Chapter 2213: The Most Fulfilling Achievement in Life

Despite her astonishment when finding out that Lin Xun possessed the legacy of Sword Emperor Taixuan, Xuan Caini never slowed down.

“Star Reversal Calamity, Total Destruction!”

With a wave of her fair hand, a monstrous sword intent burst out and shattered the void.

RUMBLE!

The region was in chaos. The sun and the moon lost their shine.

In the void, an ocean of blazing sword qi was manifesting all kinds of sword arrays, as tight as a cage and with the power to blot out the sky.

No matter how much strength Xuan Caini put into her attacks, they ended up being whittled away by the sword arrays to the very last one.

She even found that approaching Lin Xun had become difficult now.

Previously, when Lin Xun had used the way of drawing the sword, it had been as if the return of all sword strikes to one. Now, as he activated the Taixuan Sword Scripture, it was like the derivation of ten thousand arts with just one sword!

He skillfully used two contrasting supreme sword paths and generated different power with each one, but both were enough to eternally amaze history and the future.

Watching from the shadows, those Xuan Clan elders were inwardly shaken for a long time.

Meanwhile, Lin Xun was benefiting greatly from fighting a peerless Sword Emperor like Xuan Caini.

Even though he had experienced many bloody fights since entering the Supreme Emperor Stage, strictly speaking, he hadn’t yet encountered a formidable enemy that could take him head on.

The most valuable aspect was that he was relying solely on his own strength to fight her. This kind of serious battle that allowed him to hone himself was undoubtedly a very rare opportunity these days.

Lin Xun was like a world-class sword that had finally found a furnace that could give it thorough tempering!

In this blow trading, he struck to his heart’s content, completely letting go as he interpreted all of his dao and techniques.

For a time, endless sword qi covered the entire region!

Xuan Caini was also moved as she noticed the change in Lin Xun's state of mind and battle spirit. Her eyes lit up and her heart was in constant amazement.

This young man, who had only become a supreme Emperor recently, was able to climb to the same height as hers regarding the sword dao.

This was a remarkably rare case!

“Then I won't hold back either.” Xuan Caini's aura changed again.

Before this, she had been like a hunter who had found a rare treasure to spend a long time gazing at and pondering over.

Now, however, she truly viewed Lin Xun as a worthy match, a great opponent who could make her go all out to fight!

Boom!

Her colorful clothes fluttered and her white hair danced as the raging sword qi around her reflected the tragic scene of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. A murderous aura rolled out in all directions.

She was just a person, but it felt as though she was a supreme sword exalt who could suppress the gods!

One of the people watching from the dark was dumbstruck. “Has our little sister gone crazy? Why is she putting her life on the line for this?”

The other elders were also frightened. During the last three thousand years, Xuan Caini had been meditating alone in the nebula, cutting stars, chopping meteors, and stabbing at the void until she had long since perfected her sword dao to the limits.

In the unanimous opinion of the Xuan Clan, when Xuan Caini became a Sword Ancestor, her mastery of the sword would dominate all heavens in the Ancient Nebula Road. She would possess a power surpassed by no one in the present and rivaling that of Sword Emperor Taixuan.

Yet, at the moment, she was going all out in order to deal with a young man who had just stepped in the Supreme Emperor Stage. This was indubitable proof that Lin Daoyuan was no simple expert!

At the thought of this, some of the Xuan Clan elders wavered... Was it really a good idea to turn away such an exceptional young man simply because they didn’t want to offend Heavenly Emperor Shi?

“The next strike is the culmination from my three thousand years of painstaking training and studying ancient 1163 sword dao legacies,” Xuan Caini introduced as a matchless sharpness erupted from her and disturbed the atmosphere. She resembled a sword giant presiding over the world.

While she spoke, a sword qi emerged in her hand.

It was clean and simple like a vast autumn lake, but it reflected worlds and every detail within!

“Impressive…” Big Yellow’s pupils constricted. A cultivator of its level had seen more than enough astonishing geniuses, yet in Xuan Caini, it saw signs of a rising world-class Sword Ancestor!

Xia Zhi frowned, seemingly unable to sit still, but Big Yellow stopped her and said, “Regardless of whether the kid will succeed or fail to block this strike, it will only benefit him immensely. It’s an opportunity that one can usually only pray for.”

As for Xuan Jiuyin, it had long been impossible for him to see anything transpiring in the battlefield. This couldn’t be helped as his cultivation was really not high enough…

“I’m ready!” Lin Xun also took a deep breath, his eyes bright and his energy concentrated like never before. Focused in both mind and spirit, he had become a furnace.

“Watch carefully,” said Xuan Caini lightly as she chopped out her weapon.

This was the most murderous sword strike that she used her whole life refining. It was also the pinnacle power she could currently wield. The number of people in her generation who could force her to use it could be counted on one hand.

Facing the onslaught of this murderous strike, Lin Xun put his hands together. The void seemed to be emptied out, crumbling inch by inch as an illusory sword qi surged out from the collapse.

No Escape!

The current power of Lin Xun's No Escape had increased more than just a hundred times. As soon as it appeared, the weather was disrupted, yin and yang reversed, and the whole world was plunged into a despairing, helpless atmosphere of destruction.

