Heroes Return

"That person is just a fake!" The image of the blond man was once again transmitted to the Minister of Defense.

"What did you say!" The Minister of Defense glared angrily at the blond man.

“Yes, you must have seen the video from H City last time!” the blond man said. “The real Zero destroyed that cloak himself, so this person in front of you is just a fake.”

"Your reasoning is absurd!" the Minister of Defense said.

“This is a conclusion reached by 70 percent of the government members of parliament,” the blond man said. “You should know that if more than 70 percent of the members of parliament vote at the same time, the military must obey orders.”

"Damn it! So what orders are you planning to give?" the Minister of Defense said, looking at the man in front of him with displeasure.

"All troops are on standby. After the battle, mobilize all forces to arrest this imposter, and if necessary, kill him. Meanwhile, news of the battle at Guanggun Temple must be strictly sealed off. Every Guanggun Temple resident who participated in the battle must sign a confidentiality agreement under government supervision!" the blond man said with a smile.

"The Hero Association now has five SS-class heroes on standby!"

"Are you sure you want to treat someone who stood up to fight the monster like this?"

"Didn't we already say that this battle is just a battle between monsters?"

While they were discussing these trivial matters, Lin Jie had already rushed directly into the blood cloud. However, when Lin Jie reached a certain height, the blood cloud seemed to disperse a distance as if avoiding him. In the sky, the blood cloud looked as if a hole had appeared in it.

Chapter 18

At this moment, Lin Jie was staring at a giant, blood-red face in the sky.

"Who exactly are you?" The giant face formed from blood clouds roared incessantly at Lin Jie. At this moment, the ominous killing aura emanating from Lin Jie's body made even this ruthless demon who had dominated for thousands of years feel uncomfortable.

However, for these demons, the so-called negative and frenzied emotions are precisely the power they desire. But the aura that Lin Jie was emitting at this moment could no longer be defined as negative emotions.

If the Blood Demon Ancestor were to have an opinion on the aura emanating from this person, it could only be described as neither good nor bad. This aura contained only one will: the will to destroy everything, good or bad, with absolute annihilation.

"..." Lin Jie didn't say anything at this moment, but simply slowly raised the black longsword in his hand.

"What a joke!" The blood-red giant face in the sky roared angrily as Lin Jie reacted, and the surrounding snow clouds began to churn in the next second.

Countless blood-red figures wielding various weapons rose from the blood cloud. These were all the souls that the Blood Demon Ancestor had killed and refined years ago. These souls might also be there to save his own life.

Unfortunately, the soul he used today encountered the person he should never have encountered, and the sword he should never have encountered.

"Youngster! I won't stop you from retreating now, but if you insist on making things difficult for me, then I'll have to see what you're capable of!" Unfortunately, that was all the ferocious giant face could say, because the next second a huge sword aura slashed directly down at the monster's giant face.

Wherever the sword light passed, it seemed as if only this one sword remained in the world, and the blood-red clouds in the sky lost their original color at this moment.

Lin Jie's 'Zero Style' sword energy contains the powerful sword intent of the Heaven and Earth Sword.

The terrifying sword energy actually cleaved the blood-red clouds in the sky in two at the same time! And the giant ghost face let out a deafening scream.

"Sword energy stretches across thirty thousand miles, a single sword's cold light illuminates nineteen provinces! Who is Qingxuanzi to you!" The Blood Demon Ancestor's voice suddenly rang out from the blood clouds this time.

Lin Jie remained silent. In fact, at this point, Lin Jie had no interest in talking to this guy at all. All he wanted to do was quickly kill this guy with his sword and then deal with the others.

However, this time Lin Jieshou encountered an enemy with vitality comparable to a cockroach.

"Hmph! Since you don't know what's good for you, don't blame me!" The voice rang out again from within the blood cloud. Immediately afterward, countless blood-red figures from the blood cloud charged towards Lin Jie's direction. With the blessing of the blood cloud, these blood-red figures not only wouldn't be killed by ordinary attacks, but their speed also exceeded countless times that of their former selves. Of course, their combat experience and combat awareness were also completely preserved.

But none of this mattered to Lin Jie.

At that very moment, the red sword light in Lin Jie's hand grew dozens of times larger. Lin Jie then simply swept his longsword horizontally in all directions.

The next moment, all the blood-soaked figures who had rushed to Lin Jie's side vanished into thin air in terror, leaving not a trace. In fact, Lin Jie didn't need to sweep the sword at all. As long as the sword was in Lin Jie's hand, all the souls and spirits of the dead would automatically be affected by the will contained in the sword when they entered a certain distance from Lin Jie, and would instantly disappear into thin air.

"How is this possible!" Feeling his cultivated primordial spirit easily annihilated, an angry roar erupted from the blood cloud. The next second, a gigantic skull formed from human skulls appeared before Lin Jie's eyes. At that moment, the skull emanated a strange and terrifying power.

