The Prodigies War-Chapter 2606 Massacre and Counterattack

High above the ninety thousand feet azure heavens, the boundary star road stretched endlessly, cold, vast, and desolate. As Lin Xun journeyed alone across it, he felt a sense of insignificance.

Compared to the boundless cosmos, all the worlds, no matter how grand, were just like specks of dust adrift in the void!

Lin Xun traveled alone. Nie Qingrong, Leng Qingxue and Xiao Xi had been placed within the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron.

This treasure was as vast as a self-contained world. It could contain mountains and rivers, seas, the sun, moon, and stars. Over the years, all the treasures he had gathered were stored within it. So were enemies such as Luo Ling and Qi Lingyun, who had been suppressed inside for years.

Of course, there was also Evil God Dishen, who had now been reborn as a child named Goudan... In Lin Xun’s eyes, Goudan was merely an innocent child now with no connection to the past Dishen. If the opportunity arose, Lin Xun would secure a good future for him.

The stars spun in quiet brilliance.

The boundary star road was laced with terrifying currents of order, releasing an oppressive force that any ordinary Emperor would find it impossible to take even a single step forward. However, such pressure was hardly worth mentioning to him. With each stride, he covered thousands of feet. His robe billowed lightly around him as he strode through the starry sky like a lone soul wandering the cosmos.

In truth, there was not a trace of life here. All he saw along the way was the vast, cold, and silent sea of stars.

Three days later.

In the starry sky, a torrent of meteors suddenly burst forth, sweeping across the void like a raging river of fire. One blazed past the boundary star road, and as it neared Lin Xun, he could feel its scorching heat. It was like a massive fireball, emanating a terrifyingly dangerous aura.

Clang!

The dao sword roared out from the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron, slicing through the sky like a bolt of lightning, and cleaved the oncoming meteor clean in half.

Amid the explosion of radiant light, a colossal figure suddenly rushed out from within the split meteor. It resembled a human, yet its skin was marked with twisted, mottled constellation markings, and its eyes burned like twin stars.

An Astral Spirit Warrior!

This was a strange and terrifying creature.

It was said that cultivators who perished on the boundary star road had their shattered spirits and lingering will absorbed by the power of order and refined into stars. Over time, these stars would gradually give rise to spirit entities known as Astral Spirit Warriors.

They possessed no intellect, only an unyielding obsession. Anyone who dared to cross the boundary star road would face their slaughter! Over the past three days, Lin Xun had already fended off more than ten such attacks and was no longer fazed by them.

As the dao sword flashed—Pu!

The charging Astral Spirit Warrior was cut down, collapsing into nothingness. In its place, a dazzling, mottled stone fell from the void. Lin Xun caught it with a wave of his hand and stored it away.

It was the size of a goose egg, crystal clear and its surface veined with natural constellation runes. Within it pulsed a powerful essence of the great dao. According to the Everything Codex, this was a Dao Rune Star Core, the very source of an Astral Spirit Warrior’s power.

Each Dao Rune Star Core was imbued with a unique great dao power, making it an incredibly rare and precious treasure. If used for cultivation, a single one was said to rival the effect of a hundred thousand cosmic origin crystals.

It could also serve as a divine material for forging Emperor-grade weapons. So far, Lin Xun had gathered nine of them. From personal experience, he found that they greatly enhanced his cultivation. As a result, he even hoped to encounter more Astral Spirit Warriors along the way.

After all, the journey was painfully dull and monotonous. All he saw was the cold and boundless starry sky, the vast cosmic void, and himself pressing on alone beneath the stars and moon. A short time was bearable, but over a long period, it became unbearably tedious.

Ten days later.

Lin Xun finally began to feel the pressure. The oppressive force on the boundary star road was growing stronger by the step. Now, he had to actively channel his cultivation just to withstand the crushing force that filled the path ahead.

“It seems...we’re nearing the Second Heaven Domain...” Lin Xun murmured, his spirits rising.

......

While Lin Xun was making his way across the boundary star road, news of his appearance in the First Heaven Domain was spreading like wildfire.

Then it reached the Second Heaven Domain, then the Third, and Fourth...

When the news spread to each heaven domain, the major factions and clans entrenched within them were all shaken, triggering waves of uproar.

Lin Xun!

The ruthless man branded as the most wanted criminal in the Eternal True Realm had resurfaced after years of silence. There was no way such a name wouldn’t shake the world.

It was worth noting that during his years of disappearance, wanted notices of him had been plastered across every city, large or small, and throughout all heaven domains.

His bloody deeds in the Great Thousand Battle Domain also became infamous, spreading far and wide with those wanted notices. Nowadays, the world referred to him as Menace Lin.

Under such circumstances, it was easy to imagine the uproar that erupted when news of his reappearance in the First Heaven Domain spread.

Behind the uproar, the Immortal Imperial Clans who had long seen Lin Xun as a thorn in their side wasted no time in taking action.

