One Sword Slays All Heroes
"Damn it, he got away again."
Lin Bai saw Xu Shangjie run into Ten Mile Slope, and his lungs nearly exploded with rage.
Sword in hand, he immediately chased after him.
But after taking only a few steps inside, he saw three men in white leading a group of martial artists out of the slope, all of them murderous.
The three men met Lin Bai's gaze.
"You're Lin Bai?" the three asked.
These three were none other than Bai Huatian, Long Ba, and Qi Ming.
They were the final three New Talent Kings from this recruitment.
There were ten New Talent Kings in total: Xu Shangjie, Bai Huatian, Long Ba, Long Yao, Qi Ming, Mo Yi, Ye Guxing, Lin Bai, Ye Suxin, and Nan Lidao.
Long Yao and Mo Yi had already been killed by Lin Bai.
Ye Guxing and Nan Lidao were both lone cultivators who disliked getting mixed up with these people.
Apart from Ye Suxin, who was still refining the Swallowing Heaven Demon Python inside, the three men before him could be said to be the strongest disciples in the entire trial.
"I'm Lin Bai. Who are you?" Lin Bai asked.
As far as Lin Bai remembered, he did not seem to have any enmity with these people.
"A dead man has no right to know our names."
"Gentlemen, let me be the first to kill him with a single sword!"
With that, Long Ba immediately pounced forward.
Long Ba was a New Talent King. His body had been tempered to such an extent that even ordinary first-grade spirit artifacts could hardly break through it.
On the second day after entering the Spirit Sword Sect, he had once been surrounded and attacked by more than a hundred martial artists. He had not struck back even once, simply allowing them to attack him until they were exhausted, yet they had not harmed a single hair on his body.
He then defeated them with ease in a single battle, making a name for himself and earning the title of New Talent King.
"Lin Bai, pay with your life for my brother!"
Long Ba pounced forward, roaring furiously through bared teeth.
"Who's your brother?" Lin Bai asked.
"My brother, Long Yao!" Long Ba shouted furiously.
"So it was him. You're quite a bit stronger than your brother."
"But you're still no match for me. Get out of here at once, or I'll send you to hell to reunite with your brother!"
Lin Bai spoke coldly.
"Hahaha, ridiculous! I'll give you three moves. If you can break through my defenses within those three moves, I'll give you my head to use as a chamber pot!"
Long Ba was extremely confident in his physical strength.
He stood before Lin Bai and taunted him.
"Fine."
Lin Bai let out a cold laugh, and the Spirit Severing Sword flew from its sheath in an instant.
"Ten Steps, One Kill!"
Lin Bai shot forward ten steps with his sword. As his ten steps landed, ten bloody shadows merged into his sword, and he slashed out.
A scarlet sword light shot straight toward Long Ba's neck.
With a splurt!
Long Ba's head was cleaved off and sent flying by Lin Bai's sword!
"Looks like I don't need three swords. One is enough."
Lin Bai killed Long Ba and spoke coldly.
Long Ba's head rolled ten meters away, the smug expression still frozen on his face.
He probably never imagined until his dying moment that Lin Bai's swordsmanship could be so powerful.
"Long Ba!"
"He underestimated him."
Bai Huatian and Qi Ming both felt a chill in their hearts.
"I'll fight you!"
Qi Ming immediately shot forward, throwing a punch straight at Lin Bai's face without another word.
As his fist struck, a pressure capable of shaking mountains gathered before Lin Bai.
"Heaven Shattering Fist!"
Rumble!
Qi Ming's punch came crashing down with boundless might.
"This punch isn't bad, but it's still not enough!" Lin Bai said, slashing out at the same time to meet it head-on.
Qi Ming's fist collided with Lin Bai's sword.
On the spot, Lin Bai's sword severed one of Qi Ming's arms, sending him stumbling backward in a sorry state.
"This... How is this possible?!"
