Chapter 133: Fourth Soul skills—Night Parade of One Hundred Demons
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The so-called Domain Expansion is the manifestation of a jujutsu sorcerer's or cursed Martial Soul's inner World through a technique. An absolute Domain constructed using cursed energy, it is the ultimate mystery of jujutsu techniques.
Once a Domain Expansion is activated, one gains the rule-based ability of a guaranteed hit and kill, and its power is greatly enhanced.
It can be said that, except for a very small number of people like Hajime Kashimo, a powerhouse with a Domain is a dimensional suppression against those without one.
Furthermore, Domains are divided into open and closed types; which is stronger or weaker is self-evident.
If a closed Domain is like painting on a canvas, then an open Domain is like painting on the air.
A divine skill, unparalleled.
Lin Xuan, having cultivated for many years across two lifetimes, had finally mastered this divine technique.
At this moment, within the range of the Domain "Malevolent Shrine," Cleave: Hachi will be applied to creatures with Soul Power, and Cleave: Dismantle will be applied to objects without Soul Power.
Within the range of the guaranteed-hit effect, all people and objects will endure never-ending attacks until Malevolent Shrine ends.
However, since Lin Xuan's current Soul Power is far from reaching the level of Sukuna—where nothing cannot be cut—he estimated that after expanding the Domain on a large scale, he could only maintain it for one minute at most, and could not instantly kill Soul Douluo-level powerhouses.
But Lin Xuan didn't care about that.
He stood atop the shrine built from piles of bleached bones, looking down at everything below.
Watching the army of the undead turn into dust in large swathes under the invisible slashes, watching Pluto Thunder Douluo covered in blood, struggling with all his might to resist the omnipresent attacks...
Watching those two Soul Douluos barely hanging on, their flesh being sliced off piece by piece, watching the earth being torn apart by invisible slashes, leaving behind bottomless ravines...
Lin Xuan only felt a surge of indescribable satisfaction in his heart. It was the pleasure of being high above, holding the power of life and death over others; it was the power of destroying everything.
At this moment, he was the god of this Domain.
However, just as he was enjoying this feeling, several untimely roars rang out.
Lin Xuan's brow furrowed slightly, his eyes cold as he looked down.
He saw that Bone Dragon staring fixedly at him, the ghostly green flames in its eye sockets flickering wildly.
And deeper within the undead army, three equally terrifying auras roared towards the sky simultaneously!
A Death Knight covered in pitch-black armor, its warhorse also condensed from bleached bones, pointed its greatsword toward the sky.
A translucent Ghost Queen floated in mid-air, surrounded by countless shrill, resentful Martial Souls.
There was also a Skeleton Giant dozens of meters tall; with every step it took, the earth trembled.
Four undead creations at the Titled Douluo level!
They were constantly snarling at Lin Xuan, their voices filled with hatred for the living and anger toward the intruder.
A cold smile appeared on Lin Xuan's face. "Seeking death."
Then, he reached out both hands, palms facing each other.
"Kamado... Open."
As Lin Xuan's words fell, in the next moment, a blood-red flame emerged in his palm.
The flame was extremely brilliant and scorching hot; the moment it appeared, the surrounding air began to distort.
It wasn't an ordinary red, but a pure, almost transparent crimson, like the highest grade of ruby burning.
Even from a great distance, Pluto Thunder Douluo felt that terrifying sense of heat. He struggled to lift his blood-stained eyelids and look at the figure in the sky.
He saw Lin Xuan bathed in fire, the blood-red flames surging, jumping, and submitting around him, making him look like a monarch of fire.
Pluto Thunder Douluo looked astonished and murmured softly, "Fire...? Isn't Fallen Heaven Douluo's Soul skills that pale monster and the invisible slashes?"
He paused, as if discovering something, and his pupils suddenly contracted. "No... this isn't just ordinary fire..."
"This... this is... Ultimate Fire!"
In the distance, Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu saw this scene and were equally stunned into silence.
They never expected that Fallen Heaven Douluo, who was already powerful to such an extent, actually had Ultimate Fire that he hadn't revealed!!!
Terrifying! Truly terrifying!
Just how many trump cards does this man have?!
Lin Xuan looked down expressionlessly at everything beneath his feet.
He stretched his hands, constantly compressing and extending the flames in his palms. The blood-colored fire flowed between his fingers like a tamed stallion, incredibly submissive.
Finally, the fire was stretched by him into an arrow.
The arrow was entirely crimson, condensed from pure Ultimate Fire. The light at the tip was blinding, as if it could pierce through everything.
The tail flame fluttered in the void like a blood-colored battle flag, snapping in the wind.
