Boom! Boom! Boom!
The dense explosions rang out one after another like a thunderstorm across this sparsely populated area.
The Nightmare phantom widened its eyes and stared in disbelief at the figure charging fearlessly down the middle of the road.
The Divine Saber came crashing down!
Blazing thunderfire erupted wildly in all directions, centered around Lin Shuguang. At the same time, the highly compressed air transformed into countless blades of air, surging toward the Divine Temple's third-tier Cyborg like thunder sweeping across the sky.
"￥###!" The massive Cyborg spoke in an incomprehensible language.
It was as if he were forming hand seals, and a dim light surfaced across his body!
With a boom, astral energy exploded!
The three twisted faces let out shrieks sharp enough to pierce the heavens and suddenly charged toward Lin Shuguang.
The very first step sent the ground beneath his feet exploding apart. Cracks spread rapidly, covering the road within dozens of meters in a dense web almost instantly.
The surging gale likewise swept fiercely in every direction.
The Nightmare phantom hurriedly retreated, still shaken.
He looked at the Cyborg, suspicion and shock churning in his heart.
"Have the Divine Temple's Cyborgs already grown this powerful?"
What kind of terrifying strength was required to shatter and destroy the entire road with nothing but physical force?
But immediately afterward, his expression changed dramatically.
His figure retreated again!
The force of the saber that burst from Lin Shuguang's blade carried a sharpness that made even this Nightmare executive, who had already risen to become a core member, tremble with fear.
This was merely the force that had splashed outward... and it was already so fierce. Didn't that mean...
The Nightmare phantom instinctively looked up and saw a scene he would never forget.
Lin Shuguang's saber severed the countless strands of astral energy condensed by the Divine Temple's Cyborg.
He defeated it in one strike!
It swept forward like a bamboo split apart!
With a "slash," the Saber Light tore through the Cyborg's body. Green fluid burst out on the spot, and he let out a heart-rending scream of agony.
In an instant!
The scream abruptly stopped as the surging gale violently poured into his wide-open mouth.
At the same time, an iron fist slammed into his body.
"Crack-crack-crack!"
The muscles on his chest were blasted apart by a savage force, as though a nuclear bomb had exploded. The muscles throughout his body convulsed violently in succession, while all the bones inside him seemed unable to bear the impact, their cracking sounds instantly joining into one continuous string.
Green blood sprayed violently from his mouth.
The Cyborg was sent flying backward.
Before he could land,
Lin Shuguang leaped into the air.
His terrifying speed brought him before the Cyborg in midair in an instant, the Slaughter Blade held straight in his hand.
"Big brother, could you please not kill me?" The childlike face on the Cyborg's head showed a weak and frightened expression, endless pleading in its innocent eyes.
"Don't kill me!" the young woman shouted as well.
The middle-aged man also roared, "I don't want to die!"
From afar, the Nightmare phantom shouted, "Don't let them fool you! They are nothing but—"
Before he could finish,
the rest of his words abruptly stopped.
Because in the air not far away...
Before he could finish speaking, Lin Shuguang's saber pierced straight through the Cyborg's body without the slightest hesitation.
With a "boom," it exploded into pieces!
Lin Shuguang landed steadily, his expression calm, as though he had merely killed an ant.
He turned around without sheathing his saber.
His cold, merciless eyes fixed on the Nightmare phantom, whose entire body had gone rigid in the distance.
"What were you about to say?"
"Gulp—" The Nightmare phantom swallowed. "N-Nothing. Cyborgs aren't true humans. I was afraid you'd be deceived, so I wanted to warn you."
Lin Shuguang grunted, then walked closer with his saber in hand.
The Nightmare phantom instinctively took a step back.
A raging storm had already risen in his heart!
Lin Shuguang had actually slain a third-tier Divine Temple Cyborg all by himself!!!
With strength like that, he had probably surpassed him by far!
He dared say that even the higher-ups of the Nightmare could never have imagined that Lin Shuguang possessed such strength...
The last time his phantom had been cut down, he had already made a rough estimate of Lin Shuguang's strength. He had thought it was around thirty resonances.
But what had happened in the end?
A third-tier Cyborg comparable to Bone Tempering Fifty Resonances could not last three breaths under Lin Shuguang's saber.
This kind of strength—
The Nightmare phantom retreated again, not daring to let Lin Shuguang approach.
This was not the mental world he had created last time. If Lin Shuguang cut him down with one saber here, he would truly lose his life.
"You came looking for me. Have you decided on your terms?"
Lin Shuguang stopped and spoke indifferently.
Yet the Nightmare phantom found those words terrifying. Beneath Lin Shuguang's calm tone, he heard a domineering warning: Stop wasting my time, or I'll cut you down.
"Our Nightmare sincerely invites Mr. Lin to join us, with not a single empty promise! I admit that we underestimated your strength before. If you are willing, I can immediately report this to the higher-ups. I believe they would be extremely pleased to have you join us..."
Seeing Lin Shuguang suddenly take a step closer,
the Nightmare phantom's expression shifted. He hurriedly took a step back and explained, "Mr. Lin, please don't misunderstand. Our Nightmare is nothing like that Demonic Cultivator organization, the Divine Temple. In fact, internationally, we actively cooperate with various countries to resolve Demonic Cultivators... We yearn for peace. We are entirely different from that pack of lunatics in the Divine Temple!
"If you don't believe us, you can investigate our Nightmare yourself."
Lin Shuguang's expression remained indifferent, and he said nothing.
The Nightmare phantom relaxed slightly and continued in a low voice, "Great Xia has the Special Management Bureau and the Demon Suppression Division, such powerful weapons of destruction, so it is quite hostile toward foreign forces like us. That is why, when I first came to find you, I didn't dare reveal my identity directly. Please forgive me, Mr. Lin."
Lin Shuguang raised an eyebrow. "Why did you come to me?"
The Nightmare phantom froze, as though hesitating over something.
But when the killing intent erupted from Lin Shuguang,
he hurriedly came back to his senses and said, "To be honest, Mr. Lin, our Nightmare didn't know about you at first. To avoid being misunderstood by Great Xia, our people didn't recklessly establish an intelligence network like those lunatics from the Divine Temple... We learned about you entirely because we found you on the Divine Temple's kill list.
"Anyone the Divine Temple values so highly would naturally interest our Nightmare as well. The higher-ups sent me to contact you because they also hoped to join hands with you against the Divine Temple."
Lin Shuguang gave a chilling smile. "Join hands? That sounds nice, but don't you simply want to borrow my blade to kill?"
The Nightmare phantom did not dare make a sound.
Lin Shuguang sheathed his saber and spoke coolly, leaving no room for argument. "Go back and tell your higher-ups that if they want me to join, they must produce sufficient leverage. Don't try to placate me with some empty title. You should understand my temper better than anyone!"
The Nightmare phantom shuddered and clasped his fists. "Rest assured, Mr. Lin. I will report everything truthfully. Farewell."
The phantom dispersed.
The cold, bright moonlight spilled across the road, which had been destroyed beyond recognition.
Lin Shuguang stood beside the Divine Temple Cyborg's corpse. After pondering for a moment, he dialed the bureau.
"This is Lin Shuguang. Bring some people over..."
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