Compared to the pain of losing his arm, Qi Ming found it even harder to believe that he had been defeated by a single move from Lin Bai.
From childhood onward, Qi Ming had been the genius of his family, revered by all. Every expert in his family had been defeated by him within three moves.
After arriving at the Spirit Sword Sect, Qi Ming had even fought more than a hundred martial artists and earned the title of New Talent King.
He had practically foreseen himself becoming famous throughout the Spirit Sword Sect.
Yet who could have imagined that he would not even last one move against Lin Bai?
"Qi Ming, step back. Let me handle him!" Bai Huatian saw Qi Ming suffer and immediately grew furious. True qi gathered around him as he leaped into the air and brought one foot crashing down toward the top of Lin Bai's head.
"Mountain Quake Kick!"
This was a Profound Grade, second-rank martial skill. Now that Bai Huatian had unleashed it, his kick swept down with enough force to shatter a ten-thousand-pound boulder.
Its power was utterly terrifying.
"You're asking to die!"
Lin Bai grew furious. With the two of them taking turns attacking, he was beginning to lose patience.
"Since that's the case, you two can attack together."
When Bai Huatian and Qi Ming heard this, the fury in their hearts nearly burned the heavens.
"Lin Bai, I was merely careless just now. This palm of mine will certainly take your life!"
"Soul Shifting Palm!"
Qi Ming adjusted his mindset, then once again struck at Lin Bai with a palm.
He coordinated with Bai Huatian—one attacking from the sky and the other from the ground—to surround and kill Lin Bai.
They left Lin Bai no avenue of retreat.
"Good timing!"
"Thunder God Sword!"
Seeing the two of them attack, a bolt of lightning danced out from Lin Bai's sword.
Terrifying thunderous power immediately stirred the winds and clouds of the region.
Splurt—splurt—
After two crisp sounds, bloody lines appeared across the throats of Bai Huatian and Qi Ming, and blood gushed wildly forth.
"You actually dare kill us... We may be Divine Alliance martial artists!" Qi Ming glared at Lin Bai and shouted before dying.
"Lin Bai, just wait! Miss Ye Suxin and the Divine Alliance will avenge us!" Bai Huatian also glared at Lin Bai resentfully.
Watching Bai Huatian and Qi Ming breathe their last,
Lin Bai said coldly, "I advise the Divine Alliance not to provoke me. Otherwise, the moment you offend me will be the day the Divine Alliance is destroyed!"
"Xu Shangjie, so many people have already died for you along the way. Let's see how you can escape this time!"
Lin Bai charged into Ten Mile Slope with his sword in hand.
Rumble—
The instant Lin Bai moved his feet,
the earth-shaking sound of an upheaval came from inside Ten Mile Slope.
"What's going on?" Lin Bai was startled. He hurriedly stopped and warily surveyed his surroundings.
Just then,
a gigantic demon python, nearly a thousand meters long, crawled down from the mountainside.
Standing atop the demon python's head was a beautiful woman dressed all in white, her gaze seeming almost immortal.
Behind this beautiful woman stood someone very familiar to Lin Bai—none other than Xu Shangjie, who had tried to kill Lin Bai time and again.
Ye Suxin had just finished refining the Swallowing Heaven Demon Python when she left Ten Mile Slope.
After emerging, she looked down and saw the sword wounds at Bai Huatian and Qi Ming's throats, as well as Long Ba's corpse, whose head and body lay apart.
Her eyes immediately turned icy.
All three of these men were martial artists of the Divine Alliance, and they had helped her tremendously along the way.
Ye Suxin had not even had time to reward them, yet they had died at Lin Bai's hands.
"They were killed by you?"
Ye Suxin stood atop the Swallowing Heaven Demon Python's head and asked Lin Bai coldly.
The moment Ye Suxin spoke, her words carried a sharp and hostile edge.
It was as if the instant Lin Bai said "yes," she would immediately devour him alive.