Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 730: The Way of Killing
Chapter 730: The Way of Killing
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Seeing that Chen Huaian didn't seem concerned, Lin Fan naturally didn't say more, simply placing his right hand on his sword hilt and preparing for any unexpected situations.
Fortunately, no accidents occurred.
After Chen Huaian picked up the light sphere, it merged into his body. He seemed to gain some insight and immediately sat cross-legged in meditation.
Lin Fan consciously took on the role of guard.
However, he sensed that his time remaining on Earth Star was running short. He could only pray silently that the ancestor would finish his closed-door cultivation quickly, while simultaneously beginning to set up a sword formation on the spot.
He didn't possess particularly advanced formation skills.
What he knew were all very basic formations.
In Lin Fan's eyes, formations were essentially just setting traps - traps that only needed to be powerful enough to blast enemies sky-high.
He infused sword intent into his flying swords, then buried them underground.
After connecting the flying swords with the formation, they could detect killing intent directed at the protected target within the formation through the sword formation. Once killing intent approached, the flying swords would explode.
Never mind if this method seemed a bit too simple and crude.
The question was: did it work?
And was it violent enough?
Ordinary formation masters couldn't create such formations because no one else could infuse highly compressed sword intent into flying swords like Lin Fan.
While Lin Fan was diligently setting up protective formations for the ancestor...
Chen Huaian was comprehending the treasure left by the White Tiger.
What the White Tiger left him wasn't a divine ability, but a cultivation method - a method for comprehending the Path of Slaughter.
This cultivation method had only two characters in its name - "Po Jun" (Army Breaker).
Yet it carried an indescribable imposing aura.
The entire method focused on cultivating killing intent as its core - from accumulating killing intent through normally killing enemies, to using the body as a vessel to nurture killing intent, to making killing intent part of divine sense, achieving divine killing intent that could inflict damage like sword intent, and finally proving the Dao through killing, walking the path of slaughter to reach the point where a single glance could strip life from cultivators of the same realm.
After reading through the entire method, Chen Huaian drew a sharp breath.
Cultivating this method would actually be simple for him.
With the help of his supreme constitution, operating such cultivation methods was as easy as eating and drinking.
He only needed to operate "Army Breaker" while killing enemies to absorb and cultivate killing intent.
The drawback was that when operating "Army Breaker" initially, his mind would be somewhat affected, becoming bloodthirsty, cold-hearted, and indifferent to life.
This would also generate various inner demons.
Most cultivators who wanted to prove the Dao through killing ultimately fell to these inner demons.
But cultivating Army Breaker required slaying inner demons.
If inner demons tried to obstruct proving the Dao through killing, then kill the inner demons too.
The true Path of Slaughter wasn't about slaughtering life.
It was about killing everything.
Including souls, space, time, and even the very concept of "existence" would be erased together.
Each time an inner demon was killed, Army Breaker's influence on the mind would diminish.
If one couldn't kill the inner demons, they weren't qualified to continue cultivating Army Breaker.
After some time, Chen Huaian returned to consciousness from his meditative state.
The "Army Breaker" method, whose grade couldn't even be determined, had already been comprehended by him to great completion.
Next would be the step-by-step cultivation of killing intent.
The cultivation of Army Breaker coincided perfectly with his sword path.
The two could completely merge into one.
Earth Star had Ascenders, the Demon Race that betrayed the Ancestral Dragon, and the Celestial God Clan hidden behind the scenes - there was no worry about lacking opportunities to cultivate "Army Breaker."
"Little Lin, send This Venerable One to the fifth Demon Sealing Pagoda~"
The Sect Summoning Token had time restrictions.
He had to fully utilize all resources to avoid losses.
However, after speaking, Chen Huaian didn't receive Lin Fan's respectful response.
He froze for a moment, then looked around and discovered that Lin Fan had already disappeared.
The Sect Summoning Token's time had ended, and Lin Fan had returned.
"This Venerable One is screwed!" Chen Huaian was shocked. "How long was I in closed-door cultivation?"
