120: Blood Moon Duo, Dragon's Might Begins to Emerge

Sword light like a dragon, tearing through the night curtain.

The moment Lin Fan charged into the enemy formation, the starlight longsword drew a perfect arc. The three assassins charging at the front only felt a chill at their necks before their heads left their bodies, blood gushing out like a fountain.

Fast, accurate, and ruthless! Having broken through to the Condensing Origin Fifth Layer and fused the Star Dragon Bloodline, Lin Fan's speed and power had undergone a qualitative leap. Ordinary assassins of the fourth or fifth layer of the Condensing Origin were no longer a match for him.

"Form the formation! Change to the 'Blood Moon Soul-Locking Formation'!" Ying Liu shouted sharply.

The remaining thirty assassins quickly changed their formation, in groups of three, with ten groups linked together. A blood-colored light erupted from them, connecting with each other to form a giant blood-colored net covering a hundred zhang. Runes flowed within the net, emitting a heart-palpitating suction force that not only restricted movement but also crazily devoured the blood and vitality of the living beings within the formation.

Lin Fan's figure stalled, as if he had fallen into a quagmire.

"Die!" Ying Liu sneered, a poison-coated short blade springing from the front of his metal prosthetic limb, stabbing straight toward the center of Lin Fan's back.

At the same time, three groups of assassins on both the left and right sides attacked simultaneously, their blade lights and sword shadows sealing off all possible evasion angles.

A desperate situation? A golden light flashed in Lin Fan's eyes, and the star dragon true essence within his body erupted with a boom.

"Star Dragon Transformation First Layer — Dragon Scale Body Protection!"

Buzz! Faint golden dragon scale phantoms appeared on his body surface, layered upon each other like armor. The moment the blood-colored chains touched the dragon scales, they made a 'sizzling' corrosion sound and could not advance an inch.

And the longsword in Lin Fan's hand, its sword stance changed once again.

"Star Sword Intent Third Form — Star Flow · Reverse River!" This strike was a new move he had comprehended from the Star Sword Intent seed. The sword light was no longer a meteor moving forward with no return, but turned into a river of stars flowing backward, overcoming hardness with softness and breaking power with skill.

Chichichi! The sword light was like mercury spilling on the ground, penetrating everywhere. The six groups of assassins who were besieging him only felt their weapons grow light, followed by a chill in their throats, and then they lost consciousness.

Six groups, eighteen people, killed instantly!

"What?!" Ying Liu's pupils shrank, and he wanted to retreat, but it was already too late.

Lin Fan's left hand reached out like a dragon claw, grabbing his metal prosthetic limb and exerting force with his fingers.

Crack! The metal prosthetic limb was crushed like tofu. Immediately after, Lin Fan's right hand thrust the longsword, the tip of the blade piercing through Ying Liu's chest, and Sword Qi erupted, grinding his internal organs into powder.

Ying Liu stared wide-eyed, looking at the bloody hole in his chest in disbelief, and breathed his last.

From Lin Fan charging into the formation to killing twenty-two people in succession, only three breaths of time had passed.

The remaining eight groups of assassins were terrified, and their formation fell into a moment of chaos.

"Useless!" The woman among the Blood Moon Twin Fiends snorted coldly, her blood-colored whip darting out like a venomous snake, coiling toward Lin Fan's neck. Before the whip even arrived, a foul wind hit his face, and blood-colored light flowed along the whip's body, which was clearly coated with a potent poison.

The man attacked at the same time, his twin blades slashing out two blood-colored cross-cuts, sealing off Lin Fan's left and right retreat paths.

The pressure of the Condensing Origin Seventh Layer erupted fully, far beyond what those assassins could compare to.

Lin Fan did not dare to be careless. Stepping on the Star Chasing Steps, his figure slid back three zhang like a ghost, avoiding the whip and the blade light. But the blood-colored cross-cuts followed him like a shadow, their speed even faster.

"star dragon scale!" With a thought, the dark golden scale Lin Fan had obtained from the Star Dragon Palace flew out from between his eyebrows and hovered in front of him.

Clang! Clang! The cross-cuts slammed into the scale, producing a piercing metallic sound. The scale's light dimmed slightly, but it steadily blocked the strike. Lin Fan used the force to retreat further, pulling away.

"A defensive treasure?" The man's eyes lit up, his greed fully exposed. "Kill him, and this treasure will be ours!"

"That depends on whether you have the ability," Lin Fan sneered, his longsword pointing diagonally toward the ground.

He seemed calm, but he was calculating quickly in his heart.

