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Chapter 270 How does it feel? (6K views, please vote)

Several standard days passed amidst the fierce fighting at the Broken Blade outpost.

Lin Yi was like a pillar of strength, always standing at the forefront.

Even using only the Golden Domain, he easily crushed the Kunmo Clan's offensive time and time again.

In just a few days, the Astragalus Legion stationed at the Broken Blade outpost, under his leadership, not only completely solidified the defenses but also began to launch planned counterattacks, recapturing some lost outer positions.

The morale of the entire Broken Blade Outpost was high, and the saying "When the eastern vanguard arrives, the fortress is secure" even began to circulate.

However, Lin Yi's heart did not relax as the battle situation improved; instead, it gradually sank as time went by.

"It's been five days already."

Lin Yi stood on a battlefield that had just been recaptured and was still shrouded in smoke, with the broken remains of the Kunmo tribe beneath his feet.

His gaze swept calmly across the still restless Kunmo tribe's battle line in the distance, but he was inwardly puzzled.

This isn't right.

Even though the Kunmo Clan's information transmission efficiency is not as convenient as the Pan-Spirit Alliance network, it is not by much.

Given his deliberately crafted "dazzling" performance over the past few days, there's no reason why the Blade Prince Tarlolank wouldn't have received the news.

"Could he be in seclusion trying to break through a bottleneck?" Lin Yi wondered to himself.

For geniuses of their caliber, a sudden insight or a crucial period of seclusion lasting several days or even months is commonplace.

If Talorank happens to be in this state, even if he knows that Talorank is here, he may not come immediately.

"Or did he see through some flaw?"

The thought flashed through Lin Yi's mind, but he quickly dismissed it.

The extent to which one has mastered the rules is unlike source energy; unless one reveals it oneself, even an eternal god cannot perceive it.

Lin Yi thought about it for a moment and felt there was another possibility.

Tarlolank either disregarded the fighting in this area or had more important objectives.

"Wait four more days."

Lin Yi set a deadline in his mind.

If Talorank still doesn't show up within four days, he won't waste any more time.

At that time, he will loosen his grip a bit and cooperate with the Dongfeng Mercenary Group and the Star Realm Army to completely push back the Kunmo Clan forces in this area. After completing the mission, he will return to the fortress to rest and regroup before making further plans.

The hunting plan is important, but it cannot be delayed indefinitely. We cannot let small things lead to bigger problems and affect the overall cultivation and development of the mercenary group.

The next day, Lin Yi went into battle again, his golden domain dominating the battlefield and striking fear into the hearts of the Kunmo tribe's frontline troops, who even gave him the nickname "Golden Reaper".

But Lin Yi had basically given up hope of luring the enemy into a trap.

He even began to consider in his mind where the counter-offensive would be most effective, and whether, after returning to the fortress, he should continue to study the rules of time or first complete the high-scoring solo missions in the Star Core-level training camp.

On the Kunmo tribe's side, it seems that due to the prolonged siege and heavy losses, their offensive has slowed down significantly, and they have fallen into a stalemate.

An eerie calm, like the calm before a storm, permeated the air above the battlefield.

The third day, at noon.

Lin Yi had just repelled a small-scale attack, which seemed more like a routine harassment.

He stood at the front line, preparing to return to the base, and at the same time, he had already decided to discuss the counterattack plan with the commander of the Star Force that night.

Sudden.

An undisguised, even deliberately flamboyant, terrifying aura plummeted from the sky like a meteor.

This aura was filled with a ferocious killing intent, which was clearly detected by all the sharp-senseed experts on the battlefield.

Lin Yi suddenly looked up, his eyes flashing with a sharp light, all his previous plans instantly forgotten.

coming!

Instead of being alarmed, he was delighted, like a hunter who had been waiting for a long time and finally heard the footsteps of his prey stepping into the trap.

This aura was so arrogant and unrestrained, as if it were announcing to the entire battlefield that the king had arrived and the ants should flee!
A blinding, blood-red beam of light, ignoring the scattered anti-aircraft fire on the battlefield, pierced down from outer space like a sword of divine punishment, striking with unparalleled precision the valley behind the Kunmo tribe's controlled territory.

"boom!!"

A roar far more deafening than any artillery shell explosion followed, accompanied by a violent tremor of the ground.

Even from a great distance, Lin Yi could feel the terrifying power contained within that shockwave.

Smoke and dust mixed with crimson energy fluctuations rose from the valley like a mushroom cloud.

Immediately afterwards, an arrogant and domineering voice resounded throughout the entire battlefield, spoken in perfect, universal language:
"You worm hiding your head and tail, I, the prince, will take your life!"

The sound was thunderous, filled with an arrogant disregard for life.

Lin Yi took a deep breath, suppressing his excitement, and his eyes regained their calm.

