Chi!

Blood spattered as Lin Taizhen screamed. The blow had severely wounded her and almost sent her collapsing on the ground from horror.

With just one blow, she had almost died. She couldn’t believe it, let alone accept it.

How could a teenager at the Cyclic Derivation Stage possess such terrifying strength?

“Little bastard!” As Lin Taizhen released a shrill scream, her white hair pulsated and her blood and qi frantically circulated her body. Within seconds, the broken right arm was restored and the bone-deep wounds all around her body were healed.

“I’m going to kill you!” she fumed, believing that it was her carelessness that led to the defeat.

So, she didn’t hesitate to strike again.

Boom!

Her body suddenly shone brilliantly, and a cloud of qi rushed up to the sky. As she stretched out her hand, a purple sword appeared in her grip, and razor-sharp sword rain lashed down from above.

The void split apart with an ear-piercing whistle.

Lin Taizhen was regarded as a powerful expert among the half-step kings because she had mastered ancient secret arts and possessed tyrannical strength.

Shockwaves swept out, and the earth quaked wildly. Several mountains and valleys within a radius of thousands of miles were severed and crumbled from the sword slash.

However, Lin Xun wouldn’t hold back!

“Star-Gather!” Azure light flared up and surged around him.

The Broken Blade flashed across the sky, as swift and elegant as a stream of light. Instantly, eternal darkness descended upon the world as though all the stars had been extinguished one by one.

Boom!

The earth-shaking crash was akin to the collision between two volcanoes.

Lin Taizhen blasted across the air, coughing up blood. She looked so battered and exhausted, especially with her disheveled white hair.

“Impossible, absolutely impossible!”

She screamed again and again, finding it more and more difficult to believe that someone at the Cyclic Derivation Stage would possess such mighty powers.

The first strike broke her arm and inflicted severe injuries on her.

This second strike sent her flying across the air and threw her into a panic.

It was too unbelievable!

Boom!

She launched another attack, refusing to believe that she couldn’t compare to a teenager at the Cyclic Derivation Stage.

Suddenly, qi flared up around her like flames. Purple swords danced across the sky and swept the clear sky like a torrential rainstorm. A terrifyingly fierce aura obscured heaven and earth.

Even a real half-step king wouldn’t dare to lower their guard in the face of that killing move.

Lin Taizhen had fought hundreds of battles in her life and had even slaughtered real half-step kings with her own hands in the past. She was very confident that this earth-shattering blow was enough to kill the majority of Cyclic Derivation cultivators in the world.

Even so, Lin Xun showed no intention of evading the attack. Instead, he brought the Broken Blade slashing across the air.

“Moon-Catch!”

A full moon seemed to be rising from the sapphire sea, sprinkling its wondrous silvery light across the world.

Rumble!

Drowned by the sacred moonlight, the rain of purple swords that filled the sky dimmed and disintegrated into a rain of light.

Lin Taizhen coughed up blood again, and a rush of pain shot through her. It was unknown how many strands of her white hair had been cut off, but she almost became bald.

Her eyes burst with anger, and she almost went berserk.

Before this, she treated Lin Xun as meat waiting to be slaughtered on the chopping board, and she thought that she wielded absolute power over him. She acted high and mighty and never took him seriously.

Who would have thought that within minutes she would be defeated again and again, and couldn’t even hold her ground?

Was the difference in strength between them that great?

It was terrifying to think that a half-step king failed to defend against a teenager at the Cyclic Derivation Stage and was tragically defeated in the end.

Anyone else would have thought that she was the Cyclic Derivation cultivator and the teenager was the half-step king!

“Old hag, don’t you want to repay my kindness with ingratitude? Come on then!” Lin Xun wore the most chilling expression.

He still wanted to vent the anger accumulated in his heart. This old hag is terrible. Not only did she not repay my kindness, but she also wanted to kill me. I can’t tolerate this.

“Little bastard, don’t be so arrogant!” Lin Taizhen snarled.

She was on the verge of going crazy. Her charming face had turned sinister and ferocious.

“Burning Sun!”

Lin Xun’s figure glowed brightly as the shadow of a divine wheel took shape behind him. Meanwhile, the Broken Blade erupted in a blaze of blinding light like the great sun.

Rumble!

Dazzling flames engulfed all directions, incinerating everything wherever it passed. The mountains melted, and the rivers instantly vaporized!

That grand and splendid power seemed endless like it wanted to incinerate heaven and earth.

“Ah—” Lin Taizhen screamed tragically. Her skin was scorched and cracked, and her white hair blackened. A charming and beautiful woman had become burnt charcoal.

So tragic!

Other cultivators wouldn’t believe it was her even if they saw her like that.

After all, a half-step king had failed to counter the attack of a Cyclic Derivation teenager. Instead, she looked like an ant trying to shake a tree. Who would believe that?

Clang!

Lin Xun put away the Broken Blade and strode down from the air. He resembled a divine being descending upon the world, especially against the backdrop of azure light circulating him and the dazzling divine wheel casting all sorts of mysterious visions.

This was his first battle after he passed the Three Cataclysmic Tribulations and became a great cultivator of the Cyclic Derivation Stage. Naturally, the power he displayed was different from the past!

