Chapter 427: A New Body

“Kid, I admit your talent is truly exceptional, a ‘King’-like existence even in ancient times, and absolutely unparalleled in this era.

However, don’t be too arrogant. In this world, there are many people stronger than you!

In fact, right now, I could kill you.”

Hearing Lin Xun’s provocation, ‘Daoist Ming Lu’ merely chuckled.

He did indeed feel a great pity for the death of his clansman.

But that was all.

Dead is just dead.

For their kind of race, there is no such thing as kinship or camaraderie.

In fact, at certain times, they would even devour each other.

What he wanted now was Lin Xun’s young and robust body.

However, ‘Daoist Ming Lu’ harbored a certain degree of wariness towards Lin Xun.

Because from Daoist Ming Lu’s original memories, he knew Lin Xun was at the Spirit Refining Realm when he left the Ten Thousand Demon Sect.

As for what Realm this Lin Xun was at now, he wasn’t entirely sure.

“Lin Xun, submit to me.”

The possessed Daoist Ming Lu stretched out his hand towards Lin Xun.

“As long as you submit to me, submit to our Heavenly Demon race, we will surely help you attain that final Realm!

By then, even our Master will treat you with courtesy.

The entire world will be ours!”

Daoist Ming Lu’s tone sounded extremely sincere.

It truly had that feeling of ‘thirsting for talent.’

But

Lin Xun simply raised the long spear in his hand towards the other.

A surge of Spear Qi pierced through his shoulder.

Originally, Lin Xun had aimed for his heart.

But the other reacted quickly, slightly twisting his body!

Looking at the bloody hole in his shoulder, sensing this familiar Spear Intent, and then gazing at the black long spear in Lin Xun’s hand.

Daoist Ming Lu’s pupils constricted!

This is!

The demon spear an sha!

Lin Xun didn’t waste any more words on him.

In an instant, Lin Xun, spear in hand, had already appeared before him.

Lin Xun swung his spear.

Daoist Ming Lu dodged.

However, the sky behind Daoist Ming Lu was now marked by a line drawn in the heavens, condensed from Spear Qi.

Daoist Ming Lu retreated, cold sweat already beading on his forehead.

Although it was only two Moves, he could fully sense it.

Both Moves were aimed at taking his life!

In other words, this Lin Xun held no regard for any past Master-Disciple bond; he genuinely wanted to kill him, along with the Old fellow whose body he had possessed.

Daoist Ming Lu couldn’t help but curse inwardly.

Because this was different from what he had anticipated.

In this Old Man’s memories, their Master-Disciple relationship was very good.

So this Blood Demon thought he could use this Old Man’s body to coerce the other, at least forcing him to hold back and not fight with his full strength.

And in a situation where their Realms were similar and their strength comparable,

even the slightest worry could be fatal.

But what he didn’t expect was

that this Lin Xun seemed not to care at all about his Master’s life or death!

Not giving the Blood Demon much time to catch his breath, Lin Xun thrust his spear again.

A black Spear Qi, like a black dragon, charged fiercely towards the Blood Demon!

The Blood Demon focused his spirit and condensed his Qi, erecting layers of Bloody Raksha Gates before him.

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”

The black dragon crashed against the layers of Bloody Raksha Gates.

Just as the last Raksha Gate was about to be pierced by the black dragon, the Spear Qi-formed black dragon completely dissipated.

Above Lin Xun’s head, a blood-red Sky-Overturning Seal descended directly upon him!

However, just as the blood-red Sky-Overturning Seal was about to touch Lin Xun, it shattered into pieces.

Lin Xun thrust his spear once more, forcing him tens of thousands of meters high into the sky.

Above the firmament, violent surges of spiritual power clashed together.

Fierce winds swept through the Ten Thousand Demon Sect.

Some Cultivators with low Realms had already completely fainted by this point.

She Qiqi, Su Ying, and others looked up; even with spiritual power concentrated in their eyes, they couldn’t see what was happening high in the sky.

The spiritual power there was far too chaotic, completely blocking their vision.

All they could see were red and black spiritual powers constantly clashing together.

In the sky, red and black intertwined, making the entire sky appear bizarrely strange.

During the exchange, this Blood Demon had already detected that Lin Xun bore significant injuries.

Moreover, his Realm was damaged; the Dao Rhyme swirling and entangling around him was definitely not at the Spirit Refining Realm level.

