Chapter 71: Killing someone and destroying their spirit, crushing their bones and scattering their ashes

A dazzling white light illuminated the valley as bright as day.

A brilliant Sword Qi shot out from between Lin Xiao's brows.

At first, it was merely a slender white rainbow, but in an instant, it became like an inverted long river, vast and unstoppable!

The palm print shattered upon contact, turning into a burst of black mist.

Discovering that he was locked onto by the Sword Qi, Protector Wu felt a fatal threat.

He dared not be careless and immediately took out a pitch-black Soul-Absorbing Banner.

The banner swelled in the wind, its surface surging with countless twisted human faces.

Tens of thousands of dead souls shrieked as they roared out from within, forming a gloomy sea of ghosts, attempting to block that brilliant sword light.

At the same time, Protector Wu rapidly formed hand seals, and an earthy-yellow light shield suddenly condensed, blocking in front of him.

The Sword Qi slashed into the ghost sea.

It did not pause in the slightest.

The tens of thousands of dead souls turned into nothingness in an instant.

The next instant, the Sword Qi landed solidly on the light shield.

Boom!

Violent shockwaves swept outwards, uprooting ancient trees that would take several people to encircle.

Seeing the Sword Qi blocked by the light shield, Protector Wu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, I have contributed much to the Soul Hall over these years, which is how I was lucky enough to obtain this Void Refining grade defensive Magical Artifact."

"Otherwise, I would have really fallen into this brat's hands today!"

His gaze towards Lin Xiao held a trace of wariness.

However, before he could be happy for too long, a cracking sound suddenly came from the Mysterious Yellow Shield, and in the blink of an eye, it was covered in cracks.

Protector Wu's pupils shrank.

The cracks spread rapidly, and the light shield eventually turned into tiny fragments.

But fortunately, this shield was a Void Refining grade Magical Artifact after all, and it successfully consumed most of the Sword Qi's power.

Feeling the locked Qi weaken, Protector Wu hurriedly dodged to the side.

"Ah!"

Following a shrill scream, he ultimately failed to avoid it completely and had his right arm cleanly severed by the residual Sword Qi.

No blood flowed from the severed arm, only thick black mist constantly churning and dissipating.

Protector Wu staggered back several steps, his eyes full of resentment and shock as he looked at Lin Xiao.

"It is actually the Origin Sword Qi of a Void Refining Cultivator."

"You brat have good Luck, to actually be able to make a Void Refining expert spare no cost to consume a sliver of Origin power just to bestow you a Sword Qi for self-defense."

Protector Wu gritted his teeth, his voice hoarse.

"But unfortunately, that is all!"

"How precious is Origin power; even for a Void Refining expert, separating a sliver will damage their Origin Qi."

"I do not believe you can slash out a second one!"

The black mist around Protector Wu churned again.

Lin Xiao's lips curled slightly, his eyes full of disdain.

"Who told you I only have one Sword Qi?"

"Sword, come!"

As soon as the words fell.

A dazzling white light shone from between Lin Xiao's brows once again.

The second Origin Sword Qi whistled out.

Protector Wu's heart turned to ash.

"Again?"

Lin Xiao had a second Sword Qi, but he did not have a second Mysterious Yellow Shield to block it.

Locked onto by a Void Refining expert's Origin Sword Qi, Protector Wu knew he could not escape and could only beg for mercy loudly:

"Little Friend!"

"No! Fellow Daoist!"

"No! Senior!"

"Spare my life, I really know I was wrong! As long as you let me go, I..."

Before Protector Wu could finish his words, the brilliant Sword Qi had already pierced through his body.

Then, he crumbled inch by inch, turning into flying ash and drifting away with the wind.

Because the Sword Qi contained Origin power, this strike not only destroyed Protector Wu's Physical Body but also destroyed his Divine Soul along with it.

Lin Xiao looked indifferent.

"You do not know you were wrong; you just know you are about to die."

Ye Bufan was stunned.

He looked at the vanished Protector Wu, his mind blank.

Ye Bufan could not have imagined that the backer he had just found would be destroyed by Lin Xiao in just two sword strikes.

A moment later, a helpless and desolate bitter smile appeared on Ye Bufan's face.

"I did not expect Revered Master to spare no cost in consuming Origin power just to bestow you two Origin Sword Qis."

"Indeed, Revered Master has never had me, this disciple, in his eyes."

Holding a golden Holy Sword, Lin Xiao walked towards Ye Bufan with a calm gait.

"No, you are wrong!"

Ye Bufan raised his head in confusion, a glimmer of hope flashing in his eyes.

