166: Chapter 166 Dragonborn Form, Instant Kill

Cao Shen stood in mid-air, surrounded by black mist, the crack on his forehead that Lin Mo had slashed was healing rapidly.

Behind him, the phantom of the Shadow of a Thousand Eyes and a Thousand Tentacles was still slowly descending.

Countless black tentacles coiled around Cao Shen's body, like some living thing, continuously pouring evil intent, Spirit power, blood energy, and filthy energy into his body.

Cao Shen's aura was also climbing step by step at a shocking speed.

The evil arts fluctuation that had been suppressed by Lin Mo was now rising again, with even a faint sign of a counterattack.

"Haha... Hahahaha!"

Cao Shen raised his head, black patterns surging in the depths of his eyes, his mouth curling into a twisted, hideous arc.

"Lin Mo, do you see this?"

"This is... true power!"

Boom!

He took a step forward, the black mist behind him exploded, and his palm strike transformed directly into a giant black claw, grabbing toward Lin Mo's head.

Under this claw, even the air was torn into terrifying cracks.

Lin Mo did not meet it head-on, but used Void-Treading Cloud-Scaling Steps to flash repeatedly, his figure dodging the frontal edge like lightning.

But Cao Shen's speed was now several times faster than before.

Under the blessing of the Evil Shadow's power, every one of his attacks seemed to carry malice that corroded heaven and earth, forcing Lin Mo to retreat continuously.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

High in the sky, the two fought crazily.

Lin Mo's blade light was like thunder, Cao Shen's black mist was like a tide.

Blade and claw collided constantly, air waves exploded in layers, grinding all the surrounding remaining black mist, gravel, and bone fragments into powder.

But soon, Lin Mo keenly sensed that something was wrong.

Cao Shen's strength was rising rapidly!

Although the phantom of the Master of a Thousand Eyes and a Thousand Tentacles had not fully descended, it was continuously pouring higher-level power into Cao Shen's body.

If this continued, Cao Shen would become harder and harder to kill.

If he dragged it out, even if he could block Cao Shen, he would be dragged into a more dangerous situation by that phantom step by step.

"Can't drag this out anymore."

Lin Mo's eyes turned cold, and he made a judgment in his heart instantly.

He had to finish this quickly.

The next instant, a certain power that had been dormant in his body suddenly began to awaken.

It was as if some ancient existence sleeping deep in his bloodline had finally opened its eyes at this moment.

[Ding — Dragonborn Form activated!]

The system prompt sounded suddenly in Lin Mo's mind.

[Physical Defense +500%!]

[Elemental Immunity 99%!]

[Dragon Might Intimidation: Suppresses all creatures with bloodlines lower than the dragon race!]

[Dragon Race Memory Inheritance: Gain partial dragon race combat instincts!]

[SSS-Rank Hidden Dragon Emerging from the Abyss adaptation rate: 100%!]

[Spirit consumption reduction: 70%!]

Boom—!

A completely different, terrifying aura suddenly erupted from Lin Mo's body.

His body began to undergo visible changes wrapped in lightning and golden dragon intent.

Bones stretched, muscles reshaped, fine dragon scale patterns appeared on the surface of his skin, and bone-like dragon ridges rose faintly behind his back.

In his pupils, golden-red vertical slits flashed by.

His entire aura transformed from a sharp humanoid war blade directly into an ancient ferocious dragon about to emerge from the abyss.

"What is that?!"

Gu Yunting was the first to shout out in loss of voice.

He had been fighting the remaining Mimics below, but now he looked up suddenly, his eyes filled with disbelief.

Ji Wuchen also froze for a moment, his long spear almost slipping from his grip.

"Dragon... dragon kind?"

He muttered almost subconsciously.

Lei Wanjun even turned his head abruptly, his eyes almost popping out.

"This kid... really isn't human?"

Shen Guhong was usually calm, but a deep shock flashed across his eyes at this moment.

Daoist Master Yun Yao was even stunned, her formation incantations almost stalling.

"He actually has such a trump card..."

In mid-air, Lin Mo's figure had completely finished changing.

Under the Dragonborn Form, he was wrapped in a layer of light alternating between dark gold and thunder white.

His shoulders and back were broader, his spine straighter, and the lines of his arms were full of explosive power like the claws of an ancient dragon.

When those golden-red vertical pupils swept over, even Cao Shen's movements paused significantly.

"What is this aura..."

Cao Shen's eyes shrank violently.

At that moment, he actually felt an instinctive suppression from Lin Mo.

Not from the realm.

Not from the moves.

But a suppression from the depths of the bloodline.

[Dragon Might Intimidation] triggered!

The blood energy and black mist in Cao Shen's body, which were already forcibly piled up by the Evil Shadow and extremely unstable, actually showed an imperceptible pause at this moment.

This pause was enough.

Lin Mo took a step forward.

Boom!