He took out his phone and glanced at it.
The drawback was that when operating "Army Breaker" initially, his mind would be somewhat affected, becoming bloodthirsty, ruthless, and indifferent to life.
He had been in closed-door cultivation for over an hour!
Although this time wasn't long for cultivators in closed-door cultivation, it was very dangerous for him.
If Chen Niu brought Wu E here, he wouldn't be able to handle them!
Chen Huaian stood up, feeling somewhat panicked now.
But sometimes, the more one fears something, the more likely it is to happen.
The western sky suddenly darkened, carrying sounds of ghostly wails and wolf howls.
Chen Huaian looked up toward the western horizon, where large flocks of birds and flying spirits burst out of the forests, desperately fleeing eastward.
If inner demons tried to prevent proving the Dao through killing, then kill the inner demons too.
The fifth Demon Sealing Pagoda hadn't been opened yet, and he couldn't let the fierce beasts inside fall to Chen Niu.
This would affect Taotie's resurrection, so he couldn't leave.
But he wasn't a match for Chen Niu - what should he do?
Chen Huaian hadn't noticed the formations Lin Fan had set up.
Not only because of the realm gap, but also because these formations didn't look like formations at all - they more closely resembled neatly arranged landmines.
The entire sword formation basically had no formation aura - who could tell?
The sky seemed like it had been splashed with thick ink, rapidly darkening.
A suffocatingly heavy pressure, accompanied by shrill wind sounds, descended like an invisible giant wave, crushing down with overwhelming force. The entire forest trembled, and the demons around the Demon Sealing Pagoda emitted terrified shrieks, swarming into the pagoda's entrance like an exploded ant nest.
These demons even huddled behind Chen Huaian.
It seemed Chen Huaian had instead become their protective shield.
Within the rolling, sky-obscuring black clouds, a massive and ferocious figure slowly emerged.
Bull head, flood dragon body - it was indeed Chen Niu!
It twisted its enormous body, crushing mountain rocks wherever it passed, emitting dull, drum-like rumbles.
Its body was wreathed in thick, substance-like gray-black demonic energy, resembling a boiling swamp, constantly churning with distorted, agonized faces and piercing shrieks.
Those crimson bull eyes pierced through space, coldly locking onto Chen Huaian inside the Demon Sealing Pagoda.
"It really is Chen Niu." Chen Huaian gritted his teeth, concealing his face.
He didn't know if he could escape Chen Niu's detection, but he had to try everything as a last resort.
"Who! Who is ruining my plans!"
Sensing the fierce beast's aura had dissipated, Chen Niu knew that Qiongqi in the Demon Sealing Pagoda had already been taken by someone, instantly flying into a rage.
Simultaneously, he cursed Wu E bitterly in his heart.
If Wu E hadn't encountered another situation over there, how could someone have beaten them to it?!
He focused his gaze on Chen Huaian in the Demon Sealing Pagoda, wanting to see who was causing trouble.
But he could only see that it was a human cultivator wearing white robes, a pair of Nike running shoes, and holding a phone.
As for what he looked like...
It was like a thin mist covered his face, completely unclear.
He was a Demon Immortal avatar, yet couldn't see through a mere human's disguise?
Then he would drag this human out, tear out his tendons and skin him alive, eat his soul, and then he would know everything.
"Playing mysterious tricks!"
Chen Niu snorted coldly.
His massive body, wrapped in all-encompassing demon clouds, descended toward the Demon Sealing Pagoda like a collapsing sky.
The target was clear, the momentum overwhelming!
The posture seemed like it would crush the entire Demon Sealing Pagoda together with Chen Huaian into dust!
Chen Huaian stood ready, Black Scales Sword drawn, prepared to confront Chen Niu.
However, just as Chen Niu's enormous body was about to trample the last patch of open ground around the Demon Sealing Pagoda,
At the moment when he was less than ten zhang from Chen Huaian—
"BOOM—!"
Something exploded beneath Chen Niu.
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