Chapter 298: The Abyssal Dragon Drinks Thunder; The Broken Blade Cleaves Open The Cosmos
“Dead?”
“This must be a dream. How could Mo Xiao, one of the Seven Guardians of the Smiling Skull, possibly die!”
Mo Xiao’s sudden death in midair left all the major powers in Chiyue Town in absolute silence, unable to look away for a long time.
Even Earth Star Pharmaceuticals and the players fighting on the other side all stopped their actions because of Mo Xiao’s death, staring in disbelief at the massive gate slowly fading away and the thousands of long swords densely filling the sky.
“Is this Hall Master Lin’s true strength?”
Precia stared at Mo Xiao, who had turned into a mist of blood in midair, her mouth wide open. She could not imagine that Mo Xiao, famed across the Four Regions, would die at the hands of Lin Qi, who was in the Bone Forging Realm. It was simply unbelievable.
“One move to kill Mo Xiao. Just what level of martial skill was that?” In the distance, Hu Lei also stared fixedly at Lin Qi, his eyes full of shock and curiosity.
Even with all his years of life and considerable understanding of the situation in the Four Regions, Hu Lei had never seen such a terrifying martial skill as the one Lin Qi had used.
The way it used qi and blood and internal force was utterly inconceivable. Any Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill, in front of a martial skill like this, seemed as childish as a baby.
“If I’m not mistaken, this martial skill should be the legendary Limit Breaking Level Martial Skill!” Beside him, Zhuo Gu gazed at the thousands of long swords in the sky, his eyes full of envy and longing. “I always thought only Domain Cities had such martial skills. I didn’t expect the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to also possess one. Coming here this time really wasn’t in vain.”
As he spoke, Zhuo Gu sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes, frantically replaying Lin Qi’s earlier strike in his mind, wanting to carve the move completely into his memory. This made Hu Lei urgently ask the others to confirm whether they had recorded that move just now.
Limit Breaking Level Martial Skill!
If one could grasp even a fraction of such a legendary martial skill, it would greatly benefit Blood Condensation Realm martial artists. If fully mastered, using it to assault the Heavenly Human Realm in the future would not be impossible.
“Is the master of the pavilion really this strong?” Fang Zhen looked at the thousands of long swords wreathed in lightning hovering above Chiyue Town’s sky and was deeply shaken.
He had long known that Hall Master Lin Qi was the strongest NPC in the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, far beyond what players could contend with, but seeing Lin Qi make a real move still felt unbelievable.
While firing a single shot from the Super Electromagnetic Cannon Type 2 Modified was difficult for him, Lin Qi could control thousands of long swords, each with power not much inferior to that cannon.
Most terrifying of all, a high-level Blood Condensation Realm boss had been instantly killed by Lin Qi just like that. It made these players feel like there was no room left for them to exist.
“That was so cool! Did you see that, everyone? Just for this plot kill and that spectacular scene, I’m giving full marks. That last move from the master of the pavilion was explosively cool. It’s a pity you didn’t come in to experience it. This on-site feeling is simply beyond words.” Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang looked at Lin Qi, suspended above the town, holding the orb and keeping the thousand swords hanging aloft, and could not help but start commentating.
Meanwhile, Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang’s live stream room had completely exploded.
“Damn! This battle scene is insane. If they make it into a CG trailer, I bet this game will sell like crazy.”
“Newcomer here, curious—can players learn that NPC move? If we can, I’ll go reserve right now!”
“I feel like this game could be made into a movie. Xiao Yuan, maybe stop doing strategy guides for now and shoot a movie inside the game first. It would definitely sell big.”
“The combat in this game just keeps getting better. I wonder when the public beta will be so we players can go conquer cities everywhere. My sabre is already itching. If this game manufacturer doesn’t open the public beta soon, Immortal Road Eternal, the top cultivation game this year, is launching in a few days, and it might snatch away a big chunk of players like me.”
“I heard Immortal Road Eternal has a virtual degree over 85%. Now that you mention it, I might go try it. Anyway, I can’t get an internal test slot for this game, so checking out Immortal Road Eternal first isn’t a bad idea.”
“It’d be best if you all go to Immortal Road Eternal. Then I can play High Martial Arts Descend and have better odds of getting internal test access. Otherwise I’m stuck in the Test Space grinding that meditation technique and basic martial skills lately. It’s really boring.”
“I also think the more people go to Immortal Road Eternal, the better. Then I don’t have to grind so hard. This game has gotten way too sweaty. In the past, newbies who started at the same time as me did well if they trained two to three hours a day in the Test Space. Now they’re like beasts. To improve their chances of being chosen, they won’t log off unless they train eight hours a day. My sleep time has dropped.”