He gently moved his wrist, feeling the surging power within his body, as well as the even more vast space and life rules hidden beneath the Golden Domain.

"It's finally here. I've been waiting so long, I'm almost losing my patience."

Without the slightest hesitation, the moment Lin Yi sensed the opponent's aura locking onto him, the dormant power within him erupted like a dormant volcano.

At the same time, the tall figure of the Blade Prince Talorank, covered in hideous dark red bone armor, had just stood up when the savage smile on his face froze instantly, and a deadly chill shot from his tailbone straight to the top of his head.

"What?! Triple Realm!!"

Its roar was filled with disbelief, and its scarlet pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints.

trap!

This is a complete and utter trap aimed at it!
escape!
We must escape immediately!

Talorank's reaction was incredibly swift. The instant it realized it was outmatched, it didn't even hesitate to consider why the intelligence had failed. Its powerful source energy erupted like a volcano.

It slammed its feet off the ground, like an arrow shot from a powerful bow, and shot wildly upwards at an almost vertical angle.

escape!
Break out of this damn level 2 battlefield restricted area!
Once it enters the unrestricted starry sky, it can immediately use the life-saving trump card bestowed upon it by its father.

Talorank's speed instantly reached its limit; his dark red figure flashed by and seemed about to disappear.

"Heh, trying to leave?"

Lin Yi snorted coldly in his heart.

Just as Talorank was about to fly away and escape, he moved.

There was no earth-shattering fanfare; he simply made a single gesture.

Lift your foot and stomp hard.

However, this step seemed to have stepped on the very fabric of space.

Lin Yi's figure became blurry in the same spot.

In the next instant, he appeared like a ghost, appearing directly above Talorank without warning, blocking its straight upward path.

However, Lin Yi at this moment was completely different from before.

A suit of armor unlike anything seen before covered Lin Yi's entire body.

The armor was a flowing dark silver color, as if it were woven from liquid star metal, with faint golden patterns and emerald green halos flashing across its surface from time to time.

The armor's lines are smooth and elegant, yet it exudes a silent strength. The joints have subtle spatial folds, as if it could blend into its surroundings at any moment.

This is the true form that the Voidwalker's battle armor has revealed after being infused with Lin Yi's power of the three rules of gold, life, and space.

Lin Yi's appearance was too abrupt. From taking a step and teleporting to putting on his armor, the whole process was smooth and seamless, as if he was always meant to be there.

Upon seeing Lin Yi appear instantly, Talorank's crimson pupils suddenly contracted into the most dangerous needle-like shapes.

The opponent's speed—no, that wasn't speed at all; it was the application of spatial rules!
"Go away!"

There was no way to avoid it, and no way to retreat.

Talorank let out a furious roar, turning all his fear into a desperate ferocity.

The pair of serrated bone blades on its arms, burning with raging flames, burst forth with unprecedented light. The rules of metal and fire were pushed to their limits, intersecting into a cross, carrying a tragic aura that could tear apart heaven and earth and melt galaxies, as it fiercely slashed towards Lin Yi, who was blocking its path above.

This was the strongest attack Tarorank could muster in his haste, aiming to force Lin Yi back and open an escape route.

"Boom!!"

Legs and twin swords clashed together without any fancy moves.

There was no sharp clang of metal clashing, only a muffled, terrifying roar, like two meteors colliding.

A visible white shockwave spread out from the point of impact, instantly clearing a huge circular hole in the clouds high in the sky.

"Crack. Pfft!"

The flames clinging to Tarorank's twin blades, powerful enough to tear apart starships, vanished the moment they touched Lin Yi's right foot, as if encountering their nemesis. Then, spiderweb-like cracks spread across the incredibly tough bone blade.

A terrifying force, a mixture of extreme sharpness, spatial tremors, and life-eroding power, surged into its body like a burst dam, flowing down its arms.

Talorank's protective energy almost collapsed at the first touch. His dark red bone armor groaned under the strain, his chest heaved, and a mouthful of scalding blood could no longer be suppressed, gushing out violently.

Its body, as if struck head-on by a high-speed mountain, was kicked down from the sky by Lin Yi's earth-shattering kick at a speed several times faster than when it was ascending, like a meteor falling to earth.

"Boom!!!"

A second, even more violent impact rang out, and the earth trembled violently.

Tarorank's body slammed into the ground, creating a crater that was deeper and larger than before, and dust rose up like a mushroom cloud.

Lin Yi hovered in the air, and behind him, a series of crisp, melodious, yet metallic, ringing sounds exploded in the void.

Ninety-nine dark golden shards appeared out of thin air, like living fish, drawing incredibly mysterious trajectories in the air before instantly combining.

With a flash of light, a spear about twelve feet long, its entire body shimmering with dark golden light, was firmly grasped in Lin Yi's right hand.