According to Battle Emperor Mo Yang back then, she had conquered worlds and taken down countless enemies, but she only knew one sword strike called No Escape!

This was a kind of resolute sword heart, an attitude that once the sword was drawn, the master would be free from worries of success or failure, life or death;they would be completely carefree.

In the past, Lin Xun had only understood the ‘form’ of this strike.

Now, he had finally learned and executed its ‘intent’!

Forgetting all forms…was the most fulfilling achievement in life!

Buzz!

The sword qi that Xuan Caini had just chopped out suddenly shook like a restless beast being summoned by a fatal call, seemingly wanting to break free from her control!

Seeing this, her pupils fiercely shrunk. She mobilized her full strength to quell this struggling force.

Boom!

Lin Xun's strike had already arrived in the meantime. In that instant, the audience all sensed the aura of annihilation in the sword intent. They unconsciously held their breaths and revealed looks of disbelief.

Even Xuan Caini couldn’t control the shock showing on her face.

She suddenly found that it was no longer possible for her to evade unless she stopped trying to suppress her own sword qi from going out of control. Lin Xun’s strike was bound to hit her otherwise…

However, as a Sword Emperor who was obsessed with the sword, how could she just let her sword escape her grip?

That was tantamount to giving up her sword heart and discarding her sword dao!

Even if she survived in the end, a shadow would still be cast upon her dao heart. This was something Xuan Caini absolutely did not want to happen.

Therefore, her attack, without any retreat or hesitation, clashed with Lin Xun's.

RUMBLE!

It was like two great suns had collided in this heaven and earth. Boundless torrents of power erupted in all directions, ripping the void apart and shooting into the universe beyond.

The raging sword energy flattened the terrains. The rocks, grass, and trees were reduced to dust in what looked like an evaporation. The land was blasted and left with huge ravines.

In the sky, the clouds dispersed and the stars trembled!

All the living beings in this secret world had been startled, now shivering to the core as they looked around in horror.

The details of the collision had been cloaked from the eyes of Xia Zhi, Big Yellow, and the Xuan Clan elders. All they had seen was a blank whiteness, unable to peer into the wonders of the strikes at all.

It wasn’t that their cultivation wasn’t high enough. This kind of sword dao clash seemed simple and straightforward, but the fighters’ strikes had been embedded with their entire will, courage, mindset!

The mysteries in them were just inaccessible to outsiders.

When the smoke and dust dispersed, the once picturesque world was revealed to be a soul-shaking sight of total disfigurement. As if ruthlessly torn and kneaded by a massive hand, it was riddled with cracks and damages.

In the center of the battlefield, Lin Xun stood in the air with a sword wound on his ventral side. The blood pouring out from it had stained his clothes red. His face was so pale that it was almost transparent.

Standing ten thousand feet away, Xuan Caini looked uninjured. However, her eyes looked slightly unfocused. After a long trance, she lamented, “No Escape, proudly free from the limitations of forms. You have fully mastered the principle in this sword strike of Battle Emperor Mo Yang…”

Towards the end, there was a thin streak of blood at the corner of her lip, but it quickly disappeared.

Lin Xun took a deep breath and cupped his fist. “Thank you very much, Senior.”

Xuan Caini's attainments in the dao of the sword made him look up in awe and admiration.

“I didn't go easy on you.” Xuan Caini shook her head, then said, “From this moment on, you are an important guest of the Xuan Clan. Whoever obstructs you will be doing that against my wish and will have to answer to me.”

Swish!

She turned around, walking away as her snow-white hair and colorful clothes fluttered behind her. “During your stay, you are welcome to go find me at Stargazing Valley to spar at any time.”

Her voice was still echoing when she had already vanished.

Big Yellow sighed with emotions, “This girl’s mindset and strength are both among the best in the present age. If you hadn’t stepped into the Supreme Emperor Stage, then I'm afraid you wouldn't have been a match for her.”

Having witnessed the whole fight and seen Xuan Caini's unparalleled elegance in the dao of the sword, the dog knew that Lin Xun couldn’t be her opponent in a life-or-death fight unless he resorted to his special means.

“Lin Xun, how are your injuries?” Xia Zhi clearly didn't care about anything else but Lin Xun’s condition.

𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Lin Xun smiled and shook his head. “Nothing serious. Speaking of which, this battle has taught me a lot.”

There was an uncontrollable urge in him, encouraging him to fuse all of the sword legacies he had mastered together into a sword dao that truly belonged to him!

Similarly, if he wanted to perfect the Great Dao Furnace Art to the Emperor grade, he would have to fully understand the principles of the various arts he had inherited.

Only then could the Great Dao Furnace Art truly become his own Emperor scripture!

“Brother Lin, you're simply not human…” Xuan Jiuyin, who had been in a state of shock, finally came to his senses and looked at Lin Xun like the latter was a heaven-defying demon.

No one knew better than him what a terrifying Sword Emperor his younger aunt Xuan Caini was.

There might be many old monsters more powerful than her in their Xuan Clan, but when taking potential and foundation into consideration, her strength would surpass them one day!

It was not an exaggeration to say that Xuan Caini was the Sword Emperor with the brightest future in their clan, who would sooner or later dominate the nebula.

Yet, Lin Xun had just confronted her in a duel of the sword dao and not ended up losing!