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Viewers in the live stream room chattered nonstop. Watching the battle in Chiyue Town, they were all ridiculously excited, especially at the grand scale of Lin Qi’s battle, something no other virtual game had ever shown.
One after another, they wished they could rush into the Test Space right now to practice the meditation technique and basic martial skills, enter the game early, become powerful like Hall Master Lin Qi, and in the major cities and the headquarters of various factions lead other players to slaughter their way across the land, experiencing what it was like to be a superhuman and feel that brutally realistic, bone-crunching combat.
Chiyue Town, above the wreckage of the sky battleship.
“Everyone to ground combat! Kalad, you’re coming with us to take care of Lin Qi!”
The Half-Beast Race old man from the Twelve Eccentrics of the Forbidden Forest looked at the fallen Mo Xiao without hesitation and turned to Bai Shou Kalad, issuing the order to encircle Lin Qi.
“Mang Fu, are you insane! He killed Mo Xiao!” Bai Shou Kalad stared in shock at the Half-Beast elder who gave the command.
Right now, the Twelve Eccentrics of the Forbidden Forest and the others were only fighting the grey-robed disciples of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to a standstill. Even if he added his combat power, which rivaled a Blood Condensation Realm Intermediate Level fighter, going up against Lin Qi, who had slain a Blood Condensation Realm master like Mo Xiao, was nothing but a dead end.
“He unleashed that kind of martial skill just now. His qi and blood are already mostly consumed. If we don’t kill him now and allow the major powers to stir things up, all that awaits us is death!”
The Half-Beast elder Mang Fu glanced at Bai Shou Kalad and directly pointed out the key.
“Can we do it?” Bai Shou Kalad looked at Lin Qi, who had just landed in the distance, feeling somewhat nervous.
From Lin Qi’s pale face, it was clear his qi and blood had indeed been greatly depleted. But Lin Qi was still the expert who had killed Mo Xiao.
If they could not quickly deal with Lin Qi, once he joined up with the other grey-robed disciples, it would mean death for them.
“Relax. The twelve of us together could even wound Mo Xiao, let alone the current Lin Qi.” Mang Fu gave a firm answer. “We move to besiege him now. Have all Bone Forging Realm fighters pin down those grey-robed disciples.”
Bai Shou Kalad gritted his teeth, swept his gaze over all the factions present, and agreed to Mang Fu’s proposal. “Fine!”
Earth Star Pharmaceuticals’ senior officials had already given a death order. He had suffered heavy losses this time, so he had to complete the mission. Otherwise, his fate would be no better than death.
In an instant, the Twelve Eccentrics of the Forbidden Forest, the blood-stained general Meliya, and the others joined Bai Shou Kalad, seizing the opportunity to charge at Lin Qi, while thousands of Bone Forging Realm fighters on the ground moved to block the players.
“Damn it! These bosses are going to gang up on the master of the pavilion!” Yi Ye Fu Yun saw the thirteen Blood Condensation Realm bosses rushing towards Lin Qi and panicked. “Is this plot trying to go this far!”
The introduction of High Martial Arts Descend clearly stated that it was a game where players assisted Hall Master Lin Qi in developing and strengthening the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and that none of the NPCs in the game could be resurrected.
If Hall Master Lin Qi died, it would mean the game was over. For the game manufacturer, it would likely mean shutting down the internal test, wiping all data, and starting everything over. For players who had put in so much hard work in the internal test, that was absolutely unacceptable.
“These bosses cannot be allowed to live! Yi Ye, give me your spear.” Ye Qinglu stared coldly at Mang Fu and the others speeding away.
“Qing Wei, you all create an opening for me. We must not let them get close to the master of the pavilion!” Luo Wu Shang took out a bottle of berserk potion and issued her order.
“Got it!” Zhang Qing Wei, seeing Luo Wu Shang take out the berserk potion, understood that Luo Wu Shang planned to use the final desperate sword skill of the prison plot boss.
That plot boss’s sword skill was extraordinary. Combined with the Heavenly Human Realm battle data redeemed from the hall for that boss and refined through multiple deduction simulations by the quantum supercomputer, only a rough prototype had been formed.
And even that prototype was something Luo Wu Shang, whose brain had already overloaded four times, still could not use normally.
First, her body could not withstand such a strike. Second, her qi and blood were insufficient.
But in the current situation, Luo Wu Shang could no longer hesitate. All her other sword skills were helpless against Blood Condensation Realm bosses and could only serve as a distraction. Only something surpassing ordinary Supernatural Martial Skills, like the Heavenly Human Realm sword skill used by the prison plot boss, could give Luo Wu Shang a real method to deal with such bosses.
Then, on the wide Auction Plaza, before Mang Fu and the others could reach the pale-faced Lin Qi, the players acted in unison.
“Heavenly Cycle Sword Formation, rise!”