Soul soldiers, split the universe!
Lin Yi held the Rift Spear in his right hand, the tip pointing diagonally at the ground, coldly looking down at the smoke and dust below.

The recoil from that attack clearly told him that although his opponent's understanding of the rules was far inferior to his, their source energy was already at the theoretical limit of the second level. "The source energy reserve of two hundred and ninety-nine star cores," Lin Yi realized. "No wonder I only seriously injured him."

However, he didn't care.

Having more source energy simply means you can withstand a few more hits and die a little later. In the face of an absolute difference in quality, the slight advantage of source energy is so pale and powerless.

At the bottom of the pit, Tarorank coughed violently, each cough bringing up a large amount of bloody foam.

It struggled to climb out of the humanoid pit, its dark red bone armor covered with fine cracks, especially the bone blades on its arms, which were almost ruined, with only half of the blades remaining.

Then, Tarorank looked up at the demon-like figure in the sky. In his scarlet pupils, the initial shock had turned into a desperate madness and resentment.

The spatial rules have even mastered the spatial rules!

Now we really can't leave.

Talorank stared intently at Lin Yi in the air, knowing that he had encountered a formidable foe. In the face of a spatial rule controller of the same level, escape was a pipe dream.

"Ahem. Triple Domain Space Rules, hahahahaha!"

It suddenly straightened up, and the star core inside its body started spinning wildly at an unprecedented speed, even emitting a roar like an engine overload.

Dark red energy flames erupted from the cracks in its bone armor, making it look like a demon crawling out of purgatory.

Talorank let out a hoarse, maniacal laugh, wiped the blood from the corner of its mouth, and its eyes became incredibly resolute.

"If you want to kill me, pay with your life!"

With a roar, it completely abandoned its illusions, transforming all its fear and anger into the most frenzied fighting spirit.

Talolank knew very well that only by fighting to the death could they have a chance of survival.

Without the slightest hesitation, it wielded its fiery scimitars wildly, unleashing hundreds of condensed fiery blade beams that intertwined into a net of death, attempting to disrupt Lin Yi's spatial lock with an area-of-effect attack.

Then, it changed its stance and plunged both swords into the ground.

"Boom!" The ground cracked, and countless metal ores, controlled by the rules of metal, were instantly melted into crimson droplets by the rules of fire. Like a raging swarm of bees, they shot towards Lin Yi from all directions with intense heat and penetrating power.

However, these were just a cover. A resolute glint flashed in Talorank's eyes. He suddenly slapped his chest and spat a mouthful of blood onto his twin blades.

The flames on the twin blades instantly turned from dark red to ghostly blue, the temperature soared, and even the surrounding air began to ionize.

It roared, its twin blades combined, slashing out a dark blue line of fire, only as thick as an arm, yet condensed to the extreme, its interior churning with destructive energy.

Wherever the fire passed, the space was scorched and rippled.

His ability to assess the situation and his skillful application of the rules demonstrate a level of experience and sophistication far exceeding that of ordinary Kunmo people.

But facing this series of combined attacks, Lin Yi remained calm, simply pointing his fingers like a sword and making a light slash in front of him.

A tiny spatial rift appeared, like a greedy maw, swallowing up all the blade light in the sky.

Then, Lin Yi's figure flickered several times in the air, as if walking in the cracks of space, avoiding all the subsequent fire rain.

The opponent's attack was indeed fierce. Others of the same level might have been caught off guard and confused, but in front of him, it was still no match.

However, Lin Yi still showed full respect to his opponent's final, desperate attack.

He held the gun in one hand, facing the eerie blue flames that could scorch the space itself, and thrust the gun straight at the target.

At the tip of the spear, the extreme sharpness of gold, the resilience of life, and the ability to penetrate space—the power of three rules—are perfectly condensed into a single point.

"laugh!"

A soft yet piercing tearing sound rang out.

The incredibly condensed, dark blue line of fire was precisely cleaved in two the instant it made contact with the tip of the Rift Spear. Its energy structure collapsed instantly, transforming into two uncontrolled streams of energy that swept past Lin Yi's sides.

"How can it be"

As Talorank watched his strongest secret technique being so easily broken, despair finally appeared in his eyes.

"You want to kill me? Then let's die together!"

It stopped trying to attack Lin Yi himself, and instead roared, slamming its fists into the ground, pouring all its power into the earth beneath its feet.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Centered on it, the ground within a radius of hundreds of miles instantly transformed into a sea of ​​golden and red lava.

Countless beams of energy, imbued with the explosive power of fire and the sharpness of metal, shot into the sky from the sea of ​​lava, like erupting volcanoes.

These energy beams are not random, but rather, guided by some secret technique, they are interconnected, forming a destructive force field without discrimination.

The air was ignited, the space crackled and burned, and the entire area seemed to have become a forbidden zone for life, dragging everything within its range into a molten inferno, detonating and annihilating it completely.

