With one punch, the surrounding space collapsed!

Given Lin Xun’s current strength, he could easily kill the average Heaven Ascension cultivator with any old punch, not to mention a full-strength one.

The space crumbled like paper and the air raged violently.

Swoosh!

Where the space crumbled was a blurry figure narrowly evading the deadly blow.

Even so, it staggered from the blast of air generated by the punch and almost fell in midair.

At that moment, Lin Xun caught a glance of the opponent. It was an assassin covered in black combat clothes. The figure was slender and tall, but the face was unclear.

An obscure aura lingered around the body, able to avoid all perception and detection. From afar, it was extremely vague and blurry like a shadow.

“I recognize you. You attempted to assassinate me last time on the ship. Unfortunately, you failed,” Lin Xun uttered calmly, his black eyes glinting coldly.

He distinctly remembered the assassin’s aura because the assassin had almost killed him the last time. The memory was engraved deep in his mind. How would he forget it?

“Tell me, who are you? Among the successors of Spirit Treasure Holy Land, Su Xingfeng might hate me, but he has no need to deal with me in secret.” Lin Xun’s eyes flashed like lightning as he fixed the assassin with a piercing stare. “Or—do you want me to personally capture you and expose your true face?”

As he was speaking, splendid light surged around his body and Dao Ripple circulated. His aura soared to its peak. If the assassin showed the slightest intention to flee, he would attack with all his strength!

“Hand over the Saint Dao scripture or the pagoda and maybe I can give you a satisfactory answer,” the black-robed man said aloud, his voice grating and hoarse. It was obviously disguised.

Lin Xun’s black eyes lit up with understanding. “You attacked me on the ship because of the pagoda.”

“Correct.” The man in black seemed calm and fearless as though he was unafraid of Lin Xun knowing about his intention.

“Are you trying to stall for time?” Lin Xun suddenly asked.

“Aren’t you doing the same thing?” the man in black asked back.

Lin Xun laughed, stepped forward, and brought out Broken Blade with a slashing stroke, launching Star-Gather.

Lin Xun had mastered the three great moves of the Heavenly Yuan Blade Art. They each had their own mysterious powers, and there was no difference in strength between the three.

For example, Star-Gather emphasized surprise attacks and suppressing the spirit. Once struck, it would bring disastrous damage.

Moon-Catch was a sacred and vast power, transcendent like nothingness. But once struck, it produced a terrifying deadly power like purification.

As for Burning Sun, it was very simple. It was domineering and destructive like the powers of the scorching sun.

The fact that Lin Xun chose Star-Gather at that moment indicated he wanted to kill the opponent by surprise, suppress his spirit, and prevent him from escaping.

Boom!

Instantly, stars descended and eternal darkness drowned the world. It happened so unbelievably fast that it felt like a sudden nightmare.

However, the black-clothed figure strangely transformed into thousands of figures like black lightning bolts. Some actively launched attacks at Lin Xun while others fled in all directions.

From afar, figures of the black-clothed man were everywhere.

Rumble—

An earth-shattering destructive force swept the area, instantly annihilating the black figures charging towards Lin Xun.

Some evaded the blow and continued to charge at Lin Xun.

Strangely, some black-clothed figures had already fled to the distance.

The scene instantly turned chaotic.

One enemy had multiplied into thousands. How could he fight?

Myriad Apparitions!

What kind of cultivation art is that?

It was the first time that Lin Xun had come across such an amazing cultivation art that made it impossible to tell which man in black was real.

The art was mysterious and unpredictable, able to form thousands of fake illusions.

The world roared as Lin Xun attacked with all his strength. Blinding rays of blade light swept the area like starlight, reducing groups after groups of black figures into a rain of light.

“So the apparitions are just nothingness and don’t possess the same fighting power as the real body...” As Lin Xun blew out a breath of relief, his spirit power spread across the area, carefully identifying the real body.

The result shocked him.

The apparitions and the real body were identical in terms of the aura they exuded!

“Lin Xuan, the day we meet again will be the day you die!”

The black figure’s grating and hoarse voice echoed between heaven and earth as if it were being made by thousands of people.

Lin Xun’s face was overcast with a fierce frown. It wasn’t until he destroyed all the black figures in the area that he realized they were all apparitions and that the real body had long fled.