The Wen, Heng, Zhu, and He Clans of the Sixth Heaven Domain...

The Donghuang’s Four Clans of the Seventh Heaven Domain...

The Immortal Giants of the Eighth Heaven Domain...

One after another, they dispatched their strongest forces, all charging toward the First Heaven Domain.

As a result, the cultivators in the First Heaven Domain found themselves living under constant threat. In recent days, far too many major figures from the higher domains had descended wave after wave, all for one purpose: To hunt Lin Xun!

Even the Immortal Imperial Clans who bore no grudge against Lin Xun but kept a close eye on the shifting tides of the world were secretly shaken by the sight. Without question, the First Heaven Domain, a place long dismissed by the Immortal Imperial Clans, had now become the eye of a brewing storm with Lin Xun’s return!

Unfortunately... Even if the mightiest powers of the upper domains came crashing down, it would all be in vain. Lin Xun had long since set foot on the boundary star road and departed from the First Heaven Domain, entirely unaware that his identity had been exposed and had sparked such an uproar.

It wasn’t until two months later, when he arrived in the Second Heaven Domain, that he sensed something was off. It didn’t take much inquiry for him to learn everything that had happened in recent days.

When he found out that the Immortal Imperial Clans had already taken action to deal with him, he made a decisive choice: Counterattack!

The Immortal Imperial Clans entrenched in the Sixth Heaven Domain and above did not confine their power to their own territories. Their influence extended deep into the lower heaven domains, from the First to the Fifth Heaven Domains.

For example, Liangyi Academy was backed by none other than the Hong, He, and Zhu Clans.

In the Second Heaven Domain, the Jiuxuan Institute, hailed as the number one force, was backed by more than a dozen Immortal Imperial Clans. Such as the Wen, Heng, and He Clans.

Therefore, Lin Xun’s counterattack would begin at the Jiuxuan Institute!

One month later.

A blood-soaked piece of news rocked the Second Heaven Domain.

“Nineteen Emperor Ancestor elders, thirty-seven eighth realm Emperor-level deacons and one hundred and nine seventh-realm Emperor-level instructors of the Jiuxuan Institute were all beheaded overnight!”

When this news broke, the entire world was shaken. Jiuxuan Institute was the most powerful force in the Second Heaven Domain, backed by numerous Immortal Imperial Clans. For countless ages, no one had dared to provoke it.

Despite that, in a single night, so many high-ranking members were slaughtered and their heads removed. This was undoubtedly a chilling and unprecedented act! The identity of the culprit was revealed almost instantly.

Because on the tallest and most majestic Monument of Merits in Jiuxuan Institute’s central hall was a line of bold, blood-written characters: “Lin Xun was here!”

Beneath that line of bloody writing lay a heap of severed heads piled like a small mountain, all left behind by slain powerful experts. This bloody and merciless scene sent shockwaves across the world, leaving all who saw it ashen-faced with fear.

The Jiuxuan Institute was rocked to its foundations. Soon after, it was discovered that every one of the slain cultivators had served the Immortal Imperial Clans over the years! There was no doubt that this was Lin Xun’s revenge!

“Menace Lin is too ruthless. Those people were just working for the Immortal Imperial Clans, did he really have to kill that all? How innocent were they?”

Some were outraged, condemning Lin Xun’s actions as brutal, a massacre of the innocent. However, such complaints were quickly drowned by waves of rebuttals.

“Innocent? Take a good look at those old bastards who died. Which of them was a good and kind person in their lives? Which of them hadn’t committed atrocities during their time at Jiuxuan Institute? For the sake of serving those Immortal Imperial Clans and helping them plunder cultivation resources, how many thousands of innocent lives were destroyed under their hands over the years?

“Back then, they got away with everything because they had the Immortal Imperial Clans backing them. Even with blood on their hands, no one dared to hold them accountable. And now, people claim they died unjustly? Either they’re blind or laughably naive!”

“Forget that, just answer this, when the Immortal Imperial Clans hunt down Menace Lin, it’s considered righteous, but when he strikes back, it’s suddenly unforgivable? What kind of twisted justice is that?”

In this world, only a small number had the privilege of serving the Immortal Imperial Clans. The vast majority were ordinary cultivators, scattered across every corner of the land.

For countless generations, the Immortal Imperial Clans had reigned like supreme monarchs, lording over them and monopolizing more than ninety percent of the world’s cultivation resources. They might have feared and revered the Immortal Imperial Clans, but deep down, how could there not be resentment and suppressed fury?

To most cultivators in the world, Lin Xun’s massacre wasn’t a crime but instead justice on behalf of heaven. It thrilled them, filled them with righteous joy, and many even wished he would kill more...

However, for the Immortal Imperial Clans, the news struck like a thunderclap. They rushed to dispatch their elites to the Second Heaven Domain, only to arrive one step too late.

On the very night of the massacre, Lin Xun had already departed, setting foot on the boundary star road leading to the Third Heaven Domain.