Great Assault II

A Void Imp that had been turned suddenly found itself pounced on by two former companions. They bit down savagely, tearing it into several pieces.

But immediately afterward, it exploded with a bang, blasting away several nearby Void Imps. From the center of the explosion crawled another emerald-green monster resembling a caterpillar.

The monster floated in midair, with more than ten pairs of limbs growing from its body, every pair incomparably sharp. With one sweeping strike, it cut an entire row of Void Imps cleanly in half at the waist.

"So this is a second-tier Floating Corpse-Eating Demon? Not bad." Lin Xin nodded in satisfaction.

Thirty Void Eggs frantically fired parasitic eggs, turning vast numbers of Void Imps. One Floating Corpse-Eating Demon after another appeared, only to be torn apart moments later.

The battle immediately fell into a stalemate.

Beside one Void Egg, more than a dozen Void Imps tangled and resisted. The ones that slipped past from behind could not be stopped, and the Steel Men roared as they swung their fists in a wild barrage.

Flesh and blood splattered, bones and corpses shattered.

In just a few minutes, Lin Xin sensed a faint loosening in his cultivation.

If this continued, though the progress was exceedingly slight, as long as it endured, the accumulation would eventually allow him to fully enter the Fourth Grade Spirit.

Bang!

Suddenly, the Void Imps in the sky were swept aside by tremendous force, and a pitch-black Elephant-Nosed Giant Turtle charged out from behind them.

It had an enormous snake-like tail. With one swing, it smashed aside the turned Void Imps blocking its path, flinging them into several pieces.

Several parasitic egg seeds fired at him also struck its shell, producing crisp clangs.

Roar!!

The giant turtle lunged down and crashed onto a Void Egg. Several Steel Men pounced over, but they were already too late.

Pfft!

Lin Xin narrowed his eyes. His connection to one Void Egg was severed directly.

He abruptly rose to his feet and walked to the fortress gate.

The gate slowly opened a sliver. He suddenly shot out, the Red Flower Sword and Yin Luo Sword leaving their sheaths at the same time as they crossed before him in a strike.

A cross-shaped flash of sword light vanished in an instant.

Several lunging Void Imps were instantly chopped into multiple sections. Blood and severed limbs scattered across the ground.

Outside, the Steel Men roared as they desperately held back the rushing Void Imps.

These demon spirits seemed boundless and endless.

"At least a Void Legion numbering in the hundreds of thousands..."

Lin Xin's heart sank. A Void Legion like this would inevitably have a Void Demon General presiding over and ruling it.

Originally, he had planned to wait for the Void Demon General to appear, then strike directly and assassinate it.

But now he had no choice but to act. Those demon-spirit Elephant Trunk Turtles rampaged everywhere; even the Steel Men could not stop them in time. They were fast and powerful.

In just a few short minutes, several more Void Eggs had been breached.

At this point, he hesitated no longer. He knew that if this went on, his chances of victory would only grow smaller and smaller.

Crossing the two swords before him, Lin Xin slowly closed his eyes and switched to spiritual perception.

The long-forgotten Red Flower Sword Dao surfaced in his mind once more. It was the most refined and concise killing sword art he had distilled from prolonged slaughter, as well as the most stamina-saving method of combat.

In an instant, he shot into the sky, darting through the gaps between several Steel Men like a red flare.

Bang!!

In midair, his entire body erupted, and countless sword shadows burst forth like blooming flames.

Within a hundred-meter radius around him, densely packed Void Demon Spirits were instantly cleared away in a vast swath. At least several hundred were slain in one blow.

Roar!!

Several Elephant Trunk Turtles lunged at him.

Lin Xin's gaze trembled faintly, his pupils rapidly flickering and jumping, even leaving behind specks of afterimages as they shook.

The Mental Apex Realm activated instantly. His body spun at high speed, and his twin swords transformed into two silver threads that spread outward in every direction.

Screech screech screech!!

The Elephant Trunk Turtles, along with the Void Imps that had drawn too close, were all sliced into three pieces by that strike, shrieking miserably as they fell.

"Kill him!" A vague roar faintly carried through the void.

At once, an oceanic mass of Void Imps and Elephant Trunk Turtles lunged toward him again.

Lin Xin's arms could no longer be seen, and the twin swords had completely vanished due to their speed.

Centered on him, countless black demon spirits lunged from all around, fearless in the face of death. Yet none could come within ten meters of him.

Any demon spirit that approached within ten meters was instantly cut into three pieces by invisible sword blades.

This was the terrifying effect Lin Xin achieved by using the Red Flower Sword Dao to drive the Extreme Speed Sword Rune.

The Extreme Speed Sword Rune itself could unleash the formidable might of ten thousand swords in an instant. Combined with the stamina-saving combat method of the Red Flower Sword Dao, it became the best means of slaughtering Void Demon Spirits.

Yet even so, the sword blades had to be infused with Supreme Purity Qi in order to cleave through the demon spirits like iron through mud.

There were simply too many of them. With every swing, he had to cut through dozens, even hundreds, of layers of the hard shells of Void Imps.

Lin Xin could clearly feel the Supreme Purity Qi within his Azure Origin Cauldron rapidly decreasing at a visible rate.

Though he was still continuously drawing massive quantities of all kinds of energy from the void and combining them into new Supreme Purity Qi, compared to the consumption, it was merely a cup of water against a cartload of firewood.

He could sense a pair of evil eyes concealed behind the countless demon spirits, waiting at any moment for the instant he revealed a flaw.

Screech!

With one sword stroke, every demon spirit in a ring around him was severed completely as though made of tofu.

The True Force on the blade was also more than ten times what was needed to kill a single enemy.

