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Hu! Hu! Hu!
Following that, Lin Yun’s doppelganger began to rapidly traverse through the great Spirit World!
The forty-fourth layer of heaven! The forty-third layer! The forty-second layer…
Soon, Lin Yun returned once again to the Bloodslaughter Universe within the Spirit World!
The flow of time in the Spirit World and the Bloodslaughter Universe was different. Although Lin Yun had spent some time in the Netherworld, not much time had passed in the great Spirit World. At this moment, Lin Yun’s original body was still swiftly dealing with that middle-aged man!
“Boom!”
At this time, Lin Yun’s doppelganger burst out of the Bloodslaughter Universe, rapidly appearing in front of the fleeing middle-aged man.
The original body and the doppelganger attacked together, one wielding the Blood Prison Sword, and the other the Heavenly Principle Tower, both striking the middle-aged man.
“What? This is!!!”
The middle-aged man, seeing Lin Yun’s doppelganger blocking his path, exclaimed in shock.
If he was not sensing it wrong, was this the same Bloodslaughter Saint King who had just been behind him?
However, if the Bloodslaughter Saint King was clearly still behind him, how could he appear in front of him?
“Twins? No, that’s not it! The aura is the same! Could it be a doppelganger? But, how could this doppelganger be so powerful?” the middle-aged man said in horror, his mind racing through various possibilities.
Doppelgangers, to cultivators of their level, were not uncommon. However, under normal circumstances, the strength of their doppelgangers was far too inferior to that of their original body, hardly usable in combat against opponents of the same level.
Yet, if he wasn’t sensing it wrong, this doppelganger of the Bloodslaughter Saint King was just as powerful as the original.
Furthermore, under normal conditions, the doppelgangers were more like pure energy beings, while the original body was a natural flesh body. But both of these Bloodslaughter Saint Kings gave off the impression of being natural flesh bodies—how could this be?
What was happening?
“Bang!”
Unfortunately, before he could figure out the reason, the formidable power of Lin Yun’s original body and doppelganger had already struck him, causing his body to burst immediately.
Taking advantage of the massive energy descending from the universe’s upgrade to the forty-fifth layer of heaven, Lin Yun’s doppelganger broke through to the realm of a Peak Saint King in one fell swoop. With the original body possessing the Blood Prison Sword and the doppelganger having the Heavenly Principle Tower, both were extraordinary treasures. At this moment, the strength between the doppelganger and the original body was not much different.
Previously, the middle-aged man couldn’t handle the attack from just the original body.
Now, with both Lin Yun’s original body and doppelganger attacking, the middle-aged man was even less able to withstand it, his body exploding into even finer pieces.
Moreover, when only Lin Yun’s original body was attacking, this middle-aged man still had the strength to flee. But now with the original body and doppelganger attacking together, the middle-aged man completely lost the ability to escape.
Since the doppelganger and original body shared thoughts, naturally, they also shared expertise in various martial techniques. The doppelganger had received the Power of Time from the original body, using various time-related martial techniques in a divine and ingenious manner.
“No! No! No!”
The middle-aged man cried out in terror.
He had never expected that one day he would be killed by a cultivator from the Sanctuary Realm, let alone so quickly. If things continued like this, he feared he would not last until his reinforcements arrived.
It must be said that the vitality of a Divine Realm powerhouse was truly terrifying; even if the opponent was only of the lower Divine Domain Realm, even if Lin Yun possessed the against-heaven treasure, the Blood Prison Sword.
Perhaps, the Blood Prison Sword’s level was too low. After all, it was only at the Peak Saint King level, there was a substantial fundamental difference from the Divine Domain Realm, so it was natural for there to be a difference in efficiency.
Those Invincible Saint Kings, once Lin Yun exploded their body, it would take at most two to three breaths to completely slay them.
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Even some formidable Peak Saint King Realm cultivators had been slain by Lin Yun within a single breath’s time.