But it was higher than the Ascension Realm.

This Lin Xun was in a state of being neither here nor there.

However,

even though Lin Xun was in this indeterminate state,

even though his own Realm was higher than Lin Xun’s,

this Blood Demon found he simply had no way to defeat him.

In the Blood Demon’s view, the fact that he had occupied this Old fellow’s body for too short a time and hadn’t fully fused with it was one problem.

Then, too much time had passed since ancient times, and the Laws of Heaven and Earth had subtly changed, which was another problem.

In short,

this Blood Demon was gradually falling into a disadvantage.

And the other side was practically fighting like a maniac.

Every Move, every stance Lin Xun made was a life-risking gamble!

The Blood Demon even suspected his opponent had come with the mindset of perishing together with him.

If this were ancient times,

then this Blood Demon wouldn’t mind trading his life for Lin Xun’s.

He was originally a warrior! Dying in the pursuit of hegemony would be a worthy death!

But now,

having barely managed to temporarily escape the Seal,

for his Master’s resurrection,

for his race’s hegemony,

this Blood Demon knew he could not die.

Otherwise, if he died now, he would likely become an eternal sinner within his race!

Leave! He must leave this place!

“Lin Xun, is it?! I’ll remember you! When the day our Master descends, I will come for you!”

Putting distance between them, the already battered and bruised ‘Daoist Ming Lu’ glared viciously at Lin Xun.

“No, that day will never come!”

Lin Xun took a deep breath.

In an instant, the heavens and earth changed color.

Everything in the world seemed to stop flowing.

Just like the Move She Qiqi had used before, everyone found they couldn’t Move at all.

But it was also different from She Qiqi’s Move.

With She Qiqi’s Move, at least their Divine Sense could still function!

But with Lin Xun’s Move, everyone’s Divine Sense came to a halt.

Everything in the Ten Thousand Demon Sect seemed to have truly stopped.

A trickle of blood spilled from the corner of Lin Xun’s mouth.

Given his current condition, forcing Lin Xun to use this Move placed an immense, immense burden on his body!

After this Move, either Lin Xun would die, or he would!

Lin Xun stepped forward, spear in hand, arriving before him.

And just as Lin Xun was about to thrust his spear through his heart,

red Blood Qi instantly erupted from the Old Man’s body.

Although the Blood Demon’s Divine Sense had stopped flowing, the Spirit Refining Realm’s instinctive warning of danger allowed him to make a swift decision.

Even though the Blood Demon was extremely unwilling to abandon this Spirit Refining Realm body.

If he had such a Spirit Refining Realm body, in this era of thin spiritual energy, he would be an absolute ruler.

Then, controlling these lowly commoners to do his bidding and resurrecting his Master would be a piece of cake, wouldn’t it?

But he never expected to encounter such a person.

Could it truly be the subtle balancing of the Great Dao?

For his race’s eternal hegemony, for his Master’s resurrection,

the Blood Demon forcibly separated his Divine Soul from this Old Man.

Doing this would cause significant damage to his Divine Soul, but there was no other choice!

He could not die here!

When the blood-red aura completely left Daoist Ming Lu’s body, the tip of Lin Xun’s spear just touched Daoist Ming Lu’s chest.

The spear tip slightly pierced Daoist Ming Lu’s skin, drawing blood.

“Damn it!”

The Blood Demon looked up and realized he had been tricked!

A Move carrying the might of heaven and earth like this was basically impossible to retract at the last moment.

Unless the opponent never intended to thrust the spear down in the first place!

In other words, Lin Xun’s original goal was to force him out of his Master’s body.

He simply couldn’t bring himself to kill his Master.

This just meant that Lin Xun’s earlier desperate Moves, one after another, had made him believe Lin Xun truly intended to uphold justice at the expense of kinship!

At the final step, he had no room for further thought.

In this psychological game, he had lost!

Without further hesitation, the Blood Demon burrowed into the body of Blood Cliff, who lay on the ground, already dead beyond dead.

When the Blood Demon completely invaded Blood Cliff’s body,

Blood Cliff’s body recovered at a visible rate.

After this Move, Lin Xun no longer had the strength to make another spear thrust.

Everything in the Ten Thousand Demon Sect resumed its flow.

The Blood Demon knew that Lin Xun was now completely at his mercy.

This was the best opportunity to eliminate this major threat!

