Decaying World

Chapter 146, Chain 146 (Thanks to Alliance Leader Jiang Qingfeng)

"Shall we do it, or shall we?" a golden thread asked.

"Stop talking nonsense, of course we'll attack together and finish this quickly! Oh no, he's trying to escape!"

The three golden lines suddenly became anxious, and Lin Hui had already disappeared from their sight.

His expression immediately changed, and he quickly rushed towards the fog wall.

According to his aura perception, Lin Hui's internal energy was rushing into the fog area at a speed that left him speechless.

Behind him, a slightly slower golden thread also became anxious. Seeing that the credit he was about to gain was about to slip away, he hurriedly followed closely behind, catching up at full speed.

The two followed closely behind Lin Hui as they rushed into the fog.

Both of them were extremely fast, covering hundreds of meters in just a few seconds. However, they stopped almost simultaneously shortly after entering the fog.

"Wait, this kid is leading us deep into the no-man's land."

"How to do it?"

"Report this to the two lords: let's not act rashly. This guy can kill Zhou Tian with just two sword strikes each. We might not be able to kill him if we go up. His family and relatives are in town. They can run away, but they can't hide." The three golden lines were quite rational.

The two quickly took out a cylindrical black object from their waist pouches and gently...
laugh!
A flash of silver light appeared.

A bright sword mark suddenly appeared in the mist, accurately severing the objects in the hands of the two men.

"grass!!"

The two of them retreated in opposite directions, but it was too late.

The mist ahead was suddenly split in two by the silver sword light, and the slender sword light, like a silk thread, swiftly sliced ​​across the chests of the two men.

The sword was so fast that even though they saw it, their bodies couldn't react in time.

There was only enough time to activate his illusory power and strike forward.

Unexpectedly, the feint missed its target, the sword light dissipated, and a new silver sword light slashed down from above, falling directly onto the three golden lines.

The illusory force condensed and took shape again, rising upwards under the influence of the three golden lines.

The priest's strength was on full display at this moment. Even if he couldn't keep up in speed, as long as his eyes and mind followed, he would not be afraid of any sneak attack.

Bang! !

Now, the sword light and the illusory force finally collided head-on.

The sword light vanished instantly, revealing the long and narrow Ruyi Steel Sword inside.

Lin Hui was right behind the steel sword, his robes fluttering as he descended from the sky and slashed down.

After a brief stalemate between the incredibly sturdy Ruyi Sword and the illusory force, they suddenly snapped apart. Lin Hui used the force to teleport away and disappeared into the mist.

The three golden lines quickly retreated and subsided.

fast!
too fast.

If he had been even slightly slower in that instant, he would have been struck by a sword.

He didn't want to gamble on whether his powerful physique combined with his internal energy could withstand the opponent's longsword.

'And what kind of weapon is that? It can actually contend with the power of illusion head-on!? Could it be...!?' Suddenly, a terrifying thought surfaced in his mind.

"Oh no, what if it's that force?!" The three golden lines felt a chill in their hearts and quickly transmitted their thoughts to their companions.

"Retreat quickly! It might be the Charity Cult!"

"What!?" Even a golden thread trembled.

Before he could react, another silver blade silently flew in from his side and behind.

puff!
Without noticing, the silver light instantly broke through the surrounding internal energy and touched his clothes and skin.

The sealed toxins were activated instantly.

Just as the golden thread was about to channel its energy, it was horrified to find that its body was unable to move, and it could only frantically channel its illusory energy to strike in the opposite direction.

Unexpectedly, the sword light flashed and jumped like an illusion, suddenly appearing at another part of the waist.

puff!

With a crisp sound like shattering glass, something worn by a golden thread broke, and he was jolted awake as if from a dream, forcibly restored to his original state by an invisible force.

Immediately, the illusory energy throughout his body transformed into a stagnant force field, which exploded and spread outwards.

call! !

In an instant, everything within a radius of fifty meters was frozen in place.

"Let's see what you're up to!" *Pfft!*

A flash of sword light instantly slashed across his face.

A golden thread stiffened again, unable to move, its eyes cut into four pieces by the eyeballs, just like Song Zhanlong had done before.

The next second, he opened his mouth and let out a scream. The ethereal energy around his body turned into threads and swept wildly in all directions, like countless invisible hairs, cutting everything into countless fragments.

The three golden threads that were trying to get closer to check the situation were also caught in the crossfire. They grunted and were hit by the burst of energy. Their internal energy shattered instantly, and their skin was covered in bloody marks.

"You're fucking crazy! You hit me!!" the three golden lines roared, but they didn't notice at all that Lin Hui was silently holding his sword in the mist behind him, his eyes faintly glowing red.

Just as the internal energy of the three golden threads was defeated by his companions, Lin Hui's internal energy circulated at full speed, the special effects were activated, and he exerted his full power to the limit, about to make his move.

'What if we kill them, and Qinghe Sect sends even stronger people?' Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind.

'But if I don't kill them, they already know my identity. If this continues, my true strength will be exposed, which might cause trouble.'

A martial artist with internal strength, especially one who developed it from the outside in, was able to transcend so many levels and become powerful enough to kill a priest.

