"Time is an ocean, reincarnation a woven tapestry, the years a flying shuttle! Bury heaven and earth, throw reincarnation into chaos!"
The endless void around Lin Yue began to thicken, leaving him feeling as though he had sunk into a swamp. Then the Extreme Dao golden light radiating from his body slowly faded, devoured by the power of time!
"What an uncanny power. It means to grind a man alive into dust!"
Lin Yue dared not be careless. The Black-Gold Long Sword in his hand was slowly fading, being worn out of existence. Even with the martial dao divine infant shutting everything out, he dared not drag this out.
He clenched his left hand into a fist and drove it toward Chi Xie.
The endless power of time carried a terrifying erosive force that devoured the power of Lin Yue's punch. Like a mass of vines, it dragged at him, slowing his movements and preventing him from advancing!
"Hahaha, it's useless, Lin Yue! Let yourself be slowly ground out of existence!" Chi Xie laughed wildly!
"Martial dao divine infant, suppress it!"
With Lin Yue's furious roar, the divine universes within his body thundered. The martial dao divine infant emerged from them behind him, like a Dharma Form breaking free of heaven and earth. A black phantom and a white phantom flanked the golden figure, guarding it.
The three Dharma Forms suppressed the past, present, and future of this stretch of heaven and earth, ignoring the encroachment of the years!
"Hmph! Die! This punch is called Heavenly Slaughter!"
Lin Yue unleashed his punch, Unaffected by All Laws. Through the transformation of yin and yang, his undying divinity became a power capable of destroying everything. All things existed within yin and yang; in this instant, that which could never be destroyed could also become that which destroyed all things.
The punch broke through the blockade of time's power, crushing everything in its path as it descended directly upon Chi Xie's chest!
"Damn it! Impossible! It's not the world tree, so what the hell is it? Lin Yue! What uncanny ancient seed did you fuse with?"
Chi Xie panicked, his voice breaking and his courage shattering.
His opponent was simply too uncanny. No law could touch his body, no passing years could weigh upon it, and time could not seal it! How could such a person exist?
"Take your questions with you into reincarnation!"
The Great Dao thundered, and even the stars were shaken loose amid the surging waves.
Blood rained across the sky, and mournful songs rose from every direction. The Great Dao of heaven and earth mourned the fall of a peerless master!
Under Lin Yue's Heavenly Slaughter punch, Chi Xie burst apart, leaving not even a scrap of bone behind!
"Excellent!"
"Excellent!"
On the Nine Heavens' side, both the watching invincible experts and those still fighting cried out when they saw such a peerless enemy master slain.
An invincible expert! This was no stray cat or dog, but one of the mightiest beings below the Immortal Dao domain. Without an Immortal Dao expert appearing, who could contend with one? Even battles between invincible experts could not be decided quickly-weren't the others still fighting right now? And now one of the enemy's had actually been slain. The boost to morale was immeasurable!
A young man stood beneath the sky, his lustrous black hair dancing in the air! He still held half a broken sword in his hand, and his entire being radiated an invincible presence!
This was an invincible expert-invincible within the Human Dao!
"Damn it! How could this happen? Chi Xie actually lost!"
"A very uncanny man. His might is considerable, but he hasn't truly entered the ranks of the invincible experts yet! Such power, at such an age-is he another Wuzhong? We must find a way to strangle this threat in its cradle!"
Chapter 25: The curtain falls
As Lin Yue descended from the heavens, he looked utterly bedraggled, yet no one dared meet his eyes beneath that invincible presence bearing down upon the universe.
The entire Nine Heavens side erupted!
"It's Lord Lin Yue!"
Only when the time domain shattered had everyone seen Lin Yue's figure! They had stood dazed, unable to believe their eyes. Not until he landed before them now did they finally know that he really had won!
Four peerless Emperor Clan members, including an invincible expert who rivaled the Extreme Dao! One man had actually crushed them all!
"Lord Lin Yue won? Hahaha! I knew these Foreign Realm bastards were nothing special. There was never anything to fear! Look, so what if there were four peerless Emperor Clan members? They were still slaughtered without a scrap of armor left!"
"Hey, hey, hey! Weren't you the one who said we'd have to go carry him back?"
"How could that be? You must have seen wrong. I swear to heaven, I've always believed Lord Lin Yue was invincible in this age! He has the makings of a king!"
Unlike the Nine Heavens side, the Foreign Realm's people fell silent. They were afraid, retreating slightly beneath Lin Yue's dark gaze and even beginning to doubt their own people!
Four peerless Emperor Clan members on their side had surrounded a single man, only to be cut to pieces. Even their strongest fighter had been obliterated after revealing invincible power. No one could accept this. Had Lin Yue lost, the Nine Heavens side would have felt the same!
