Chapter 3048: A Clean Sweep |
Between heaven and earth, the aftershocks of destruction still rippled and churned. Across the battlefield, there was only deathly silence. Ji Bowen and the remaining eight Law Transcendence Eternals stood frozen in place, as if struck by heavenly lightning.
Ji Chaoyin! A renowned advanced Creation Eternal, the Ji Clan’s most ancient pillar of power, had been reduced to dust. Furthermore, it had all happened in the blink of an eye.
Moments earlier, they had been convinced that once the Fengqi Absolute Sword was unleashed, a supreme forbidden divine art capable of even easily annihilating Creation Eternal Realm beings, killing Lin Xun, a mere Law Transcendence Eternal, would be effortless.
Unfortunately, reality struck them like a merciless slap. With a single move, Xia Zhi had shattered the Fengqi Absolute Sword and erased Ji Chaoyin, an advanced Creation Eternal, into calamity dust!
This left Ji Bowen and the others utterly terror-stricken, their hearts and gallbladders splitting in fear.
“Mortal Calamity…” Lin Xun couldn’t help but draw in a sharp breath. A forbidden divine ability that fused the supreme daos of time and karma was terrifying beyond imagination. Even he felt shaken to the core.
“Lin Xun…I’ll leave the rest to you.” Xia Zhi turned her head, her clear eyes meeting his. Then, without warning, her slender figure swayed and softly collapsed.
Lin Xun caught her instantly, cold sweat breaking out across his back. Only after carefully checking her condition and confirming that she had merely exhausted all her strength and fallen into a deep slumber did he finally let out a long sigh of relief.
Undoubtedly, unleashing Mortal Calamity had completely drained Xia Zhi of all her strength. After gently settling her back into the Boat of Eternity, Lin Xun lifted his gaze toward Ji Bowen and the others in the distance.
“Yongqing, take the clansmen and withdraw first. We’ll stay behind and hold Lin Xun back,” Ji Bowen said in a deep, steady voice, his expression resolute.
Tonight, they had come with the intent of stripping Lin Fan and Su Bai of their innate talents. No one could have imagined that Lin Xun’s sudden arrival would turn the situation to this.
First came the slaughter of Ji Changyun and Ji Changshan, two Law Transcendence Eternal beings, along with several core figures of the clan. Then, one after another, Ji Guiling, Ji Haiwen, and Ji Chaoyin, three Creation Eternals, fell on the battlefield!
By this point, Ji Bowen had realized that forget rewriting the fate of the clan, the Ji Clan itself now stood on the brink of annihilation! The blow was so devastating that even someone like Ji Bowen, who had weathered countless storms across endless ages, could not suppress the despair rising in his heart.
“Patriarch…” Ji Yongqing’s eyes reddened, grief and pain etched across his face.
“Hurry!” Ji Bowen roared.
“This is Ji Clan territory,” Lin Xun’s icy voice echoed from afar. “Where do you think you’re running?”
Buzz!
In that instant, Lin Xun activated the Seal of Temporal Restriction. Dreamlike strands of time intertwined, weaving together into a vast, sky-covering restriction that descended upon the world, sealing all directions.
This was the first time Lin Xun had used the Seal of Temporal Restriction since stepping onto the Eternal Path. Unlike before, the restriction that formed now was like a celestial curtain, spanning heaven and earth, leaving no escape!
Compared to the Seal of Temporal Restriction left behind by the Eternal Night Divine Emperor outside the Flowing Light Forbidden Realm, it was still somewhat inferior, but only just.
“The Eternal Night Divine Emperor’s supreme forbidden divine art, the Seal of Temporal Restriction…”
Ji Bowen recognized it instantly, and his heart sank completely. The other Ji Clan Eternal Realm experts also turned deathly pale.
Long ago, the Eternal Night Divine Emperor had traversed the World of the Divine alone, solitary yet unrivalled, overpowering all heroes beneath the heavens. Even Eternals were forced to bow their heads in submission.
Later, after suffering grievous injuries from the Great Silence Unlife Calamity, she retreated into seclusion within the Flowing Light Forbidden Realm. However, in all the countless ages that followed, not a single being in the vast Fortune Dominion had been able to break into the Flowing Light Forbidden Realm.
The reason was simple. The entire region outside the Flowing Light Forbidden Realm had long been shrouded by the Seal of Temporal Restriction.
Now, Lin Xun unleashed that same forbidden divine power to envelop this very land…
This was tantamount to imprisoning every remaining Ji Clan expert within their own territory, like beasts trapped in a cage!
“Now, it’s time to settle our score once and for all.” Lin Xun swallowed a peerless divine elixir. In an instant, the exhaustion from his earlier battle vanished and his aura surged back to its peak. After sweeping through the twelve Eternal Divine Clans of the Ninth Heaven Domain, he had accumulated no small number of such peerless divine elixirs.
“Everyone, fight him to the death!” Ji Bowen roared.
Driven to desperation, their fighting spirit was instead ignited. Each of them had already resolved to stake their lives in this final battle.
“Kill!”
The other core figures shouted in unison and struck without hesitation. Each summoned their Eternal weapons and unleashed their supreme divine arts as they charged straight toward Lin Xun.
Divine might surged as Eternal dao light raged across heaven and earth, yet none of it could break through the power of the Seal of Temporal Restriction.
Of course, at this moment, no one cared about any of that. They charged forward like madmen, throwing everything they had into the assault. Nine Law Transcendence Eternal beings fighting with all their might…how terrifying a sight was that?
