In fact, even the Chaos Emperor felt a sense of dread at this moment.
He himself is not the type to lack speed; relying on the violent burst of Hell Power, his speed is considered fast among those of the same level.
But when facing Lin Hui... this guy's speed, at this level, actually reached the physical limit of light speed allowed by the normal spacetime.
That's a bit of an exaggeration...
In reality, once you reach the speed of light, anything beyond that is essentially spatial teleportation; there's no further room for speed or distance increase. Powerful individuals mostly use other methods to circumvent this limitation and achieve the necessary capabilities for traversing extremely long distances.
Perhaps some powerful individuals could break the speed of light limit, but this would require far too much energy, making the overall return extremely low.
Therefore, very few people would do that.
But Lin Hui...
This guy seems to be heading down this path...
Sizzle sizzle sizzle!!
For a moment, at the gate between Hell and the Black Domain.
Lin Hui and the Chaos Emperor faced each other. The Ruyi Sword as light, transformed into countless hazy gray sword lights, continuously encircling the other side from both sides, resembling two enormous gray wings.
Behind the Chaos Emperor, the stars continuously released brilliant golden torrents of Hell, forcefully blocking the sword light wings from the outside.
After a few breaths of stalemate, the Chaos Emperor grew impatient and raised his hand to press forward.
In an instant, countless Hell black hands materialized out of thin air around Lin Hui, flying towards him and grabbing at him.
but...
With a flash, Lin Hui disappeared from the spot, leaving all the culprits empty-handed.
After severing the five layers of spiritual burden, his speed far exceeded his own energy level, reaching a level that even the Chaos Emperor, who was at the materialized energy level, could not detect.
"Interesting!" The Chaos Emperor's tone turned serious.
The miniature star behind them flashed golden light again.
In an instant, countless black hands rapidly coalesced in the surrounding space, forming a wave of black hands that surged towards the entire area where Lin Hui was located.
From a distance, it looked like a huge black wave, appearing out of thin air and pressing down hard on Lin Hui.
bite!
Just then, a soft sound was heard.
The dark red Time String flashed past Lin Hui.
He and the Chaos Emperor were simultaneously pulled into a purely dark and mysterious space.
In the space, a similar dark red Time String silently appeared behind the Chaos Emperor.
The Time String, like a musical instrument string, was gently plucked at this moment, producing a sound.
Sizzle sizzle sizzle!!
The invisible sword light struck directly at the Chaos Emperor's divine soul.
This move is one of the ultimate killing techniques of the Great Yin Yang Time Reversal Sword Technique, directly targeting the opponent's soul.
He once used this sword to defeat his former opponent Xue Shi.
Now that he has entered the fifth level, the power of this move he uses again is naturally vastly different.
Sword Prison!!
In an instant, the Ruyi in Lin Hui's hand Wish-Fulfilling returned to its sheath.
However, during what appeared to be the process of returning to their sheaths, billions of sword lights surrounded the two, completely enveloping the surroundings and turning them into a pitch-black space.
This is the origin of the so-called Sword Prison!
In that instant, billions of sword lights simultaneously rushed towards the Chaos Emperor.
All the sword lights were invisible and intangible; they flew down without ever touching their targets.
It was then forcibly pushed aside by a massive star that was expanding at an extremely rapid rate.
All the sword beams struck the leaping magma on the star's surface.
At the same time, outside the Sword Prison, a large number of dark forces forcibly tore through space and rushed towards Lin Hui like a torrent, attempting to bind and corrupt him.
Lin Hui tried to use the same trick again, attempting to retreat and escape.
But suddenly he sensed that the star was releasing an immense, indiscriminate gravitational pull, which forcibly slowed him down by more than half.
boom!!!
The next instant, the star exploded with a deafening roar.
A needle, formed from the dazzling heat of tens of millions of degrees and the materialized power of Hell, pierced through a radius of hundreds of millions of kilometers in an instant.
The gates of the Black Domain and Hell trembled and twisted violently.
