The Prodigies War
chapter-1389

After the battle ended, Lin Xun and his party received a grand welcome from Song Jungui.

However, Lin Xun did not want to delay his plan. He was worried that Golden Armor King would go into hiding after learning about the defeat. If that happened, it would be extremely troublesome to find him.

In the end, Lin Xun told Lin Xuefeng and the other ten Lin Clan descendants to stay behind and join the imperial soldiers in their monster-beast slaying operation.

Monster-beasts were rampant throughout the Southwest Province. Although the empire had just scored a big victory now, there were still many battles to be fought.

However, these matters could be left to the imperial army.

“I want to know more about the Golden Armor King,” Lin Xun told Song Jungui.

“He has always been entrenched in the depths of Yin Soul Mountain Range on the outskirts of Falling Star City...” Song Jungui told Lin Xun everything he knew, but they were all not of great use.

Even Song Jungui knew very little about the identity, origin, background and strength of Golden Armor King.

This was because Golden Armor King had rarely shown his face in the past years and had only been secretly controlling the monster-beast army.

“That reminds me, not too long ago, Golden Armor King spread the words that if Young Master Lin dares to come to the Southwest Province, he will definitely...” Song Jungui uttered hesitantly.

“Definitely what?” asked Lin Xun.

Song Jungui gritted his teeth and answered honestly, “Capture you to be his slave.”

Lin Xun was taken aback at first, and then he burst out laughing. He nodded. “I understand, then let’s see what gave that guy the confidence to speak so arrogantly!” His dark eyes flashed with a cold light.

Two hours later.

Lin Xun appeared outside Falling Star City.

It was noon, but there was not a soul in sight. The huge Falling Star City had long been reduced to rubble. Everywhere was a horrific sight of mutilated bodies and blood-splattered roads.

Hundreds of miles outside the city, mountains stretched endlessly, veiled in mist and clouds.

According to Song Jungui, the Yin Soul Mountain Range only appeared in the world after the great changes in the world, and Golden Armor King was one of the powerful monster-beasts who emerged from it.

Over the years, as monster-beasts multiplied and disasters spread, Yin Soul Mountain Range became the base camp for the monster-beasts army.

The imperial army had tried to attack the place several times, but it always ended in failure; they were unable to take a step into the Yin Soul Mountain Range at all!

Moreover, several king stage cultivators had also lost their lives there.

This showed how dangerous and terrifying the Yin Soul Mountain Range was.

“If we eliminate all the monster-beasts in this area, it should solve the monster-beast problem in the Southwest Province..."

Lin Xun got up and headed in the direction of the Yin Soul Mountain Range.

“Huh?”

“There are actually people approaching this way!”

“Kill!”

However, before Lin Xun neared the mountain range, a group of monster-beasts rushed out from the nearby area, brandishing their claws and weapons at Lin Xun.

This was the territory of the empire, but the monster-beasts acted as if they ruled the land!

In the empire, monster-beasts with strength comparable to Heaven Ascension Stage cultivators were extremely difficult to deal with, but for Lin Xun, they were not worth mentioning at all.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Before their attacks reached halfway, they were obliterated by the aura emanating from Lin Xun.

“This is bad!”

The monster-beasts panicked, realizing that a formidable enemy had come. Before they could react, an invisible terrifying force swept over them.

The next second, they were crushed to smithereens!

Lin Xun continued to stride forward without any cover, quickly approaching the Yin Soul Mountain Range.

“Hurry! Enemy attack!”

“Brave! Who dares to come to our territory? Do they have a death wish?!” Monster-beasts lying low in the nearby area were alerted right away and rushed out one after another.

As far as the eye could see were billowing demonic qi and looming monster-beasts figures.

The scene surprised even Lin Xun, but that only strengthened his determination to eradicate them!

Rumble!

Lin Xun flicked his sleeve and a wave of power spread like a strong gust of wind sweeping over the world. Rocks crumbled and vegetation was turned to dust wherever it passed.

Along the way, any monster-beasts that charged out were shredded like paper and disappeared from the world in a rain of blood.

“That’s…too terrifying.”

The monster-beasts shrieked and trembled all over.

“Hurry, together, we must stop him!”

Voices boomed out like thunderclaps from all over the Yin Soul Mountain Range.

Suddenly, a strange sight caught Lin Xun’s attention. Ferocious birds and vicious beasts were roaring out from the Yin Soul Mountain Range like masses of black clouds.

There were over thousands of them, seemingly endless.

So many!

Lin Xun never imagined there to be so many monster-beasts occupying the Yin Soul Mountain Range.

His cold eyes flashed like lightning. He did not want to waste time on those ant-like creatures.

He simply took a deep breath, but it was as though a divine Kunpeng was inhaling the sea. Lin Xun seemed to have swallowed a tornado into his mouth.

The space distorted, twisted, and collapsed.

The monster-beasts stared, bewildered. What is that guy doing?

Lin Xun suddenly raised his head and roared to the sky.

Pulao Roar!

