Why act like a villain in front of me?
[Ziwei: Boss Zhenwu, I want to stay in your room. We can only protect each other if we stay together!] [Zhenwu: I refuse.]
Lin Tian felt rather troubled. There seemed to be no way at all to disable these Extreme Realm messages.
When he got the chance, he would definitely drag Ziwei over and give him a thorough beating.
The man kept pestering him.
Lin Tian looked out the window as rustling sounds reached him.
Sword light flashed, and Lin Tian flew out the window.
Sounds of fighting rang out from every direction.
[Ziwei: Zhenwu, come save me! I've run into an expert!]
Ziwei's message came through his mind again.
Lin Tian's gaze sharpened slightly, and he charged toward Ziwei.
"Heh heh."
An icy voice rang out behind Lin Tian.
A mass of black mist appeared behind him.
The presence of the Void Penetration Realm was suffocating.
"What delectable flesh."
The eerie voice rang out.
Within the black mist, his eyes looked like two bloody holes.
Two iron chains shrouded in black Qi lashed toward Lin Tian.
Lin Tian reached out with one hand and grabbed the chains directly.
Hiss, hiss.
A searing sensation spread as the black Qi began corroding Lin Tian's palm.
The person inside the black mist was startled.
"Doesn't... doesn't that hurt?"
Lin Tian bared his teeth in a savage grin.
"Why act like a villain in front of me?"
He yanked hard.
Roar!
A dragon's cry hummed softly.
Under a tremendous pull of a hundred thousand jin, a gaunt figure was dragged out by Lin Tian.
"No! No!"
The gaunt woman shrieked, her blood-red eyes filled with terror.
Swish!
Sword light flashed, and Lin Tian sliced her head clean off.
"Why do ants always insist on disturbing me?"
Lin Tian sneered and stepped straight over the woman's body.
[Ziwei: Boss Zhenwu, I'm about to die here!]
Ziwei sent another message.
Lin Tian walked across the deck, sounds of fighting coming from several rooms beside him.
"I'm done fighting! I quit! Su Nan, you're on your own!"
A man's voice rang out as one of the people Su Nan had chosen leaped out a window.
After glancing at Lin Tian, he gritted his teeth and jumped over the immortal boat's bulwark.
His entire figure vanished into the sea of clouds.
"Hmph. Boring."
A man's cold snort came from inside the room.
He jumped out the window and looked toward the side of the bulwark as he walked over.
It was a man in black.
He held a jade talisman marked with "one," then crushed it.
Suddenly, the man in black froze and looked at Lin Tian standing nearby.
"Wenren Zhen, you seem to be one of Su Nan's people too."
The man in black spoke, the corners of his eyes filled with disdain and coldness.
He reached toward the room with one hand.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Several black shuttles flew out of the room.
They shot toward Lin Tian.
In an instant, fierce killing intent slammed into Lin Tian.
The black shuttles became dark shadows, but a moment later, they struck empty air.
"All flash and no substance."
Lin Tian spoke indifferently and thrust his sword.
Such terrifying power-this sword thrust had merely struck the air.
The entire space trembled faintly.
Boom!
The man in black was startled, his robes flaring open.
In an instant, more than a dozen black shuttles shot out of his sleeves.
Spiritual Qi linked each black shuttle to the next.
They formed a dark shield.
Bang!
Terrifying Sword Qi struck the dark formation, producing a tremendous explosive roar.
"How is that possible!"
The man was aghast.
This was clearly just a strand of Sword Qi his opponent had casually unleashed.
Why did it possess such power?
"Shadow Array!"
The man in black's eyes widened, and he no longer dared underestimate Lin Tian.
He formed a seal with one hand, and the black shuttles that had missed formed an array, stabbing toward the various fatal points across Lin Tian's body.
"Die!"
The man in black sneered, his eyes filled with venom.
Black Spiritual Qi erupted from the shuttles in an instant.
Pressure bore down on Lin Tian from every direction.
Meanwhile, Lin Tian was slightly surprised.
He flicked his sword upward with a reverse grip, then swung left in a chop.
He stepped left and struck, then swept right.
Azure sword flowers bloomed one after another in his hand.
Accompanied by a ringing sword cry, he unleashed more than a dozen sword moves in an instant.
Clang, clang, clang!
The clash of metal rang across the deck.
The man in black's legs went weak at the sight.
His black shuttles, whose hardness rivaled low-grade earth-tier spiritual artifacts, had actually been cut to pieces by his opponent.
"Run!"
He growled, considering nothing else.
Ten black shuttles instantly struck various points on his body.
They lifted him up and flew toward the outside of the immortal boat.
"Since you're here, don't be in such a hurry to leave."
An icy voice rang out beneath the man in black.
His heart lurched.
He felt something incomparably violent arising below.