The Blood Moon Twin Fiends were both at the Condensing Origin Seventh Layer and coordinated perfectly; their strength far exceeded that of a single person. Although he had the Star Dragon Transformation and many trump cards, the gap in cultivation was right there, and a hard confrontation was not the best strategy.

"One must be broken first." Lin Fan's gaze swept over the two. The woman used a long whip, which had a wide attack range but was slightly weaker in close combat; the man's twin blades were sharp, with both offense and defense. Kill the woman first!

With his mind made up, he took the initiative to attack.

His figure flickered, turning into three afterimages that pounced toward the woman from different directions. This was a new application of the Star Chasing Steps after reaching Major Achievement, called 'Three Star Phantom Body'. Although it could not be maintained for long, it was enough to confuse the enemy for a moment.

"Trivial tricks!" The woman's long whip danced, turning into a blood-colored vortex that pulled the three afterimages in at the same time.

But at the moment the afterimages shattered, Lin Fan's true body had already appeared from her side and rear — he had not charged at the woman at all, but used the phantoms to confuse her while his true body circled behind!

"Watch out!" the man shouted urgently, his twin blades slashing toward Lin Fan's back to force him to save himself. But Lin Fan did not dodge or avoid, the dragon scale phantom rising again on his back to endure the strike.

Clang! The blade slashed against the dragon scales, sparks flying in all directions. Lin Fan groaned, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, but the longsword in his hand had already pierced into the woman's heart from behind.

"You..." The woman looked down at the sword tip protruding from her chest, her eyes full of shock. She never expected that Lin Fan would use such a playstyle of trading injuries for her life.

Lin Fan twisted the sword blade, and Sword Qi erupted.

The woman's life force was severed, and her body slumped to the ground.

"Junior Sister!" The man's eyes were nearly bursting as he slashed his twin blades at Lin Fan like a madman, "I want you to pay with your life!"

Having lost his companion, although the man's offensive was fierce, it had lost its order. Lin Fan stepped on the Star Chasing Steps, weaving through the blade light and occasionally blocking with the star dragon scale, fighting steadily.

After ten moves, the man's aura began to grow chaotic.

Lin Fan caught a flaw and thrust his sword toward the man's throat. The man swung his blade to block, but Lin Fan's sword stance suddenly changed, shifting from a thrust to a sweep, the sword light grazing his left shoulder.

Puchi! An arm was severed at the root.

"Ah!" The man screamed, his figure retreating violently.

Lin Fan was about to pursue, but the remaining eight groups of assassins lunged forward desperately, trying to buy time for the man to escape.

"Begone!" Lin Fan shouted in anger, his star dragon true essence erupting fully. The longsword turned into a sky full of star rain, each strike accurately hitting an assassin's vital point.

Three breaths later, the last assassin fell to the ground. Meanwhile, the man had already fled over a hundred zhang away, burning his essence blood to increase his speed.

"Want to run?" Lin Fan's gaze was cold as he took out three Starshine Sword Pellets from the System space.

This was a reward from signing in at the Trial Tower previously, a one-time consumable with power comparable to a full-strength strike from a Condensing Origin Seventh Layer expert.

"Go!" The sword pellets turned into three silver rainbows, catching up to the man in an instant.

The man felt a fatal crisis behind him and turned to swing his blade in defense. But the sword pellets were too fast; the first one shattered his twin blades, the second one pierced his chest, and the third one blew his head apart.

The Blood Moon Twin Fiends were completely wiped out! When the battle ended, Lin Fan stood leaning on his sword, gasping for breath. This battle seemed easy, but it was actually perilous. Enduring a strike from the man, even with the dragon scale protection, he still suffered significant internal injuries. And continuously activating the Star Dragon Transformation and Star Sword Intent had consumed seventy percent of his vitality.

He quickly scoured the battlefield, finding two storage rings from the Blood Moon Twin Fiends, as well as a blood-colored token. The front of the token was engraved with the words 'Dark Moon', and the back was 'Blood Moon Hall Deputy Token'.

"This debt with the Dark Moon Divine Cult will be settled sooner or later." Lin Fan put away the spoils of war and took a few healing Medicinal Pills.

Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly felt something and looked up toward the northeast.

There, a faint aura flashed and vanished.

"Someone is watching..." Lin Fan's gaze sharpened, and his Delusion-Breaking Divine Pupils opened. But the other party was extremely cautious and had already fled far away, leaving only a faint, lingering official aura.

"The Supervision Department? Or the Third Prince's people?" Lin Fan frowned.

