"My son!!! You deserve to die!!!"
"Second Brother!!!"
"Roar!!!"
Amid a series of anguished screams, all three generations of the family revealed their true forms and charged at Shen Lin.
Only Old Master Bai kept his wits about him. With a grim expression, he turned and walked back into the study.
Shen Lin shoved Bai's second son's corpse aside and casually tossed his head away.
"Just in time!"
With a furious shout, Shen Lin charged forward instead of retreating.
His target was clear. He swung the long saber in his hand at his mark.
Madam Bai!
Her body was as large as a calf, and among the three white foxes, the demonic aura radiating from her was the strongest.
The instant the saber came down, the tail behind the white fox shielded her from above.
The Bai fox clan's entire skill lay in that one tail.
Its fur was as sharp as steel needles. Not only was it tough, it was also remarkably nimble when swung.
With a clang, the saber struck the fox's tail, sending sparks flying.
"Die!"
Madam Bai seized this rare opportunity. She thrust out her claws and lunged for Shen Lin's chest.
But the next moment, tremendous force surged from the long saber.
Boom!
Qi and Blood Force surged through Shen Lin's body. The powerful force drove the fox demon straight toward the ground.
Since his saber couldn't pierce the fox tail's defenses, Shen Lin simply used it as a club. Relying on the surging Qi and Blood Force within him, he beat her to the ground.
But just as he raised his foot to crush the fox demon's head, he suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of danger.
He kicked off the ground and used the momentum to dodge to the side.
At some point, the white fox Qianqian had transformed into suddenly grew much faster, surpassing Shen Lin's expectations. Her silver-white tail stabbed toward his back.
At that moment, her demonic aura surged, and a faint black gleam shone from her razor-sharp claws.
He hadn't expected that the strongest of this den of fox demons would be the seemingly frail Qianqian.
The demonic aura around her was nearly on par with that of the Opening Meridians Realm wolf demon from before.
But only nearly.
She still hadn't reached the Opening Meridians Realm.
After dodging her sneak attack, Shen Lin twisted his wrist and swept his long saber sideways, unleashing all the Qi and Blood Force in his body.
Whoosh!
A flash of saber light passed. A thin line appeared across Qianqian's mouth.
Madam Bai had just gotten to her feet when she saw Shen Lin's saber cleave half her daughter's head away. She cried out in anguish, "No!!!"
He kicked away the little fox cub trying to bite his heel, flicked the blood from his saber, and wore an impassive expression.
"That's the second!"
"I'll fight you to the death!!!"
Madam Bai had watched helplessly as Shen Lin cut down both her son and daughter. Having lost all reason, she charged at him with claws bared.
Shen Lin bent slightly, dodging her claws and fox tail.
Then he thrust his long saber diagonally upward.
With a wet squelch, it plunged straight into her chest.
Without hesitation, he pressed his left hand against the back of the blade and shoved. The saber cleaved through half of Madam Bai's body.
Blood gushed out, staining the ground red.
Her massive body crumpled helplessly, her long tongue lolling from her mouth.
With her final glance, she saw her husband charging out, his aura surging as he wielded the sword their youngest son had brought home last time.
It looked like the old man had taken the spirit herb.
It had originally been meant for their second son, to help him open two demonic meridians at once.
What a pity...
But now that the old man had taken the herb, he could open two demonic meridians...
He should... be able to avenge her...
As her final thought faded, Madam Bai closed her eyes.
Seeing this scene, Old Master Bai, who had just rushed out, was so enraged that his eyes nearly split open.
In the space of a moment, his wife and two children had all died at Shen Lin's hands.
"You deserve to die!!!"
Old Master Bai didn't reveal his true form. Instead, he charged forward with his sword in hand.
Shen Lin raised his saber and struck at him as well.
With a clang, the saber and sword sprang apart.
A trace of surprise appeared on both their faces.
Old Master Bai couldn't understand how Shen Lin had blocked that sword strike.
The earlier blow to his chest had already made him realize that Shen Lin was a martial artist of the Opening Meridians Realm.
But now he had swallowed the spirit herb, using its abundant medicinal power to force open two demonic meridians at all costs.
By rights, every meridian opened should widen the gap in their strength considerably.
Yet the force that had just traveled through his sword was on par with his own.
Could this brat also have opened two meridians?
At his age, with such cultivation, even Ah Hao back then...
"Old fool, I didn't expect..." Shen Lin raised his long saber to examine it, a hint of delight on his face. "You've got plenty of good stuff here."
The sabers carried by constables like them were all tempered steel sabers specially forged by blacksmiths at the County Office.
After all, ordinary iron weapons would be damaged after just a few blows against powerful demons.
But now, after his tempered steel saber had merely clashed with his opponent's sword once, a conspicuous notch had appeared in its blade.
His opponent had a sharp weapon, but Shen Lin felt no fear.
Instead, he eyed the sword in his opponent's hand greedily.
That sword would soon become his spoils of war.
Old Master Bai saw what Shen Lin was thinking and sneered. "Soon this sword will rip open your chest and tear out your heart and lungs..."
Before he could finish his threat, Shen Lin casually pointed his saber at Madam Bai's body on the ground and smiled. "You mean like this?"
Old Master Bai flew into a rage, all traces of composure vanishing from his face as he thrust his sword forward.
"You're asking for death!!!"
The angle of the strike was treacherous. Even if Shen Lin blocked it with his saber, Old Master Bai could follow up with more attacks.
But at that moment, in Shen Lin's mind, the experience of the Wild Wind Sword Technique he had spent fifty-two years perfecting surfaced, move by move.
He saw through the follow-up moves to his opponent's strike at a glance.
"Swordplay, huh... It's not like I don't know how to use a sword!"
As his calm words fell, Shen Lin swung his saber, sealing off every possible follow-up move with a single strike.
Screee!
Saber and sword seemed to stick together, sparks flying as they scraped against each other.
"You..."
With his follow-up moves sealed off, Old Master Bai felt utterly stifled.
He hadn't expected that Shen Lin, young as he was, would not only have superb saber skills but also be every bit as skilled with a sword.
He had seen through the flaw in Old Master Bai's sword move at a glance.
Left with no other choice, Old Master Bai gritted his teeth. His demonic aura boiled as he prepared to overpower skill with strength.
But the next moment, the Qi and Blood Force erupting from Shen Lin was many times stronger than his own.
The Qi and Blood Force from four meridians poured out without reservation. Its tremendous power overwhelmed Old Master Bai.
As the long saber knocked the sword aside, its battered blade cut straight into Old Master Bai's neck.
Shen Lin pulled his arm back. Like a steel saw, the saber sliced Old Master Bai's head off.
"When it comes to strength, you're no match for me either!"
Shen Lin's scornful words fell to the ground alongside Old Master Bai's head, striking home with a heavy thud.
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