Chapter 2431 Successive Harvests

The mushy color of burning blood soaked into the boundless crimson earth beneath.

In this vast and bleak region, the Yellow Spring Road ran into the depths, while every other bit of space was covered in black mist.

Even one’s spirit sense could not peer into this mist.

Following the green sparrow's instructions, Lin Xun traveled fast on the blood-red Yellow Spring Road instead of using teleportation.

His speed was naturally far below that of teleportation, but this was the safest and most stable approach.

Along the way, Lin Xun clearly sensed a cold and savage energy in the atmosphere that was permeated with a sanguinary aura.

This was like a place where the gods had spilled their blood, like a tragic ancient battlefield where the air was filled with a stench that made the mind violent.

If one's will was not firm enough, then their heart demon might be stimulated by this bloody energy, and their emotions would spiral out of control. One would transform into a madman with a thirst for killing, and they might fall into obsession, which would destroy their dao foundation!

Even Lin Xun had to run his cultivation to keep his mind and dao heart clear while moving forward with vigilance.

Boom!

Abruptly, a group of Netherworld Soldiers rushed out from the thick mist. They were riding big warhorses that were also made of black mist. The eyes of those horses were dark hollows, their mouths and noses spurted out corrosive black air currents, and their auras were ferocious.

Meanwhile, the soldiers were covered in black armor, only revealing a pair of scarlet, bizarre pupils that radiated a merciless glow.

There were thirteen of them, all draped in drifting black mist and wielding weapons. Each of them exuded an aura no weaker than that of a third realm Emperor.

However, they gave off the feeling that they were one whole entity. Their breaths harmonized with each other to produce a ferocious might that far exceeded that of the third realm!

“Kill!” bellowed the group of Netherworld Soldiers in unison. A matchless, tyrannical killing intent spread from them, stirring up the area.

Rumble~

The warhorses under them moved. Unexpectedly, they used teleportation, arriving before Lin Xun in an instant with their hooves stomping down at him.

At the same time, the soldiers on them stabbed out black spears at lightning speed. Their combined might was so strong that it shattered the void around them.

What was even more terrifying was the power they emitted from head to toe. It was actually a bizarre law power of the great dao!

Under such an attack, Lin Xun showed no emotions while the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron flew out with a roar and erupted with billions of rays of gorgeous light.

In a deafening explosion, the thirteen Netherworld Soldiers, along with their horses, were crushed. They burst into rolling black mist that was all swallowed up by the sword cauldron.

The group of enemies had been utterly destroyed with a single blow!

This stunned Lin Xun. He had held back with this strike, intending to test the depths of the Netherworld Soldiers and the mysterious power they controlled.

Who would have thought that the other party would be directly blown up like paper?!

Of note, a third realm Emperor wouldn’t be this weak, not to mention that the combined strength of these Netherworld Soldiers far exceeded that of the third realm.

Despite that, they had been obliterated so easily.

“It's the power of the netherworld that’s been collected into the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron...”

Lin Xun quickly noticed something different about the strange, flickering runes that diffused netherworld energy in the sword cauldron.

After the black mist left by the thirteen Netherworld Soldiers was devoured, the runes were visibly clearer, although still blurry.

Lin Xun counted a total of eighty-one runes, and each of them gave off an aura that belonged to the netherworld.

“It seems that these weird runes give the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron a natural power to restrain Netherworld Soldiers. Only this can explain why those Netherworld Soldiers were crushed so easily!” Lin Xun quickly understood.

He temporarily called this power ‘netherworld power.’

He called those runes ‘netherworld runes.’

As for the netherworld territory that the Nirvana law power had just absorbed and created in its realm, he called it the Netherworld Order.

“Your lifebound Emperor weapon has indeed changed,” marveled the green sparrow with a look that said ‘I can still figure out some details even if you don't tell me.’

Lin Xun laughed and continued moving forward.

It didn't take long before he encountered another group of Netherworld Soldiers, this time with over thirty in numbers. Each of them was seething with ferocious and murderous intent.

Generally, when faced with such a situation, an Emperor expert would immediately flee, certainly not daring to engage in this kind of battle.

However, how could Lin Xun miss this opportunity after he had already learned about the new, wondrous ability of his sword cauldron?

Boom!

The sword cauldron glided out.

In just several blinks of an eye, the whole bunch of Netherworld Soldiers were slain. The black mist they were reduced to after death got swallowed up by the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron.

Lin Xun noticed right away that the eighty-one netherworld runes inside the sword cauldron had solidified much further.

In particular, one of them showed faint signs of becoming complete!

This change in the netherworld runes also caused the netherworld power they released to increase by a chunk.

The new gain energized Lin Xun, and he couldn't help but look forward to the metamorphosis when all of the eighty-one netherworld runes became clear and complete.

Soon, Lin Xun resumed on the road.

One day.

Two days.