But his Divine Soul was still injured, his Realm had already fallen to the Immortal Realm, and on top of that, this Old Man’s body was in terrible shape.

Without the slightest hesitation, the Blood Demon opened a bloody portal and directly entered the Void within.

She Qiqi instinctively wanted to give chase.

For uncertain things, She Qiqi’s strategy was either to figure them out or eliminate them.

But just as She Qiqi was about to step forward, Su Ying grabbed the young woman beside her and shook her head.

When an Immortal Realm Cultivator wants to flee, they are extremely difficult to stop.

It would be a futile effort for She Qiqi to go.

Not to mention, if the other had any hidden cards left, it could become very troublesome!

Lin Xun in the air confirmed that the danger had completely passed.

His tense mind relaxed.

With his spiritual power exhausted, Lin Xun, along with Daoist Ming Lu, fell freely from the sky.

Just as Su Ying and the others were about to catch Lin Xun, a female Disciple from the Magic Zither Hall had already flown up and caught Lin Xun in her arms.

As for Daoist Ming Lu, if an Elder hadn’t acted in time, Daoist Lu Ming would likely have been crippled from falling ten thousand meters.

“Throw all the rebels into the Shadow Prison! I will deal with them later!

Anyone who dares resist will be executed on the spot.”

“Yes!”

After Su Ying gave the order, the Death Warriors beside her scattered, joining her supporters to clean up the remaining remnants.

At this point, those rebels had all given up resistance.

Although the likelihood of being executed was extremely high, resisting now meant certain death.

Having torn through the Void, the Blood Demon occupying Blood Cliff’s body was already tens of thousands of miles away from the Ten Thousand Demon Sect.

“Lin Xun!”

The Blood Demon clutched his chest, gritting his teeth as he spat out Lin Xun’s name, looking as if he wished he could tear Lin Xun to pieces!

“No rush, no rush.”

The Blood Demon took a deep breath.

“The chance for revenge will come! It will come!”

The Blood Demon gradually calmed down.

Now his Divine Soul was damaged, and the Old Man’s body he occupied was also broken beyond repair, already incapable of cultivation.

Even if he used his Origin power, he couldn’t mend this body.

Not only that, but his current identity would definitely be hunted by the Ten Thousand Demon Sect, making it impossible to do anything.

“I must find a new body.”

The Blood Demon clenched his fist.

He had to find a new body, completely fuse with it, and then begin cultivating again.

But how could he find a body with decent innate talent?

The Blood Demon didn’t need top-tier, one-in-ten-thousand talent.

That kind of talent usually belonged to core Disciples of major Sects.

He couldn’t possibly just run into one.

A moderately good talent would be best.

For the rest, he could modify the body himself.

The Blood Demon planned to visit a nearby minor Sect to see if he could possess a Disciple, or better yet, possess their Sect Master.

“Immortal, is the Immortal Mountain still far from here?”

Just as the Blood Demon was about to get up, a rather young boy’s voice came from not far away.

“Not too far. Once we cross this mountain, we’ll be almost there.” The Old Man’s voice was very kind.

“Oh.” The Little boy nodded, seeming to understand yet not fully.

At that moment, the Little boy sniffed:

“Immortal, do you smell something strange?”

“A strange smell?”

“Mm-hmm.” The Little boy nodded. “Like the smell of rust.”

“I don’t think so.” The Old Man, whom the boy called Immortal, patted his head.

This Old Man came from a relatively small Sect nearby and had gone to the Mortal World to subdue demons and monsters.

Unexpectedly, on the way back, he had encountered a Disciple with quite good talent.

In the Old Man’s view, this Disciple of his could at least reach the Nascent Soul Realm.

A Nascent Soul Realm Cultivator would be enough to elevate his small, insignificant Sect into one worthy of being called an ‘Immortal Sect.’

Just then, a wind swept through the mountains, and it really did seem to carry a rusty smell.

Moreover, the Old Man always felt as if something was behind him.

The Old Man, holding the Little boy’s hand, turned around and saw an Old Man about his own age:

“Fellow Daoist, is there something you need?”

Sensing something amiss, the Old Man pulled the Little boy behind him.

But the other didn’t speak, only smiling sinisterly.

Gradually, Blood Qi emanated from the Old Man’s body!

It coalesced into a ghostly face.

“Ahhh!!!”

A scream echoed through the mountain forest, startling birds into flight.