Heroes Return

Countless soldiers were easily slaughtered by her sword.

With each swing of her sword, countless terrifying corpses and mecha wreckage would appear around the girl.

This wasn't a battle at all; it was a massacre that couldn't be simpler.

At this moment, the experts who were fighting in front of the Lin family altar all felt a sense of unease and stopped fighting.

"What on earth happened!" the Lin family patriarch exclaimed in shock. "What on earth came here! What on earth happened!"

At this moment, not only the Lin family patriarch, but everyone present had this expression. The deeper one's understanding of martial arts power, the more one can perceive the ethereal existence of the 'Dao', but it is precisely for this reason that they feel the most fear at this moment.

That powerful sword intent had completely shattered everyone's understanding.

The sword intent was so clear that everyone could easily sense what it represented. It was a single, unambiguous intent: the destruction of everything!

The terrifying intent is to destroy whatever it is with one's own hands, even the laws of heaven, without fear of standing against them.

Everyone wanted to know what had appeared in the vicinity. In their view, even the aura of an ancient ferocious beast was probably nothing more than this.

However, they soon found out what it was.

The forest before them had vanished. In its place stood a stunningly beautiful young woman, holding a longsword that shimmered with white light, slowly approaching the group.

With each step the girl took, the hearts of the crowd sank a little deeper. They could now clearly see what lay hidden behind her stunning beauty: a path formed of corpses, a trail of blood stained with their flesh.

"Who exactly is she?!" The Lin family patriarch stared in shock at the girl before him. In his eyes, she was no longer just a girl; she was an ancient, malevolent sword.

Chapter 28

The girl's existence seemed to mock those fighting for their family's power, for they had already become prey in her eyes before they had even finished their own battle.

"This girl is the one Lin Jie brought!" Lin Shuntian looked at the girl in shock.

"It's that girl." Lin Yingnan recognized the girl as well. He had never imagined that Zhu Xian'er possessed such power. At this moment, before everyone's eyes, more than half of the army had already been slaughtered by the girl's sword. Although the number of soldiers present was not as large as on the battlefield, several thousand had still died by the girl's sword. The key point was that those who could enter the family army and mercenaries were, without exception, all of them elites among elites. Among them were many true masters.

But even among such a group of experts, half of them died by Zhu Xian'er's sword today. The remaining half looked at Zhu Xian'er in fear.

However, after seeing the battle raging at the altar, Zhu Xian'er lost interest in the surrounding soldiers. Undoubtedly, all the top experts were here at this moment.

"Who exactly is that person!" The other patriarchs of the Wind, Fire, and Thunder families also stared in shock at Zhu Xian'er and the long sword in her hand.

At this moment, seeing Zhu Xian'er, no one dared to make a move. After all, having sensed the will emanating from Zhu Xian'er's sword intent, they understood that this young girl had regarded everyone present as prey.

"I never imagined that my Lin family would have the honor of inviting such a great expert as you, senior. Forgive my poor eyesight, for I failed to recognize your greatness. I have truly neglected you." The Lin family patriarch, having lived for hundreds of years and seen the world, immediately realized his mistake and clasped his hands in a fist salute to Zhu Xian'er, saying, "I am truly sorry to have shown you such an unsightly state. I suppose this is why we have offended you! I apologize to you here! After we have dealt with the important matters of my Lin family, I will do my utmost to entertain you all."

"Would you like to entertain me?" Zhu Xian'er said softly, "In that case, entertain me with your sword."

"My Lin family is already in such a state, please be merciful, senior," the Lin family patriarch said to Zhu Xian'er, his demeanor and expression as humble as possible. He had been able to live for hundreds of years because he deeply understood an old saying: "Born to learn the turtle's way, know when to shrink back!" He was utterly ruthless when it came to being cowardly.

At this moment, none of the powerful figures present dared to refute him. Instead, they all cooperated fully with the Lin family patriarch, displaying utmost respect. What a joke! With such an extraordinary expert right beside them, ready to attack at any moment, they would be truly out of their minds to have any internal strife!