Three days.

Time passed as he frequently encountered attacks from Netherworld Soldiers along the way, as few as four or five and as many as several dozens each time.

In response to this kind of prey that delivered themselves to his door, Lin Xun of course unpretentiously used the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron to erase them all.

After three days of absorbing power, five of the eighty-one netherworld runes in the sword cauldron had become complete and clearly visible.

They now looked like five breathing, swimming fish, full of strange and unpredictable intelligence that the rest of the netherworld runes could not compare to.

The Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron had also grown much more terrifying in the way of dealing with Netherworld Soldiers, presenting an absolutely dominating power!

......

“That guy must be a supreme Great Emperor from some Immortal Imperial Clan, right?”

A group of figures was trailing far behind Lin Xun on the Yellow Spring Road.

In the past three days, they had been following him all the way without being under any attacks, thus avoiding all sorts of fatal dangers.

This was of course thanks to Lin Xun. He was the equivalent of a trailblazer, cutting through the thorns and clearing the obstacles for the ones behind.

However, while taking great advantage, these cultivators had also been shocked by the power he displayed to the point their mind could not feel calm at all.

By this point, their mindset had been completely altered, and they were filled with awe and fear toward Lin Xun.

One of them gruffly said, “No matter who he is, he's definitely a menace we can't afford to mess with!”

An elder among them immediately admonished, “Pay attention to what you say. We have been taking advantage of him all the way, and he has most likely noticed us long ago, but he doesn’t seem to care. He clearly is just too lazy to bother with us.

“I suggest that when that fellow daoist runs into trouble that he can’t solve, we lend him a hand.”

The speech had the approval of the crowd.

Lin Xun had of course detected their presence, but after seeing that they were only following him from afar without any malicious intent, he paid them no heed.

After seven days on the Yellow Spring Road like this.

The netherworld runes in the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron had metamorphosed again and gained seven more complete runes. Together with the previous ones, there were now a total of twelve perfect netherworld runes!

With this kind of repeated harvests, the fights along the way were no longer boring, but instead filled Lin Xun with a sense of anticipation.

However, the next day went by without any gain. He did not encounter a single Netherworld Soldier.

The abnormal occurrence made Lin Xun frown.

It can’t be that someone is a step ahead of me and has cleared out all the Netherworld Soldiers on this path?

It was very likely!

After all, there was only one Yellow Spring Road, which was no more than a thousand feet wide. If there was a group of powerful experts walking ahead, then any Netherworld Soldier on their way would automatically be swept.

This meant the cultivators behind them would not encounter anything too dangerous, which was undoubtedly equal to taking a huge advantage, a very lucky thing.

However, to Lin Xun, it was an unpleasant situation.

Because it meant that he might not be able to gather enough power to improve his netherworld runes!

How could he be happy about this?

He immediately quickened his pace.

Shortly after, he detected chaotic and intense fluctuations coming from the dark and hazy mist in the far distance!

It looked like a big battle was taking place there.

“Indeed.” Lin Xun’s speculation was verified.

Whoosh!

He transformed into a light streak that shot toward the area producing energy fluctuations.

“Kill!”

Intense fighting sounds pierced the sky, disturbing the wind and clouds. It was as if gods and devils were shouting.

“Kill!”

A variety of horrifying dao arts mixed with the colors of various treasures rushed across the heavens, bursting with blazing light that lit up the whole space.

“Kill!”

Figures of Emperor experts roamed across the void. Clearly from the same camp, they were fighting side by side.

What was transpiring resembled a fierce battlefield. Blood was splashing. Treasures were flying. Powerful skills reverberated through the sky and earth, exploding with infinite light.

That was what greeted Lin Xun when he arrived. Feeling the tragic aura hitting him, he couldn't help become serious.

The opponents of those Emperor experts were an army of Netherworld Soldiers led by a Netherworld General. There were hundreds, thousands of soldiers, riding warhorses and fighting fiercely as they galloped in the churning black mist.

The sole Netherworld General was the scariest of them all. Its armor gleamed with streaming blood-red light, and in its hand was a black halberd. It emitted a brutal might that changed the atmosphere.

It was at least as strong as a Ninth Realm Ancestor!

The army of Netherworld Soldiers was also not half bad. Together, their energy blended and they coordinated impeccably. When they roamed across the field and attacked, they formed a grand killing formation.

Each of the soldiers was fearless of death. Every combined strike they made was sheer terror, seemingly capable of chopping the void to pieces and turning the world upside down.

It was naturally much easier to deal with only dozens of Netherworld Soldiers, but in this situation, there were up to thousands of them, densely packed and crowding every bit of space. The sight was enough to make the scalp of any Emperor tingle!

Coupled with the fact that a Netherworld General was presiding over them, even Ninth Realm Ancestors would be exhausted before they could kill off all the soldiers. In fact, they might even be drained to death in the midst of it!