“What kind of cultivation art is that? How can it be so bizarre and amazing?” Lin Xun knitted his brows in frustration.

The black-robed figure had attempted to assassinate him twice and managed to escape both times. The person had mastered a mysterious cultivation that helped him transform into thousands of apparitions, which made it almost impossible to kill his true body.

Unless he could identify the real body!

His experience served as a wake-up call for him. He realized that the world was huge and there were countless geniuses and unimaginably mysterious cultivation arts in the world. He mustn’t let his guard down.

Shua!

He tossed aside all distracting thoughts, and his gaze shifted to the other side. A ruminative smile tugged the corners of his lips.

“You two, after watching for so long, it‘s time to show your face,” he said aloud.

He was on a low and ordinary hill enveloped in thick white mist, and there wasn’t a ripple of unusual aura. But as early as after the black figure’s attempted assassination, he sensed two figures hiding among the misty hill.

In the past, he wouldn’t be able to detect the two figures because they were shrouded in a mysterious light that concealed all auras.

The light integrated with heaven and the earth and transformed into the most common energy in the world, making it incredibly hard to detect.

However, Lin Xun was different from in the past. After breaking through to the Heaven Ascension Stage, his spirit power had been transformed. In addition, he was now practicing Moon Phases, the second stage of the Little Divine Meditation Art.

A divine moon was suspended in his mind-sea, shining brightly like a lighthouse. It significantly transformed his spirit-sensing power and allowed him to detect the most subtle details, which he couldn’t in the past.

Therefore, he regarded the two figures as comrades of the black-robed assassin when he detected their presence.

If not, he would have directly captured and killed the black-robed assassin and stalled for time.

The black-robed figure had long fled, but the two figures still showed no movements or intention to escape. Lin Xun realized that his speculation was wrong.

“Lin Xuan, I didn’t think you would be a hidden genius cultivator. But what surprised me the most is that you are from a lower-domain world. It’s so unbelievable.”

Following an amazed sigh, an innocent-looking boy in colorful clothes emerged from the hill.

It was Wen Xiang, a successor of Spirit Treasure Holy Land!

Beside him stood an extremely handsome young man in a red robe adorned with a white jade belt.

He stood with his hands clasped behind his back, looking cold and aloof. But blazing flames were swirling in his eyes. It was Su Xingfeng!

“It turns out to be you two.” Lin Xun was taken aback for a moment but then he said with a faint, imperceptible smile, “Let me guess…you two are here to snatch the pagoda or perhaps the Saint Dao scripture.”

Lin Xun might have been apprehensive about provoking the two when he was on the ship due to Elder Gao Yang’s presence, but he didn’t need to worry any longer.

“You are wrong. We are on the same side, and you are a friend of Senior Sister Jingxuan. How would we do anything to you?” Wen Xiang yelled as though he had been wronged.

“Oh, it seems like I am thinking too much then,” Lin Xun said indifferently.

“That might not be the case. We heard that a human boy was being hunted down, so we rushed over here to help. But we never thought that the human boy would be you. We didn't even think you could single-handedly crush all the other clans,” Wen Xiang exclaimed with amazement. “If we had known that you were that powerful, we would never treat you as a servant.”

Lin Xun didn’t treat Wen Xiang as a kid despite his appearance.

Wen Xiang appeared young only because he practiced a secret cultivation art. He was actually a genius who had been cultivating for many years. Lin Xun had to admit that he was inferior to him in terms of scheming and intelligence.

“In that case, I should thank you two for your kindness,” Lin Xun said calmly and didn’t expose them.

After all, he was only able to enter the Deva Secret Realm under the name of Spirit Treasure Holy Land. He didn’t want to ruin any relationships with Spirit Treasure Holy Land unless it was absolutely necessary.

“By the way, I wonder if you two recognized the black-robed figure just now,” asked Lin Xun.

“I don’t know.” Wen Xiang shook his head, looking perplexed.

Lin Xun smiled. “In that case, I will take my leave first.”

With a flash, he vanished.

“That guy must have guessed something,” murmured Wen Xiang, his countenance growing cold.

Su Xingfeng kept quiet from the beginning to the end. Only when Lin Xun vanished did he utter something, “Just now, I wanted to take action...”