After observing the expressions of everyone present, Zhu Xian'er's expression finally turned cold.

"Don't you even have the courage to use a sword?" Zhu Xian'er said coldly to everyone present. "This is really too boring. No one here is worthy of using a sword."

After she finished speaking, she gently swung her long sword.

Immediately afterwards, to everyone's astonishment, a skilled swordsman present had his sword-wielding hand and the sword in his hand both severed.

Lin Shuntian snorted coldly, then pressed down on his severed hand. He looked at the hand on the ground and the soft sword he was holding, and could only sigh helplessly. But he didn't pick it up.

"Third Brother!" Lin Shundi stared in shock at Lin Shuntian's miserable state. He was about to say something, but Lin Shuntian forcefully stopped him, saying, "Don't speak if you don't want to die!"

Similarly, among those who lost hands, the heads of the Feng and Lei families also lost the hands they used for wielding swords. And then there was Lin Yingnan.

He clutched his severed hand, glaring angrily at Zhu Xian'er. He now understood that the ultimate victor in this battle was undoubtedly Lin Jie. After all, Zhu Xian'er was one of Lin Jie's people.

"Holy crap!!"

Just as everyone was at a loss for words, Lin Jie's voice reached their ears. For those who were frozen in fear by Zhu Xian'er, Lin Jie's voice was undoubtedly a lifeline. After all, they had heard that this killing machine before them was brought into the Lin family by Lin Jie, so Lin Jie should have a way to appease her.

Just then, Zhu Xian'er turned around and swung her sword, slashing at a figure that was approaching them.

Facing this sword strike imbued with destructive intent, Lin Jie swung his emerald green longsword at Zhu Xian'er. The two powerful sword energies collided in mid-air without a sound or explosion. They simply neutralized each other in space.

"You've become so murderous you even want to cut me down!" After catching Zhu Xian'er's sword, Lin Jie landed right next to her.

However, Lin Jie successfully shocked everyone present! They hadn't expected that someone could actually withstand the sword strike of this god of death head-on. And this person was a junior member of the Lin family.

"Hmph!" Zhu Xian'er snorted coldly when she saw Lin Jie come to her side.

"Damn it! Have you forgotten your promise to me?" Lin Jie looked at Zhu Xian'er: "Didn't we agree that you wouldn't randomly kill people after becoming a spirit? Why are you suddenly going on a killing spree?"

"You said you could kill people."

"Big sister! You didn't have to kill so many!" Lin Jie said with some distress, looking at the path paved with corpses behind him. "If I hadn't arrived quickly, you probably would have killed them all in a moment!"

"Those people were so boring. I thought it was okay to kill them!" Zhu Xian'er said calmly at this moment. "They don't even have the courage to face the strong, yet they dream of becoming strong."

"Big sister! That's not how it is at all! Facing you head-on would probably result in an even more gruesome death!" Lin Jie said to Zhu Xian'er, "Anyway, you can't make a move anymore! If you do, it will really become a big problem."

"At least you can die with dignity." Upon hearing Lin Jie's words, Zhu Xian'er merely snorted coldly and then said nothing more.

"Lin Jie! I never imagined you'd reached such a powerful level!" The Lin family patriarch looked at Lin Jie with a strange expression. "Truly, the heavens have blessed our Lin family! To produce such a prodigy!"

At this moment, his ability to change his expression far surpassed that of everyone else present.

"Congratulations!" Everyone who wasn't from the Lin family came up to congratulate the patriarch.

The situation is now clear: what was originally an internal family conflict was forcefully suppressed by Lin Jie, a third party. Under the intimidating force displayed by Zhu Xian'er, the internal strife ended so hastily.

Lin Jie's ability to withstand Zhu Xian'er's sword strike was undoubtedly seen by everyone as a demonstration of his martial prowess.