At the same time.
"Rippp—!"
The sound of clothes tearing rang out, and then six hideous demon-god arms burst out from his back!
Those six arms were different from his original arms; they were thicker, more grotesque, and each one emanated a heart-palpitating aura.
Seeing this scene, Nan Shuishui was completely stunned. So those rumors were true... Fallen Heaven Douluo really was born with eight arms!
Lin Xuan established a Binding Vow at this moment, roughly the same as Sukuna's.
At the cost of using four hands to form seals simultaneously, he gained an expansion of the "Malevolent Shrine" technique, causing all pulverized matter within the Domain to possess the same explosive Soul Power as "Open."
In other words, the next arrow would ignite not just the fire in his hand, but the omnipresent dust within the entire Domain, thick as morning mist!
Lin Xuan's right fingers gently released, and the arrow condensed from Ultimate Fire instantly sliced through the void!
Like a crimson meteor trailing a long tail of fire, it shot toward the Bone Dragon below!
Everywhere the arrow passed, the air burned, leaving a long-lasting trail of fire.
Then, it hit the target squarely!
In an instant, heaven and earth went silent; the loudest sound is silence.
Nan Shuishui only felt a World of white before her eyes. She seemed to see a sun rising from the earth. The light was too intense, too dazzling, as if it would blind anyone who dared to look directly at it.
The next moment, a deafening boom resounded through the heavens and earth!
"BOOM—!!!!"
The earth shook violently, as if doomsday had arrived!
Sand and stones flew, and dust filled the sky! A terrifying shockwave swept out in all directions with the Bone Dragon as the center. Everywhere it passed, everything was overturned, crushed, and destroyed!
On the plains, countless undead creations that had not yet entered the Domain's range were instantly turned to ash in the shockwave!
Even though Nan Shuishui was a Soul Douluo powerhouse, she was still violently blown away by this terrifying impact!
She hurriedly grabbed Nan Qiuqiu, who was also being blown away, and the two tumbled through the air for over a hundred meters before slamming heavily onto the ground!
After an unknown amount of time, Nan Shuishui climbed up, covered in dirt. Her eyes were blurred by sand and grit, and tears flowed uncontrollably. She struggled to open her eyes and look forward.
She saw a pillar of fire, two hundred meters in diameter, piercing through the heavens and earth!
The fire pillar was blood-red, soaring into the clouds, making even that eerie purple sun look dim and colorless. It was like a divine punishment sent down by a god of destruction, swallowing, incinerating, and turning everything into nothingness!
Around the pillar of fire, space was distorting violently, light was distorting, everything was distorting!
Nan Qiuqiu also stared blankly at this scene, her mouth wide enough to fit a fist, yet she couldn't make a sound.
The mother and daughter just stared blankly at this World-shaking scene, turned into two motionless statues.
Within the fire pillar, that Bone Dragon and Pluto Thunder Douluo didn't even have time to scream before they were directly vaporized and disappeared.
Those three Titled Douluo-level undead creations also struggled bitterly in the flames, the death energy on them burning wildly and melting away at a visible speed.
As for the undead army, it had long since ceased to exist.
The earth was melted into a glass-like substance, still emitting billowing heat. The smell of scorching permeated the air, and the aura of death was completely purified by the fire.
Lin Xuan stood in mid-air, with the eerie purple sun behind him and the World-destroying pillar of fire surrounding him.
His gaze was indifferent, like a god looking down on all living things, overlooking this World he had personally turned into a purgatory.
...
A long time later, the pillar of fire that pierced the heavens finally exhausted its fury and slowly dissipated into the horizon.
The brilliant light receded like a tide, and the scorching air currents gradually calmed down. The smell of scorching lingered in the air.
When the last wisp of black smoke was blown away by the wind, what appeared in the sight of Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu was a scorched crater four hundred meters in diameter.
The crater was bottomless, its edges smooth as a mirror. Within that crater, there was nothing—no Bone Dragon, no Pluto Thunder Douluo, no three Titled Douluo-level undead creations, nor any trace that any living being had ever existed.
There was only a layer of charcoal ash several centimeters thick on the ground, rising gently in the breeze and rubbing together with a fine, rustling sound, like a lament from this hellish land.
Nan Shuishui pursed her dry lips, her throat tight, and for a moment she didn't know how to react.
Fallen Heaven Douluo couldn't have died in his own attack, so right now, he must be nearby, watching the two of them...
At this thought, a layer of cold sweat instantly broke out on Nan Shuishui's back.
Tension, fear... she didn't even dare to move, for fear that any tiny action, even breathing a bit heavier, would draw that man's attention.