Their opponent was far too powerful for anyone to even think of opposing him. He had truly slaughtered them until no one dared proclaim themselves supreme before him!
Just then, two streaks of divine radiance descended once more. The Heavenly Horned Ant siblings returned in shattered battle armor, likewise carrying the momentum of a great victory!
Facing several Emperor Clan members from the Foreign Realm, they too had sublimated their power and broken past their limits to slay their opponents, displaying the Heavenly Horned Ants' invincibility among those of the same realm!
Deathly silence. Utter, deathly silence!
"Damn it! The army has lost its heart! Retreat!"
Above the heavens, an Immortal from the Foreign Realm spoke, ordering a withdrawal! They had no choice. All the Emperor Clan members who could reach this battlefield had been slaughtered. With no one left to hold those three back, the strength they had displayed would turn this into a massacre of anyone outside the ranks of the invincible experts!
Horns sounded one after another, and the Foreign Realm's army began to retreat. The people of the Nine Heavens had wanted to celebrate, but seeing war raging across the entire great realm and smoke rising everywhere, they too lowered their heads in silence!
They had won, but what had they really won?
"Lord Lin Yue!"
Feng Yi approached with the great banner over his shoulder, addressing Lin Yue as his lord! The Heavenly Horned Ant Clan had also been dazzling beyond compare.
But they still fell a little short of Lin Yue. He was a peerless prodigy who could slaughter invincible experts, enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with Immortal King Wuzhong, the Reincarnation Immortal King, and the other Immortal King giants in their youth! His talent surpassed even that of the Heavenly Horned Ant Clan! No wonder the siblings deferred to him!
"Senior!"
Feng Yi said, "We won. Though it wasn't a complete victory, we shouldn't be like this! Come! Pass the victory on!"
Lin Yue looked toward the Heavenly Horned Ant siblings, and they nodded. This was only right: the person with the most glorious achievements on the battlefield should wave the banner of victory!
Quite a few invincible experts were still guarding the rear. They now slowly approached as well, intending to greet Lin Yue.
He was the future standard-bearer of the Nine Heavens, someone who would speak for it in the years to come. Even now, how many could slaughter an invincible expert from the Foreign Realm?
Lin Yue took the battle banner and looked toward the people of the Nine Heavens. Everyone raised their heads to look at him!
We won, didn't we? Though we didn't win everything, we have Lord Lin Yue, don't we? We can keep winning. As long as we follow in Lord Lin Yue's footsteps, we can drive the invaders out!
At that moment, something called faith began to spread!
"Everyone!"
Lin Yue called out loudly!
"Follow me home in triumph!"
"Oh...!"
The vast army followed the battle banner on its triumphant march home!
At the head of the procession, Lin Yue watched the attacks that still flashed through the heavens from time to time, then turned to Feng Yi beside him. "Senior!"
"Lord Lin Yue!" Feng Yi answered with great respect!
"There's no need for that. 'Lin boy' sounds much better!"
"Hehe! Then I'll take the liberty of calling you my younger brother!"
"Brother Lin!"
"Brother Feng!"
Feng Yi said, "Are you wondering why those lords are still fighting when we've all withdrawn?"
"Uh..."
Feng Yi said, "To prevent sneak attacks. We can't let the enemy's powerful experts stop fighting, or those beasts will certainly launch a sneak attack, given their nature. Once we're back, they'll stop if they can't settle the fight quickly! Not everyone can slaughter invincible experts like you. Those battles take a long time!"
Lin Yue said, "So that's how it is!"
"Hehe! Surely you don't think everyone can kill invincible experts as easily as slaughtering dogs, like you?" Yu said from the side!
Yan said, "Invincible experts are already immensely powerful. Unless an Immortal Dao expert appears, they reign supreme. That's the peak of the human dao domain. Everyone knows our clan grows stronger the further we advance, but if we faced an invincible expert now, we'd probably die! Perhaps only someone like you could do it, just like Immortal King Wuzhong and the others back then!"
"You flatter me! Hehe!"
"It's no flattery! You truly are remarkable, Lord Lin Yue!"
Yang Zhong spoke up from beside them as well. Only after following Yan onto the battlefield today had he understood why Lin Yue could command the world-shaking Heavenly Horned Ant Clan!
He was simply too powerful! First, he had killed the Foreign Realm's One with the Dao Supremes as easily as chickens, almost one with every strike of his sword. Then those pinnacle figures with half a foot in the Extreme Dao had likewise been slaughtered until their courage broke. Finally, even against the Emperor Clan members, he had achieved an utterly crushing victory. He had grown stronger step by step in battle, ultimately sublimating his power to its utmost and displaying the strength of an invincible expert to annihilate four peerless foes! He was simply too dazzling! Rumor had it that only Immortal King Wuzhong and the others had shown such brilliance in their youth!
