Decaying World

Chapter 165 Burning Three (Thanks to Alliance Leader Xie San San)
A cold wind howled.

Boundary zone.

Lin Hui pointed his longsword diagonally, his face lowered. A gentle breeze naturally swirled around him, a passive effect of the special effect "Surrounding Wind".

This special effect activates immediately whenever he faces an enemy, consumes almost no resources, and its strength increases continuously as he guides and controls the wind.

"Interesting, kid, have you gone mad from practicing extreme martial arts?" The old man with the black knife sneered. "Forget it, stop wasting words with him and just take him down. Let's see what he used to make the two golden threads disappear. Was it Liu Wujun or that unknown teacher behind him?"

The two detectives in charge of investigating the surrounding area have mysteriously disappeared. They only came to investigate Lin Hui and test him before vanishing without a trace. To this day, not even a trace of their bodies can be found.

So after being scared away last time, they joined forces again this time to investigate the suspicious points that had led to their previous separation, determined to find out the truth behind the disappearance.

Swish.

The two men, Black and White Blades, drew their thick-backed swords together, not letting their guard down just because Lin Hui was alone.

They have survived to this day, successfully avoiding every danger, thanks to this kind of all-out effort and caution.

"Should we kill him?" Bai Dao asked.

"No need, let's interrogate them first. Let's finish this quickly to avoid any unforeseen complications," Black Knife replied.

"Okay," Bai Dao nodded, then suddenly froze, "Oh no, where is he?!"

The moment the two were speaking, Lin Hui suddenly vanished.

Without warning, in the blink of an eye, the person disappeared, and the view before and after was like two highly similar scenes.

The only difference was whether Lin Hui was present or not.

"Could it have been teleported out?! Could it be the Benevolent Sect?!" Black Knife's expression changed drastically.

clang!!!
Suddenly, a loud bang exploded beside him.

Black Knife hurriedly turned his head, but before he could even see it, his senses detected a scorching, violent aura that suddenly appeared behind White Knife.

One sword!
The relatively slender Ruyi drew a bright silver line in mid-air and slashed horizontally onto the back of the white knife.

The silver thread and the white blade froze instantly, remaining still for a moment.

boom!
The next second, a huge, distorted airflow exploded at the point where the man and sword clashed.

The airflow, combined with the impact of the explosion, forcibly hurled the black knife dozens of meters away, slamming it into the black wooden house behind it.

With a loud bang, the wooden house shattered and slowly collapsed.

Ignoring his disheveled state, he unleashed his power and blasted apart the surrounding wooden houses.

The already dilapidated black wooden house was like a broken block of building blocks, completely shattered.

Black Blade leaped into the sky, looking towards his younger brother White Blade.

"Little White!" He amplified his voice by channeling his inner energy.

clang!
But the next moment, another silver line lit up amidst the flying wood chips, and the pure and terrifying power once again stirred up an explosive airflow, clearing away all the wood chips.

The strong wind, like a shockwave, instantly cleared away all debris and dust from view.

Only then did Black Knife notice his brother's condition.

Not good!

This is very bad!!

His pupils, hidden beneath the mask, contracted instantly.

On the open road, Bai Dao was holding a thick-backed sword, the blade covered in illusory energy, and was wildly swinging it around.

But strangely, there were no enemies in the direction he was swinging his arms.

It was as if everything was just a waste of time.

But if that's the case, where does the blood slowly dripping from Bai Dao's back come from?
"Old Hei, watch out!" Bai Dao suddenly exclaimed, looking in their direction.

Black Knife reacted immediately, turning around and slashing with his sword!
The blade was covered by illusory power, and then the internal energy of the surrounding heavens wrapped around it, causing the entire blade to expand several times over, transforming into a blurry silver giant blade at least ten meters long and three meters wide, which crashed down with a thunderous roar.

boom!!

The wooden house behind it was cut in two, but nothing was cut.

