Chapter 263
Naval Battle 1
Chapter 263 Naval Battle 263
"Draw your sword," Lin Hui said.
"?" Xia Si suddenly looked up at Lin Hui.
“Swing it at me,” Lin Hui said calmly.
Xia Si gritted her teeth.
"Disciple is afraid...afraid of what I might do to you, Master."
"If you can defeat me, you will be the next leader of Qingfeng Dao. I will teach you the strongest and most essential ultimate seal of our sect!" Lin Hui gently held the Ruyi scepter.
"Disciple, disciple," Xia Si began to exude a terrifying mental energy that far surpassed that of a high priest and even exceeded the realm of a palace master's summoner.
How long has it been?
Less than a year has passed, and this child has grown to this extent.
Lin Hui felt a slight tremor in his heart.
Although his strength has improved a lot in the past six months, he is different. He has a blood seal and cultivates the Star Breath Sword Manual, which is a world-destroying martial art with a higher strength than the Typhoon Sword Technique.
Yes, that's how he divided it himself.
If one masters the Star Breath Sword Manual to its fullest extent, and infuses it into one's memory, one can unleash a single sword strike that can cause all the stars to breathe, enough to destroy a city the size of Tu Yue.
With this level of power, if it were Earth in a previous life, a few more swings of the sword would have been enough to wipe out all life on the planet's surface in a matter of seconds.
Xia Si is different. She relies purely on her own foundation and talent. In just over half a year, she has actually jumped from the High Priest to the Blood Ancestor realm!
They're almost catching up with Su Yaping.
hiss.
In an instant, a large patch of eerie, burning golden mist suddenly rose from Xia Si's body.
Within the eerie mist, a white wooden door vaguely appeared, with a rectangular protrusion in the middle and a black handle.
The door was surrounded by a dense array of enormous black and white human faces, crowding around the doorway.
The faces had no bodies, only heads that floated like balloons.
They all crowded around the wooden door, their resentful eyes fixed on Lin Hui.
what! !
The next moment, everyone turned their faces toward Lin Hui and let out a shrill scream.
At that moment, Xia Si raised her head, and the golden mist quickly receded, returning entirely to her body and disappearing.
At this moment, her eyes turned into a completely empty pale gold.
Seeing this, Lin Hui vaguely guessed a possibility.
But now is not the time to think about it.
He lightly lifted his feet off the ground, floating in the air, and gently pulled out the Ruyi scepter with his right hand, pointing it diagonally at the ground.
"It seems you've remembered something."
"Teacher, you are really too strong, so strong that even if I recall the past, I wouldn't dare to raise my sword against you." Xia Si's voice trembled and was low.
“But you’ve done it now,” Lin Hui said with a smile.
“Yes.” Xia Si closed his eyes and held the black sword horizontally at his side. “After inheriting the Typhoon Sword Technique, I know that simply chasing after you will never give me a chance to defeat you!”
"Then do you know?" Lin Hui gently turned the Ruyi scepter. "If you didn't chase after me, perhaps even the chance to see my back would have vanished."
"I don't believe it!!" Xia Si suddenly raised her head. A large amount of golden mist suddenly surged from her golden eyes.
She took a deep breath, gripped her sword with both hands, and looked at Lin Hui, who was smiling in mid-air.
"Wind!!" x2.
In an instant, the same words rang out from both of them at the same time.
One explodes, the other is calm.
A strong wind arose.
The terrifying airflow transformed into two enormous, gray-white cyclones, hundreds of meters high, which quickly enveloped the two of them.
As soon as they took shape, the two vortexes slammed into each other.
Below the surface of the sea in the distance.
Princess Song Feishi, who had been lying in wait, was now intently watching the battle between master and disciple.
Her gaze was fixed on Xia Si. From the moment Xia Si revealed the golden mist, she had focused most of her attention on the child.
"Purgatory and extreme cold have already manifested. Is it now the turn of ashes? Decay is accelerating, and numerous calamities are reappearing in this world."
This world is not only filled with the extreme cold of Purgatory; many other types of forces have also attempted to invade it.
In fact, according to the original history, as her father recounted, the world was initially devoid of even decay.
Decay was the first thing to invade this place and take over its dominant position.
Since then, it has been driving out and suppressing other forces that have tried to invade this place as well.
Ashes are a form of pollution that is even more powerful than purgatory or extreme cold.
Before I knew it, the battle outside was drawing to a close.
Song Feishi cleared his mind of distractions and focused his attention once more to sense the surroundings.
At this moment, in the circular training ground.
Lin Hui remained floating in the same spot. After the clash of the cyclones, he roughly understood the strength of Xia Si's Gale Sword Technique.
It's very strong; it's already at the level of Han Sanmian back then.
The Gale Sword Technique is inherently a sword technique that excels at drawing upon unknown external forces; however, it has now been transformed into drawing upon a powerful force beyond wind disasters.
Moreover, aside from its intensity, Xia Si's power seems to also conceal a strange corrosive force.
The moment that corrosive force touched his power, it turned part of his calamity energy gray, then shattered it, falling and scattering like sand.
This surprised Lin Hui quite a bit.
It should be noted that his current internal energy, or rather, his calamity energy, is a powerful force formed after a large amount of wind calamity energy has poured in and merged with it.
It possesses extremely strong infectivity.
I never expected that the opponent's power could even corrode such calamity energy!
Although the ratio is larger, roughly ten to one, this also indicates that the opponent's power is at a level close to that of the Wind Disaster.
'Why are all my disciples problematic? Fan Lingxi is connected to the Extreme Cold Heaven, and Xia Si is linked to this unknown force. Am I just unlucky, or are these forces deliberately targeting those around me?'
