Versatile Sword Cultivator

Chapter 129 – One person fights a thousand people

The sky was filled with a barrage of skills, yet Lin Jichen showed no intention of dodging.

He let all the skills fly towards him.

"Heh, this idiot must be scared out of his wits. Does he still think it's like back in Canglan Medicine Valley when no one had learned any skills?" Kuang Xiaoyan mocked.

He didn't believe Lin Jichen could withstand the skills of a thousand people.

No matter how high your defense is, skills have base damage.

Even if Lin Jichen's evasion was high, with only a fifty percent hit rate, he'd still be killed instantly by the skills!

Lin Jichen indeed didn't dodge. Everyone watched as he was bombarded by the rain of skills, their faces lighting up with joy.

But their smiles froze in an instant.

Although the skills hit him, no damage numbers appeared.

Instead, all the skills passed through 'Lin Jichen's' body and hit the ground, creating one crater after another.

What was going on? Did the game have a bug?

At that moment, a strange yet familiar voice emerged from their midst.

"President Li, thank you for always donating equipment to me. I sold the last batch to a new shop in the city for several thousand spirit stones. Thanks a lot. If you send me more equipment, I might be able to buy a shop."

Everyone turned towards the voice and saw the real Lin Jichen standing right in front of Li Fengwen, among them!

The 'Lin Jichen' they had attacked was merely a shadow.

It was a skill from the Nightmare Cloak Lin Jichen wore, called Shadow Shift.

Within a 20-meter range, he could shift shadows.

This was Lin Jichen's first time using it, and it proved to be very useful.

However, the skill was difficult to execute, requiring 1.5 seconds to charge up, and any attack could interrupt it. Moreover, the shadow only lasted for two seconds.

This meant he had to time it perfectly. If he released it too early, the shadow would disappear; too late, and he'd be hit before he could use it.

Li Fengwen knew he couldn't escape, so he didn't bother trying. He snarled, "Don't get cocky, kid. Do you think you can escape after killing me?"

"Let's find out." Lin Jichen shrugged, arrogant and confident.

"Save the boss!" Kuang Xiaoyan shouted urgently.

But Lin Jichen had already killed Li Fengwen with a single sword strike.

Seeing their boss killed right under their noses again, the members of the Blood Fiend Guild felt a deep humiliation and anger.

"Kill this guy and send him back to the novice village!"

Kuang Xiaoyan roared in fury. As the top expert of Blood Fiend, he couldn't even protect his boss's life, which infuriated him.

After dealing with Li Fengwen, Lin Jichen set his sights on Kuang Xiaoyan, who was standing arrogantly at the front.

Wind Thunder Sword!

He dashed towards Kuang Xiaoyan with lightning speed.

Kuang Xiaoyan felt a chill down his spine and quickly used a movement technique, trying to escape into the protection of his comrades.

But Lin Jichen's speed was like wind and thunder, giving Kuang Xiaoyan no time or chance to escape. The black sword pierced through, hitting him right in the forehead.

[Critical Hit! -4800!]

Although Kuang Xiaoyan was a mid Foundation Establishment stage artifact cultivator, his defense was less than 120 points. After taking this sword strike, his health bar evaporated instantly!

"You're the loudest trash here. Since you like shouting so much, go join your master."

Lin Jichen had long been annoyed by this guy.

Kuang Xiaoyan's eyes bulged with rage as his spear burst with silver light, thrusting towards Lin Jichen!

But after using Wind Thunder Sword, Lin Jichen's speed increased by 50% for five seconds.

This boosted his speed to an even higher level.

With a slight shift, his figure turned into a blur and vanished from Kuang Xiaoyan's sight.

Lin Jichen distanced himself to dodge Kuang Xiaoyan's attack, then flashed back and delivered another sword strike, extinguishing Kuang Xiaoyan's last hope of survival.

"No way, is this really your top expert? If you hadn't told me, I would've thought he was some trash from a garbage dump."

Lin Jichen's tone was mocking. He even had time to search the Soul Burial Mound and actually found a weapon—a silver spear.

It was the Wind Chasing Fire Spear, which had ranked quite high on the equipment leaderboard for a while.

Spirit Grade equipment with excellent attributes.

He hadn't expected it to belong to Kuang Xiaoyan, and now it had dropped.

"Oh wow, how generous of you. Thanks for the big gift before you go, little trash."

Lin Jichen's tone was sarcastic, and he openly stored the Blood Fiend Guild's best equipment, the Wind Chasing Fire Spear, into his storage ring in front of everyone.

He could imagine how furious Kuang Xiaoyan and Li Fengwen must be now.

In the Blood Fiend Guild's public chat, Li Fengwen was enraged to learn that Kuang Xiaoyan had died and that the prized spirit spear he had bought at great expense had dropped.

"Everyone, attack! Kill Lin Jichen, and I'll reward each of you with a million!"

Li Fengwen was beyond furious. He would even offer a billion if it meant killing Lin Jichen once!

Already enraged, the Blood Fiend members were further spurred by the promise of money, charging at Lin Jichen like they were on steroids. All the body cultivators and sword cultivators rushed at him together!

But Lin Jichen had already used the last few seconds of his speed boost to escape their encirclement, slipping into an unnoticed position.

Blade Storm!

A sword formation with a 50-meter radius formed, trapping hundreds of Blood Fiend members inside.

Although most were body cultivators and artifact cultivators, they couldn't withstand the high damage of the storm blades.

The base skill damage of 500 points was secondary; the real terror came from Lin Jichen's own damage stacking on top.

Even the highest defense body cultivators had damage numbers over a thousand popping up above their heads, and it was continuous.

Although they couldn't be killed in five seconds,

the problem was that if anyone died, the formation would refresh.

This was the most broken aspect of this spirit skill. In his past life, Chen Yuan had always kept this skill equipped.

With his high personal damage, even if the skill's damage became negligible later, it didn't matter. It was one of the few AOE skills available to artifact cultivators for group battles.

"Those with low health, get out first! Get out!"

"Retreat, retreat quickly!"

The Blood Fiend members shouted in panic, but inside the formation, people were packed like sardines, scrambling to escape the sword formation, not caring who had more or less health.

And with a thousand people crammed together, there was no way to get out.

In less than five seconds, someone inside couldn't hold on and fell, causing the formation to refresh.

"Forget about the people inside! Kill Lin Jichen first!" an elite captain commanded decisively.

There was no point in worrying about those inside the formation. It was better to focus on killing Lin Jichen. As long as they killed him, it would be worth sacrificing everyone inside the formation.

Just as he finished speaking, he saw a Buddhist seal in the shape of a swastika appear above his head.

"Shit!"

Boom!

The Rebirth Buddha Seal smashed into the crowd, and Lin Jichen went all out, throwing all his skills.

When he ran out of skills, he started slashing with his sword.

Facing a thousand people head-on, the battle was relentless.

One man fought with the momentum of an entire guild.

The surrounding spectators were dumbfounded, thinking it was a battle between two guilds.