But a figure had already appeared silently beside the black knife.

laugh!
The sword flashed like lightning, piercing his back and heading straight for his heart.

The protective barrier around the body was useless, and even the invincible body of the one who was summoned seemed to be nothing.

Black Knife's hair stood on end; a deadly crisis loomed over him, causing his aura to rapidly contract.

The golden jade pendant he was wearing suddenly shattered, creating a golden shockwave that exploded outwards from him in all directions.

puff!
The golden shockwave was extremely fast, traveling at the pure speed of light. Even the person behind couldn't avoid it and was hit squarely.

"Die!" Black Knife's face contorted with rage as he seized the opportunity to furiously clench his blade and deliver a powerful upward strike.

Just a moment ago, he felt like he was really going to die.

Before they came, they had rehearsed all sorts of scenarios, but none of them had ever turned out like this.

They faced a near-fatal and terrifying threat right from the start of the fight.

They considered that the danger could come from anywhere—Liu Wujun, Yugong, the Good Heart Sect, even the government and the Inspectorate—but they never considered that Lin Hui himself was the greatest danger!

At this moment, Black Blade exerted all his strength, wielding the blade covered in illusory power, and thrust it upwards heavily from Lin Hui's leg!

The golden jade pendant is a life-saving item that is automatically activated when one is near death. It is a special relic whose shockwave can instantly paralyze all opponents within a one-meter radius at an unavoidable speed.

In that instant, there lies the distance between life and death, the gap between heaven and earth.

The battle reached a fever pitch in less than ten seconds.

Bang! !

With all its might, the black blade struck the Ruyi Sword in front of Lin Hui. Strangely, the excessively long sword, which had just been missing, seemed to teleport away and appeared directly in front of the illusory blade.

A tremendous collision sound exploded, and the illusory force and compressed air clashed violently.

Friction and pressure caused tiny red sparks to ignite at that moment, scattering around the two of them like flowers.

boom!
Lin Hui's internal force was cut through by the powerful sharpness of the illusory force, which also cut through the airflow, and he crashed head-on into the Ruyi Sword.

But before he could make contact, he once again retreated and disappeared like a ghost.

Before Black Knife could react, there was another loud clang, and his younger brother White Knife was forcefully knocked away by a tremendous force, flying straight towards him.

The two instinctively drew their swords to slash at each other, but realizing they had targeted the wrong enemy, they hurriedly and awkwardly sheathed their swords, trying to regain their footing.

At that moment, both of them realized that things couldn't continue like this.

The opponent's speed was too fast and terrifying; it was beyond what the eyes could perceive.

If they don't come up with a solution soon, it's questionable whether the two of them can even escape this artifact formation, let alone capture anyone.

They can still withstand the damage with their powerful bodies, which are at the level of high priests, but once the opponent adapts to their physical strength, they will be able to draw their swords again from their previous injuries.
'There's no other way, let's use our ultimate move and kill him instantly! Let's finish this quickly! His aura shouldn't be leaked!' Black Knife and his brother exchanged glances, communicating in an instant, their tacit understanding instantly established.

Ding ding!

With a flash of ghostly figures, the two were once again slashed away by two swords, crashing into a black wooden house by the roadside and moving far away from the main road into the depths of the dividing zone.

As the wooden house collapsed, the patients with bloodshot eyes roared furiously and charged forward recklessly, only to be shredded by the invisible force of the two people in the next second.

Lin Hui flashed behind the two, raised his Ruyi sword horizontally, and delivered another horizontal slash.

But this time, he suddenly paused before striking.

"Interesting, so this is your little trick?"

He shifted his body to the side, precisely avoiding an invisible, illusory blade of energy.

The blade energy easily sliced ​​through the ground and the wooden house behind him, cut open the bodies of the two blood-eyed patients, and finally flew into the air some distance away and disappeared.

