The Prodigies War

The silver-colored bat was the size of a palm with gleaming wings. It had a pair of claws as sharp as hooks, which it was using to hang upside down in a dark corner, making it extremely inconspicuous in the bloody atmosphere.

When Lin Xun's gaze first swept over, the bat was stunned, seemingly surprised. Then, its figure flashed and transformed into a very handsome teenager clad in a silver-colored robe.

“I am the transfiguration of the primeval Silver Bat Ancestral Blood, born proficient in the dao of sound. For countless moons, I have wielded this dao and caused at least a hundred people to die under their own heart demon. Of those who I’ve met that don’t fear it, you are…the second.”

The handsome teenager approached. His pupils glowed with a demonic red light. His demeanor was leisurely, as if he was taking a stroll.

However, Lin Xun's eyes revealed a rare gravity.

The aura of Silver Bat Ghost Emperor indicated the Emperor Stage third realm at the lowest!

Lin Xun asked casually, “Who was the first one?”

The teenager stopped when he was thirty thousand feet from Lin Xun and smiled faintly. “Want to know? Defeat me and I'll tell you.”

Lin Xun smiled back. “Not afraid that I will kill you?”

The teenager mused and said, “Since you were able to kill your way to this seventh floor with your cultivation, you are definitely no ordinary person. There are probably some things in your possession that allow you to confront Emperor experts.

“But the cultivation gap between us is far too great. I’m afraid you don’t have much hope of killing me despite whatever card you might have in your stash.”

Lin Xun asked, “Want to give it a try?”

The teenager's scarlet eyes flickered as he stared at Lin Xun for a moment. Then, he said, “Aren't you curious as to why there are no other fiend spirits on this floor besides me?”

Lin Xun said, “Won't I know if I defeat you?”

The teenager sniggered. “How about this, as long as you hand over the half of the Dao Skyless Spear that you have, I'll immediately let you go. No matter if you go to the eighth floor or return to the sixth, I promise I won’t stop you.”

“Saying so much nonsense only proves that you don't have the will to win it no matter what,” commented Lin Xun indifferently. “Since that's the case, then I might as well be blunt: hand over the half of the Dao Skyless Spear that you have and I will spare your life.”

The teenager was stunned and pointed at his nose. “You…you shouldn't really think that I'm such an easy-going person?”

He was surprised, incredulous even. A supreme quasi-Emperor, even if he really had means to resist Emperors, couldn't actually be so arrogant, could he?

“I don’t know about that. All I can see is that you think I’m easy to bully,” sighed Lin Xun.

The teenager took a deep breath, and with a flip of his palm, a broken spear appeared, diffusing obscure fluctuations.

Instantly, the half of the spear in Lin Xun's hand warmed up and generated an echo in response.

The teenager in the silvery robe revealed a bright, devilishly charming smile and beckoned, “Baby, come here.”

Boom!

A powerful, vast, whirlpool-like force firmly locked onto the half Dao Skyless Spear in Lin Xun's hand and yanked at it.

Embarrassingly, though, it did not budge.

The teenager's smile froze, and his eyes flickered involuntarily. Inwardly, he had slightly lost his composure because not to mention a supreme quasi-Emperor, even Emperors would have been caught off guard and unable to stop his pulling force just now.

Yet, it had failed this time!

“Looks like your ‘baby’ doesn’t listen to you at all,” Lin Xun laughed out loud with a hint of sarcasm.

The teenager's eyes flashed with a violent glint. Inhaling deeply, he grabbed through the air again, this time using his true power.

Rumble!

The air twisted and collapsed in ear-bursting explosions. One could imagine how terrifying this pulling force was.

However, the embarrassing scene once again played out. The half of the Dao Skyless Spear in Lin Xun’s hand remained motionless….

Lin Xun couldn't help but laugh even more jubilantly. He didn’t say a word as his eyes were filled with derision.

That kind of gaze was already like a knife poking at the teenager’s heart, causing his face to darken and a savage intent to irrepressibly surge out from his eyes.

Right at this moment, Lin Xun imitated him and beckoned, “Come here.”

As he said this, a dark copper block appeared on his palm and emitted the aura that belonged to the Treasure Refining Origin Furnace.

The teenager promptly felt his wrist shaking violently. The half spear in his grasp suddenly became a wild horse, generating an unprecedented force as it tried to break free.

Whoosh!

A brief moment of carelessness was all it took for it to fly out of his hand.

“Damn it!” The teenager flew into a rage. He transformed into a silvery lightning bolt and shot out after the half spear.

“Rise!” Lin Xun waved his sleeve right at that instant.

Boom!

Thousands of large, cyan lotus flowers suddenly emerged, swaying as they crowded the space between heaven and earth.

Each lotus flower was crystalline and filled with mysterious, complicated dao runes. Colorful haze streamed and divine light steamed around them, illuminating layers of the sky.

The teenager’s expression drastically changed. When he wanted to stop and dodge, it was already too late as he now looked like a tadpole who had mistakenly swam into a collective of lotus flowers.

Looking around, the vast field had been filled with an infinite cyan color that connected seamlessly to the sky. In the stamen of each flower, the silhouette of a deity sat and chanted dao scriptures, producing an oppressive killing intent.

“Kill!”