Lin Hui vaguely felt that the root cause might be related to swordsmanship.
For a moment, he lost focus and a twisted, gray-black giant sword formed from a raging wind suddenly flew in front of him.
The giant sword pierced right through him with a deafening roar.
Lin Hui turned to look at Xia Si, who was staring in astonishment. "This is the Typhoon Sword Technique you've always wanted to learn?"
Swish.
He actually put the Ruyi back into its sheath and then casually opened his arms.
"Come on, give it your all!"
what! ! !
Xia Si's eyes shone brightly with golden light as she landed steadily, the white wooden door faintly appearing behind her.
The door slowly opened, and a large amount of bright red blood flowed out from the gap.
She gripped the sword with both hands, and countless drops of bright red blood mingled with the surrounding blade, merging into the vortex and turning the entire vortex red.
An extremely dangerous aura emanated from the red sword blade vortex.
The longsword in her hand began to rapidly absorb all the vortex and blood.
The entire blade of the longsword, which had turned from black, was now stained dark red, and the edge shimmered with a fine, flowing luster like ripples on water.
She moved like lightning, disappearing from her spot in an instant, and appeared beside Lin Hui like a rocket, slashing with her sword.
laugh!
The sword blade still pierced right through Lin Hui's body.
Unharmed.
The golden light in Xia Si's eyes grew increasingly violent and flickering. She floated frantically in the air, hovering in front of Lin Hui, her hands completely obscured, only a circular screen of red sword light could be seen, completely enveloping Lin Hui.
But it didn't work.
All the attacks passed through Lin Hui, who seemed like a phantom, and were utterly meaningless.
"Useless. This is the Typhoon Sword Technique you've always longed for but been unable to master." Lin Hui stood calmly amidst the raging sword curtain.
"I don't believe it!!" Xia Si frantically swung her sword again.
fast!
fast!
quick! !
Faster!!
She roared inwardly, and the black sword in her hand, urged on by her frenzy, began to absorb more of the blood gushing from the gate.
The speed has actually increased even further.
This scene made Song Feishi, who was hiding in the sea, feel a sinking feeling in her heart.
'Danger! We're about to enter the crack phase!!'
Such corrupting forces, like purgatory, extreme cold, and ashes, initially only undergo a simple stage of contamination.
The next stage is the integration phase, which is Xia Si's current state.
Both stages are relatively controllable. The decaying forces within the fog act as a natural barrier, so there shouldn't be any major problems.
But the most troublesome stage is the third stage—the cracking period.
Once this stage is reached, the gates to contamination will be fully opened. The reason why fortresses were built to seal the gates of purgatory and extreme cold is that the opening of these gates during the rift period is irreversible.
Once the Rift Period begins, the Ash Rift will be discovered by countless dangerous creatures from the other world. Countless powerful individuals from that world will quickly converge on the Rift, resulting in a massive influx of monsters and a pollution disaster.
She became slightly nervous.
The power and secret techniques unleashed in the duel between the two before her were insignificant in her eyes. But once that rift was fully opened and formed, it could very likely attract incredibly troublesome ash monsters. That was the truly dangerous thing.
Even she has to be careful.
So she became slightly anxious. Once Xia Si really opened the Ash Rift, she would immediately take action, even if it meant exposing herself, to completely seal and close the rift!
Her hand gently conjured a golden arc of electricity. The arc wove into an exquisite and intricately beautiful character.
The characters rotated slowly, like a spinning top.
"Teacher!!! I'm about to lose control." At this moment, the light screen of the sword blades that Xia Si was wielding with both hands had reached a terrifying speed.
The light screen had almost turned into a solid dark red.
Lin Hui, at the center, flickered like an illusion, yet remained completely unharmed.
“I taught you this a long time ago.” Lin Hui gripped the hilt of the Ruyi Sword. “The difference between man and beast lies in the ability to control power and to be controlled by power.”
"And wild beasts are only fit to be our food."
hiss.
He slowly pulled out the Ruyi.
Looking at the ever-growing crack in the wooden door behind Xia Si.
"You're tired, take a rest."
A slight smile appeared on his face.
Boom!!!
In the next instant, his entire body flickered and transformed into a blue-haired magical form.
Ruyi transformed into a horizontal blue light, suddenly piercing through the light curtain, through Xia Si, through the wooden door, and slowly dissipating.
call.
Everything quieted down.
The fierce wind dissipated, turning into a gentle breeze.
Lin Hui sheathed his sword, remaining as usual, and looked at Xia Si, who had fallen completely silent.
"Do you understand?"
Xia Si stared blankly at him and nodded stiffly.
In that instant, the terrifying power she thought was infinitely strong vanished like a soap bubble under the Ruyi Sword.
It was as if nothing had ever happened at the beginning.
It was as if the power and anger I felt just now were all illusions.
Lin Hui said no more, turned around and flew away. His figure hadn't flown far before it turned into a blur and slowly disappeared.
At that moment, Xia Si fell to the ground with a thud. She sat there blankly, without saying a word, on the circular training ground that had long since turned into ruins and rubble.
Meanwhile, in the seawater, the golden characters in Song Feishi's hand slowly dissipated.
Just a moment ago, she almost made a move, but...
Lin Hui's sword strike.
The lightning-fast sword strike kept replaying in his mind.
Song Feishi closed her eyes.
"Interesting. This Lin Hui is getting more and more interesting."
A slight smile played on her lips as she increasingly felt that coming to Black Cloud was the right choice.
(End of this chapter)