However, when dealing with this middle-aged man, from the moment Lin Yun began blowing up the man’s body to now, dozens of breaths had passed, and the man’s body had only weakened to a very feeble state.
This was still after Lin Yun’s avatar joined the fight; otherwise, he probably would have needed hundreds of breaths to achieve this step.
For cultivators like them, hundreds of breaths were already enough time to do many things.
Even dozens of breaths were enough time for them to accomplish a great deal.
Now, it would only take another continuous two or three breaths of attacking to completely slay this middle-aged man.
Lin Yun frowned slightly.
Afterwards, he enveloped the middle-aged man with a formidable force and said in a deep voice, “Which division of the Divine Clan do you belong to? Who did you just send the message to? What is their strength?”
He didn’t ask how the middle-aged man had learned about him. He knew well that many high-ranking Divine Clan members had no contact with regular cultivators, but many of the lower ranks did, and he had been aware of this for some time.
That was why he had been worried about encountering a cultivator of the Divine Realm during this operation. Now, however, asking the man this question was meaningless; those ordinary cultivators weren’t worth his concern, and regardless of who passed on the information, the Divine Realm cultivators would already know.
What he needed to know now was the extent to which the message had spread.
“What’s the matter? Are you scared?” the middle-aged man said with a cold laugh in response to Lin Yun’s question.
Despite being a mighty Divine Realm strongman, he had been captured by a Sanctuary strongman, and now this Sanctuary strongman was pressing him for information, which made him feel a great sense of humiliation.
So, upon hearing Lin Yun’s question, his pride surged, and he couldn’t help but retort sarcastically.
“Are you courting death?”
Lin Yun said, his gaze turning icy.
“Boom!”
In the midst of speaking, Lin Yun unleashed a powerful force to attack the middle-aged man, blowing his body into many pieces once again. These pieces were contained within Lin Yun’s power without any spillage.
Of course, even if they had spilled, it wouldn’t have been useful. Earlier, when the middle-aged man had attempted to escape, he tried to scatter his bodily fragments to flee. With the formidable life force of his Divine Clan, he would have had a chance to resurrect if even a tiny fragment escaped.
Unfortunately, before the fragments could get far, they were thoroughly exterminated by Lin Yun’s Domain Power. Eventually, the middle-aged man despaired. Escaping through bodily fragmentation came at a high cost and, continuing in that way, would only rapidly decrease his strength, so he stopped.
Resurrection from a single drop of blood was within the capability of a Peak Saint King and even more common for an ordinary Saint King or lower-ranked Sanctuary strongmen. Naturally, it was within the capability of Divine Realm cultivators too. However, this method couldn’t be achieved with just any drop of blood.
It required the blood to contain the essence of the strongman’s life. Normally, some strongmen could naturally split some of this kind of blood or bodily fragments to preserve in other locations. If the main body died, those blood and bodily fragments could be used to resurrect.
On the one hand, blood resurrection was no simple matter. It not only required vast resources, but also a long time, and nobody could predict what accidents might occur in the interim.
The number of those who truly succeed in blood resurrection is very small.
On the other hand, while the main body is alive, due to the constraints of the universal laws, these blood and bodily fragments containing the essence of life cannot form another self. And as time passes, the essence of life in these blood and body fragments will gradually erode under the universal laws and eventually disappear.
Thus, many strongmen wouldn’t easily undertake this approach lest they continuously split blood and bodily fragments containing life essence over a long period, damaging their vital energy each time, which would be a significant consumption over time.
Generally, only some strongmen would leave such backup when they were aware that they were heading into perilous territory or knew they would be facing grave danger in a short period. They would not make such preparations under normal circumstances.
This middle-aged man had also not anticipated that he, a Divine Realm cultivator, when coming to confront a Sanctuary cultivator, would not only be overpowered but also fall here, without even a chance to escape through the splitting of his bodily fragments and blood.
Therefore, he hadn’t left such a backup earlier; otherwise, he wouldn’t have done so now.