That was an invincible expert! An invincible expert from the Foreign Realm whom even the Nine Heavens' own invincible experts would not lightly claim they could defeat had been slaughtered. It was too shocking. Even now, thinking about it felt unreal. And given Lin Yue's age, what would he become in the future?
Just look at the invincible experts following behind Lin Yue now, faintly treating him as their leader.
As the procession advanced, the frontline border city slowly came into view. It was an enormous fortified city temporarily formed by Immortal Dao figures through a supreme, heaven-defying ancient method. It stretched across the battlefield for an unknown distance; even with Lin Yue's current strength, he could not see its end.
Triumphant horns rang out one after another. Countless figures watched from the walls and sent people out to welcome them. They had already heard news of this victory, but they could not believe it and were still seeking confirmation. Such a victory had not happened in so long!
As invincible experts and Immortal Dao masters slowly returned one after another, everyone knew the Foreign Realm really had suffered a tremendous loss this time. Cheers spread throughout the border city!
At night, divine flames reached into the sky within the border city, making it as bright as day! How could they not celebrate such a victory?
"Come, come, everyone! This is the greatest contributor to our Nine Heavens' victory, Lin Yue of the Longevity Lin Family! In a single battle, he slaughtered the Foreign Realm's Emperor Clan members until their ranks withered and no one dared proclaim themselves supreme. He even killed an invincible expert!"
"Incredible, truly unbelievable! Lord Lin Yue is only in his twenties, isn't he?"
"What? Lord Lin Yue is only in his twenties? Surely not? I remember there's a supreme shackle upon becoming an Extreme Dao invincible expert. It doesn't allow beings under five hundred years old to break through!"
Someone cried out in shock, then lowered their head to whisper!
"You don't understand. Lord Lin Yue is an Immortal King reincarnated. He drove the enemy back with supreme divine abilities!"
"Yes, yes! He actually killed an invincible expert from the Foreign Realm! What a boost to morale!"
"Come, come, Lin boy. This is a jewel of our Feng Family. You young people should get to know one another!" Beaming, Feng Yi approached with one of his clan's cherished young women. His intentions were very simple!
She was a peerless beauty, with skin like white frost, eyes like luminous pearls, and a stunning figure! Her cultivation had already entered the Void Dao Realm, and she had fused with a rarely seen wind seed! In the future, she would surely become a divinely gifted master!
"Lord Lin Yue!"
Unlike ordinary young women, she showed no shyness, greeting Lin Yue with poised grace!
"Excellent! Your talent knows no bounds. You will surely become a peerless master in the future!"
After a round of praise, Lin Yue ran out of things to say and froze on the spot!
"Um... enjoy the food and drink!"
"Hahaha...!" The assembled prodigies and the young woman burst into laughter at Lin Yue's embarrassed expression.
The mighty expert who had displayed such invincible power on the battlefield was actually a complete novice in romance!
Quite a few women's eyes shone. They had thought this fine flower already had an owner, only to discover he was still unclaimed!
Afterward, quite a few women made their moves, intending to win Lord Lin Yue over. Many elders from their clans also wanted to bring about a match. Lin Yue's talent knew no bounds, and they hoped he could leave descendants!
As they watched Lin Yue being chased all over the place, laughter filled the border city!
Chapter 26: Departure
After everyone's celebrations drew to a close, an old man came to find Lin Yue with two guards!
"Lord Lin Yue, several lords have summoned you!"
Seeing the old man's respectful manner, Lin Yue dared not be negligent. "Thank you for coming especially to tell me, Senior! I'll set off right away!"
"I wouldn't dare!"
The old man hurriedly replied. Though he himself was a Supreme of the Escape One Realm, he knew what the person before him represented: a future voice of the Nine Heavens! Countless eyes were watching this place!
Moreover, Lin Yue could slay even invincible experts. Such might was rare even among those at the peak of the human dao domain! He dared not put on airs!
At that moment, Yan and his elder sister Yu also walked over!
"What is it, Lin Yue?"
Lin Yue said, "The lords at the Divine Altar have summoned me!"
"I see!"
When the old man saw the Heavenly Horned Ant siblings, his expression was equally respectful. Their clan was the glory of the Nine Heavens, with countless military achievements to its name.
Though their accomplishments could not compare with Lin Yue's, the two had likewise slain countless enemies this time and exterminated Emperor Clan members from the Foreign Realm, displaying their invincibility among those of the same realm! In the end, Lin Yue was simply too dazzling. Before even entering the Extreme Dao domain, he had slaughtered an invincible expert!
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