No matter who it was, the scene of him killing the people of the Dark Moon Divine Cult had likely been seen. This was not necessarily a bad thing; at least it could prove that the Lin Family was not colluding with the Dark Moon Divine Cult but was their mortal enemy.

But it would also expose his strength and attract even stronger opponents.

"I must return as soon as possible."

Lin Fan no longer stayed, his figure turning into a stream of light as he sped toward the Lin Family.

Half an hour later, he returned to the Star Palace.

Inside the palace, the Second Elder, Third Elder, and others were waiting anxiously. Seeing Lin Fan return, and with injuries on his body, everyone was greatly shocked.

"Young Clan Leader, you—"

"It's fine, just flesh wounds." Lin Fan waved his hand. "How is Xiao Xue?"

"She has woken up, but her body is weak and she is currently resting," the Third Elder replied. "Additionally, there is movement from the Supervision Department."

"Speak."

"Sima Yan secretly sent people to monitor Star Moon Lake. News was just sent back saying that a great battle broke out by the lakeside, and it is suspected that you clashed with the Dark Moon Divine Cult." The Second Elder lowered his voice. "Sima Yan has personally gone to investigate and is expected to return before dawn."

Lin Fan nodded. "Perfect, let him see how the Dark Moon Divine Cult is 'colluding' with my Lin Family."

"But..." the Second Elder hesitated. "The strength you displayed might cause suspicion. At the Condensing Origin Fifth Layer, yet able to kill those at the Condensing Origin Seventh Layer, this..."

"No matter," Lin Fan said indifferently. "The stronger I am, the more they will be wary. If they are wary, they won't dare to act easily."

Everyone fell silent.

Indeed, in this world where the strong are respected, strength is the best protective talisman.

"Prepare yourselves. When Sima Yan returns tomorrow, he will surely summon me for questioning," Lin Fan instructed. "Organize all traces of tonight's battle, including the corpses, weapons, and tokens, as evidence."

"Yes!" Everyone accepted the order and left.

Lin Fan returned to his room and sat cross-legged to heal his injuries.

The self-healing ability of the Star Dragon Bloodline was extremely strong, and with the help of Medicinal Pills, his internal injuries quickly stabilized. The gains from this battle also needed to be digested.

He took out the storage rings of the Blood Moon Twin Fiends and sent his Divine Sense inside.

The ring space was not large, but the collection was quite abundant. Hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones, over a hundred bottles of Medicinal Pills, and several Cultivation Technique manuals of the Dark Moon Divine Cult. What interested Lin Fan the most was a secret scroll.

The secret scroll was made of special animal skin, with the four characters 'Starfall Plan' written on the cover.

Opening it to look closely, Lin Fan's expression gradually grew solemn.

This secret scroll recorded the Dark Moon Divine Cult's century-long layout in the Meteor Star Ancient Domain. This included infiltrating the Lin Family, controlling the Star Moon Lake altar, and searching for the Star God Clan ruins. And the ultimate goal was actually to open the 'Starfall Ancient Tomb'!

The Starfall Ancient Tomb was an Ancient Tomb hidden inside an extraterrestrial star that legend says crashed here ten thousand years ago. Buried within the tomb were powerhouses of the Star God Clan and Dragon Clan, as well as supreme treasures left behind by the two races.

The leader of the Dark Moon Divine Cult, 'Blood Moon Demon Venerable', had discovered the entrance to the Ancient Tomb as early as a hundred years ago, but had been unable to open it. Three conditions needed to be met: the star god token, the Dragon Bloodline, and a massive blood sacrifice of living beings.

"So that's how it is..." Lin Fan realized.

No wonder the Dark Moon Divine Cult kept harassing the Lin Family; it was both for the star god token and to create slaughter to collect blood sacrifice energy. And the Third Prince's cooperation with them was likely a case of each getting what they needed — the Third Prince wanted the Lin Family destroyed, and the Dark Moon Divine Cult wanted to open the Ancient Tomb.

"Starfall Ancient Tomb..." A sharp light flashed in Lin Fan's eyes.

If the records in the secret scroll were true, then there must be a heaven-defying Legacy within that Ancient Tomb. But sacrificing living beings harmed the harmony of heaven; he would never use such a method.

"Perhaps there are other ways to open it."

He put away the secret scroll, a plan already forming in his heart.

The priority now was to deal with the Supervision Department and stabilize the Family. Then, he would explore the secrets of the Starfall Ancient Tomb.

Outside the window, the sky was gradually brightening.

A new day, a new storm, was about to arrive.