The Purgatory Duke was watching the battle, felt his hair stand on end and retreated at top speed, but it was too late. In the blink of an eye, his body was covered and annihilated by the powerful needles of Hell energy.
That was an extremely high concentration of Hell power, carrying a strong erosive will of the Chaos Emperor, which almost instantly and completely destroyed his entire body here.
Not only him, but everything around him, the Hell land, the sky, everything that was affected, was reduced to Ashes in this terrifying explosion that was comparable to a self-destruction.
A few breaths later, the starlight contracted, revealing the Chaos Emperor's restored body. He looked around, snorted coldly, and, not finding Lin Hui, turned and walked towards the Black Domain outside the gate.
This kid is fast, but what's the use of being fast? Just overwhelm him with a wide-area attack and saturate him.
He didn't care how fast the opponent was; he just wanted to destroy the space the opponent was in as well.
As long as the other party doesn't instantly leave that spatial range.
The outcome was predetermined from the very beginning.
Swish!
The newly resurrected Purgatory Duke reappeared in the sky above the area that had been reduced to scorched earth.
He also looked around but found no trace of Lin Hui, guessing that the other party had most likely been destroyed and revived by the Wind Disaster.
He immediately shook his head, turned around, and went back to his palace to rest.
This time, he suffered an undeserved calamity. He had only intended to watch the show and improve his combat experience, but... the Chaos Emperor couldn't keep up with his speed, and in a fit of rage, unleashed a large-scale annihilation attack, killing everyone, including him.
"Has this guy... grown to the point where even the aftershocks can easily kill me?" Recalling the scene of Lin Hui turning into light with his sword, the Purgatory Duke felt complicated and frustrated.
When we first met in the Mist Man World, we were all on the same starting line...
How long has it been?
"I don't want to think about it anymore, I'm going back to cultivate!! Cultivate!! Although I'm a bit old, I still have potential to be tapped!" Provoked by Lin Hui, the Purgatory Duke turned around and flew rapidly towards the palace.
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The Black Domain Void.
Lin Hui's body was riddled with holes, covered in burning, Hell needles. He was like a burning torch, floating motionless in the void.
The next moment.
As if time had reversed, all the fine needles dissolved, differentiated, and dispersed at an alarming rate, and the wounds on his body healed rapidly, as if they had never existed.
Lin Hui slowly opened his eyes.
"Did he still use the reshaping ability of the Illusion Destruction Eye? The Chaos Emperor certainly has a way with things."
Although the sword speed increased by the sword technique has surpassed the opponent's reaction speed, the gap between their energy levels is still insurmountable.
He has only gained the qualifications to fight against the Chaos Emperor and these Seventh Ring Army Lords. But when it comes to actually winning, he is still far from being able to defeat them.
Using the time-reversal ability of a sword technique to forcibly increase its power might allow one to temporarily withstand the attack, but the energy level difference is too great. Even if it manages to hold out for a short while, it still won't be able to harm the opponent... It seems the core issue still lies in the energy level...
Lin Hui had previously thought that after improving his sword technique, he might be able to try fighting beyond his level, but this attempt made him truly understand what his teacher, Seven Extinctions, meant by energy level suppression.
This battle with the Chaos Emperor was a typical example of energy level suppression.
He was far faster than his opponent, unleashing billions of sword beams, but they were all easily blocked by the opponent's area-of-effect attacks.
The immense power unleashed by pure speed, when faced with materialized energy, cannot be highly concentrated due to the limitations of the sword's material; it is too dispersed to penetrate the opponent's defenses.
If it were the Sun-Eating Sword, perhaps such an assassination attempt could be attempted, but the Ruyi Sword...
Lin Hui raised his hand, looked at the alloy longsword in his hand that was now only a hilt, and sighed softly.
This was a powerful sword forged at the level of a master, yet it couldn't withstand the super-fast thrusts of the Sword Prison's killing move.
The Great Yin Yang Time Reversal Sword Technique has even stronger killing moves to follow, but these killing moves are all self-destructive, almost like mutual destruction. Lin Hui wanted to preserve his trump cards to see where he stood in terms of regular combat power, and he also felt a strange sense of unease.
