Decaying World Novel Chapter 255

"Hmm? Sothing's coming?" Suspended in mid-air, Lin Hui sensed it before he saw it. He turned.

Out of the Mist, a gaunt, two-headed man condensed into a streak of green and ca screaming straight at him.

"Mine!! Hahahaha! I caught up! He's mine!!"

Swish.

The man shot past Lin Hui.

The hilt of the sword at Lin Hui's waist clicked softly as the blade slid ho—as if it had never been drawn.

Two heads… so kind of wild beast?

He wasn't sure of the creature's species, but the man was plainly unhinged, charging headlong without any regard for what was around him.

Splatter.

The two-headed man ca apart behind him—shattering into countless green chunks of flesh and blood that rained down across the sea.

In the very next mont, the chunks converged rapidly, knitting back together into the two-headed man.

Naked, he spun around. Both mouths split into enormous, unsettling grins.

"Yes!! The pain—it really hurts!! Devouring you will let

transcend reality! I'll build a city of my own!!"

The third eye at the center of his brow flared open, unleashing a dazzling blaze of multicolored radiance like a small sun.

"Mind-Spirit Descent!!"

A resonant boom tore through the air. The two-headed man's body shattered apart willingly, dissolving into countless green fragnts. Those fragnts broke down further, dispersing into a green mist that blanketed thousands of ters of the surrounding sea.

The expanding cloud of mist imdiately tripped Eagle-man Island's alarms.

Ear-piercing eagle shrieks rang out across the water. The crowds and vessels clustered around the island's periphery scattered in every direction. Figures carrying powerful auras rose into the air and flew toward the disturbance, stopping about a thousand ters from the green mist—watching, but not approaching.

Inside the mist, the second transformation began.

A massive, dark red monstrous bird materialized—hundreds of ters in length, without a single feather. It had no skin; muscle, sinew, and blood vessels were fully exposed. Its face was covered entirely in a dense mass of green eyes, at least several hundred of them.

Every single one swiveled to fix on Lin Hui.

A Mistborn. Lin Hui's brows drew together.

Mind-Spirit Descent was a Mistborn's innate ability—and an extraordinarily troubleso one. He had asked Xie Chang'an about it before. What made it so perverse was its resistance to permanent destruction. Under normal circumstances, a projected mind-spirit could be shattered by eting it with one's own. But after a Mind-Spirit Descent, the opponent's mind-spirit fused with a channeled mysterious power to form an entirely new type of force—and unless the opponent's physical form was completely annihilated, the mind-spirit within could not be hard.

A Mind-Spirit Descent in this form was exceptionally difficult to counter. Generally, it amplified a Mistborn's strength and defense by a factor of ten. Given how exaggerated a Mistborn's physical defense already was, multiplying it tenfold was sothing genuinely difficult to conceive of—to say nothing of the corresponding boost to their strength.

Last ti, Lin Hui had relied on the power of heavenly rotation to et Tuyue's Mind-Spirit Descent head-on.

But here…

If I use the Typhoon Sword Technique directly, its area of effect will be too large—and too distinctive. Anyone watching will identify

imdiately.

He watched the colossal, dark red monstrous bird plunge straight toward him. It resembled a featherless eagle—a form that perversely complented Eagle-man Island's aesthetics. That aside, this Mistborn didn't feel particularly powerful. It ca in noticeably weaker than Tuyue had.

In fact…

It hasn't even given

a sense of pressure.

Lin Hui set his hand on Ruyi once more.

Three seals—fully activated.

Swish.

His body stretched and expanded rapidly, rising to three and a half ters. His long black hair turned blue, taking on a faint translucent quality. Blue markings surfaced across his skin. His eyes lit with an azure glow. Three golden law seals materialized behind him like a triad of sentinels.

The instant the Law Body activated, the dark red monstrous bird arrived.

And in the next mont, it locked up—splitting perfectly down the center, the two halves peeling apart to brush past Lin Hui on either side before crashing into the sea.

Boom!

Ocean waves burst upward, exploding into a curtain of spray.

"Useless, useless, useless!!"

The dark red monstrous bird erupted from the sea almost imdiately, fully reford in under half a second, and lunged at Lin Hui again.

Wind Disaster Force can't decompose it? His brow furrowed slightly.

The Clear Source Law Body naturally carried the decomposing power of Wind Disaster. That lightning-fast sword strike had split the opponent cleanly—he had expected it to be over.

It wasn't. The creature showed no lasting damage.

No—it is working… He caught it then: a faint, thin blue line running down the center of the creature's body, glimring with a weak luminescence.

The wound from his strike.

Is the quantity of Wind Disaster Force too low? Enough to wound but not enough to hold—so the creature is suppressing it?

He had his answer by the ti the monstrous bird was already diving at him again.

If it's too little—then have more.

Both hands closed around Ruyi. He turned sideways, gave a single step of ground, and drove a vicious upward slash across the creature.

Swish.

Again, two halves. But Lin Hui didn't stop—his figure flickered, and a torrent of sword light erupted. In a split second, hundreds of silver arcs wove into a net, dicing the monstrous bird into hundreds of pieces.

Pfft. Pfft. Pfft.

The chunks plunged into the sea—and in the next instant, lded back together into a new monstrous bird, already surging upward.

"Endless!"

