110: Spiritual suppression, killing desire

An extremely subtle, almost soundless grey Sword Light, like the fangs of a viper emerging from nothingness, did not strike the Puppet, but rather precisely and viciously sliced towards the invisible and insubstantial Divine Sense control threads connecting the Puppet and Lin Feng! This sword strike was utterly insidious, aiming to instantly cripple Lin Feng’s “eyes,” turning him blind and plunging him into absolute passivity! The wielder of the sword showed a remarkable understanding and mastery of Divine Sense!

Almost at the same instant, in the brilliant glazed tree grove behind Lin Feng, a violent surge of fire spiritual power erupted! A colossal crimson blade, the size of a door panel, wreathed in blazing dark red purgatory flames, cleaved down with the force of splitting mountains and severing peaks!

Before the blade even arrived, the scorching, violent Qi wave had already ignited the air, charring and melting the colorful soil on the ground, its target directed at Lin Feng’s vital back! This blade strike was powerful and heavy, unmatched in its ferocity, forming a perfectly complementary killing blow with the insidious grey Sword Light!

And this was not all! Just as Lin Feng’s entire attention was drawn to the Soul Severing Sword in front and the Prairie Fire Blade behind, in that flash of lightning, the originally solid and warm colorful soil beneath his feet rippled silently like water! Two short daggers, steeped in dark blue poison and exuding a soul-corroding, bone-eroding aura, like the tail hooks of a poisonous scorpion, silently yet swiftly as lightning, stabbed towards his ankles! This third attacker had been lurking underground all along, waiting for this fatal strike!

The three worked together with extreme synergy! The insidious poisonous sword crippled perception, the fierce fiery blade delivered the main killing blow, and the hidden poisonous daggers cut off retreat, completing the kill! A net of heaven and earth formed in an instant! This was by no means an impromptu robbery, but a meticulously planned killing trap! They had probably been lurking here for a long time, using the three-colored Phoenix-patterned fruit as bait, and had no doubt ambushed countless Cultivators who came seeking treasure!

“I’ve been waiting for you all!”

Faced with this sudden, almost perfect triple killing strike, Lin Feng was startled but not panicked! He had been on guard; although his Divine Sense was suppressed, the powerful spiritual perception cultivated by the Nurturing Spirit Art, as well as his extreme premonition of danger, allowed him to capture that faint Killing Intent in the instant before the opponents launched their attack!

The moment the grey Sword Light appeared, he had already actively severed his Divine Sense connection with the Puppet, rather than being passively cut off! At the same time, he took a deep breath, and the Qi and blood within him erupted like a volcano!

“Bright King Immovable, Purgatory True Body!”

The Ming Wang Purgatory Skill circulated frantically at an unprecedented speed! Dense and intricate dark gold ancient runes instantly appeared on the surface of his skin, as if etched by lava, flowing with scorching and domineering power! A visible pillar of dark gold Qi and blood smoke shot up from the top of his head, vaguely forming a blurred phantom image of a Bright King with three heads, six arms, glaring eyes, and feet treading on raging flames behind him! The surrounding temperature suddenly soared, and the air itself was scorched and distorted!

Boom!!

The crimson giant blade wreathed in purgatory flames was the first to strike his back with a terrifying roar, like a massive hammer striking a ten-thousand-year-old bronze bell, a sound no flesh and blood body could produce! The dark gold Bright King runes flickered violently, sending out ripples that seemed tangible! Lin Feng stumbled forward, his throat sweet, but his feet were firmly rooted to the ground as if they had grown there! He forcefully withstood this violent blade strike, which was enough to cleave a Late Stage Foundation Establishment Body Cultivator in half, relying on his incredibly powerful Bright King True Body! His clothes on his back instantly vaporized, revealing the dark gold skin beneath, which was like divine metal, with only a shallow white mark left, not even breaking the skin!

“What?! This is impossible!!” A scream of utter horror and disbelief, as if seeing a ghost, came from the red-robed blade Cultivator behind him! He had extreme confidence in his long-prepared “Prairie Fire Slash,” which even a Late Stage Foundation Establishment Body Cultivator would not dare to take head-on, yet now it couldn’t even break through the opponent’s defense?!

And almost at the same time as he withstood the giant blade, Lin Feng’s body twisted in an unnatural way! Like a boneless python, he narrowly managed to have the two poisoned short daggers, thrusting from underground, scrape against the dark gold skin of his legs, raising a trail of dazzling sparks, but failing to penetrate in the slightest!

“Bright King’s Fury! Burning Mountains, Boiling Seas!”

Using the momentum of his forward stumble, Lin Feng suddenly turned, and his left fist, enveloped in dark gold Qi and blood, shot out like a roaring cannonball, smashing backwards! Wherever the fist passed, the air was intensely compressed, ionized, and finally ignited with a roar, forming a scorching, boiling crimson-gold Qi and blood fist aura, like a destructive hammer swung by an enraged Bright King, directly striking the red-robed blade Cultivator who had momentarily frozen in shock!

This punch was devoid of fancy moves, containing only extreme power and explosiveness!

The red-robed blade Cultivator only had time to block with the giant blade in front of him, frantically injecting spiritual power!

Bang!!! Crack—!

A deafening explosion! The crimson-gold fist aura slammed heavily onto the blade of the giant blade! That crimson giant blade, of no mean quality, let out a mournful wail of unbearable strain, its blade instantly covered in cracks, and then exploded into countless fragments! The fist aura’s momentum was slightly reduced, but it still solidly imprinted itself on the red-robed blade Cultivator’s chest!

“Ugh ah—!”

The sickening sound of bones shattering echoed like popping beans! The red-robed blade Cultivator’s eyes bulged, bloodshot, his chest caved in to a terrifying degree, and he was sent flying dozens of feet like a broken kite, as if struck head-on by an ancient beast, his spurting blood vaporizing in the hot air, before he crashed heavily to the ground, twitched twice, and then fell silent!

One exchange, the main attacker instantly killed!

All of this, though long in the telling, happened in a flash of lightning!

Only now did the grey-robed swordsman, who had made the first move, just miss his strike due to Lin Feng actively severing his Divine Sense, his heart filled with horror, and was about to change his move. And the short Cultivator underground had also just missed his strike and was attempting to retreat underground.

“Trying to leave now? Too late!”

Lin Feng’s voice was cold, his Killing Intent resolute! After dealing with the red-robed blade Cultivator, he did not stop, raising his right foot sharply, then stomping down fiercely like a battle-axe!

“Bright King’s Stomp!”

Rumble!

The entire colorful ground shook violently! A scorching and violent shockwave spread out from his foot like ripples on water, instantly penetrating underground!

“Pfft!” A muffled groan came from underground; the short Cultivator attempting to earth-escape was directly shaken out of the ground by this brutal force, spitting blood, his face filled with horror, clearly his internal organs had been injured!

Lin Feng didn’t even look at him, flipping his right hand, the temporary metal-attribute Flying Sword was already in his grasp. Although it felt awkward, the Flying Sword, now infused with the scorching Qi and blood of the Ming Wang Purgatory Skill, vibrated with a humming sound, its blade turning crimson!

“Overturning Seas · Vortex Kill!”