"With a genius like you in our Lin family, it seems our future is bright!!!" The Lin family patriarch said to Lin Jie with some excitement, "At the same time, to thank you for suppressing the family's internal strife! You can deal with these people as you see fit!"

These words were quite clear to everyone present. The Lin family patriarch was essentially telling Lin Jie directly, "You've won! You can now do whatever you want with anyone in the Lin family who has a grudge against you. From now on, the head of the Lin family will undoubtedly be yours."

"Huh? Leave it to me!" Lin Jie said with some surprise, "Isn't this a bit too troublesome? I have absolutely no interest in the Lin family's affairs."

"What are you still pretending for now?" Lin Yingnan suddenly stood up and said angrily to Lin Jie, "Now that you've already won, are you still going to make sarcastic remarks? The reason you waited for us to make a move before forcefully suppressing us was just to make it seem legitimate, wasn't it?"

If we were to ask who among those present felt the most conflicted at this moment, it would undoubtedly be Lin Yingnan. Lin Qian hadn't returned, which meant she had been killed by Lin Jie.

Unexpectedly, even a powerful cyborg like Lin Qian couldn't defeat Lin Jie!

This must be the most unacceptable thing for Lin Yingnan right now. This isn't right! He's clearly the pride of his family! His abilities obviously surpass this guy who didn't even go to college after graduating high school! He holds the power that this C-rank hero of the Hero Association has strived for for countless years without achieving. But why is he now completely at this guy's mercy?!

This guy looks like a complete idiot! But why is there such a powerful and beautiful girl like Zhu Xian'er by his side? And why does Lin Jie possess the power to replace him the moment he arrives?

I've painstakingly built this up over so many years, I've sacrificed everything for my goals! I've put in so much effort. But why does it all seem like a joke to this person?

His calculations, his schemes. His research, in the end, was ironically suppressed by his twin brother Lin Jie with force! All the effort he had put in for over a decade was reaped by his twin brother in just two days, the fruits of his success snatched away.

Lin Yingnan was extremely unwilling at this moment. He couldn't understand what kind of extraordinary encounter Lin Jie had obtained to become so powerful. But the more he thought about it, the more unwilling Lin Yingnan felt! Why was he able to obtain such great power?

If he had obtained all of Lin Jie's extraordinary encounters himself, Lin Yingnan believed that he would already be countless times stronger than Lin Jie! Lin Yingnan was even certain that if he had obtained the kind of extraordinary encounters that made Lin Jie stronger, he could even defeat Zero and become the first king to unify the world.

But fate is so unfair, playing tricks on him like this! Why is fate so unfair?

"Oh right, you've reminded me!" Lin Jie said, turning to look at Lin Yingnan. "Now that you mention it, I do remember. I was indeed going to deal with you, you foolish little bean! I can't believe you did something so wasteful of resources! Do you know how precious girls are in the world these days?"

"Is this what you're planning to say now? Are you mocking me?" Lin Yingnan glared angrily at Lin Jie.

"Oh, and one more thing, I've decided to hand you over to the law for trial." Lin Jie looked at Lin Yingnan and said, "Confess honestly and try to get leniency. And don't end up picking up soap in prison."

"What a joke!" Lin Yingnan was completely enraged by Lin Jie's words, and at the same time, he had a small syringe in his hand. At this point, he couldn't care less about anything else.

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At this point, Lin Yingnan was blinded by rage, and he didn't care about side effects or instability anymore. He plunged the small syringe into his own body.

"I'm not going to sit here and wait to die!"

"Damn! You're doing drugs now too!" Lin Jie looked at Lin Yingnan with a pained expression.

"Everyone here will die today!!!" With this voice, red patterns appeared on Lin Yingnan's body, and a red energy that solidified into a physical form surrounded Lin Yingnan's body at this moment.