Lin Hui's brows pressed tight. He stepped forward into close range. Fierce winds coiled around his body. In his hands, Ruyi dissolved into a formless gale and drove hard into the monstrous bird.

This ti, it was the Wild Wind Sword Technique—saturated with Wind Disaster Force. He wanted to see exactly what a massive, concentrated dose would do to a Mistborn.

Whoosh!

The gale expanded outward, no longer bound to the blade, swelling into a massive storm front. The monstrous bird's flesh began to crumble, shedding tiny red granular particles as it shrieked and thrashed in the air. It held together for a full ten seconds before completely coming apart into nothing.

Finally. Lin Hui's brows eased. That vitality is formidable.

But before he could turn to leave, a brand new, dark red monstrous bird rapidly took shape in the exact spot where the last one had dissolved.

"Fool! Evil Mist cannot be destroyed—cannot be obliterated!! You cannot kill !!"

It spat the words in human speech and lunged again. This ti, Lin Hui noticed that every Wind Disaster scar had vanished from its body completely—the creature looked as if it had never been touched.

His expression hardened.

He had always assud Wind Disaster was absolutely invincible—capable of decomposing anything. But everything he had faced before had simply been low-level. Now, at the level of a Mistborn, sothing had finally appeared that could resist it.

"I'll test whether it has a limit. But this isn't the place for it."

He had already noticed that more and more powerful figures were rising above Eagle-man Island. No Mistborn-level auras yet—but if this dragged on, it would eventually draw the island's patriarch.

Ti to move.

He pivoted and vanished, transforming into a shooting star that blazed away into the distance.

"Trying to run!? You can't escape!!" The monstrous bird gave chase at full fury.

One ahead, one behind—they were gone from the waters near Eagle-man Island in monts.

Boom!!

Over an unfamiliar stretch of open sea, the monstrous bird struck a small island dead-on. The island shattered, caved inward, and sank. Riding the montum, the creature launched itself back into the sky and drove straight at Lin Hui, hovering high above.

Its strength seed inexhaustible. Wind Disaster Force was entirely incapable of touching the mind-spirit power fused within it.

Swish.

The monstrous bird was decomposed into hundreds of chunks and scattered into the sea. This was already the ninety-ninth ti.

And it was useless.

In the next instant, a new dark red monstrous bird rose from the water. Standing there watching it, Lin Hui finally understood the misery of a Mist God. When the Mist God's pantheon faced Mistborn who were immortal and imperishable—impossible to kill no matter how many tis they were struck down—the mood would have been almost exactly this.

It was said that a Mist God could only kill a Mistborn by slaying them over and over; with each death, Divine Force slowly ground down the essence of their true Evil Mist. Even so, it generally required killing one at least hundreds of thousands of tis before a single Mistborn could actually be put down.

This was also why rogue Mistborn typically succumbed to Corruption on their own, rather than being killed by a Mist God. Even when a Mistborn's strength fell far below a Mist God's, they were still extraordinarily difficult to finish. A Mist God was not an inexhaustible entity—a few dozen engagents would leave one exhausted, forcing the Gods to rotate and share the burden.

This was the fundantal reason why a single Mistborn was often enough to anchor a city's defenses. Most Mist Gods simply had no desire to provoke sothing so maddening to deal with.

Evil Mist cannot be damaged—it can only be devoured and transferred. Therefore, only Mistborn can kill Mistborn.

He had heard that line before. He understood it now in a way he hadn't then.

To think that even Wind Disaster Force can't finish it… this kind of power is too dangerous.

He watched the fully reconstituted monstrous bird charge at him again.

Sothing like this shouldn't be allowed to exist.

His grip tightened on Ruyi. He made his decision.

"Wind!"

Fierce winds erupted in an instant. A torrent of Wind Disaster Force surged from behind him like a breaking flood, grayish-white and roaring. It hamred into the monstrous bird, shattering and disintegrating it layer by layer from the outside in.

"You cannot kill !! A low existence like you is destined only to be our food! Accept your fate—hahahaha!!!"

The monstrous bird's voice echoed across the sea even through the howling wind, fading only as the last of its flesh dissolved. Lin Hui paid the shrieking no attention. He pressed a single hand against the first of the Nine Eyes on his shoulder.

Spirit-Sealing!

Hiss!!

Nine beams of erald light erupted from the nine eyes, stretching into rope-like filants that lashed out across the sea and bound together every scattered fragnt of the monstrous bird's flesh, quickly weaving them into a vast cage of green light.

A second later, the ropes of light dispersed—spreading into a wide field of green radiance that washed across all the monstrous bird's flesh at once. The Spirit-Sealing Array began its attempt to seal the Mistborn.

But the Mistborn was too strong. It stalled at the critical last mont—caught just as it was about to snap back together—and from within the green light, monstrous faces surfaced one after another, twisting and howling as they pushed outward. The light didn't compress. Instead, the Mistborn forced it outward, expanding the cage from within.

As expected—the Nine Eyes' sealing capacity is still too weak against a Mistborn. I'll have to add force directly.

Lin Hui raised his longsword. Wind Disaster Force coiled around the blade and condensed into a faint blue-black halo at the edge.

Swish.

He vanished in a flash, driving straight at the monstrous bird. At the sa mont, the Mistborn activated Super Divine Speed, throwing its full force against the Nine Eyes' binding.

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