Nan Qiuqiu was the same; she tightly held her mother's arm, her fingers turning white from the force, her fingertips almost digging into the flesh.
Her voice was trembling, "Mom... His Excellency Fallen Heaven... he won't kill us, will he?"
Nan Shuishui swallowed and said in a dry voice, "He won't... he definitely won't. If His Excellency really wanted to kill us, there would have been no need to move us out of his attack range... If he wanted us dead, we would have joined that Bone Dragon long ago..."
As she spoke, trying to use words to soothe her daughter and herself, a set of footsteps suddenly came from behind.
The footsteps were neither fast nor slow, one after another, stepping on the scorched earth with a slight cracking sound.
Nan Shuishui's heart tightened, and she reflexively pulled Nan Qiuqiu to turn around abruptly.
She saw Lin Xuan with his hands in his pockets, walking slowly from the edge of the scorched crater. At this moment, his upper body was bare.
His sturdy and well-proportioned physique was completely exposed to the air, his skin covered in black cursed markings, eerie yet full of power. Every muscle was well-defined, yet not overly exaggerated, just right and flawless.
Without the slightest hesitation, Nan Shuishui pulled Nan Qiuqiu and knelt down abruptly. With a thud, their knees hit the scorched ground.
"Greetings, Your Excellency Fallen Heaven!"
Her voice was respectful and humble, her forehead almost touching the ground, her posture extremely low.
Lin Xuan walked up to the two of them and stopped. He looked down at Nan Shuishui, the corners of his mouth curling into a playful arc.
Due to the earth-shattering fire explosion earlier, even though Nan Shuishui had resisted with all her might, the high temperature of the Ultimate Fire had still burned away most of her clothes.
As she bowed now, her tattered clothing could not hide her mature and graceful body. On the large patches of exposed snowy skin, there were some bits of ash, black and white clearly distinguished, making the skin appear even more like lustrous jade and fine fat.
And with her bowing motion, those heart-stoppingly full curves became even more pronounced, as if they were about to break free from the constraints of her clothes and burst forth.
At that moment, Lin Xuan's eyes, which were good at discovering beauty, instantly locked onto the target.
He admired the view with a clear conscience for a couple of seconds, but only for a couple of seconds, then gave a light laugh and said,
"Why be so formal? Get up quickly. I don't much like having people kneel. If others saw this, wouldn't they label me as someone who bullies men and oppresses women?"
Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu muttered secretly in their hearts, who was he trying to fool? Just now, if Pluto Thunder Douluo and the others had raised their heads even a fraction higher, he probably would have cut them down. They knelt more perfectly than anyone, and it didn't look like he disliked it then!
Complaints aside, the two felt a surge of joy. At least from his words, Fallen Heaven Douluo truly had no intention of killing them.
Nan Shuishui pulled her daughter up, and as soon as she stood, she noticed Lin Xuan's gaze.
That gaze fell upon her with a faint, indiscernible smile, scanning her from top to bottom and back again, as if admiring an exquisite piece of art.
Nan Shuishui followed his line of sight and looked down; her cheeks instantly flushed crimson. She felt a wave of bashfulness but dared not move, standing stiffly in place and allowing his gaze to appraise her, her heart beating so fast it felt like it would leap out of her throat.
Beside her, Nan Qiuqiu seemed to have noticed something as well, and her expression became somewhat strange.
She looked at her mother, then at Lin Xuan, then back at her mother, then at Lin Xuan again, and a sudden thought flashed through her mind.
'My Limit Douluo father?'
That sounds... pretty incredible...
Once a young girl's thoughts stray, they are like a runaway horse that cannot be reined in.
'If His Excellency really takes a liking to Mom, wouldn't I have a Limit Douluo for a dad? Who would dare bully me on the continent then?'
'Wait, no, no... Mother... uh... it's not like she's losing out either? After all, His Excellency is truly handsome and so powerful...'
Lin Xuan keenly sensed the subtle change in Nan Qiuqiu's expression. Although he didn't know what was going on in the girl's head, that look was wrong no matter how he viewed it.
He gave a light cough, calmly averted his gaze, and said in a flat tone,
"Put some clothes on first. We'll talk about other matters later."
As if granted a grand pardon, Nan Shuishui hurriedly took out coats from her storage soul tool with her daughter and scrambled to put them on.
Once they had tidied their clothing, Nan Shuishui immediately led Nan Qiuqiu to bow in salute once more.
This time, her voice was filled with gratitude and sincerity, tinged with the relief of having survived a disaster.
"Your Excellency, my daughter, myself, and the Earth Dragon Sect cannot repay your kindness. If Your Excellency has any request, no matter what it is, my Earth Dragon Sect will give our all without a second word."
