Chapter 24: Ten Thousand Swords as One, the Life Source Pearl!
The Mother Empress 'Rashabel' hovered in midair like a sovereign, thousands of near-transparent green tendrils swirling around her voluptuous body.
Below her—
Countless roots and vines surged skyward in a frenzied dance, and from beneath the desert came a succession of guttural roars. The Mother Empress 'Rashabel's' numerous spawn-monsters had gathered around the black pyramid, completely engulfing it in their mass.
Lin Lei glanced at Rosalie and Deslai beside him. The two Grand Saint Magi were murmuring their incantations, having reached the final moments.
Rosali's azure hair suddenly floated upward as though alive, and a violent surge of water元素 exploded outward from her center. Countless frost crystals materialized out of thin air, and the temperature plummeted to a terrifying low in an instant. Even the writhing mass of vines and roots below froze solid into a crust of ice.
Water System Forbidden Magic—Absolute Zero.
At the same moment, a razor-sharp ripple of invisible force radiated from Deslai's body, sweeping directly toward the Mother Empress 'Rashabel' hovering above. The Mother Empress merely shuddered slightly, otherwise unaffected.
*Crack. Boom.*
Dozens of vines and roots shattered into frozen fragments.
A layer of frost also coated the Mother Empress 'Rashabel's' body.
"Is this the best you can do?" the Mother Empress 'Rashabel' laughed arrogantly. "When it comes to soul and mental power, how can you possibly compare to me? As for this water magic… how laughable. I, 'Rashabel,' have cultivated the laws of both water and wind!"
"Terrifying!" Lin Lei and his companions thought in unison.
Plant-type life-forms of this magnitude were generally enormous, and their souls were correspondingly formidable. The Mother Empress's true size was fearsome in its own right, though she could shrink it through cultivation. Her soul only grew more powerful with time.
Both were peak Saint Realm experts.
But human Grand Saint Magi were far from a match for such a monstrous plant life-form.
The Mother Empress 'Rashabel's' words had not yet faded.
*Hiss—*
Eighteen beams of black light shot from the eyes of the three six-eyed Jin Ni brothers. The eighteen beams instantly enveloped the Mother Empress 'Rashabel' entirely, coating the surface of her massive body and roots like a layer of black skin.
The Mother Empress 'Rashabel's' eyes went wide as dinner plates, and her once-fair features twisted in shock.
She—could not move!
*Whoosh!* Moving in perfect coordination with the eighteen beams, Lin Lei was already rocketing toward the Mother Empress at full speed.
"Roar~~~"
"Kill him!"
From beneath the desert, countless spawn-monsters let out deafening roars, all yearning for their Mother Empress to annihilate these humans. But in that instant, none of them noticed… their Mother Empress was completely immobilized.
In one hand he gripped the Purple Blood Flexible Sword, in the other the Black Jade Heavy Sword.
In Dragon Blood Warrior state, Lin Lei's dark-gold eyes locked onto the Mother Empress 'Rashabel' in the distance, and he charged toward her at maximum speed. He had already entered the zone blanketed by her mass of roots and vines.
"Hmph." The corner of Lin Lei's mouth curled upward.
Gale-force winds howled, and in an instant he had crossed several hundred meters. He was now less than a hundred meters from Rashabel. A hundred meters was nothing—a mere blink for Lin Lei. But in a battle between experts, everything came down to a single instant.
"Roar~~~" A furious bellow erupted from the Mother Empress 'Rashabel's' mouth.
Countless roots—and the tendrils coiled around her body—all surged toward Lin Lei. The Mother Empress 'Rashabel's' eyes burned with nothing but boundless rage, swearing to slaughter every human before her. First, she would kill the one directly in front of her.
The Mother Empress had broken free from the "Immobility."
"This is bad." Deslai, Rosalie, and the others' faces all changed drastically.
Bei Bei's round little eyes flashed with a streak of red, and dense black light—dark as ink—rose over his body. Bei Bei transformed into a black beam of light and shot forward regardless of the danger. "Boss!" He was terrified for Lin Lei.
A massive tangle of roots swept in.
But Lin Lei's mind was perfectly calm. He had long since planned for this scenario.
In his hand, the 'Purple Blood Flexible Sword' transformed in an instant into thousands upon thousands of eerie purple streaks. Wherever they passed, space itself blurred into overlapping afterimages. Each streak of purple light slithered like a serpent along bizarre trajectories, arcing with strange beauty as they stabbed forward.
Spatial Stillness!
The roots rushing toward him at tremendous speed suddenly sank as though wading through a swamp, their velocity dropping sharply.
And then those thousands upon thousands of purple sword-shadows converged into a single point—ten thousand swords as one. A single, blurred streak of soul-stirring purple light materialized. Like a shooting star, it blasted forward, utterly unstoppable.
*Boom!* Where the purple sword-light struck, those tough, semi-translucent roots instantly shattered. Countless severed tendrils went flying in every direction.
Wind Profoundness—Ten Thousand Swords as One!
This was Lin Lei's most powerful strike in the way of the wind!
Lin Lei burst through the gap his "Ten Thousand Swords as One" had carved, and the Mother Empress 'Rashabel' stared in utter disbelief. "How is this possible?" Her roots were nothing like those of her spawn. So many had enmeshed the area, yet this human had broken through in a heartbeat.
"Die." Having shattered the cage of roots, Lin Lei now hovered directly above the Mother Empress 'Rashabel's' head. With the Black Jade Heavy Sword in hand, he brought it crashing straight down.