Countless souls burrowed into the blood-red skull.

The skull opened its mouth in mid-air, and two wisps of death energy shot towards Lin Jie.

These two wisps of death energy contained a terrifying amount of power, with an extremely strong malevolent aura. In fact, even people with strong physical defenses would be instantly reduced to a grotesque, inhuman state, upon being touched by even a trace of this death energy, becoming nothing more than walking corpses.

Faced with the terrifying death energy condensed with resentment, Lin Jie slashed his longsword directly at the two streams of resentment in mid-air.

"Hmph!" From within the blood-red cloud, a strikingly handsome man, whose appearance could only be described as bewitching, coldly snorted. The two wisps of death energy he released weren't physical entities, but rather illusory powers akin to curses. How could attacking with a sword possibly be effective?

He was now looking at Lin Jie with a cold smile, waiting for Lin Jie to fail with his sword and be turned into a corpse by his death energy.

But the next second his expression froze on the spot.

"There is actually a sword in the world that can cut through curses!" The flamboyant man stared in shock at the scene before him.

Lin Jie merely raised his sword and brought it down; the sword in his hand flashed. The two wisps of death energy vanished instantly upon contact with the sword light.

After extinguishing the death aura in the sky, Lin Jie flew directly towards the skeleton in front of him.

At the same moment, the giant skull in the sky lunged at Lin Jie, its goal clearly being to swallow him whole.

Indeed, Lin Jie was swallowed, but the moment he entered the skeleton's mouth, Lin Jie cleaved the skeleton in two. After shattering the skeleton, Lin Jie pointed his longsword directly into the sea of ​​blood.

This gesture startled the alluring man! For Lin Jie was pointing directly in the direction of his true form.

An unprecedented sense of crisis filled the alluring man's entire body at that moment. He said he still couldn't understand why he had encountered such a torturous opponent again this time.

However, he didn't have time to think too much, because Lin Jie's longsword wouldn't give the enemy any chance. A terrifying red sword light cleaved through layers of blood clouds and slashed towards the alluring man's body.

The man who spread the rumors was instantly pierced through by a red sword light.

However, when the alluring man was pierced by the red sword light, his body turned into blood and disappeared into the blood cloud.

"Youngster! You actually forced me to use the Blood Transformation Technique! You can be proud of yourself now."

The voice echoed once more from the blood-red clouds. Immediately afterward, the blood-red clouds began to writhe and churn. A gigantic golem formed from blood suddenly appeared before Lin Jie.

Without uttering a word, the giant golem stretched out its massive hand and reached for Lin Jie. Moreover, unlike ordinary power, the golem before Lin Jie unleashed a terrifying force capable of leveling mountains.

A massive hand descended upon Lin Jie, giving him the feeling that he had no way to dodge it. Of course, that was assuming Lin Jie actually intended to dodge.

Although this massive hand can easily destroy countless living beings and level numerous mountains, its power is contingent on its opponents being ordinary living beings and mountains.

Facing the terrifying, menacing blood hand that was closing in, Lin Jie had absolutely no intention of dodging or defending. In fact, at this moment, Lin Jie only had one option: to attack.

Lin Jie slowly raised the black longsword in his hand once more, without any sword light or terrifying power. The speed was also not fast. It was as if an ordinary person were casually swinging their sword at the enemy before them.

Even so, just as the giant hand was about to reach Lin Jie, it was silently sliced ​​into several pieces and disintegrated. The next second, Lin Jie swung his sword again.

The enormous blood cloud giant was actually cut in half at the waist by Lin Jie's sword.

Immediately afterwards, the blood-red sword light in Lin Jie's hand slashed down directly at the huge blood cloud giant.

"Ah!" A painful scream rang out under the dark sky. Immediately afterwards, the huge blood cloud that had covered the entire Bachelor Mountain began to shrink at an extremely fast speed, and finally condensed in the air into the shape of a beautiful man in a red robe.

"You must die here today!" the man in red said angrily to the person in front of him.

'Damn! This guy is so good-looking! This is really annoying!' That's what Lin Jie was thinking at that moment.

However, just as Lin Jie was looking at the person in front of him, the red-robed man gathered powerful crimson energy in his hand, and a terrifying crimson light illuminated the entire sky.

"Demon Blood Devours the Heavens!" The crimson light in the man's hand enveloped Lin Jie at that moment. The crimson light was formless and intangible, yet it contained a terrifying power capable of turning everything that came into contact with it into a pool of blood. As the crimson light expanded, even the nearby dragons began to suffer. Moreover, as the crimson light continued to expand, it began to engulf the entire Bachelor Mountain.

At this moment, Lin Jie was also directly enveloped by this terrifying red light.

Even though he had successfully activated his power, the red-robed man's expression remained unchanged. He could accurately sense that the previously invincible blood-red light had failed to refine the annoying black-robed man this time.