A circle of white air waves exploded directly under his feet in the void.

His whole body, like a real dragon emerging from the sea, rushed to Cao Shen's front in an instant.

His speed was several times faster than before!

Cao Shen's expression finally changed, and he hurriedly raised his palms to block.

But Lin Mo's punch was no longer the power of his previous state.

Bang!!!

With one punch, Cao Shen was sent flying horizontally on the spot, the black mist protecting his chest shattering inch by inch.

He spat out a mouthful of black blood while still in mid-air, his eyes full of shock and anger.

"How is this possible!"

Lin Mo did not give him any chance to breathe.

With the blessing of the Dragonborn Form, his movement, reaction, strength, explosive power, and combat instincts were all raised to a terrifying level.

What the Dragon Race Memory Inheritance brought was not just power.

But also combat intuition.

How to cut in with the shortest distance.

How to deal the maximum damage with the fewest movements.

How to completely tear an enemy apart at the moment their aura is weakest.

These things seemed to have already existed in his mind.

Lin Mo slashed down, and a dragon-shaped outline appeared faintly on the blade.

Cao Shen roared and raised his hand to counterattack, but his arm was forcefully knocked crooked by Lin Mo's elbow strike.

The next instant, Lin Mo followed with a backhand knee strike, slamming hard into Cao Shen's abdomen.

"Pfft—!"

Cao Shen's internal organs felt as if they had been shifted, and his whole body bent into an extremely twisted bow.

But Lin Mo still didn't stop.

Under the Dragonborn Form, he had completely entered a suppression rhythm.

Every time Cao Shen wanted to use the power of the Evil Shadow to repair, he was interrupted by Lin Mo at a faster rhythm.

Every time he wanted to pull away, he would be instantly closed in on by the Void-Treading Cloud-Scaling Steps.

Every time he wanted to summon black mist tentacles, they were smashed by Lin Mo's punch.

"This guy... is actually suppressing Cao Shen?!"

Ji Wuchen was completely dumbfounded.

"Wasn't it fighting so fiercely just a moment ago? How did it suddenly become like this!"

Lu Chenzhou swallowed subconsciously, almost letting go of the gauntlets in his hands.

"This Lin Mo... is really a monster!"

Lei Wanjun stared at the high sky and said in a deep voice:

"That guy now... has completely become a real dragon."

Above the sky, Cao Shen had been beaten into constant retreat.

The black mist dissipated, the protective evil patterns collapsed, and his shoulders, chest, arms, and waist were all blasted with deep and shallow wounds by Lin Mo.

And the phantom of the Master of a Thousand Eyes and a Thousand Tentacles behind him was still continuously pouring power into his body.

But this time, it was too late.

Because Lin Mo did not intend to give him any more time.

"It's over."

Lin Mo said in a low voice.

In his dragon pupils, the coldness was like frost.

He slowly took a half-step back, and all the power in his body gathered toward the blade and his right arm at this moment.

The air began to vibrate.

On the ground below, the gravel was slightly sunken by this impending explosive power.

At that moment, everyone felt it.

Lin Mo was about to deliver the final blow.

Cao Shen's expression changed drastically, he frantically drove the Evil Shadow power in his body, and the black mist behind him crazily condensed into a giant hand claw, slapping hard toward Lin Mo.

But Lin Mo just raised his head.

Then, his whole body, like a hidden dragon that had been suppressed for a long time, suddenly rushed forward.

"Hidden Dragon Emerging from the Abyss!"

Boom—!!!

At that moment, it was as if an ancient dragon shadow sleeping under the abyss broke through the air with this claw strike from Lin Mo.

The dragon's roar shook the sky.

Golden lightning exploded, piercing directly through Cao Shen's chest.

The look in Cao Shen's eyes suddenly froze.

He looked down at the blood hole that had been completely pierced through his chest, black mist and black blood spraying out wildly.

"No... impossible..."

He opened his mouth, his eyes full of unwillingness, shock, anger, and disbelief.

Lin Mo stood in front of him, the Dragonborn Form still not dispelled, his golden-red vertical pupils coldly looking down at him.

"You lost!"

As the words fell!

Boom!!!

Cao Shen's entire body began to shatter inch by inch starting from his chest.

Black mist, bones, flesh, evil patterns, life threads, all were completely torn apart in this one strike.

He didn't even have time to let out a final scream before he turned into black ash all over the sky, completely annihilated in the high sky.

At that moment, the entire battlefield went silent for a moment.

Everyone saw it clearly.

Cao Shen was dead.

The mastermind who had linked countless Mimics, Fallen Ones, blood sacrifices, and offering arrays together had finally been killed by Lin Mo himself.

Daoist Master Yun Yao let out a long sigh of relief, Lei Wanjun's body swayed, almost unable to stand steady.

Shen Guhong looked up at the sky, but there was no relaxation on his face.

Because—

The Evil Shadow hanging over the crack was still there.