Some were like fire-born deities, commanding divine flames that scorched the heavens and destroyed the earth. Some wielded massive halberds, clad in dark, mystic armor, resembling war gods descending upon the mortal world. Some roared, and at once winds surged and clouds churned, lightning flashed and thunder boomed, as they unleashed supreme divine arts capable of erasing the world…
The torrent of annihilating attacks crashed down upon Lin Xun alone, the sight of it enough to suffocate the soul with despair.
“Ants trying to shake a tree!”
A cold, disdainful glint flashed through Lin Xun’s deep, dark eyes. In the next instant, he stamped forward and charged ahead. The four dao bodies encircled his true body, each wielding an Eternal weapon, blazing with peerless brilliance, like an unmatched divine edge plunging into the vast torrent of power.
Rumble!
Before everyone’s eyes, the torrent formed by countless supreme divine arts and dao weapons was split apart, ripped open by a massive rift.
Countless supreme divine arts dissipated like bursting bubbles. Countless Eternal weapons shattered amid earth-shaking clashes.
In the blink of an eye, Ji Bowen and the others’ offensive was shattered with unstoppable force, destroyed like rotten wood. In addition, Lin Xun, together with his dao bodies, had already charged right up to them! It was simply too fast and too domineering, no different from being crushed head-on.
“This is bad!”
“Retreat!”
Panicked cries rang out as Ji Bowen and the others turned deathly pale. However, it was already far too late. Lin Xun’s true body and the four dao bodies split apart in an instant, each locking onto a different target and launching ruthless attacks.
Bang!
A gray-haired old man tried desperately to evade, but the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron crashed into him head-on. Pinned beneath it, he struggled helplessly, like straw crushed under a falling mountain.
In every other direction, the four dao bodies, Green Wood, Red Flame, White Metal, and Yellow Earth, each unleashed their might, displaying an absolutely overwhelming and invincible momentum as they crushed their opponents one after one.
That scene was no different from tigers charging into a flock of sheep! So what if they were Law Transcendence Eternals? Lin Xun could slaughter experts at the initial and intermediate stages of the Creation Eternal Realm, let alone these figures at the same realm as himself.
In his eyes, they might have already stepped onto the Eternal Path, wielding power enough to inspire awe in countless beings, but to him, they were nothing more than clay chickens and dogs, easily crushed with a single blow!
In the blink of an eye, five of them were suppressed. That sight alone was enough to shatter the resolve of those who had already chosen to fight to the death. Even Ji Bowen felt despair surge uncontrollably through his heart.
How were they supposed to fight? With the power they possessed, resistance was utterly meaningless! Moments ago, they still burned with the resolve to take the enemy down with them. Now, after witnessing such overwhelming slaughter, even that fighting spirit began to crumble…
Lin Xun wasted no time. His true body and dao bodies surged forward together, and within just a few breaths, the remaining four, including Ji Bowen, were completely suppressed.
From beginning to end, the battle lasted only a brief moment. Throughout it all, Lin Xun advanced with unstoppable, invincible momentum, sweeping the battlefield with killing intent that no one could withstand.
“How…how could this be…” Ji Bowen, forced to his knees, looked utterly shattered, his face ashen and his eyes vacant.
Everything that unfolded tonight was a devastating blow, leaving his mind blank and his thoughts numb with confusion.
“There is no gain in this world without paying a price. Did you really believe that serving the mastermind behind the epochal calamities could change your clan’s fate?”
Lin Xun’s eyes were chilly as he looked down at Ji Bowen, his contempt undisguised. “Now you understand. The moment you chose to become dogs for that hidden mastermind, your entire Ji Clan was doomed to be erased from this world. This…is the price!”
“No! Impossible! My Ji Clan survived the epochal calamities and endured through countless ages to this very day. How could we be destroyed? Absolutely impossible! Impossible…!” Ji Bowen roared, as if had gone mad.
“Not only your Ji Clan, but the Gaoyang and Jiang Clans will also not escape this fate either.”
With that, Lin Xun directly seized Ji Bowen and the other suppressed Ji Clan figures and threw them into the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron.
At this point, every Ji Clan member who had stepped into the Eternal Realm had been wiped out in one sweep! However, Lin Xun no longer paid them any mind.
With a flick of his sleeve, Lin Fan and Su Bai appeared before him. Their external wounds had already healed, but Lin Xun’s expression remained grave. What he feared most was damage to their innate talent powers.
“Don’t move.”
Before either of them could react, Lin Xun’s spirit sense had already entered their bodies, carefully probing and examining them in detail.
Lin Fan and Su Bai exchanged a glance, then their gazes swept across their surroundings. The land was still steeped in devastation. Ruin and desolation stretched in every direction, while the thick stench of blood and lingering killing intent hung heavy in the void. It sent a bone-deep chill rippling across the skin of the two youngsters who had yet to set foot on the Eternal Path.
“Father, they…are all dead?” Lin Fan couldn’t help but ask.
Su Bai also turned to look at his master. This was the first time he had seen Lin Xun since they parted ways in Chaotian City of the Great Thousand Battle Domain. Emotion welled up in his chest, mingled with deep shame. In the end, he was so weak that he had been taken hostage, bringing a great calamity upon his master.
“Yes, don’t worry, I’ll take you away from here in a bit.” Lin Xun replied absentmindedly, remaining focused on probing Lin Fan’s and Su Bai’s innate talents, not daring to overlook the slightest detail.
Those unimaginably powerful enemies were all dead! A surge of shock and overwhelming excitement flooded Lin Fan and Su Bai’s hearts. Everything that had happened tonight felt unreal, like a dream they had yet to awaken from.