The giant transformed from a black beetle opened its mouth and spewed out a swarm of black beetles towards him. Lin Xiao's sharp eyes could even see the hideous mouthparts of these soybean-sized beetles.
He drew his sword without hesitation and stabbed it out. As his wrist vibrated, the sword also vibrated at high speed, accurately smashing the beetles into pieces.
With strength and agility more than ten times that of an ordinary person, coupled with his own superb combat experience and skills, he could easily take on attacks that would make ordinary people panic.
He is familiar with all the combat experiences and skills gained by millions of clansmen in the divine realm in the ancient arena. After so many years of accumulation, Lin Xiao possesses combat skills that are beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Even the word "Sword Saint" is not enough to describe his combat skills.
Being forced into a desperate situation, he had to give it his all, even if he died on the spot rather than let his opponent off the hook.
Thousands of black beetles were killed accurately in a row, without a single one escaping. This surprised Julian. He snorted coldly, and the beetle giant collapsed, turning into a huge torrent of beetles that pounced on him.
Lin Xiao quickly chanted a spell, cast a zero-ring witchcraft air shield for himself, a zero-ring witchcraft wind speed to accelerate himself, held the sword upright in front of him and stared coldly at the oncoming torrent of beetles.
Ten meters, eight meters, five meters, three meters. He took a deep breath and took a step forward. With a flick of his wrist, endless starlight suddenly exploded like fireworks, and scattered like stars in the sky. Countless black beetles were killed or cut in half and scattered. Insect corpses instantly accumulated on the ground in front of him.
In just a moment of contact, thousands of black beetles were killed, and the death toll was still spreading.
At this moment, Lin Xiao showed his true ability. His superb sword skills and strong spirit allowed him to firmly control the three-foot space in front of him. The sword light was like a galaxy, firmly blocking the oncoming black beetle.
There is an idiom that can be used to describe someone's great swordsmanship: "沷水不进".
At this time, Lin Xiao's swordsmanship skills had reached this level. Julian had never seen such superb swordsmanship skills, so he was stunned at first. When he realized that nearly one-fifth of the beetles he raised had died, he was heartbroken. He snorted coldly and pointed with his empty hand.
The next second, Lin Xiao sensed a strong threat coming from behind him and subconsciously moved sideways several meters. However, the threat not only did not disappear but instead approached rapidly. His strong spirit enabled him to keenly perceive the distortion of the air. A transparent head loomed and bit him. He quickly raised his hand and stabbed the snake's eye with a sword.
"Ding!"
The huge head of the Crystal King Snake on Mars appeared out of thin air, and an extremely powerful force surged out like a torrent, sweeping the sword in his hand away. The remaining force hit his chest and crashed into the swarm of black beetles.
Crushing, the absolute strength and physical fitness made it impossible for him to display any sword skills and techniques.
Whether using force to defeat cleverness, or using cleverness to defeat force, the prerequisite is that the difference in strength is not too big, and the prerequisite is that you can hit or injure the opponent.
If you can't hit the opponent, you can't kill a mosquito even if you have the strength to move a mountain.
If your attack is not strong enough, no matter how hard you attack, the opponent won't be able to hurt you at all.
At this moment, no matter how good Lin Xiao's swordsmanship and skills were, how could he fight if he couldn't even break the enemy's scales? He
ran into the swarm of beetles, and countless beetles pounced on him in an instant. He immediately closed his eyes and nose, ears and other five senses to withstand the attack. In an instant, every inch of his skin felt stinging, and he soon turned into a bloody man.
Even though his body was much stronger than that of an ordinary person, the bite left a mark. The beetle bit through his skin, which was tougher than cowhide, and devoured his flesh and blood.
Lin Xiao recovered and rolled over into a half-kneeling position. His muscles trembled slightly to shake off the beetle's mouthparts that were biting him. He clenched his fist and punched out. The air in the space of several feet centered on his fist vibrated violently. The black beetles in the air were shaken by the violent vibration and lost their balance, and they fell one after another. He took the opportunity to rush out of the encirclement, but before he could stand firm, a transparent chain fell from the sky and locked him in place. Then Julian appeared in front of him out of thin air, stretched out a crystal finger that had become transparent at some point, and touched his forehead.
Lin Xiao's forehead collapsed instantly, and a big hole appeared in his flesh and blood, revealing a cracked skull. A stream of golden divine blood that made Julian feel palpitating gushed out, but there was no trace of pain on Lin Xiao's face. He even had a smug smile on his face covered in golden blood.
Julian's heart suddenly began to beat fast and he wanted to pull back, but it was too late. A vast divine power descended at this moment, and everything within a radius of dozens of kilometers was frozen.
Not far away, a bright light appeared in the Weird Valley. A transparent light shield covering the entire Weird Valley slowly emerged with the vast power of heaven. An extremely huge monster face appeared in the Weird Valley, staring at the sky and roaring silently.
Standing at the center of this terrifying divine power, no matter whether it was the black beetle, the crystal king snake, Lin Xiao who was covered in blood, or Julian whose face turned pale, they were all like insects frozen in amber, unable to move.