The underlying reasons behind such cases will inevitably attract a large number of people who covet and covet them.

'It seems there's only one way.' Just as Lin Hui was thinking about how to frame someone else.

A slightly familiar figure suddenly appeared beside the three golden lines.

The man wore a silver dragon mask and a white robe. He silently reached out and placed his hand on the left temple of the three golden lines.

laugh!
The three golden lines vanished in an instant!
It was as if they had never been there at all.

Moreover, on the other side, behind a golden thread, appeared a man wearing a silver rhinoceros mask.

The man easily made a gold thread disappear instantly using the same method.

In the mist, the dragon-faced and rhinoceros-faced figures looked at Lin Hui simultaneously, one in front of the other.

"Long time no see, Abbot Qingfeng."

Long greeted him with a slight smile.

"You never use the black jade I gave you even once," Longmian sighed.

Lin Hui subconsciously touched the black jade pendant hanging at his waist, realizing the other party's identity.

The Dragon Princess who calls herself the Good Heart Cult.

"How are those two?" he asked in a deep voice.

"They should be deep inside some monster lair right now, unable to come out for the time being. Don't worry, we'll take care of everything for you. From beginning to end, it has nothing to do with you," Long Ji said with a smile.

"What is your purpose?" Lin Hui asked again.

“We have been observing you for a long time, Abbot Lin Hui. You were born to be one of us. Because you were born to clash with the Moon Tower in the inner city. The Extreme Desire Heaven of the Moon Tower will not let any outsiders like you go unpunished,” Long Ji continued.

"What do you mean!?" Lin Hui realized that the other party had no ill intentions, and slowly lowered his Ruyi Sword.

"The implied meaning is simple, but you won't believe it if we just explain it to you. Only when you see it with your own eyes and experience it for yourself will you understand what I just said." Long Ji's words became calmer.

"In other words, according to what you've said, I'll be targeted by the Inner City Moon Tower sooner or later, so I'm naturally on the same side as you. Then I'd like to ask, what is the Moon Tower, and what are their purposes?" Lin Hui said in a deep voice.

“You can go and see for yourself,” Dragon Princess said.

"What do I want to see? How do I see it?" Lin Hui pressed.

“Go and see those cultivators who also don’t eat the 'Ten Thousand Blessings Meat,' their paths. Their destinies,” Long Ji replied. “I believe you will find the answer.”

"Let's go," the rhinoceros masked man said in a deep voice from the side.

"Okay." Long Ji nodded and turned to leave.

"So what is your purpose?!" Lin Hui asked finally.

"For freedom," Long Ji said without turning her head.

The two ran quickly for several hundred meters through the fog before slowing down.

"Hurry, hurry, don't let those two from Qinghe Sect get away!" Long Ji turned a corner and rushed off in another direction.

"Then what were you pretending for just now?" the rhinoceros mask said speechlessly.

"I'm just doing this for the atmosphere. Once the atmosphere is right, I'll feel itchy if I don't act it up."

"You've been observing Lin Hui for so long, do you think he has great potential?"

“If I’m not mistaken, he’s probably a pawn secretly cultivated by some powerful force in the outer city. Look at the sword in his hand; the material it’s made of is something no ordinary force could have forged. And then there’s his martial arts; its quality is so high that even the Qinghe Sect’s priests can’t match it. So I speculate that he’s likely a top genius personally cultivated by one of the three sects’ leaders,” Long Ji replied.

"So you're rushing to get me to step in and make amends?" Rhino Faced suddenly realized.

“Yes, if we wait until his identity is really exposed, then we won’t have anything to do with this anymore. If we act now, we can still help him out. We can make a difference, understand?” Long Ji said helplessly.

"What about Qinghe Gate?"

"Even Black and White Knife wouldn't dare to conduct a large-scale investigation. Without manpower, they can only suspect at most. What can they do? Liu Wujun is right there; they wouldn't dare to do anything," Long Ji laughed. "And Liu Wujun is Lin Hui's older brother. Don't you think pulling him in would kill two birds with one stone?"

"You're really amazing!" Rhino Noodles immediately gave a thumbs up.

"Then why are you still asking him how to observe him?" Suddenly, another question came to his mind.

“Because of Liu Wujun, he can’t get ahead. The eldest son of the Liu family won’t allow him to shine too brightly. If it didn’t work out last time, there will be a next time, and the time after that. If we start with Lin Hui, we might have a chance to bring him up in the future. It would be such a pity if such a top genius were to fall.” Long Ji sighed.

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The other side.

Lin Hui left the foggy area, his mind racing as he recalled what had just happened.

'It seems I still need to be more cautious. This time, I was too careless; I was exposed with just a slight probing.'

Having mentally prepared contingency plans for what to do if a similar situation were to occur again, Lin Hui's thoughts then turned to the words Long Ji had mentioned before leaving.

'Observing cultivators who haven't eaten the "Ten Thousand Blessings Meat"?'

For some reason, he suddenly thought of his master Mingde, and the several internal energy masters from Qingfeng Temple who had left Xinyu Town.

'I'll go to the Moon Tower tomorrow and see if what the Dragon Princess said is true. What exactly is this so-called Moon Tower?'

(End of this chapter)