He looked down, and his pupils instantly contracted.
Terrifying lightning flickered over Lin Tian's body.
An electrical web of lightning serpents instantly spread across the entire deck.
The next moment, Lin Tian struck with his sword.
Rumble!
Peak Sword Momentum suddenly surged forth.
Accompanied by intertwining, snapping lightning serpents, it struck the man in an instant.
Bang!
Sword Momentum traveled with the lightning, and blue thunder of wrath appeared amid the clouds.
The entire night sky lit up in an instant.
The man's body instantly turned into a cloud of bloody mist.
He had died before he could even react.
"What a pity."
Lin Tian murmured.
He had now killed two people in succession, yet still had not gained an opportunity to advance.
Through this fight, Lin Tian had also discovered his own weakness.
He was too clumsy.
He had no martial technique that could instantly increase his speed.
If he had, he could have killed his enemy in that first instant.
Such a dazzling sword move, yet his own shortcomings prevented it from killing in one blow.
He had to pay attention to this.
In the future, if the opportunity arose.
He absolutely had to obtain a movement martial technique.
Otherwise, Lin Tian would basically become a target in battle.
By now, the sounds of fighting around him had gradually faded.
While Lin Tian had been fighting.
The battles throughout the immortal boat had also reached their fiercest point.
After all, this was a surprise attack.
The enemy certainly wanted to end the fighting within an extremely short time.
He walked to the door of Ziwei's room.
The immortal boat's rooms all used coffin windows.
Although the coffins were made of extraordinary wood, they were largely ornamental and could not withstand much impact.
The walls and deck, on the other hand, were inscribed with protective runes.
These ensured that even if fighting broke out, the hull would not be damaged.
Lin Tian looked into the room through the window.
Ziwei was sitting on the floor against the wall, looking as though he had nothing left to live for.
All the furniture and decorations in the room had been burned to ashes.
A man's corpse had been burned black all over.
Bloody wounds had also appeared across Ziwei's body.
Seeing Lin Tian arrive, Ziwei greeted him feebly.
"Zhen... Boss, that guy nearly took me out just now."
Lin Tian cast an indifferent glance at Ziwei.
Ziwei felt that things were going very badly and stammered:
"I just got a little anxious back there, haha. Don't mind me."
Lin Tian said nothing, the contempt in his heart growing ever stronger.
Just then.
Several figures appeared on the deck.
Three people.
A swordsman who kept his eyes closed, cradling a sword in his arms.
A man wearing armor, with a spear on his back.
The other was Han Xianshu.
These were all retainers Su Nan had invited.
There had originally been ten people.
Now, including Ziwei and Lin Tian, only five remained.
"You two from the Wenren Clan are no ordinary people, just as I thought."
Han Xianshu looked at Lin Tian and Ziwei and said with a smile.
There seemed to be more to her words.
As for the armored man, he gave Lin Tian a long, searching look.
The swordsman with his eyes closed bowed slightly to Lin Tian.
Lin Tian gazed at the sword cultivator with his eyes closed, deep in thought.
Earlier, Lin Tian had sensed a kind of artistic conception that shared the same origin as his own, yet was far more profound and unfathomable.
It had spilled out of this swordsman's room.
Though it had been as fleeting as a night-blooming flower, erupting for only an instant.
As a fellow sword cultivator, however.
Lin Tian had still sensed it in detail.
Sword Intent!
The Sword Intent he had never managed to comprehend.
This sword cultivator with his eyes closed had already comprehended it.
And although Lin Tian could not sense the other man's cultivation very precisely.
He should have been at the Void Penetration Realm Third Stage.
If he truly had to fight this swordsman with his eyes closed.
Lin Tian would not have been daunted.
As for his current trump cards.
He had One Sword to the Ends of the Earth.
The other was the Kui Bull Dharma Idol.
Both could truly help Lin Tian cross realms to kill his opponents.
"Now that this is settled, I have matters to discuss with you all in detail. Please come upstairs."
Su Nan's voice rang out from the third floor.
More than a dozen attendants appeared on the deck.
They went around Lin Tian and the others.
With seemingly no expression whatsoever, they began cleaning up the rooms and bodies.
Together, they arrived outside Su Nan's room.
Two attendants were carrying Uncle Jian's corpse out.
"Holy shit!"
Ziwei jumped in fright.
This mission really was dangerous.
Extreme Realm, you utter bastard!
Ziwei cursed inwardly.
Han Xianshu and the other two showed little reaction.
"I killed Uncle Jian. If my guess is right, Uncle Jian defected to that younger brother of mine long ago."
Su Nan's bitter voice came from inside the room.
"You actually have cultivation?"
"You hid it so well!"
Ziwei exclaimed in shock.
"You never asked me." Su Nan shook his head.