chapter 13
13. Illusions Abound
Lin Nuo crouched slightly, as if preparing to start a race.
In an instant, twenty Lin Nuos scattered, running in all directions.
This dumbfounded the men in black.
Damn, nineteen illusions? Which one is the real body?
“Annihilate them all!”
One of the men in black commanded, the others complied, and their demonic powers were unleashed, striking multiple Lin Nuos.
Yet all was in vain.
The sword fell.
“Ah!”
Caught off guard, a figure in black collapsed.
“The real body, there!”
The assailants in black pinpointed their target and immediately gave chase.
Shadows merged into one, all returning to the original form as spiritual energy converged.
“Die!”
With a swing of his sword, Lin Nuo unleashed a blade of energy, striking one down, dead on the spot.
Two fell in quick succession, leaving the attackers feeling as if facing a formidable enemy.
“Kill, we must kill him quickly.”
“Do you think that’s possible?”
Lin Nuo deftly dodged the attacks of the remaining two assailants, once again splitting into nineteen shadows.
“Damn it, not again.”
The two in black weaved through the illusions, unable to discern Lin Nuo’s true form.
Another sword strike, another falls into a pool of blood.
Only the last one in black remained, struggling desperately, surrounded by nineteen Lin Nuos.
“Damn it, if I’m going to die, you’re coming with me!”
In a furious roar, the remaining assailant let loose, forcing out all his spiritual power. His body turned red-hot, igniting into flames.
Boom!
A violent explosion shook the earth, blasting a huge hole in the ground, and the running Lin Nuos vanished into ash.
The fierce flames rapidly expanded, dispersing the thick white fog.
The young man’s figure was gone, seemingly perished in the blast.
However…
“With my current body, one explosion would probably be the end of me.”
Lin Nuo jumped down from a tree, “That’s the way of the Demon Refining Sect disciples, if they can’t win, they just self-destruct, hoping for mutual destruction.”
Self-destruction technique, an extreme demonic art, burning all the spiritual power within, exploding without a care, with an incalculable force of the blast.
But Lin Nuo had anticipated this self-destructive move from the Demon Refining Sect disciple, leaving nineteen shadows to play along while his true body hid and watched.
However, the reserve of second-tier spiritual power is truly pathetic, almost depleted after just one battle, only able to eat a few spiritual pills to recover slightly, better to avoid splitting too much from now on.
“Pity, the bodies were blasted away, no equipment to loot. Oh right, Su Kexin.”
Lin Nuo quickly pulled out the Xuanpan to check Su Kexin’s location.
“I only fought for a moment, and she’s run so far? I remember you’re the protagonist, not a professional deserter, right?”
Lin Nuo saw from the Xuanpan that Su Kexin was rapidly retreating, while Liu Shuqin was still nearby. It was probably Liu Shuqin who told her to retreat quickly. She stayed to find him, Lin Nuo. After all, if Lin Nuo ran, she would definitely not ignore it.
Good, Liu Shuqin not being with her was a great opportunity. Chase after her!
However, at his current speed, catching up normally, Su Kexin would probably be back in the safe zone, and there’d be no point in following her.
Right, he had just picked up a map; he could take a shortcut.
Lin Nuo quickly changed direction, taking a shortcut to chase after Su Kexin.
Hmm? There was a faint demonic aura.
As a former world-ending villain, he was extremely sensitive to even the slightest demonic aura.
It must be someone from the Demonic Cultivation Sect.
Lin Nuo sensed someone and quickly hid by the weeds.
At that moment, a bald man, no, a crew-cut man, walked out of the woods.
This honest-looking crew-cut man with squinted eyes, Lin Nuo hadn’t forgotten him, Zhong Ping, who had greeted them before.
Zhong Ping looked around and continued forward as if nothing was amiss.
Lin Nuo found it strange. The direction from which Zhong Ping appeared was exactly where the demonic aura was emanating. What was this guy doing? Fighting with the disciples of the Demonic Cultivation Sect?
Curious, Lin Nuo turned to look and found several people lying in the weeds, dressed in the uniforms of the Imperial Forest Sect’s disciples.
He observed their condition and found that they were already dead.
There wasn’t a single wound on them, as if they had died from internal force.
【This must have been caused by the erosion of demonic aura】
Lin Nuo thought, having an idea in his mind.
Demonic aura erosion, one of the evil techniques of demonic cultivation, simple physical contact, patting shoulders or shaking hands, could force the demonic aura into the opponent’s body, causing internal veins to rupture and death.
This evil technique of demonic cultivation could kill invisibly, and the level of demonic cultivation technique was at least above average.
Their spiritual weapons and elixirs had all been taken, this was a high-level case of murder for loot.
Goodness, he hadn’t even picked up any equipment yet.
【It’s very likely him】
Lin Nuo remembered the crew-cut giant, those squinted eyes that could hardly open, he had a clue.
They say those with squinted eyes are monsters, and comics and novels do not deceive me.
Of course, why they were in conflict had little to do with him, Lin Nuo. He just needed to confirm it, and in the future, he would avoid Zhong Ping.
Go, continue on the road.
After some delay, Lin Nuo needed to take a shortcut at a faster speed to catch up with Su Kexin. In the current chaos, killing her would be all too easy.
He heard the clamor growing closer, along with intense fluctuations of spiritual power.
“Help, save me!”
Lin Nuo encountered a group of cultivators locked in fierce battle with disciples of the Demon Refining Sect, some were fighting a ferocious black dragon ahead, each one wounded, bloodied, some fallen, some devoured, the casualties were severe.
[It’s that dragon again.]
Lin Nuo recognized it; it had devoured Liu Fei before, and now it had come this way.
Forget it, ignore it.
But he couldn’t just ignore it. Cliffs surrounded him, and there was only one path, now blocked by the dragon.
One dragon stands guard, a thousand men retreat.
“Lin, Brother Lin Nuo!”
Suddenly, he heard a shout and looked over to see a graceful girl fighting the Demon Refining Sect disciples.
Wasn’t that Zhao Yueqing, Zhou Jianhu’s fellow disciple?