Vol 6 Chapter 63: One Arm
Demon Emperor Tianchou crashed into a sea area on this planet, instantly causing heaven and earth to shake as the seawater evaporated in an instant. The high temperature brought by the terrifying impact force caused vast stretches of ocean to disappear immediately.
Lin Jing descended right after her, but before he could continue his attack, Demon Emperor Tianchou launched a counterattack, returning the favor with a piercing strike of her own.
"Your sword intent still has too many weaknesses."
"It seems you haven't devoted all your energy to the sword path during these thousand years."
"Divine Beast Guardian!" Lin Jing crossed his twin swords before him, his sword intent rising to form a majestic qilin phantom. With a thunderous roar, he forcefully received this attack, yet unlike Demon Emperor Tianchou earlier, Lin Jing's body remained completely unmoved.
However, in the next instant, a sword mark appeared on Lin Jing's face, from which blood began to flow.
Exploiting the flaws in Lin Jing's sword intent, Demon Emperor Tianchou successfully broke through minute gaps and managed to injure him.
What surprised Demon Emperor Tianchou though was that while it was only a wisp of sword intent, it should have been enough to kill an ordinary Dao Seeker. Yet such an attack... had only left a mere scratch on Lin Jing's face.
This physical defense... was practically approaching that of an immortal.Lin Jing also noticed he had been injured and casually wiped the wound, allowing it to heal. It seemed he was still too unfamiliar with this state, mainly because this condition basically prevented extensive practice.
After all, once entering this state, he was burning through his lifespan every moment, consuming resources at an extreme rate!
But now, fighting against Demon Emperor Tianchou, he had no choice but to maintain this state continuously. Actually, for Lin Jing, this precisely provided an opportunity to grow rapidly through combat.
Lin Jing had a premonition that if they continued fighting, within a few days he would be able to eliminate Tianchou!
Without further unnecessary words, in the next instant both sides clashed again. Behind Demon Emperor Tianchou in the air, eight additional arms appeared that seemed to possess their own consciousness, each holding inferior demon swords. As she swung her own sword, these eight arms swung theirs simultaneously, their sword trajectories almost perfectly overlapping.
Eight-Armed Heavenly Demon Sword Path!
On Lin Jing's side, he also brandished his twin swords, the powerful sword pressure directly generating tornado-like flame currents that resembled a pill furnace devouring everything.
BOOM!!!
The collision of these two terrifying sword techniques instantly created a massive void in the area, like a vortex that swallowed everything, drawing all surrounding debris into its depths.
By the time this realm's powerful experts arrived at the scene, Demon Emperor Tianchou and Lin Jing had already disappeared. Gazing at the shocking void before them, one Dao Seeker expert after another broke out in cold sweat.
"Two supreme experts were fighting... and it affected this place."
"But fortunately, they've left."
"No, it's not over. This void... shows no sign of shrinking. If this continues, everything on this planet will be drawn into the void."
"What should we do? Let's try to seal it together!"
But now, fighting against Demon Emperor Tianchou, he had no choice but to maintain this state continuously. Actually, for Lin Jing, this precisely provided an opportunity to grow rapidly through combat.
One month later.
Somewhere in the star realm.
Demon Emperor Tianchou and the cultivator were still locked in combat. During this period, their battles had unknowingly affected countless worlds. Even a mere wisp of their sword intent leaking out was enough to deal devastating damage to the boundary walls of an ordinary cultivation planet.
The situation with Demon Emperor Tianchou puzzled Lin Jing quite a bit. Her progress speed was too fast - from initially being suppressed, she had gradually adapted to fighting him.
Even though Lin Jing was also rapidly adapting to this supremely powerful state at the cost of his lifespan, growing stronger every moment, Demon Emperor Tianchou stubbornly kept pace, never letting go.
The gap between them hadn't widened; instead, it was narrowing!!
After a month of this, even with the Star Longevity Crane slowing Lin Jing's consumption, his lifespan had already burned through half of his total lifespan.
With such combat intensity, Lin Jing could only sustain this for one more month at most, far exceeding his initial predictions.
In terms of combat power, the two still couldn't pull significantly apart, but fortunately the scales of battle were indeed slowly tilting in Lin Jing's favor.
Injuries.
Although Demon Emperor Tianchou was also growing rapidly, her initial power had always been slightly inferior to Lin Jing's. This resulted in Lin Jing merely suffering from excessive consumption, while Demon Emperor Tianchou, under the same spiritual power expenditure, was exchanging her own condition for transformations born from near-death experiences.
Her body had accumulated who knows how many sword wounds, and six of the eight heavenly demon arms outside her body had already been annihilated by Lin Jing. Even one of her own arms had been lost somewhere in the star realm, its location unknown.
"Even in this situation, you still won't admit defeat. Compared to that Blood Prison Demon God, you have much more backbone."
Lin Jing panted heavily. Back then, when Blood Prison Demon God faced certain death, he immediately begged for mercy and sought peace. Demon Emperor Tianchou's current situation wasn't much different - her primordial spirit had already been cut open by one-third. If this continued, she would reach her limit and die within days, not even a month.
Yet, her fighting spirit remained undiminished, with no intention of stopping the battle. Unlike Blood Prison Demon God, she probably hadn't cultivated any life-preservation techniques, instead pouring all her energy into the sword path. Through their exchanges, Lin Jing could sense this was exactly the kind of person she was.
"I've changed my mind."
"For other disciples, I only take their arms. But for you... I've never performed soul usurpation on anyone before. My current body can no longer be used. If it's you, you could indeed become my new vessel." Demon Emperor Tianchou licked her lips, having never been so fond of an opponent before, especially when the other's sword carried faint traces of her own shadow.
"Go sit at the same table as Sheng Kun!" Lin Jing snorted coldly. This pervert actually wanted to possess a man's body too.
The two combatants clashed once more, having reached a point where neither would yield to the other.
.............
Meanwhile.
In the Immortal Realm.
At the Heavenly Demon Sect.
The Heavenly Demon Sect's Demon Lord had nine descendants, known as the Nine Heavenly Demon Children.
Among them was one daughter who specialized in the sword path, having reached the Immortal King realm. In her immortal manor, she awoke from a seclusion that had lasted several thousand years, revealing a surprised expression.
A top-grade immortal sword floated nearby, its sword spirit inquiring: "Master, it's not yet time to emerge from seclusion."
"How interesting. That clone I sent to the Lower Realm - the one that doesn't inherit memories, only part of my sword talent - seems to be dying."
"What!!!" The sword spirit was shocked, looking at its master in disbelief. "Master, you can't be mistaken. That clone of yours, if allowed to grow, would inevitably surpass even those so-called Six Great Demon Generals in the Lower Realm. Who could possibly have the ability to..."
"I don't know. Never mind, it's unimportant. Let my other siblings deal with the headache."
On the Pangu Continent.
At the Cultivation Alliance.
In the Hall of All Realms.
This was one of the residences of the Fishing Elder, one of the Cultivation Alliance's leaders. Currently, the old man was quite elegantly fishing across the realms using a superior-grade immortal artifact as his fishing rod. Through this fishing pole, he often hooked many treasures. For instance, Li Tianyi with his Chaotic Immortal Physique was someone he accidentally fished up, thus allowing the Cultivation Alliance to early obtain a prodigy with the potential to become an alliance leader.
On this day, the Fishing Elder suddenly frowned and quickly reeled in his line. Immediately afterwards, he hooked up an arm that had been recently severed, still emanating sword intent powerful enough to injure even vice-alliance leader level experts.
Seeing this arm, the Fishing Elder was greatly shocked, instantly recognizing the sword intent upon it.