There are concerns that other deadly moves might cause some kind of irreversible damage to the soul.
Because, apart from Sword Prison, almost all other killing moves require the complete destruction of one's own soul before unleashing power to destroy the enemy.
Only Sword Prison requires self-destruction as the price.
Based on this, my level should be above the sixth ring, but weakly at the seventh ring level. Because the Chaos Emperor, being Fusion Faction, is inherently much stronger than other seventh-ring cultivators in a full-scale battle. He can resurrect infinitely and is unafraid of death or injury. He should be at the strong seventh ring level. When I fought him, although I couldn't kill him, he couldn't do anything to me either. So, being a weak seventh ring isn't a big problem."
Having determined his own level, Lin Hui refocused his attention on improving his energy level.
The previous energy level upgrade mainly relied on the burning of the Immortal Fire to replenish the divine soul. Yin-Time Self-Origin Art Wind Disaster transformed into Wind Energy. With a super-strong divine soul foundation, compressing the Wind Energy and entering a high-energy condensed state level became a natural progression.
The core is still the Yin-Time Self-Origin Art), a technique originally created to completely solve the problem of Wind Disaster transformation. Combined with the Immortal Fire, the transformation speed is extremely fast. However, once the energy level reaches the high-energy condensed state, there is no further path forward...
In reality, it would be unbelievable if word got out that Lin Hui could bridge the huge gap between ordinary discrete energy levels and high-energy condensed state energy levels in just a few decades using only one technique.
But he was still not satisfied.
Many powerful figures, such as Seven Extinctions and the Chaos Emperor, spent at least several thousand or even tens of thousands of years to cross this threshold.
At this moment, Lin Hui realized the importance of energy levels even more, and carefully searched his mind for all the techniques and abilities he had mastered.
The Yin-Time Self-Origin Art is mainly used to transform Wind Disaster. The transformation is safe and without hidden dangers, which is already more than worth the price.
After all, it's something that countless powerful individuals haven't been able to achieve.
Judging from his subsequent cultivation memories, there was no content related to raising his energy level to the point of materialization.
We have no choice but to find another way.
Lin Hui then turned his attention to the Great Yin Yang Time Reversal Sword Technique. The highest level of this sword technique does indeed have a killing move that can temporarily boost one's energy level.
Yes, it's just a killing move.
By destroying his own soul and body, he instantly unleashed a leapfrog-like strike with an unstoppable blade.
It can even easily traverse astronomical distances measured in light-years. Its power is terrifying.
But the cost is that it could lead to complete self-destruction.
However, the Unfinished Final Scene Sword Technique, which is still evolving, is something to look forward to.
Energy level... energy level... this is the evolution and sublimation of life, the qualitative change and the foundation of everything... Lin Hui frowned slightly. It seemed he still had no choice but to go to his teacher...
Seven Extinctions is a materialized master who far surpasses the Chaos Emperor. As a disciple of the Nine Heavens Gate, it is only natural for me to seek guidance from my teacher when I encounter difficulties.
Immediately, Lin Hui stopped hesitating, turned around, tore open space, and stepped into the torrent of the Wind Disaster Rift.
"Ha ha ha ha!!"
Nine Heavens Gate.
Seven Extinctions laughed loudly, his laughter joyful and triumphant.
"Good child! Good child!! To have reached this point in just two hundred years... truly worthy of being the only contemporary successor of my Nine Heavens Gate!"
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"Ha ha ha ha!"
"Ha ha ha ha!!"
He's been laughing like that for ten minutes now.
Lin Hui stood to the side, expressionless, waiting quietly.
The teacher is Fusion Faction; although her cognitive abilities have improved considerably, she still occasionally experiences spells of illness.
His memories had long been distorted and lost over the course of time.
Fortunately, Lin Hui has always had extraordinary patience when dealing with the elderly.
After laughing for another ten minutes or so, Seven Extinctions Mie finally calmed down.
"Upgrading one's energy level is a major event, and naturally, there are cultivation techniques involved. Or rather, they aren't cultivation techniques, but rather hand seals."