Lin Xiao felt the terrifying might of the heaven and tried to force out a grim smile on his bloody face:
"I'm going to die anyway, so let's take someone with me to die with me!"
At that moment just now, he directly drew out a large amount of divine blood of the ancient Titan gods containing divine power, which did not belong to the wizarding world, from the Cube of Creation. It instantly triggered a huge reaction in this world, thus bringing down the power of divine punishment.
Under this terrifying force as vast as the abyss, he could not move anything except his thoughts. He could only watch helplessly as this vast force seeped into his body and disintegrated his flesh and blood.
However, the black beetles died the fastest. Although there were many of them, their individual strength was too weak. They broke into powder in the first place but still maintained their insect shape while solidified.
Then the hard crystal scales of the Crystal King Cobra cracked, breaking into countless pieces like broken glass, and traces of red seeped out from the cracks.
The muscles on Julian's face trembled and arched violently, as if there were snakes crawling under his skin.
As the terrifying power of heaven descended, his skin began to turn yellow, then slowly gray, brown-gray, and finally black, dry, and cracked. A snake-like muscle popped out of his body, and his body seemed to be about to collapse.
Seeing that he was about to die, Julian showed reluctance on his ferocious face. His pupils, which had completely turned black, showed a hint of hesitation, but quickly turned into determination. He said in a deep voice:
"In the name of the True Dark Ancestor!"
As soon as he finished speaking, an equally powerful and terrifying force from the unknown forcibly pushed aside the vast power of heaven and carried Julian, who was about to collapse, into the sky and disappeared.
"No!"
Lin Xiao let out a hoarse roar of reluctance, but he had no choice but to watch Julian being taken away by the power that came from the ancestor of an alien divine civilization.
When this invisible force arrived, it had already broken the power of the wizarding world, but it was only a temporary break and not enough to keep him alive. When this vast power of heaven descends again, he will be reduced to dust.
At this moment, a stream of light suddenly gathered at the entrance of the strange valley not far away and turned into an unclear face looking at Lin Xiao. A strange voice kept ringing in his mind:
"Exchange, contract!"
"Exchange, contract!"
"Exchange, contract!"
These few words were repeated over and over again, but strangely enough, Lin Xiao knew clearly what these words meant.
He also knew that if he agreed he could survive, but he would pay a huge price.
But he had no choice but to agree to it if he didn't want to die.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Xiao said in a hoarse voice:
"I do!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the huge face at the entrance of the strange valley opened its mouth, and an extremely powerful attraction pulled him towards the valley entrance.
"boom!"
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck the sky, and a dazzling pillar of lightning fell from the sky and submerged him.
A few seconds later, the rolling thunder disappeared, and a huge charred pit with a diameter of more than ten meters but no bottom appeared at the entrance of the valley. However, there was no sign of Lin Xiao, and the might of heaven covering the area of dozens of kilometers was slowly disappearing.
One day three years later, a tragedy occurred in Leisong County, a province in the southern part of the Wizard Empire. All the people in a village died overnight, and the corpses were piled up to form a Jingguan. The resentment rising into the sky formed a powerful vengeful spirit that slaughtered several nearby villages.
But what is strange is that after slaughtering thousands of people in several villages, this vengeful spirit did not continue to slaughter, but disappeared inexplicably without a trace.
This strange phenomenon attracted the attention of the Empire's wizards stationed in nearby towns. Some wizards went to observe but found no clues.
A month later, a wizard wearing a black robe and sounding very young appeared in Boots, the largest wizard gathering city nearby.
Lifting his cloak, a hideous face covered with scars was vaguely revealed. The young wizard entered the city and found a random inn to stay in.
Entering the room, the young wizard pulled down his cloak to reveal a hideous face covered with scars. If someone familiar was there, they would recognize him as a young wizard named Leng Lan who was wanted by the Morning Star Tower in the southern border province of the empire.
However, with his appearance destroyed, Julian might not recognize him immediately even if he was right in front of him.
He crumpled up the wanted notice into a ball and threw it into the garbage bag, then washed up and lay down on the bed, closing his eyes. The skin on his brow cracked and a transparent ghost drilled out from his eye on his forehead. The air temperature in the room dropped rapidly.
Lin Xiao opened his eyes, stretched out his fingers and pressed down the struggling transparent ghost, took a deep breath and pressed it back, the cracked skin healed again, but something could still be seen struggling under the skin.
"Phew, forty-eight thousand souls!"
Lying on the bed looking somewhat haggard, Lin Xiao heaved a sigh of relief, but his frown did not relax.
He survived by making a deal with the terrifying existence in the strange valley, and he has been working hard to complete the deal in the past few years.
The deal was simple, in exchange for being rescued, he needed to collect 100,000 souls within ten years.
Although it is not restricted to humans and other races, weak souls like beasts are definitely not acceptable.
Lin Xiao has been traveling around for the past three years and has collected more than 48,000 qualified souls.
Well, more than 48,000 souls does not mean that he killed 48,000 people. He is not that cruel. According to the agreement, a strong soul can replace a large number of weak souls, so the souls collected over the years are mostly powerful ghosts, one can replace dozens or hundreds of them.
(End of this chapter)