He had thought Lin Xiao would say something like Revered Master never gave up on him.

But Lin Xiao just gently stroked the sword body with two fingers, then smiled playfully:

"It is not two; it is three!"

Ye Bufan felt a sweetness in his throat, and a surge of blood instantly rushed up, spilling from the corner of his mouth.

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for causing the Son of Luck's Dao Heart to shatter, gaining villain points: 5000]

Ye Bufan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth haphazardly, his face full of unwillingness:

"Lin Xiao, do you dare give me three years? Three years later, I will definitely..."

Before he could finish his sentence, his vision blurred.

The next instant, a golden longsword had already fiercely stabbed into his left chest.

Lin Xiao held the hilt, his eyes cold.

"Dare your head! When I play games, I always follow the principle: if I can push the crystal, I will never spawn-camp!"

Ye Bufan's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.

He opened his mouth, wanting to speak, but could only spit out a large mouthful of blood.

He never imagined until his death that Lin Xiao, as a Saint of the Holy Land, would be so lacking in martial virtue.

Lin Xiao looked at Ye Bufan's gradually unfocused eyes and frowned slightly.

To prevent the Son of Luck from having his heart on the right side, Lin Xiao pulled out the World-Plundering Blade, bringing up a spray of blood, and then unhesitatingly stabbed him in the right chest again.

Ye Bufan's body convulsed violently, blood foam constantly pouring from his mouth.

"Earlier, the Soul Hall Elder appeared, this brat might have put his heart back into his stomach!"

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao pulled out the sword again and stabbed it fiercely into Ye Bufan's stomach.

"No, earlier I killed the Soul Hall Elder, this brat might have had his heart in his throat!"

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao pulled out the sword again and slashed his throat, separating his head from his body.

Lin Xiao looked at the headless corpse on the ground and rubbed his chin.

"In ancient times, there was the Great Witch Xingtian who could still live without a head; this Son of Luck is very strange, so it is better to be safe."

After saying this, Lin Xiao stepped forward, swung his longsword, and slashed Ye Bufan's headless corpse across the waist, cutting it into 2.5 pieces.

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for successfully killing the Son of Luck!]

[Reward obtained: villain points: 100000, Luck bestowed, World Tree fragment x1]

[Luck bestowed: Grants the Host the same kind of dog-Luck as the Son of Luck. Due to the Villain Halo's effect, the protagonist will only gain Luck and will not gain the mass-taunt function.]

Looking at the Son of Luck fragments all over the ground, Lin Xiao felt it was still not safe enough and immediately summoned the Vermilion Bird True Flame to burn them to ashes.

"Phew, it should be fine now."

Just as Lin Xiao wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, above the firmament, the night sky, originally covered by dark clouds, suddenly cracked open a fissure.

A huge golden pupil slowly emerged from the fissure, staring at Lin Xiao without blinking.

The golden pupil exuded endless indifference and majesty, as if all things in the world were merely ants in its eyes.

With the appearance of the golden pupil, time froze at this moment.

Ye Qingwan had one foot in mid-air, maintaining a posture of running forward.

Leaves falling in mid-air hovered in the sky, no longer descending.

Lin Xiao was also unable to move, feeling a chill down his back.

Just at this moment, The Loli Girl with twin tails suddenly flew out from between Lin Xiao's brows.

The girl had eye-catching silver hair and wore a black dress full of modern flair.

She put her hands on her hips, not fearing that imposing heavenly might in the slightest, and pointed at the golden pupil in the sky while cursing loudly:

[What are you looking at! If you look again, this System will poke out your dog eyes!]

The next moment, the giant pupil slowly closed, the fissure disappeared, and a bright moon reappeared in the firmament.

The hovering falling leaves drifted down again, falling into the dust.

Time resumed its flow.

Lin Xiao felt his body loosen, and that terrifying sense of oppression dissipated instantly.

"Senior Brother, what are you looking at?"

Ye Qingwan looked towards the night sky, following Lin Xiao's gaze.

Lin Xiao frowned slightly and asked softly:

"Qingwan, did you see anything just now?"

Ye Qingwan shook her head, then threw herself into Lin Xiao's arms.

"Thank you, Senior Brother."

Lin Xiao rubbed the top of Ye Qingwan's head, his heart still immersed in the shock of just now.

"Bro System... is actually a girl!?"

The softness coming from in front of him and the faint fragrance lingering at the tip of his nose gave Lin Xiao a headache.

He looked up at the bright moon in the sky.

Tonight's moonlight is very good, very suitable for doing some things that one loves to do.