“Kill!”

“Kill!”

…

A burst of roars resounded, rolling and stirring like the roar of angry gods. The teenager's ears buzzed, his vision was filled with stars, and his muscles all tensed up.

He sensed a terrifying threat!

“That damned little brat! He secretly set up a big array!” The teenager became livid, his eyes brimming with monstrous rage.

A horrifying silver-color flame flowed around him as he activated a secret technique. Then, his palm struck out.

The palm force easily shattered and incinerated a large lotus nearby, but the next second, another one appeared and grew to fill the space it had left.

The teenager's expression became ugly. He scanned the surroundings before launching and breaking out with all his strength. He didn't attack indiscriminately, but rather followed a fixed direction.

Rumble!

Silver-colored flames spread from him, generating a mighty power that could burn down the world. At the same time, a whistling sound rolled out from his tongue, and the endless sonic waves transformed into thousands of sharp blades that slashed forward.

Each blade was imprinted with Emperor laws, giving them an unimaginable power.

In just a moment, the teenager ‘plowed’ a straight path through the lotus forest with an unstoppable momentum.

However, he quickly realized a problem.

This cyan lotus world looked as though it was boundless. He couldn’t get out of it even though he had been rushing straight forward!

Meanwhile, a fifth of his energy had been depleted by the march.

“Little friend, since my half of the Dao Skyless Spear has already fallen into your hands, I admit defeat. I won’t be your enemy anymore, so can you stop here?” said the silvery-robed teenager heavily, his voice rippling in the ten directions.

He was trying to pinpoint Lin Xun's position. As long as Lin Xun opened his mouth, his sonic waves would pin down the other party’s position right away!

Lin Xun, however, did not oblige him.

His answer was a shocking change in the lotus array.

Kaboom!

Countless deity silhouettes leaped out from the lotuses, their figures magnificent. Like primeval gods going to war, they charged toward the target.

Dazzling divine light as sharp as swords and as domineering as sabers flooded forth.

The teenager's expression instantly morphed.

“Break!” He used his full strength without any hesitation. Summoning treasures and fighting like a trapped beast, he displayed a heaven-shocking might.

Lin Xun, who stood outside the array, closely followed all of this.

Earlier, after noticing a hint of movement from the Dao Skyless Spear, he had judged that Silver Bat Ghost Emperor was on the seventh floor.

He hadn’t taken initiative to attack, but instead had stayed in place to set up the array. It was because he knew that the other party, who was also in possession of a half of the Dao Skyless Spear, was bound to have perceived his arrival as well!

As a result, there was this ‘set up the trap and wait for the prey’ situation.

The trap for Silver Bat Ghost Emperor was the All-Heaven Ninth Array, Killing Array of Perishment.

Unlike the last time it had been performed, Lin Xun had set it up in advance with array flags this time and used dao crystals as its core as well as energy source. This made the grand array more than twice as powerful as before!

Rumble!

In its operation, the Killing Array of Perishment disrupted the nine heavens and ten earths. Astonishing murderous intent shot out in succession, drowning the seventh floor of the Dark Hidden Purgatory in turmoil.

This array was powerful enough to kill Emperors. Such was something that Array Emperor Lu had verified all the way back in the ancient era.

The one that Lin Xun had set up now, although still imperfect, already had about seventy percent of its supposed power. It was not difficult for it to trap and kill an average Emperor expert.

However, Silver Bat Ghost Emperor was obviously not an average Emperor expert. While he was still trapped in the array, he was going all out with unmatched vigor.

Lin Xun's gaze was deep and calm as he controlled the array while also paying attention to the consumption of the dao crystals that acted as the energy source.

Every time one blinked, the Killing Array of Perishment would have consumed a hundred thousand dao crystals!

It had been in operation for only a few moments, but the hill of dao crystals had been deprived of thirty million pieces, and the consumption was still going at the same rate…

Just such a scene would make any cultivator's heart bleed with pain, but Lin Xun couldn’t care less.

He had hundreds of millions of dao crystals on him!

The only thing he frowned at was that although his Killing Array of Perishment was incredibly powerful, it was still inadequate to kill a character of Silver Bat Ghost Emperor’s caliber, who was at least at least a third realm Emperor…

Rumble!

After the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the array loudly quaked as a huge crack appeared on it, from which the teenager shot out like a flame.

However, his hair was disheveled, and he was ridden with injuries. His silvery robe had been shredded like rags, revealing gruesome bleeding wounds.

His eyes were bloodshot, and his aura was ferocious and tyrannical as he shrieked up at the sky, “Little scum, get out here and receive death!”

He had gone crazy with fury. In his duration of being suppressed inside the array, he had constantly sustained injuries in a miserable manner. If it hadn’t been for his precious treasures as well as the various taboo methods he had used with all his might, he would have been trapped to death in there.

Moreover, despite having broken free, his constitution had been immensely damaged in the process. It could be compared to having peeled off a layer of his skin!

“Old beast, what are you yapping about?”

In the distance was Lin Xun and his five dao bodies. Each was wielding a different Emperor-grade weapon as they charged together at the teenager. Their combined momentum was so powerful that the whole area shook.

How did he turn into six people?

The teenager was dumbfounded, almost thinking that his eyes had failed and that he was hallucinating.