The sound waves of the roar turned into a monstrous, ocean-like golden wave, spreading outwards from Lin Xun in all directions and rumbling like thunder.

Moreover, as the roar grew louder and louder, the world seemed to be tearing apart, crumbling and collapsing inch by inch, unable to bear the impact.

Meanwhile, the tide of monster-beasts that rushed out was pulverized into smithereens!

They were obliterated like fallen leaves swept away by the autumn gale!

When the roar faded, not a single monster-beast remained anywhere. All that was left was a scene of devastation.

This side of the world was like a torn and crumpled ball of paper!

A roar had quaked the universe!

Swoosh!

At this moment, Lin Xun had already entered the depths of Yin Soul Mountain Range.

Here, it was a forest of mountain peaks, stretching on endlessly. Even Lin Xun could not pry into the depths of the mountain range with his spirit sense power.

Every mountain peak was guarded by countless monster-beasts.

Skeletons and bones were littered throughout the area, which were clearly the remains of humans that monster-beasts had feasted on.

Corpses of both men and women, and young and old, were hung in front of the caves. Their faces were all twisted with despair and fear.

If one didn’t know, they would have thought this place was a demon realm!

“How many people have died tragically here over the years?”

Lin Xun’s black eyes flashed coldly.

He launched a killing spree without any wavering.

Rumble! Rumble!

Wherever he passed, mountains collapsed one after another and groups of monster-beasts died violent deaths. Not one survived.

If one looked down at the scene from the above, the Yin Soul Mountain Range seemed like it was being knocked down by a divine being! Mountain peaks were being destroyed and exploded to pieces in quick succession!

The monster-beasts that resided in them were obliterated even before they had a chance to escape.

After just a moment.

Lin Xun came to a stop.

Behind him was a scene of chaos and bloodshed.

In front of him was an enormous and majestic thousand-foot-mountain that looked like it was constructed from golden rocks. Its entire body was veiled in billowing golden light, making it look sacred and holy like a blessed paradise.

But Lin Xun saw souls floating up and down the mountain. Evil spirits lingered about, exuding an extremely strong bloodthirsty and sinister aura.

Yin Soul Mountain!

This was the lair of the Golden Armor King.

“Golden Armor King, didn’t you say you want to capture me as your slave? Do you dare to show your face then?”

Lin Xun’s indifferent voice boomed across the world like a rumble of thunder. The force of it quaked the sky and tore the clouds in all directions.

On Yin Soul Mountain, bursts of shrill screams erupted. They were from the monster-beasts entrenched on the mountain.

At the same time, Lin Xun’s spirit sense spread and enveloped the mountain.

“A restriction barrier array?”

Lin Xun scrunched his brows. He detected an extremely unusual restriction power covering the entire Yin Soul Mountain and isolating it from heaven and earth.

It felt as if the mountain did not belong to this world, but another entirely different world.

“No wonder he dared to openly claim this mountain as his. It turns out he has something up his sleeve,” Lin Xun murmured.

Then, he drew his finger across the air, and a thousand-foot beam of sword light shot up like a divine rainbow stretching between heaven and earth.

“Slash!”

The sword contained the Taixuan quintessence and combined all great dao power. Its unrivaled sharpness made the world seem dim.

But unexpectedly, when it slashed downwards, the mountain only shook violently. The restriction array power surged up and neutralized power of the sword.

“Hahaha, a stupid human wants to break the mountain’s divine barrier. He must have a death wish!”

“Hmph, when I come out of closed door cultivation, he is the first I will kill!”

“Human, prepare for your death!”

Waves of mocking laughter rang out from Yin Soul Mountain. The monster-beasts all believed that Lin Xun could not enter the mountain.

Lin Xun ignored them.

As his black eyes surged with a cold light, his mighty spirit sense shrouded the entire mountain, and he began to investigate the power.

“The barrier around this mountain is not particularly powerful, but there is a strange power within it that blocked my attack...”

Very quickly, a flash of realization struck Lin Xun, but what made him frown was that the strange power was very difficult to detect.

“Fine, I will first destroy the barrier and break in, and then, I will know the source of that strange power!”

Lin Xun inhaled deeply. He did not want to waste any more time.

Clang!

The snow-white Broken Blade flashed out like an illusion.

At the same time, the supreme power of the seventh longevity tribulation stage within Lin Xun poured into the body of the Broken Blade like a current.

The Broken Blade erupted with dazzling rays of light, illuminating the heaven and the earth, and blinding the monster-beasts on the mountain.

Too bright!

“Slash!”

With one thought, Lin Xun summoned the Broken Blade into the air and sent it slashing downwards like a waterfall of divine light.

Boom!

With an earth-shattering roar, the restriction power that enveloped Yin Soul Mountain was destroyed in the terrifying slash.

“This is bad!”

“That...how is that possible?”

“The lord says that this is a divine barrier that does not belong to this world and it can only be destroyed by a Saint!”

Panicked screams rang out across the mountains.

However, the majority of monster-beasts were killed under the sword slash before they could even react.

They vaporized right after they exploded.

That slash destroyed the divine restriction barrier!