Stepping through the air from one long sword to another at supersonic speed, Ye Qinglu rushed ahead and blocked Mang Fu and the others, who had taken a slightly longer route on the ground. More than three hundred C-grade alloy long swords made of Rem Titanium Gold gathered behind her into a giant lotus of swords. She looked down upon Mang Fu and the others like a descended sword immortal.
This scene shocked all the major powers present.
They had never imagined that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall still had such a bold and fierce disciple who intended to block thirteen Blood Condensation Realm experts and Bai Shou Kalad alone. That courage alone commanded respect.
“You court death!” Mang Fu, seeing Ye Qinglu daring to block his path by herself, swung his axe down with full force.
For this strike, Mang Fu held nothing back and unleashed the Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill, Wild Dragon.
A giant serpent phantom over one hundred meters long appeared and lunged at Ye Qinglu as if it meant to devour both her and Lin Qi not far behind her.
“Phantom manifest!”
Ye Qinglu gripped her spear and spun together with it, thrusting towards the serpent phantom. As she spun, a gigantic phantom over three hundred meters tall emerged along with her, spiraling forward to crash into the serpent shadow.
Just as the two sides were about to collide, the sword lotus formed by three hundred long swords appeared between them. The spear spinning in Ye Qinglu’s hands crackled with thunder, and the gigantic phantom became wreathed in lightning as well, slamming into the sword lotus.
Bang!
In that instant, everyone in Chiyue Town felt as if the world had gone quiet. To the naked eye, it was a dazzling sea of lotus-shaped lightning that lit up the entire town.
At the same time, they saw the giant serpent phantom, as though because it had swallowed the sword lotus, erupt with endless lightning from its body and quickly dissipate. Along with it, Mang Fu’s body was pierced by hundreds of holes. He stood there motionless, unable to believe this was real even in death.
“How is this possible!”
“What martial skill is that!”
Everyone stared at Mang Fu, killed in a single move. It was not only the major powers who were shocked; Bai Shou Kalad and the others who had planned to join the siege were dumbfounded.
As the leader of the Twelve Beasts of the Forbidden Forest, Mang Fu’s personal strength might not match a top expert like Mo Xiao, but he was no weakling within the Blood Condensation Realm.
That last axe strike just now was something even a high-level Blood Condensation Realm martial artist would not dare claim to escape unscathed. Yet he had inexplicably died at the hands of a grey-robed disciple of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. How could they believe that?
“Kill!”
“Take her down! Avenge our boss!”
The remaining Blood Condensation Realm experts of the Twelve Beasts of the Forbidden Forest glared at the fallen, motionless Ye Qinglu, their eyes bloodshot, and charged forward, intent on tearing her apart to avenge Mang Fu.
But before the remaining eleven members of the Twelve Beasts could reach Ye Qinglu, a terrifying life force from the rear made everyone involuntarily turn their heads, completely forgetting about her.
Less than five hundred meters from Bai Shou Kalad, a woman nearly nine meters tall stood there. Her hair and her silver-grey clothes rose wildly upward as if blasted by a violent wind. The ground around her shattered continuously, chunks of stone floating up against gravity and crumbling into dust in midair.
Even the tall buildings within a radius of over a hundred meters trembled as if struck by a magnitude seven or eight earthquake, their structures shaking and cracking.
Only when the aura of the nearly nine-meter-tall woman stabilized did everything fall quiet again, yet everyone felt a shudder from the depths of their souls.
“Can humans turn into monsters like this?” Hu Lei stared at the gigantic Luo Wu Shang, his eyes almost popping out.
Li Ranxing’s gigantification earlier had already been shocking, but that could be attributed to exceptional talent and a more prominent transformation ability.
Now Luo Wu Shang had also undergone gigantification, and she was even taller, radiating a sense of danger far greater than Li Ranxing’s. She did not seem human at all.
The gigantic Luo Wu Shang held a greatsword she had seemingly picked up from somewhere. In her hand it looked like a toy, reduced to the size of a short sword, but she still drove it point-first into the ground.
“One Sword Splits the Heavens!”
In less than the blink of an eye spent charging, she swung the sword upward toward the Twelve Beasts of the Forbidden Forest and the others.
In an instant, a wall of storm roared toward them. The entire ground beneath Luo Wu Shang surged upward hundreds of meters high, as if the earth itself were devouring everything, and the land within more than ten kilometers shuddered.
Compared to the heaving earth, however, the storm wall rushing at the Twelve Beasts and the others was much faster. Before they could even react, it slammed into them, sending them flying several kilometers away. The lake outside Chiyue Town was split in half, and everyone, including Bai Shou Kalad, was blasted to the far shore of the lake, all vomiting blood, their auras withered, clearly not long for this world…