Immediately following, a sudden surge of emotion made the man in the red robe instinctively sense danger once again.

The next second, an even more terrifying red light erupted from within the red light he had released, and the red light he had released crumbled in fear of the domineering power before him.

Lin Jie's figure reappeared in front of the man in red.

At this moment, Lin Jie was only holding the sword in his hand. But at this moment, the long sword in his hand emitted a terrifying red light, enveloping Lin Jie.

Of course, this wasn't what concerned the man in red most. What truly concerned him were the two ancient characters faintly appearing on the longsword in Lin Jie's hand.

Most people might not recognize the characters, but the man in the red robe did. However, it was clear that he wished he didn't know them at all.

"The Immortal-Slaying Sword!" the red-robed man cried out in terror. An unprecedented fear gripped him. He would never have imagined that he would encounter the Immortal-Slaying Sword, the ancestor of all sword immortals!

Chapter 19

At this moment, when the flamboyant man in front of him saw the long sword in Lin Jie's hand, his expression completely changed from one of looking down on the world to one of being thoroughly humiliated.

Now, there was only one thing on his mind: to leave immediately. And that's exactly what he did. The moment he recognized the longsword in Lin Jie's hand, he knew he couldn't win.

Instantly, the alluring man transformed into a streak of blood-red light and flew towards the horizon. However, just as he flew away, Lin Jie appeared in front of him, blocking his path.

Without giving the glamorous man any chance to react, Lin Jie's fist landed squarely on his face. After punching that face that could charm any girl in the world, Lin Jie felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction. In fact, Lin Jie felt this way every time he beat someone more handsome than himself.

After Lin Jie's "Friendship-Breaking Fist" struck the man's face, he immediately followed up with a series of punches. In just a few minutes, Lin Jie had landed thousands of "Friendship-Breaking Fist" blows on the man's face. By this time, the once-glamorous man's face was completely unrecognizable.

Seeing that he had already beaten the person in front of him beyond recognition, Lin Jie finally raised the long sword in his hand.

"If you don't help, you'll be next!" the man whose head had been beaten into a pig's head suddenly shouted at the sky.

'You can scream your lungs out and no one will come to save you,' Lin Jie thought to himself, but he ultimately didn't say such a shameful line out loud.

Just as Lin Jie was about to finish off his enemy, an incredibly powerful blade of light slashed towards him. Lin Jie immediately swung his sword, extinguishing the blade of light. Then, a handsome man with horns on his head and red hair appeared beside Lin Jie. His sword flashed towards Lin Jie, who swiftly slashed at him.

The knife is very fast and contains great power.

Faced with this sudden attack, Lin Jie had no choice but to meet it with his sword. In a short time, the two exchanged hundreds of blows in mid-air. The surrounding space even seemed to distort during their high-speed battle.

However, this struggle did not last long.

A powerful red light flashed between the two of them, and then they separated.

"You're very strong," the horned man said coldly to Lin Jie. At that moment, a gruesome wound ran from his left chest down to his right ribs. The knife in his hand was also broken in two.

However, a surprising power emerged from the man the next second, causing even Lin Jie to be somewhat taken aback. The man's power suddenly underwent a strange change. The next moment, his wounds and the knife were restored to their original state. This restoration didn't seem like some kind of healing power; in Lin Jie's view, it was more like time reversal.

"What's your name? You have the right to let me know your name," the handsome man with horns said coldly to Lin Jie, his voice filled with arrogance and domineering.

"Why waste words with him?" An old man shrouded in eerie winds said to the horned man, holding a soul-summoning banner.

"Hmph! You old fox, are you finally going to make your move?" The man in red said to the old man in front of him, "If you had helped me before he killed my primordial spirits, it might have been easier to deal with him."

"Who would have thought that someone as arrogant as you would stumble?" A monster seemingly made of shadows suddenly appeared not far from Lin Jie, speaking to him in a mocking tone: "Didn't you always think we were a bunch of incompetent people? How come today we're the ones who have to save you?"

"Hmph! What's there to say about a Black Mountain Demon like you whose face can't even withstand the sunlight?" the red-robed man sneered.

"Really? Looks like your brain's been damaged." the shadow monster said.

"Now is not the time for arguing," said the old man holding the summoning banner. "Our enemy now is the Immortal Slaughtering Sword, one of the Four Immortal Slaughtering Swords that slaughtered all living beings in the world. Let's join forces and kill this enemy first!"

"Hmph! I don't need you to lift a finger; I can handle this alone," the horned, cool guy said coldly. "My greatest interest is fighting powerful individuals. You'd better not interfere!"

"This person in front of you is definitely not someone you can handle alone," the man in red said to the man with horns. "His sword can annihilate all spirituality in the world. Didn't you already suffer a great loss when you attacked just now? Do you still want to fight this person one-on-one?"