Chapter 379: God-Level Imperial Bloodline Descendant?!!!
Seeing Yun Yun and Xiao Yan not backing down in the slightest, Jaxing Tian and Fama couldn't help but feel a tinge of hesitation in their eyes. They really didn't want to have a conflict with such a mysterious Dou Zong expert. But just as Jaxing Tian and Fama were caught in their inner conflict, Hai Bo Dong had already summoned his ice-blue Battle Qi armor and stood beside Yun Yun and Xiao Yan.
Hai Bo Dong didn't say a word, but his actions clearly showed his stance. Though he couldn't perceive the opponent's strength, he knew that Xiao Yan was not someone who would seek death voluntarily, and thus, in this situation, he chose to stand by Xiao Yan's side. Or, more precisely, by Jiang Lin's side.
"Alright then!" Jaxing Tian's face showed a slight struggle, but when he thought of the Jia Ma Weapon Refining Guild's Hulei, his inner conflict gradually cleared. Gritting his teeth, the peak Nine-Star Dou Huang aura he released pressed over Yun Yun and the others, enveloping Jiang Lin and Gu He behind him. The massive earth-colored Battle Qi made Xiao Yan and the others glance at him, as this was the first time they had seen a Nine-Star Dou Huang on the verge of becoming a Dou Zong, the strongest expert of the Jia Ma Empire!
"Senior, Jiang Lin is our Jia Ma Weapon Refining Guild's most outstanding craftsman. His existence concerns the prosperity and decline of the Jia Ma Empire for the next century. As a guardian of Jia Ma, I cannot stand by and watch you take him away!" Jaxing Tian said firmly, his voice deep as he addressed the gray-robed elder in the night sky.
Of course, at this moment, Jaxing Tian secretly hoped that Jiang Lin would step forward and leave voluntarily, so that all their grandiose words could be forgotten as jokes.
Fama's face darkened as he silently stepped forward, flying beside Jaxing Tian, and addressed the gray-robed elder in the distance, "Does senior intend to wipe out the entire Alchemist Guild and Weapon Refining Guild of Jia Ma?"
Although Fama understood that if the other party was truly a Dou Zong, they stood no chance of protecting Jiang Lin, he had a certain understanding of his own life and death. He believed the possibility of the elder attacking was very low, but Fama still had to face a great risk.
"To wipe them all out is unnecessary." The gray-robed elder looked at the group of Dou Huang who stood ready to protect Jiang Lin, a faint smile appearing at the corner of his mouth beneath the hood. Indeed, he hadn't shown much malice yet because slaughtering the entire Jia Ma Empire was a waste of time for him.
And his time was extremely valuable. The reason he could spare time for this remote place was because of a certain 'rumor.' That rumor was too terrifying for the force behind him.
Thus, the gray-robed elder personally came, spending half a day in the Jia Ma Empire to gather information about this Jiang Lin, then analyzing if the person matched the details in the 'rumor.' If it did, he would investigate how Jiang Lin had avoided the probe of the Spirit Locking Arrays from all realms. This would make things much more complicated.
If Jiang Lin was like this, then were there others like Xiao Lin or Gu Lin in the Dou Qi Continent? If so, their thousand-year plans would have to be completely overhauled!
Xiao Yan (raises hand): "I still have Colored Scales! Green Scales!"
The gray-robed elder and others had no room for error, just like the Xiao clan in the past. One mistake and the entire clan's sacrifice would be in vain! Especially since the gray-robed elder and the others had borrowed experimental data from the Xiao clan. They intended to replicate the Xiao clan's data and update it further.
But Jiang Lin's appearance was like a walking bug in the system, there to plainly tell the gray-robed elder that they might not even manage to replicate the first step of mimicking the Xiao clan's data!
"My purpose has always been the same, it's for the one behind you."
"Ghost."
The gray-robed elder's ancient voice slowly echoed, and as the word "Ghost" fell, the gray-robed elder directly pierced through space. The surrounding space silently collapsed around him, and an ordinary but extremely withered hand reached over the prepared Jaxing Tian and his group, heading straight for Jiang Lin's head, attempting to grab his crown!
Buzz!
Before Jaxing Tian and the others could react, a ripple appeared in the space behind Jiang Lin. A gray sword shadow and a pale white hand shot out almost simultaneously. However, the gray-robed elder seemed uninterested in them, his dazzling black eyes—equal to Jiang Lin's—flickered with amusement, fixedly staring at the face of Jiang Lin, which was becoming clearer under his hand.
Time suddenly seemed to slow down at that moment. The gray-robed elder could see the withered hand of Jiang Lin's reflected in his eyes, and it seemed, in the flames, the normal hand wasn't supposed to look this way—its flesh dry. This was a side effect from the gray-robed elder's practice of the advanced Forged Fire Technique.
Before the second level, the Forged Fire Technique was the best foundation-building method in the world, but after the second level, the technique became extremely difficult to practice. Forcing it and then switching to other cultivation methods often led to side effects. The most common of these side effects was a withered body, a consequence of practicing the advanced Forged Fire Technique.
Of course, some individuals kept practicing high-level Forged Fire Techniques. But those individuals were generally called "Holy Weapons" by the gray-robed elder, not cultivators.
The gray-robed elder could see that, in Jiang Lin's dazzling red eyes—an extremely rare sight according to his experience—flame-like eye patterns seemed to tremble slightly under the shadow of the withered hand. In that instant, the flame-like patterns shook, and they seemed to turn into four brilliant stars, intertwining to form a fiery lotus.
Inside that fiery lotus, the gray-robed elder seemed to see... a pair of colorful spirit eyes?!
Buzz!
On Jiang Lin's void spiritual platform, a colorful lotus platform exploded with powerful soul fluctuations. The small, chubby Lin's eyes instantly became fiery, releasing an intense, blinding light!
The terrifying soul fluctuations erupted from Jiang Lin's body, shattering the space around him that had been suppressed by the withered hand. In that instant, Jiang Lin was pushed forward by the shattered spatial wave, and just as the withered hand was about to grab him, Jiang Lin's head narrowly missed the grasp, crossing paths with the hand!
His red-golden eyes, resembling two suns, seemed to see the mysterious Dou Qi patterns and spatial patterns on the withered hand passing by, along with the eerie and familiar patterns of the Forged Fire Technique!
"Hmm?" The gray-robed elder seemed slightly surprised, surprised by Jiang Lin's soul strength, and more surprised that he had failed to observe Jiang Lin's movements in the chaotic space fluctuations!
(END CHAPTER)
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