She paused, her voice carrying a hint of guilt as she continued, "Furthermore, I was reckless this time and dragged Your Excellency into this. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have been pulled into these muddy waters. I hope Your Excellency can be magnanimous and not hold it against us."
"If Your Lordship's anger is truly hard to dispel, then I alone will bear the full brunt of your wrath."
She looked up, glanced at Nan Qiuqiu, then lowered her head again, pleading,
"My daughter is still young and ignorant, but Your Excellency has seen her kind heart. I hope you can show mercy and let her go. She is still young and has a long road ahead of her..."
"Mom—!"
Nan Qiuqiu grew anxious instantly. Forgetting her fear, she stepped forward to shield her mother, spreading her arms like a mother hen protecting her chick.
"Your Excellency! I was the one who presumed to strike first and disturbed you! If you want to punish someone, punish me! Don't touch my mom!"
She stiffened her neck; though she was scared to death and her legs were shaking, she stubbornly refused to retreat a single step.
Listening to the two of them, Lin Xuan couldn't help but feel a bit of a headache.
What on earth was all this? When did he ever say he was going to punish them?
Had he known, he would have just let them leave to save himself from this drama of mother-daughter devotion and competing for death.
Inside the Spiritual Sea, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm witnessed it all, his small eyes instantly lighting up like two light bulbs.
"Lin Xuan! Lin Xuan! You heard what they said, right? They owe you for saving their lives, and they owe you their lives! This is a massive favor!"
His voice was filled with a lecherous tone.
"According to my discerning eyes that have seen countless women, this mother and daughter are both absolute beauties! The mother is mature and charming, full of allure, and the daughter is young and lovely, like a budding flower. Tsk tsk tsk... this is a legendary combination!"
He got more excited as he spoke, "Lin Xuan, take my advice. Looking at them, they respect, fear, and are grateful to you. As long as you use a few tricks and show a bit of your personal charm, then the two of them together... hehehe!!!"
That 'hehehe' sound was as wretched and lascivious as could be.
Beside him, veins were faintly throbbing on the Ice Empress's forehead. Without a word, she raised her long leg and kicked Tianmeng Ice Silkworm flying!
"Get out!"
"Your head is filled with nothing but filth all day! If you dare try to corrupt Lin Xuan again, I'll freeze you into a popsicle so you can never move again!"
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm screamed as he flew into the distance, tracing a graceful parabola in the air, still shouting,
"Lin Xuan, you really have to consider it! Opportunity knocks but once! Once you miss this chance, it's gone!"
Listening to the farce in his Spiritual Sea and the back-and-forth pleading of Nan Shuishui and her daughter, Lin Xuan felt his head throbbing.
He reached out and made a'stop' gesture, interrupting Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu.
The two immediately fell silent, looking at him nervously.
"Who said I was angry?"
Lin Xuan's tone was flat, sounding somewhat exasperated.
Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu were stunned for a moment before letting out a collective sigh of relief. Their tense bodies visibly relaxed; Nan Qiuqiu's legs even went soft, and she nearly failed to stay standing.
Lin Xuan continued, "You had better leave this place quickly. The undead creations in this city are not comparable to the small fry outside."
"There are at least a few Titled Douluo-level ones left. If you don't leave, I won't be able to look out for you once they emerge."
"As for repaying the favor, there's no rush."
He looked at Nan Shuishui, the corners of his mouth turning up slightly into a gentle smile that felt like a spring breeze.
"In the future, I will personally visit your Earth Dragon Sect. I hope that when the time comes, Sect Master Nan won't pretend not to know this 'ordinary person' anymore."
That smile and tone made it seem as if he wasn't the famously terrifying Fallen Heaven Douluo, but merely an old friend not seen for years.
Looking at that face, Nan Shuishui was momentarily dazed. She took a deep breath and smiled as well.
"Then I shall await Your Excellency's grand arrival. The gates of the Earth Dragon Sect will always be open to you."
With that, she gave another solemn salute, then took Nan Qiuqiu by the hand and turned to leave quickly.
Lin Xuan watched their retreating backs until the two figures disappeared at the edge of his vision, then shook his head.
The mother and daughter were both quite talkative. If they had stayed any longer, he didn't know how much longer that old pervert Tianmeng Ice Silkworm would have been bouncing around in his head.
He turned around and looked at the plains below.
In just this short while, many more undead creations had swarmed up from all directions.
Skeleton soldiers, Death Knights, ghosts... they were like sharks smelling blood, continuously converging toward this direction.
Lin Xuan narrowed his eyes, then raised his hand and gave a light clap.