Not only was it still there, it hadn't dissipated in the slightest because of Cao Shen's death.

On the contrary, it seemed to have become clearer.

Those dense eyes seemed to be looking coldly down at the ground.

As if Cao Shen's death was nothing more than discarding a used tool to it.

"What's going on?" Ji Wuchen's face turned pale.

"Cao Shen is dead, why is it still there?"

Daoist Master Yun Yao's expression changed drastically at this moment.

The next instant, the Shadow of a Thousand Eyes and a Thousand Tentacles that had been entrenched in the high sky slowly turned.

Its gaze swept over everyone from the blood-stained battlefield and finally stopped in a certain direction.

Lin Mo also sensed it at the same time.

He turned his head abruptly and looked at the figure standing not far away.

Shen Yi.

At this moment, the layer of aura peculiar to Mimics on Shen Yi's body, under the oppression of the Evil Shadow that had not yet completely dissipated, was faintly forming a strange resonance with it.

That was not the malice after pollution, but a kind of compatibility.

A kind of perfect adaptation.

In an instant, Lin Mo's pupils shrank violently.

"Perfect Mimic..."

He spat out these words in a low voice.

Shen Yi's expression also changed slightly, as if she finally realized that something was wrong.

And the Evil Shadow in the sky had slowly raised a "hand" condensed from countless black tentacles.

That hand was pointing remotely at Shen Yi.

"It has its eyes on Shen Yi!" Lu Chenzhou shouted in loss of voice.

Daoist Master Yun Yao's face was pale.

"It wants to use her as a new vessel!"

Boom!

Before the words fell, the Evil Shadow had already made its move.

A black long ray pierced down from the crack in the sky, not targeting Lin Mo, nor the elders, but the center of Shen Yi's forehead.

The speed was too fast.

So fast that everyone didn't even have time to react.

The energy around Shen Yi shook, and she was locked by that black ray, unable to move.

At that moment, a very faint black pattern appeared in the depths of her eyes, as if some will was about to awaken in her body.

"Not good!"

Lin Mo took a step forward, pushing Void-Treading Cloud-Scaling Steps to the limit instantly.

But just as he was about to rush over, several black tentacles in the sky swept down simultaneously, forcibly blocking his path.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Where the tentacles passed, the space collapsed directly, and the ground was pulled into hideous cracks.

Lin Mo's eyes turned cold, he slashed his long blade horizontally, lightning intent erupted, knocking a tentacle aside.

But the second and third ones followed one after another.

The Evil Shadow didn't intend to give him a chance at all.

It wanted to take Shen Yi first, then use the vessel to recast its descent.

And Shen Yi was a Perfect Mimic herself.

This was its ideal choice.

"You are courting death."

Lin Mo's eyes turned completely cold.

He no longer reserved any power, and his whole body turned into a bolt of lightning, forcibly breaking through the blockade.

At this moment, the edge of Aurora Flowing Cloud Slash, the remaining lightning core of Thunder Dragon Break, and the protective intent of Starlight Moon Condensation were all pressed into the blade by him.

The blade rose.

Thunder roared.

A thin, long, yet incomparably violent thunder line directly tore open the black tentacles blocking the front.

Lin Mo arrived.

But just as he was only a few feet away from Shen Yi, the Evil Shadow suddenly let out a hiss so low it made the soul go numb.

Immediately after, the black mist hanging down from the crack in the sky turned into a giant pupil, staring directly at Lin Mo.

The next second, Lin Mo felt the blood in his body stagnate, as if he had been nailed to the spot.

This was the will anchoring from an existence of a higher order!

"Get lost!"

Lin Mo roared, the energy in his body surged wildly, forcibly tearing open the sense of being locked for an instant.

And it was this instant—

He slashed down.

Boom!!!

Lightning and black light exploded simultaneously.

The Evil Shadow projection in front of Shen Yi was forcibly knocked off by half an inch, not completely piercing into her forehead.

But the price was that Lin Mo was knocked flying by the recoil force, hitting the remains of the Bone Platform heavily, a trace of blood overflowing from his mouth.

"Lin Mo!"

Daoist Master Yun Yao's exclamation came from afar.

And above the sky, the Evil Shadow seemed to be completely enraged.

It slowly turned toward Lin Mo, dozens of eyes opening wide simultaneously, and the whole world seemed to fall into dead silence at this moment.

Then, it abandoned Shen Yi.

No.

More accurately, it just temporarily let go of Shen Yi.

Because it had decided to kill Lin Mo first.

At that moment, the entire sky seemed to be watched by countless eyes at once.

Lin Mo slowly stood up straight, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes showing no sign of backing down.

He knew that the real battle was just beginning now.

"Come on."

Lin Mo said softly.

The blade was raised, and his fighting Spirit condensed again.

This time, what he was facing was no longer a human.

But a phantom of a deity above the ninth rank!