Invincible Dad-Chapter 675 - Demons Block and Kill Demons!_1

Xu Lai’s voice wasn’t cold. On the contrary, it felt like a warm spring breeze, at least to Qian Xiao and Xu Yiyi. But to Lin Xuzhi, it was the devil’s whisper.

His mind went blank. Lin Xuzhi froze for a full ten breaths before he gradually came to his senses.

DRIP.

A drop of cold sweat landed on the factory roof with a crisp sound.

"There’s someone else hiding here!" Qian Xiao drew a sharp breath. He was furious with himself for not sensing anything earlier. The Moon Clan is truly despicable!

"He’s not from the Moon Clan," Xu Lai said flatly. "He’s of the Human Race."

"A human?" Qian Xiao was stunned. Why would a human be mixed up with the Moon Clan?

Tan Chang quickly interjected, "That’s Lin Xuzhi of the Yunxiao Sect. He’s the Sect Master’s confidant."

「These days.」

When Mou Yuan and the other Moon Clan elders discussed secret matters, they didn’t bother hiding anything from Tan Chang. After all, the poison they had fed him was a personal gift from the Moon King, potent enough to kill a cultivator at the Peak of Golden Core. Using it on someone like Tan Chang was a complete waste. Since he was a dead man anyway, it didn’t matter what he overheard. In fact, they hoped it would agitate him, making it easier to extract useful intelligence.

But Mou Yuan had miscalculated. Tan Chang hadn’t died; Xu Lai had just neutralized the poison from the elixir.

With his injuries gone and no more worries holding him back, Tan Chang’s eyes flickered as his mind raced.

He suddenly roared, "I understand! The Moon Clan member who infiltrated the Yunxiao Sect is an avatar of the Moon King! And this man, Lin Xuzhi of the Yunxiao Sect, is here because he betrayed the Human Race and defected to the Moon Clan!"

Tan Chang’s analysis was correct. Of course, strictly speaking, it wasn’t so much an analysis, as Mou Yuan and the others had been leaking secrets for days.

But Lin Xuzhi didn’t know that. To remain hidden, he had even set up sound-dampening formations and restrictions around himself, preventing any sound from getting in or out. So, Lin Xuzhi naturally assumed Tan Chang had deduced all of this on his own.

"Since you’ve figured it out, I’ll drop the act," Lin Xuzhi’s expression gradually twisted into a snarl. "Xu Lai, you asked for my last words? My last words are for the entire human race to be wiped out, so the Moon Clan can rule the Earth!"

Tan Chang was stunned.

The system of one school, three sects, and nine pavilions, headed by the Yunxiao Sect, was the very origin of the Twelve Holy Lands. For millennia, although the Twelve Holy Lands remained reclusive and uninvolved in worldly affairs, they had always stood up on the fundamental issue of the Moon Clan’s invasion. Before the Martial Dao of Hua Country had developed into a complete system, it was the Twelve Holy Lands that served as the barrier, holding the front line with their own flesh and blood. It wasn’t until Xu Yanyang of the Blade Sect established the Sky Ranking and defended Chang’an City with a single sword for a century that the martial artists of Hua Country truly forged their own path of cultivation.

But now, from that very same Yunxiao Sect—so detached from the mortal world, yet so dedicated to it—had come a traitor who wished for the extinction of humanity...

Even knowing that the current Sect Master was an avatar of the Moon King, Tan Chang still found it all difficult to believe.

"My ancestors were among the founders of the Yunxiao Sect. I began my cultivation at three, reached Foundation Establishment at five, and entered the Golden Core Realm at twenty. My talent was one of the finest in the entire sect!

"But my master? He promised his daughter, my junior sister, to that bastard Li Qingzhou!

"He was an orphan who just happened to collapse outside the Yunxiao Sect’s barrier and was taken in by my master, the Sect Master at the time.

"But that bastard’s talent surpassed my own, and he even stole away Gong Qiu, the junior sister I had adored for decades!

"If I can’t have something, then no one can."