Yet the surroundings remained endless. Everywhere he looked was filled with black demon spirits. He could not even see the outside environment or the sky; beyond the gaps between demon spirits were still more demon spirits.

Even light could not penetrate through.

He had been directly wrapped into a gigantic ball of demon-spirit flesh.

Time passed bit by bit.

Lin Xin kept swinging his swords, swinging again, and swinging yet again. He no longer dared activate the Apex Realm. Later on, he simply used the Red Flower Sword Dao to drive the Extreme Speed Sword Rune, frantically slaughtering the vast hordes of Void Demon Spirits.

More than half of his True Force had already been consumed. He began switching to pure physical strength.

Fortunately, the Red Flower Sword and Yin Luo Sword were both life-bound artifacts he had strengthened with his attributes. Their hardness was beyond compare.

Boom!!

With a single sword strike, hundreds or thousands of Void Demon Spirits were wiped out. A stretch of sky several miles wide was directly cleared by that one strike. Countless bloody rains and severed limbs fell.

This finally made the Void Demon General lurking behind unable to sit still.

A black shadow shot out and clawed viciously at Lin Xin's back.

The power of a Tier Five Apex Realm activated in an instant.

Lin Xin's movements stalled. When he tried to shut down the other party's Apex Realm, it unexpectedly had no effect.

"Tier Five, Level Three?!"

Alarmed, he swung his sword back and barely blocked it.

Clang!!

With a rumble, the shockwave spread out, instantly clearing a disk-shaped area several hundred meters wide in the sky.

"Die!!"

Lin Xin growled. More than eight thousand points of attributes throughout his body erupted at full force, equivalent to a Divine Beast Bloodline that was supremely perfect in every aspect.

An ordinary Divine Beast Bloodline might perhaps rival him in strength or speed, even surpassing him slightly in one area, but it would inevitably possess shortcomings and weaknesses somewhere else.

But he was different!

Lin Xin was balanced in every aspect—strength, speed, recovery, instinctive evasion, resistance. This body could be called the strongest bloodline body in history.

Among Tier Fives, his physical body could be called the strongest!!

The twin swords swept toward the black shadow like a storm.

In an instant, he slashed out thousands of times, an overwhelming torrent of terrifying power surging forward.

Layer upon layer of sword light resembled silver waves, translucent and tumultuous.

The area around the black shadow abruptly turned gray as its Apex Realm unfolded.

Its pair of black claws viciously raked out several claw marks that froze in the void, rushing toward the sea of sword light.

Bang!! Screech screech screech screech!

The black claw marks blocked only a small portion of the sea of sword light before being completely submerged by the waves behind them.

The black shadow was greatly startled and retreated at top speed.

But it was already too late.

The sea of sword light surged over it like a tide, completely swallowing it.

"Kill!"

But immediately afterward, several more black shadows lunged out. All of them had the enlarged forms of Void Imps.

Several Apex Realms crashed down upon Lin Xin in suppression.

The control of two Apex Realms collided, creating a massive shock.

The impact made blood flow from his nose and mouth, forcing him to retreat wildly.

The layered suppression of several Level Three Void Apex Realms directly exceeded the Level Three threshold in strength and entered the Spirit Realm.

This is an assassination attempt aimed at me!

Lin Xin understood at once. His twin swords danced wildly, and countless waves of sword light continuously spread out from him in all directions.

He suddenly charged forward, driving the sea of sword light forward with him.

Screech screech screech!!

Several Tier Five Void Demon Generals failed to dodge in time and were directly submerged and slain, shredded into countless scraps of flesh that fell below.

This assassination attempt was considered a failure. The Void Demon Generals behind them also seemed to have no intention of making another move.

Instead, they continued driving the surrounding Void Demon Spirits and Elephant Trunk Turtles toward Lin Xin.

One shichen passed, then two, then four...

One day passed, then two days.

Lin Xin's movements finally began to slow gradually.

He tried to break out, but every time he attempted to return to the fortress, Void Demon Generals would emerge to block him, forcibly driving him back.

His True Force had already been completely exhausted. Now, he was relying almost entirely on the attributes of his physical body.

Fortunately, with more than eight thousand points of constitution, his recovery speed was terrifying. It was only slightly slower than his rate of consumption.

Day after day passed, and the Void Demon Spirits seemed to have no end.

Lin Xin could no longer remember how many demon spirits he had killed. One million? Two million?

At first, the demon spirits charged forward one after another without fear, but later they began surrounding him without attacking, launching all kinds of ambushes and forcing him to keep moving.

The farther it went, the harder they became to kill.

He tried to break out downward, but more than a dozen Tier Five Demon Generals still blocked him and forced him back.

The scale of this Void Legion was simply enough to drive one to despair!

Lin Xin guessed that this was probably an enormous battle group formed by the merger of many legions.

Fortunately, from his perception, the Dao soldiers under his command had instead turned more and more demon spirits because he had drawn away the main force.

They could now maintain several thousand Void Demon Spirits.

"The situation is improving. As long as I hold on here..."

Just as this thought turned in Lin Xin's mind—

Screech!

He suddenly felt a sharp pain in his throat.

A black, razor-sharp blade viciously pierced in through the back of his neck and emerged from the front of his throat.

Awooo!!

A violent, low roar spread from behind him.

Lin Xin's body stiffened.

"It actually... broke through my evasion... my perception."

Screech!

The black blade sliced from the side, directly cutting halfway through Lin Xin's windpipe.

Blood gushed out like a fountain, but immediately flowed back in again. This was the terror of more than eight thousand points of attributes.

Screech!

The blade pierced through his chest once more. (To be continued)