Immediately, the shadow beneath his feet surged, and a massive, pale giant shadow stepped out from within, crashing down onto the plain!
Boom—!
The earth trembled, and debris flew!
The moment Mahoraga landed, the surrounding undead creations were directly vibrated into dust.
Its body, dozens of feet tall, stood astride the plain. Three pairs of pale wings slowly unfurled like an insurmountable chasm.
Those undead creations rushed forward one after another like moths to a flame, only to be turned into powder beneath its feet.
One man holding the pass, ten thousand cannot force through.
Lin Xuan withdrew his gaze, took out the rank six charging spirit tool from his storage soul tool, and sat cross-legged.
Soul Power slowly recovered as time ticked away minute by minute.
After an unknown amount of time, Lin Xuan opened his eyes and stood up, stretching his somewhat stiff body.
His Soul Power had mostly recovered.
However, he did not immediately head toward that black city. Instead, he walked to the edge of the charred crater that was four hundred meters in diameter.
Looking down, the crater was several meters deep with edges smooth as a mirror. The bottom was covered in a thick layer of charcoal ash—the only proof that the Bone Dragon, Pluto Thunder Douluo, and countless undead creations had ever existed.
Seeing this, a flash of heat crossed Lin Xuan's eyes. He murmured in a voice so low it was almost inaudible,
"I've waited so long; finally, there's a suitable opportunity to use that Soul skills..."
As he spoke, his Soul Rings rose one by one.
Purple, purple, black, black, black... five Soul Rings rhythmically pulsed. Among them, the fourth Soul Ring quietly lit up.
That was the Soul Ring he had obtained in the Star Dou Great Forest from a fifty-thousand-year-old Ghost Tiger.
He had only recently obtained the fifth Soul Ring, so he hadn't used it yet. As for the fourth Soul Ring, although he had acquired it long ago, he had never used it once from start to finish.
It wasn't that the Soul skills provided by this ring was weak; on the contrary, for him, this Soul skills was practically divine.
The reason he had never used it was partly because there had been no suitable timing, and partly because this Soul skills could not be used in front of others.
After all, in the eyes of people on the Douluo Continent, this Soul skills was undoubtedly a method of ultimate evil...
Lin Xuan took a deep breath. The Soul Power within his body surged out like a floodgate being opened! Simultaneously, the shadow beneath his feet suddenly expanded!
The shadow writhed, crawled, and spread like a living thing, completely covering the massive four-hundred-meter diameter crater in the blink of an eye!
A pitch-black swamp of shadows flowed slowly at the bottom of the crater.
Lin Xuan stood at the edge of the crater, looking down at that darkness from above. Then, his lips parted, and his voice was low as he said,
"Fourth Soul skills..."
"Night Parade of One Hundred Demons."
The moment the words fell, something began to surge within the shadow-covered crater.
First, at the edge, a pitch-black, bony palm reached out from the shadow and gripped the crater's rim.
Next came a second, a third, a fourth... countless hands reached out from the shadows!
They braced against the ground and pulled hard as pitch-black skeletons crawled out from the shadows.
They were different from ordinary skeletons; they were pitch-black as ink, with dark light flowing over their bones. In their hollow eye sockets, what burned was not green soul fire, but a crimson glow.
Next was the Bone Dragon.
A pitch-black Bone Dragon soared into the sky from the shadows! Its bones were thicker and more ferocious than the Titled Douluo-level Bone Dragon from before, and the red light in its eye sockets was like two blood moons!
Then came the Death Knights.
Pitch-black armor, pitch-black warhorses, pitch-black greatswords—they marched out from the shadows in formation, orderly as a well-trained army.
Then there were five distinct human figures; they were all pitch-black with crimson eye sockets.
It was as if an endless stream of dark figures was pouring out from the shadows, dense as a black tide, filling the entire crater in an instant!
Night Parade of One Hundred Demons—this was Lin Xuan's fourth Soul skills. Its power was to transform the beings that died at his hands into new Shikigami.
It might sound similar to the Ghost Tiger's innate Soul skills, but the difference was that souls were of limited use to a Ghost Tiger and had a narrow range of applications.
For Lin Xuan, however, Shikigami were the foundation of the Ten Shadows Technique. With this Soul skills, he didn't have to fear all his Shikigami being destroyed, which would leave him with none to use.
Furthermore, with many new Shikigami, he could use many of the advanced applications of the Ten Shadows Technique.
It wasn't that he couldn't use them now, but in his mind, it was still best if the original ten Shikigami remained undamaged.
Lin Xuan stood at the edge of the crater, looking down at the pitch-black army below. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and then he said coldly,
"Arise!"
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