This is a fight to the death.

It intended to use this overwhelming saturation attack to disrupt Lin Yi's spatial movement, even forcing him to withstand it head-on. Even if it could only injure him slightly, it would be enough to salvage its last dignity as a prince of the Kunmo tribe.

Faced with this terrifying scene of scorching heat and boiling earth, Lin Yi was finally slightly moved.

It wasn't fear, but rather a slight acknowledgment of the enemy's last struggle.

"That does show some courage."

Lin Yi gave a brief comment and finally raised the Rift Spear in his hand horizontally.

It's time to end this hunt.

He did not dodge the soaring energy beam, but instead gently thrust the Rift Spear forward.

This thrust, though seemingly slow, appeared to pierce through the barriers of space.

At the tip of the spear, a point of extreme silver light shone, then rapidly expanded, transforming into a small spatial vortex that continuously rotated and devoured everything.

Those energy beams that were powerful enough to instantly annihilate a peak-level star core were twisted, torn, and swallowed up the moment they touched this spatial vortex, without even causing a ripple.

Talolank's eyes widened in fury; its strongest, desperate attack had been so easily neutralized.

Just as its mind was in turmoil, Lin Yi's figure disappeared from the spot once again.

This time, he appeared directly in front of Tarorank, right up close.

He could even clearly see his own cold and ruthless face reflected in the other person's burning compound eyes.

The Spear of Rift, like a venomous snake that had been lying in wait, suddenly launched a fatal attack.

Tarorank was terrified. Its fighting instincts drove it to lean back with all its might, while raising its remaining half-bone blade arm to try to block. Its other intact serrated forelimb lashed out like a scorpion's tail, viciously stabbing towards Lin Yi's throat, attempting to relieve the siege by attacking from the front!
However, everything is in vain.

"Crack!"

The Spear of Rift cut through the parrying arm with ease, as if slicing through tofu.

"Pfft!"

Next came its perfectly intact, serrated forelimb, the spear tip precisely striking the most vulnerable point of its joint, instantly unleashing the spatial cutting power to sever it at the root.

Dark red blood and some kind of biological fluid spurted out.

"what!"

Talolank let out a piercing scream.

But the scream was cut short as soon as it was uttered.

Because after severing its forelimbs, the Spear of Rift continued its momentum without diminishing, like a judgment of destiny, piercing with unparalleled precision through the cracked dark red bone armor on its chest, penetrating its strong muscles and bones, and emerging from its back.

"Uh"

Tarorank's body stiffened abruptly.

It slowly lowered its head, looking incredulously at the dark gold spear that had pierced it through, feeling its life force draining away from the wound like a flood. The triple power of rules attached to the spear was more like the most vicious curse, raging within its body and destroying all its vitality.

Then, Lin Yi steadily raised his right hand, which was holding the Rift Spear.

"Crunch. Puff."

A tooth-grinding scraping sound rang out as Talorank's heavy body was forcefully lifted into the air by the Rift Spear!
Its hot, dark red blood slid down the smooth, dark gold gun barrel, dripping onto the scorched earth below with a sizzling sound.

Tarorank's body was hanging from the gun, like a broken doll.

Its two serrated forelimbs, which had once reaped countless lives, were broken and crippled, hanging limply.

Its legs thrashed about in vain, unable to change its situation in the slightest.

Its scarlet pupils stared intently at Lin Yi, filled with extreme resentment and humiliation.

It, the noble Blade Prince of the Kunmo tribe, the hunter who struck fear into the hearts of countless human warriors, now resembled an insect nailed to a specimen shelf. The person it regarded as prey was displayed on the battlefield in the posture of an absolute victor.

Lin Yi held the gun in one hand, his arm as steady as a rock, as if he were not holding a powerful alien prodigy, but just an insignificant straw.

He calmly gazed into the other's eyes, which were twisted with pain and fear, and saw his own reflection in them, cold and indifferent, like a god who held the power of life and death.

Then, Lin Yi asked slowly, word by word:

"The feeling of being pierced and lifted up."

Lin Yi paused slightly, as if admiring the complex light in the other person's eyes that finally erupted, a mixture of humiliation, fear, and a hint of pleading.

Then, he slowly uttered his last words:

".how?"

These words, like the last straw that broke the camel's back, completely crushed Tarlolank's will and pride.

It opened its mouth as if to utter a final curse or a humble plea for mercy, but only dark red blood mixed with fragments of internal organs flowed out.

Lin Yi stared at Talorank in silence for a moment, then flicked his wrist, and the power of the three rules erupted along the gun.

"Oh!"

The body of the Blade Prince Talorank turned into a cloud of blood mist and fragments of bone armor in mid-air, along with its unwilling and desperate shriek, all vanishing into nothingness.

　I wasn't entirely satisfied, so I revised it several times, which is why it's a bit late.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)