"Another T-3?" Lin Jie was about to step forward to make a move, but at that moment, a strange change suddenly occurred before his eyes. A powerful energy fluctuation spread out from Lin Yingnan as the center. Immediately afterwards, Lin Jie noticed that in the middle of the red patterns, strange blue patterns also began to spread throughout his body.

Instantly, another blue energy, seemingly solid, wrapped around Lin Yingnan's body.

"Ah! The same change as Lin Qian!" Lin Jie looked at Lin Yingnan in surprise. At this moment, a massive energy storm began to sweep outwards from Lin Yingnan's body.

Fortunately, no one present was slow to react or lacked ability. Everyone evacuated the scene extremely quickly; anyone who didn't move to safety after seeing the situation would be a fool.

“Foolish little brother, do you really think that the same thing will work on me the second time after it didn’t work on me the first time?” Lin Jie said, as the emerald longsword in his hand began to grow larger at a visible speed.

But at that very moment, the energy storm changed once again. Right before Lin Jie's eyes, all the energy storms began to shrink. Then, they all contracted onto Lin Yingnan's body, and the red and blue energy storms were quickly separated, forming a pair of red and blue wind wings behind Lin Yingnan.

At the same time, Lin Jie also noticed that the hand that Zhu Xian'er had cut off had grown back.

The original black pupils were replaced by pupils that emitted red and blue light.

"Hahahahahaha!!!" Under everyone's gaze, Lin Yingnan began to laugh wildly.

"Could he be overdosing on drugs? This is a classic sign of drug overdose!" Lin Jie asked Zhu Xian'er beside him.

"Should I kill him?" Zhu Xian'er asked. Seeing Lin Yingnan's appearance and the faint power emanating from his body, Zhu Xian'er finally became interested.

"No need, I'll handle this kind of person!" Lin Jie said calmly. "After all, he's my own brother! How can I, as the older brother, not teach him a lesson?"

As he spoke, Lin Jie walked towards Lin Yingnan's direction, and as Lin Jie made his move, Lin Yingnan's gaze also turned directly to Lin Jie!

"Hahaha!! It seems I am the true chosen one!" Lin Yingnan looked at Lin Jie and said arrogantly, "I never thought that the T-4 evolution fluid, with a success rate of less than 10%, would actually fuse with me successfully! In that case, you can die in peace!"

As he spoke, Lin Yingnan slowly raised one of his hands toward Lin Jie.

The massive red energy suddenly formed a fist tens of meters in size, which directly attacked Lin Jie. The fist's path was accompanied by terrifying red and blue energy storms.

Faced with such a terrifying frontal attack, Lin Jie merely sighed softly. The emerald longsword in his hand emitted a chilling green light.

In an instant, a sword light collided with the enormous arm, which was enveloped in a storm of red and blue energy. The moment the two forces collided, the enormous arm was instantly shattered by Lin Jie's sword light. Lin Jie's sword light also vanished the instant it disintegrated the red and blue energy.

"Oh? You can even negate my sword light?" Lin Jie looked at Lin Yingnan and said, "Even so, I still intend to capture you today to face punishment."

"Do you really think you can defeat me now?" Lin Yingnan said excitedly to Lin Jie, "Today I'll make sure you die right here!"

As he spoke, two giant swords appeared in Lin Yingnan's hands, one red and one blue. He slashed down at Lin Jie at the same time.

Lin Jie raised the emerald green longsword in his hand. At this moment, the longsword transformed into a giant sword a hundred meters long once again. Not only that, but the longsword also split in two, directly becoming two swords!

"Is this your real weapon?" After Lin Jie's sword blocked the two energy swords in Lin Yingnan's hands, he shouted at Lin Jie opposite him, "No wonder you don't care about the powerful Five Elements Spirit Sword. But that's fine! After I kill you, these swords will be mine!"

"You're really persistent," Lin Jie said calmly, and then the sword light on the greatsword suddenly surged. At the same time, Lin Yingnan's two energy greatswords were instantly shattered by Lin Jie's longsword.