Chapter 782: Battling Yan Shenjun Again
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Inside the extraterritorial land, Lin Jin and his group stepped out onto a treetop monastery.
The Mystery Dao Sect had been destroyed so the Divine Cloud Passage that led to the sect’s base ceased to exist too. Fortunately, Inferno Monk had placed an entrance at the tiny monastery he built, or it would have taken Lin Jin quite a while to enter the extraterritorial land.
“How should we find Yan Shenjun?” Miao Yan Zhenren asked, but it wasn’t a tough challenge for Lin Jin.
Lin Jin waved his hand and an ember appeared, taking the form of Xiao Huo. Then, Xiao Huo abruptly enlarged until he was at least ten thousand feet long. He raised his head and howled into the sky, shaking the earth around them.
An earth-shaking wolf’s cry!
With his current rank, Xiao Huo’s howl was loud enough to be conveyed throughout the entire extraterritorial land. So long as Yan Shenjun was still here, he would hear it.
And with Yan Shenjun’s wits, he would surely know what it was about.
Lin Jin was taking the initiative by starting a battle cry to see if Yan Shenjun was brave enough to take up his challenge.
He rarely behaved so directly. He only did so this time due to absolute confidence.
The other immortals were intimidated by Xiao Huo’s aura and gaped at him. They mused how Lin Jin must have had a miraculous encounter during his trip to the Nine-Heaven Realm. Otherwise, his strength wouldn’t have skyrocketed to this point.
They had been doubtful before that Lin Jin could fight Yan Shenjun but found confidence now.
All that was left was to wait.
Lin Jin stood rooted to the spot with both hands behind his back, waiting in composed silence. Tianzun stood with his hand behind as well, smiling as he waited.
With both experts behaving in such a manner, the others behaved themselves and stayed quiet.
Even the falling of a leaf could be heard at this moment.
It didn’t take long before a frightening aura charged in their direction. The silhouette of a massive spider was the first to appear followed by one big and one small human silhouette.
The larger silhouette was half-human half-snake and his arms were abnormally long with sharp fingernails that looked like claws. Judging by his face, the man looked like Yan Shenjun.
As the others had described, the now freakish-looking Yan Shenjun had the image of a saint.
The saint who had used the heaven weaving spider to mend the skies looked somewhat the same. However, the paintings of the saint passed down from before had him looking benevolent and kind, while Yan Shenjun looked more like a devil with his murderous aura.
And sure enough, it was Patriarch Xue Pao standing behind Yan Shenjun.
Lin Jin didn’t see the Beast Deity Cult’s leader anywhere. But even if he was around, Lin Jin could easily deal with him now.
“Lin Jin! It was you after all! To think you’d have the guts to show yourself to me!” There was a trace of savageness in Yan Shenjun’s eyes as he looked at Lin Jin. He also seemed excited and pleased.
“Weren’t you looking for me too?” Lin Jin said while scanning Yan Shenjun up and down. Despite looking composed, he raised his guard.
The enemy’s strength had increased tremendously. Judging by the lower half of his body, he must have been swallowed by a huge snake but then a mishap happened halfway through.
Then, Yan Shenjun merged with the snake’s remaining body. This was actually impossible and didn’t make sense even from magic’s perspective. Because no spell could achieve such a thing.
Logically speaking, a forcible merging of two different living creatures couldn’t happen but it just did. And Lin Jin was looking at it.
So something must have been a catalyst for this to happen.
Lin Jin’s nose twitched.
‘The Heaven’s Foundation Stone!’
Lin Jin then understood why. Since just now, he had sensed a faint but familiar scent that smelled a lot like the Museum of Deadly Beasts.
Also, after chatting with Tianzun, he came to learn about some of the uses the Heaven’s Foundation Stone had.
The Heaven’s Foundation Stone represented heaven itself. It was nature.
And heaven could change its laws at will. In other words, it could defy its own laws no matter how incredulous something seemed. Because it was the master of all, it could do anything it pleased.
Lin Jin figured that only a fragment of the Heaven’s Foundation Stone could merge Yan Shenjun with the saint’s snake body.
‘Yan Shenjun is quite lucky,’ Lin Jin thought.
The heaven weaving spider was the saint’s pet, so after Yan Shenjun merged with the saint’s body, he too could control the spider now.
As Lin Jin scrutinized Yan Shenjun, the latter stared at him too.
As if he had his eyes on delicious prey, Yan Shenjun’s jaw hung open in a deformed shape as he drooled. A long snake tongue darted out and his sharp teeth were in full view.
He had clearly been affected by the saint’s body.
Then, Lin Jin realized that Yan Shenjun could probably sense his Heaven’s Foundation Stone fragment as well, so he must be dying to tear Lin Jin apart to dig out the fragment.
One other important detail he observed was that Yan Shenjun’s strength had exceeded an unfettered immortal’s level. However, his condition wasn’t stable.
Despite being half-snake, Yan Shenjun’s own body was too weak so he was mostly being affected by the saint’s snake body. Otherwise, he wouldn’t look so deformed with arms three times the length of a normal human’s and his rib cage protruding. His mouth in particular made him look like a monster.
These were all signs of being affected by the saint’s snake body.
In other words, Yan Shenjun may look strong but his condition was unstable. He was probably relying on the Heaven’s Foundation Stone fragment to maintain this balance.
Once he lost the fragment, it didn’t take much to imagine what would happen.
Yan Shenjun’s body couldn’t possibly withstand the saint’s snake body. He would instantly collapse and die.
This was a weakness Lin Jin felt he could exploit.
“Lin Jin, this person looks half immortal and half saint. I should be able to handle him if I still had all my cultivation as I was once deemed a half saint as well. But I can’t do that anymore so when the fight starts, I can only assist you, so be careful,” Tianzun said through telepathy.
Lin Jin nodded.
When enemies meet, there was no need for words. They could just fight.
Lin Jin seized the chance to launch the first attack.
He patted the Clear Wind Sword and a blinding flash dazzled everyone. There was no place to hide and nowhere to run.
The Clear Wind Sword had improved significantly as well with its might skyrocketing.
Even average profound immortals couldn’t endure one slash from it.
Yan Shenjun merely scoffed without moving. The heaven weaving spider had shot out spider webs, creating a barrier. And then, all they saw were sparks and heard the sounds of metal clashing continuously like fireworks.
The spider web had blocked the Sword Energy.
Tianzun smiled and said, “Let me help.”
Having said that, he chanted the words ‘Invincible Edge’.
Immediately, the Clear Wind Sword’s light flashed brighter and the Sword Energy it dished out thickened.. The spider web was sliced through and the Sword Energy hacked at Yan Shenjun.