immensely to gather the required number of defeats and knew the difficulty well.

Every time she defeated someone, she had to be extremely careful, because she didn’t know if the opponent was hiding their abilities. Suddenly, a B-rank fighter might burst with power, and she could easily become someone else’s stepping stone.

"No wonder Longque told me to be wary of him," Ziling glanced at Snow Demon not far from her, who was just as disheveled.

Similarly, Snow Demon’s eyes were fixed steadfastly on Lin Fei.

In the distance, Lin Fei’s lips moved slightly.

"See you in the final match."

Their ears simultaneously caught his words.

The three of them instantly disappeared within the beam of light.

"Crichton, qualified for the finals."

The mechanical voice sounded again as a man with golden short hair, dressed like a clown, slowly rose up unharmed just like Lin Fei. Below, a large number of black armors were still battling each other. The rest, which were almost not that outstanding in strength, were left to fight it out over time and endurance until the end. But by that time, they would be out of contention for the finals.

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Lin Fei’s vision blurred, and suddenly everything around him brightened.

After quickly adjusting to the light, the surroundings also became clear.

Emptiness! Extreme emptiness!

This was Lin Fei’s first impression.

The ground was a sheet of snow-white, without any texture, as if it were the finest white jade. It emitted a soft white light, exceptionally smooth. All around was a flat land that stretched as far as the eye could see, and the sky was the same color as the ground.

This time seemed different from the previous two; there was no protective membrane here.

Lin Fei felt as if he had instantly come to another space, as if he were the only person in the entire space.

"Welcome to the final match space, this is the land of perpetual daylight. It belongs to a different dimension, and due to its special and important nature, the finals will be held here. All contestants will fight to the death, and the last survivor will be the chosen successor. Also, any external interference and observation is forbidden during the event, and everything that happens inside the land of perpetual daylight will be isolated from the outside world until the result is declared and the successor is teleported out," the synthetic voice rang again.

"Completely isolated from the outside world, I wonder to what extent," Lin Fei mused.

"Please note, all final contestants will be randomly distributed across the space, which will continuously shrink over fifteen days, culminating in the final showdown. If no winner is determined within fifteen days, all contestants will die from the space’s collapse. The space’s detector will detect if there is only one energy reaction inside, only then will the teleportation power be activated. If there are no winners, teleportation will not intervene."

Lin Fei sharply grasped the meaning from the last phrase.

"That means this should be an independent space or rather a collapsing shrinking space? Moreover, if there is no winner in the end, even teleportation won’t work? That implies this place is not entirely under the control of the Temple. Maybe it’s not even a place they can monitor completely."

"So where are the other contestants?" Lin Fei looked around.

All around was a white void, without a single human figure.

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"What did you say?!!"

Xia Longque’s face changed slightly.

"They’re not in the first competition area?"

"A silver-armored man also said with an ugly expression, "They are not, not a single qualifier appeared in the first competition area. All qualifiers have vanished as if evaporated from the earth, completely disappearing."

"Was there a teleportation error?"

"No, there’s nobody at the teleportation site," the silver-armored man said harshly, "It’s been empty since five days ago. All arrays have been running automatically; there’s no one to maintain or manage them."

Xia Longque stood up, his face somber.

"Do the fathers know?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote and give a monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)