"Spirit-Slaying Sword Intent!"
"Peerless!"
Once his dharma power had gathered to its utmost limit, Lin Mo roared, unleashing a sweeping arc of pure white sword qi.
The sword qi passed through the female corpse, cleaving her in two at the waist.
Only then was the female corpse freed from her restraints. Her two bloody halves fell to the ground with a thud, and countless blood-red maggots crawled out of the mangled cross sections.
But before long, the corpse melted along with the maggots, turning into black mist that dispersed completely in an instant.
After slaying the female corpse, Lin Mo leaped down from midair. His expression tense and grave, he cradled the unconscious Xue Qingcheng in his arms and examined the wound on her abdomen.
"Thankfully, her injury isn't too serious. She only fainted because she lost too much yin energy."
"After taking a stalk of yin baleful grass and resting for a while, she should be fine."
Lin Mo took out a stalk of yin baleful grass and fed it to Xue Qingcheng.
Only then did Gongsun Fu, Hai Beier, and Xuanyuan Ziyan approach in a daze. "Young Master Lin, what exactly happened?" they asked in astonishment.
"Weren't you already..."
"That's right. I really did die just now. I even saw what the world of the dead looked like."
Lin Mo pointed at the lotus pendant around his neck and said with a faint smile, "But this brought me back from there."
"This is..."
The three women stared in bewilderment. Lin Mo explained, "This is the Nirvana Chain that a sage on the Dry Jade Continent gave me back then."
"It originated with Sixth Patriarch Huineng, a patriarch of the Buddha Realm in the middle plane. It holds the power of his boundless benevolence, love, mercy, and compassion. Once