In the past, he was only barely able to deal with a half-step king after exhausting all his strength and resorting to the No-Nonsense Bow and the Biluo Arrow.

But now, half-step kings were no longer a threat to him. This was the supreme power he gained from entering the supreme path of the Cyclic Derivation Stage!

The supreme path was akin to becoming the king of a cultivation stage!

Furthermore, Lin Xun had long strengthened his foundation and accumulated power to an unprecedented level, so that the supreme path he walked could be said to be unlike that of anyone else!

“What do you want?”

Lin Taizhen shrieked. She previously looked miserable and blinded with anger, but now she had come to her senses and couldn’t help feeling terrified.

After all, she would be really stupid if she was still unaware of her situation after suffering so many blows.

She couldn’t help shuddering with fear as she watched Lin Xun draw closer and closer. It was as though she saw a demon god approaching.

“I kindly brought the saintess of your clan back to you, and I had no other intentions, but you treated me badly and humiliated me. I can forgive that because ignorance is not a fault.”

Lin Xun continued to step forward, his black eyes flashing menacingly like lightning. “But you repaid my kindness with ingratitude and tried to kill me. Don’t you think you are shameless and despicable?”

“I’m only doing this for the safety of my clan!”

Lin Taizhen straightened her neck stubbornly and defended herself.

“You’re so shameless to use the excuse of protecting your clan as a cover! You are beyond help!”

Lin Xun smiled angrily, lifted his hand, and slapped the old witch across the face. The slap echoed. She screamed again and again, and her scorched face became red and swollen. Blood trickled down from her mouth and nostrils, and it was unknown how many teeth she had lost in the process.

It wasn’t until her mouth was so swollen that she couldn’t utter a sound that Lin Xun stopped and tossed her to the ground. “If you weren't an elder of Xiaochong, I would have killed you already!”

Lin Taizhen’s eyes smoldered with resentment, and her heart was filled with embarrassment and humiliation. She was a high and mighty half-step king, but she was beaten and taught a lesson by a junior. She wanted to find a hole to bury herself.

Lin Xun frowned. Seeing the resentment in Lin Taizhen’s eyes, he almost failed to restrain the murderous intent rushing up in his heart.

But he held back in the end. With a flip of his hand, he took out the jade box that Lin Taizhen gave him and threw it on the ground. “You can keep this thing yourself, so get the hell away from here!”

With that, he turned around and left.

He was worried that, if he stayed any longer, he wouldn’t be able to resist the impulse to kill the old hag. Ever since he started cultivating, he had never seen such a shameless old fellow.

“Little bastard, just you wait!”

Watching Lin Xun walk away, Lin Taizhen didn’t feel any gratitude. Instead, her resentment deepened.

Unfortunately for her, Lin Xun didn’t see her as a threat. Even if he didn’t kill her, he wasn’t afraid of her retaliating in the future!

Along the path of cultivation and in the battle of the great age, one would inevitably make many enemies. If a cultivator was worried about revenge and slaughtered everyone, becoming someone hated by the world, then what great dao would they cultivate and what longevity would they seek?

The enemy might become stronger in the future and try to retaliate, but as long as he continued to improve and grow, he would become stronger than the enemy!

This was the true confidence of a cultivator!

No matter how many tricks you have, no matter who you are, if you dare to come, then I will kill you all!

……

In the depths of the night.

On Azure Hill Mountain, Lin Taizhen returned. She might have tidied her appearance, but her vitality was very weak and her face was deathly pale and tired.

A group of young men and women flocked around her in high spirits.

“Elder, we have already heard from the saintess that the youngster who sent her back just now is the famous Demon God Lin!”

“Yes, he is a great benefactor of our clan. If he hadn’t protected the saintess, she would have met with an accident already.”

“Have you heard about Demon God Lin’s impressive feats? He killed countless black dog bastards and helped out the clan massively!”

The young men and women chattered excitedly, but they didn’t notice that Lin Taizhen’s face was extremely stiff.

“A while ago, a mysterious woman massacred the black dog bastard clan in their Yunman Mountain territory. Rumors are circulating in the world now that Young Master Lin is closely connected with the mysterious woman.”

“If that’s the case, then Young Master Lin is definitely our clan’s great benefactor!”

When Lin Taizhen heard this, her vision went dark for a second, as though someone had struck her in the head from behind.

“Demon God Lin...he is actually Demon God Lin...” she murmured, feeling as if she wanted to faint.

If she had known this earlier, would she have done all that?

She wanted to die when she thought about how she treated him and how she was violently beaten and reprimanded.

“No matter who you are, the grudge has already been formed. You might have helped our clan but...I can’t say that one day, I won’t retaliate in ten-folds for the humiliation and embarrassment I suffered today!” She gritted her teeth and made up her mind.

“Taizhen, where is Young Master Lin?” A gravelly voice snapped Lin Taizhen out of her anger.

An old man with the demeanor of a transcendent being appeared in the distance.

He was Lin Du, an elder of the Azure Hill Sky Fox Clan, who wielded great authority and influence within the clan.

Lin Taizhen’s expression drastically changed. She forcibly suppressed the turbulent emotions in her heart and stepped forward and bowed her head in shame. “Young Master Lin has important affairs to deal with. I tried very hard to ask him to be our guest but I wasn’t successful. I feel very ashamed…”