Lin Xuzhi’s expression was impossibly dark. "That’s why, three hundred years ago, I lured my junior sister to the Sea of the Moon and then poisoned our master! But that old fool, on his deathbed, passed the title of Sect Master to Li Qingzhou!

"I hate it! I won’t accept it!"

Lin Xuzhi seethed with resentment. "I went to the Moon King and asked him to kill my senior brother, Li Qingzhou. In return, I would help him take control of the Yunxiao Sect and, eventually, the Earth.

"The Moon King not only helped me, he arranged for that bastard Li Qingzhou to kill the guardian Demonic Beast my junior sister had become, as well as the elders of the Three Sects and Nine Pavilions.

"In the end, he had a complete mental breakdown and killed himself before the Sea of the Moon. It was so satisfying! Truly satisfying!

"Three hundred years have passed, and still no one knows the truth of what happened."

Lin Xuzhi cackled maniacally. "They all think I lost my junior sister and the position of Sect Master, but I am the true winner!"

Having finally voiced the secrets he had suppressed for three centuries, Lin Xuzhi gasped for breath, his face a mask of pleasure, though another, more complex emotion flickered in his eyes.

Xu Lai’s expression remained calm. This cultivator had succumbed to his inner demons; otherwise, with his talent, he should have been able to reach the Celestial Venerable Realm. But Xu Lai felt no pity. On his own journey from a mortal to the Emperor Realm, he had seen countless geniuses. Many of them possessed the potential to become Great Emperors, comparable to those of antiquity. In the end, however, they all perished on the long path of cultivation.

Xu Yiyi and Qian Xiao, on the other hand, were filled with righteous indignation. They finally understood why the Yunxiao Sword had been found thrust through a skull. What unimaginable self-reproach and despair must the real Sect Master, Li Qingzhou, have felt before his death?

"So you were already a traitor three hundred years ago..." Tan Chang said bitterly.

"How can abandoning the darkness for the light be called betrayal?" Lin Xuzhi sneered. "Tan Chang, you’re a smart man. I advise you to see the situation for what it is and join the Moon Clan with me. A glorious future awaits you!"

"Your heart died three hundred years ago." Tan Chang’s gaze was filled with pity. "You’ve only been dragging out a wretched existence since then. For what?"

"..."

Lin Xuzhi fell silent.

His master, senior brother, and junior sister had all died by his hand, yet he hadn’t felt happy at the time. Lin Xuzhi didn’t know if his path of revenge was right, but now that he was on it, it had to be.

He abruptly looked up at Xu Lai, a brilliant smile spreading across his face. "The Sect Master said you’ve entered the Divinity Transformation Realm. I don’t believe it. I bet your boundary is the Peak of the Nascent Soul Realm! You haven’t truly stepped into that legendary realm!"

With those words, Lin Xuzhi tilted back his neck and swallowed a short wooden sword the size of an adult’s palm.

Instantly, the heavens changed color. A blinding golden light descended from the sky, resolving into a longsword that radiated a magnificent glow.

Lin Xuzhi grasped it. Starting from his palm, a layer of golden scales spread to cover his entire body, making him look as if he were clad in golden armor. But this was no ordinary gold. It was Innate Red Gold, a material countless times more precious. When refining artifacts, adding just a sliver of it could enhance a Magic Artifact’s defense and attack. Innate Red Gold could even be used to forge Quasi-Emperor Artifacts!

Lin Xuzhi’s armor and Golden Sword were both forged entirely from Innate Red Gold. Such extravagance would make even the great Tao Lineages of the Immortal Domain weep. To squander materials for Quasi-Emperor Artifacts like this was a waste so egregious it was an offense against the heavens.

"I have my Golden Sword and Golden Armor! Xu Lai, do you dare fight me?" Lin Xuzhi roared, soaring into the air, his eyes blazing with absolute confidence.

Though his boundary was only Half-step Nascent Soul, with these two treasures he could fight enemies a full major realm above his own.

I will slay gods and kill demons. In this world, I am unrivaled!