"Huff, huff." Bai Dao endured the sharp pain in his back, his face slightly pale, and he stared intently at Lin Hui through gritted teeth.

"Who exactly are you!?"

The few seconds he just exchanged blows with his opponent were arguably the most intense moments of pressure he'd ever felt since his debut.

That terrifying, irresistible, and violent force, that unpredictable and elusive movement, made it seem as if no matter how he swung his weapon, he couldn't touch the opponent's ghostly movements in the slightest.

That immense sense of oppression and uncertainty caused a faint sense of despair to well up in his heart.

If it weren't for Black Blade's timely support, which slowed down the opponent's attack frequency by a fraction, he might have already collapsed.

At this moment, the two brothers stood shoulder to shoulder, their eyes fixed intently on Lin Hui.

Lin Hui's longsword landed on the ground, casually resting some of its weight on the broken black soil, his expression calm.

The situation returned to the previous standoff.

The only difference is that the attitudes of both sides have been completely reversed.

Before the fight began, Black and White Knife was extremely confident, believing that defeating Lin Hui would be a piece of cake. The real trouble was the special trump cards that Lin Hui was carrying or had behind him.

But once they actually started fighting, the two realized they were wrong.

That's way too wrong.

So now, they are the ones who are truly in danger!

The relics should no longer isolate Lin Hui, but rather themselves.

"Again!" Black Knife saw that his younger brother's morale had dropped, so he immediately shouted, raised his knife, and charged towards Lin Hui at full speed.

He unleashed a deadly strike using the Spirit-Sustaining Blade Technique.

The illusory energy pulsed like electric arcs on the blade. The moment the blade was swung, all the illusory energy exploded violently, transforming into a dense, large net that covered Lin Hui.

This was the only method he could come up with to limit the opponent's terrifying speed.

"The idea is good, but unfortunately... I will no longer be there before you draw your sword."

A calm voice reached Black Knife's ears from behind.

Before the sound even reached him, he shuddered, his face turned pale, and a loud metallic clang exploded from the back of his neck.

Blood splattered.

As if struck in the back by a giant beast, Black Knife was sent flying like a rocket, tumbling forward and crashing into the ground with a series of thuds, leaving a straight trail like skipping stones, before finally slamming into a fairly sturdy dilapidated stone house.

"Go to hell! I've got you!!" At this moment, Bai Dao had no time to worry about his brother. Instead, he held the thick-backed sword and used the secret technique of the Spirit Suspension Blade Technique, Azure Moon Storm Kill, from behind.

The Azure Moon Storm Kill is an ultimate killing move that the two brothers developed through their combined practice of the Spirit Continuation Blade Technique.

The greatest effect of this move is to release a sharp cutting net constructed from nine layers of illusory power at more than twice the speed. It can automatically avoid the opponent's weapon block, and after the block passes through the mesh, it will retract to cut the enemy's body.

Because this move is a combined burst of power from both of them, the ethereal power they use is much stronger than that of an ordinary high priest.

This gives them an unparalleled advantage whether they are fighting against lower-level opponents or against opponents of the same level.

Using it here now, Bai Dao breathed a slight sigh of relief.

This deadly secret technique was finally used. Before, the opponent was too fast, and it was impossible to even track and locate them. No matter how powerful the secret technique was, it could not harm a target that was not in the direction of the attack.

Fortunately, Black Knife risked his own safety to buy him a moment of respite.

'This guy is probably not an outer city warrior at all, but a high priest of the inner city in disguise! He must be hiding some secrets in this outer city!' A thought flashed through Bai Dao's mind.

He rushed to Black Knife's side, but what he saw made him tremble, even though he was still injured.

There was a horizontal cut on the back of the neck of the older brother, Hei Dao, which was clearly made by a sword and had almost cut off half of his neck.

Blood stained the black-clad mantle, but fortunately, his internal energy stopped the bleeding in time, preventing further danger.

(End of this chapter)