Chapter 82: Borrowing Your Body!

Liu Ruyan was struck with absolute terror. Lu Jin’s words meant exactly what she feared: he had seen through the existence of the Fox Master.

At this moment, her heart trembled violently. Thinking back from the beginning to now: from the capture of Peak Master Pang to the destruction of the Corpse Puppets: Lu Jin had always maintained an air of total confidence. She felt a never-before-experienced dread rising from the depths of her soul.

The Lu Jin before her was far more terrifying than she had ever imagined. Even with her Supreme Bone, the guidance of the Fox Master, and the nurturing of Elder Chi Yu: even with all those resources added together: she still seemed to fall far short when facing him.

“Lu Jin!” Liu Ruyan stared at him, her eyes burning with rage. “You are merely a 3rd-grade Jindan! While I have reached the 6th grade! Even without the puppets, I will still kill you!”

Lu Jin gave a casual smile. “Fine, I will give you the chance. However, if that thing inside you doesn’t help, I fear you will die a very miserable death.”

He spoke indifferently, his tone dripping with deep disdain.

Grayish-black light erupted from Liu Ruyan’s eyes. In the next second, she bit the tip of her tongue and spat out a spray of essence blood!

“Heavenly Demonic Sword Art: Overturn the Rivers! Roll back the Seas!”

Buzz!

Within the black demonic aura, a blood-red light suddenly permeated everything. A black blood-sword condensed abruptly, its surface roiling with demonic energy like electricity. Liu Ruyan’s aura began to climb steadily.

“Blood Demon Heaven-Splitting Slash!”

Boom!!!

Following Liu Ruyan’s roars, the blood-sword hacked down directly toward Lu Jin’s head. At the moment the sword struck, her face turned as pale as paper: she had seemingly exhausted all her spiritual Qi.

The destructive aura erupting from the blood-sword was indeed staggering. Many disciples over a thousand yards away could not help but raise their protective barriers, terrified of being caught in the fallout.

Chu Tianxiong, Long Xiwei, and the others watched the scene. Though they were prepared to intervene, they remained still for now. In their sight, Lu Jin’s figure was as straight as a spear. He stood there like an indestructible wall of bronze, facing the coming storm with absolute confidence.

“Petty tricks. You dare show off your meager skills before a master!”

Facing the violent blood-sword attack, Lu Jin’s gaze darkened. The spiritual power in his palm swirled into a vortex, and he simply pushed it forward.

Rumble!

In the next second, under the disbelieving gazes of the crowd, the majestic aura of the blood-sword was instantly strangled and shattered upon contact with Lu Jin’s vortex. Even the sword itself was torn into a chaotic mess of aftershocks, all of which were then swallowed whole by the devouring force in his palm.

The entire exchange ended in a matter of seconds.

As the blood-sword was ground to dust, Liu Ruyan’s face filled with horror. She attempted to retreat frantically, but was instantly bound by a strand of Lu Jin’s Qi.

The restrictive power of this rope was immense. To ensure the previous strike would kill Lu Jin, Liu Ruyan had nearly drained her body of spiritual Qi: now that she was bound, she lacked even the strength to struggle.

Caught in his grasp, her eyes filled with the ash of despair. A glint of pure terror began to surface in her pupils.

“Heavens! The Saintess was actually captured alive by Senior Brother Lu Jin!”

“Incredible! If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed a 3rd-grade Jindan could capture a 6th-grade so easily. He didn’t even use his full strength!”

“Just how strong are Senior Brother’s methods? This man is terrifying!”

While the crowd discussed the feat, Chu Tianxiong’s expression had turned into one of profound astonishment.

This is… this is a technique from the Demon-Sweeping Heavenly Tome!

Seeing the vortex Lu Jin had manifested, Chu Tianxiong was shaken. This was clearly the Demon-Sweeping Heavenly Tome he had given Lu Jin only a few days ago!

At this moment, his heart was a mess of complex emotions: surprise, excitement, and self-doubt. He had cultivated for many years to reach this level of comprehension with the tome, yet Lu Jin had achieved the same level in just a few days. It made his scalp tingle.

Seeing Lu Jin take down Liu Ruyan, the worry in Long Xiwei’s heart finally dissipated. She summoned the Thunder-Devouring Mist Demon back: the gargantuan beast transformed into a cloud of mist and vanished before everyone’s eyes. This triggered another wave of exclamations.

Liu Ruyan, meanwhile, was paralyzed with fear. Under Lu Jin’s binding, she was completely out of options.

“Lu Jin! You cannot kill me! My Master is Elder Chi Yu! I have the Blood Moon Holy Land behind me!”

Hearing such a threat, Lu Jin replied indifferently: “Heh. For a person about to die, you certainly talk a lot.”

Buzz!

As he spoke, a cluster of crimson flame rose from his palm, and the shadow of a small sword manifested within it. In the next second, that small blade shot forward, sinking into Liu Ruyan’s lower abdomen in the blink of an eye.

Puchi!

Liu Ruyan’s complexion changed violently. She almost went into a frenzy, yet she forced herself to remain silent.

“Fox Master! Save me!” she screamed into her mind, communicating with the entity.

“Your Dantian has been crippled: you have no combat strength left!” The Fox Master’s voice carried a sense of urgency it had never shown before.

“Then what do I do? Fox Master, save me!” Liu Ruyan was in a panic.

“We share the same fate; if you fall, I fall. Naturally, this Seat will act!”

“What does the Fox Master want this disciple to do?”

“Simply clear your mind. Give your body to this Seat for a while.”

“Yes!”

Buzz!

As Liu Ruyan spoke, she felt her soul shudder. Her body began to move outside of her control. Within her crippled Dantian, her Jindan began to move upward at high speed.

“Since the Lower Dantian is destroyed, this Master shall use your Middle and Upper Dantians to help you escape this tribulation!”

Along with a resonant hum, a black light exploded from Liu Ruyan’s body. As the Jindan entered the Middle Dantian, it erupted with a startling fluctuation once more. This time, the black radiance whistled out to cover the sky. A violent wave of Yao Qi charged toward the surrounding disciples with reckless abandon.

This violent Monster Qi was the accumulated energy from her frantic slaughter within the Beast-Tamer Grand Formation.

Lu Jin’s gaze shifted as he watched the black light surge. “The thing inside you certainly has some tricks. Unfortunately, no one can save you today!

Seeing Liu Ruyan’s desperate counterattack, and the fact that the energy in her Jindan could still erupt so majestically, Lu Jin’s restrictive power surged again.

However, this time, the rope was quickly snapped. Liu Ruyan swallowed almost everything in her spatial ring. In an instant, the energy roiled within her, making her physical body look as though it might explode from the pressure.

“What is she doing?”

“Such an eerie method! How could Liu Ruyan practice such a wicked art?”

“She has completely transformed into a monster!”

“This is bad! These black rays… it feels like something is pulling at my spiritual Qi!”

“Retreat! Quickly!”

Sensing the strange aura pulling at them, a group of disciples turned pale and began to flee. Yet in that split second, a series of dark shadows appeared within that black radiance. Like ghosts, they manifested in great numbers and shot like lightning toward the bodies of the disciples below.

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NOTES

Middle Dantian (中丹田): Zhong Dantian. The energy center located in the chest area.

Upper Dantian (上丹田): Shang Dantian. The energy center located in the head/brow area.

Essence blood (精血): Jingxue. The concentrated life-force of a cultivator.