Chapter 654: Chapter 330: Slaying the Cobra_2
Then, he conjured countless feathers, shooting towards Lin Beichen like dark weapons.
He was in mid-air, surrounded by a black mist spreading for dozens of meters, in which each feather was a lethal weapon.
"Lin Beichen, you were too careless; the night is my domain."
In the darkness, Cobra’s proud voice echoed.
Lin Beichen smiled playfully.
During the battle with Cobra for a while, he had always wondered why Cobra could become a legendary assassin, revered by everyone in the assassin realm?
Indeed, Cobra was very good at escaping. When it came to hiding his aura and fleeing, Lin Beichen had never seen someone so cunning.
But during the confrontation, Lin Beichen found his strength unremarkable. Whether in terms of power or versatility, he was far inferior to Qin Wenwu.
Among the masters Lin Beichen had seen, this person was only about the same level as Zhao Tianjie from Zhongcheng Hall.
Only now, under the threat of death, did Cobra’s eruption of black mist spirit light reveal some extraordinary qualities to Lin Beichen.
The black mist and black feathers in the night sky were just superficial phenomena.
In truth, these were merely manifestations of Cobra’s spiritual power.
As soon as the black mist or black feathers touched anything, Cobra’s spiritual power would infiltrate the body like a parasitic insect, killing silently.
Such a killing technique was even more bizarre than a curse.
If someone didn’t know the truth and rushed into the black mist, even Qin Wenwu might meet his doom.
"It’s unfortunate that you encountered me today."
Lin Beichen sighed softly in his heart, locked onto Cobra with his perception, and a trace of withered and flourishing spirit light flashed in his eyes.
The Withered and Flourishing Body was an advanced version of the Five Elements Spiritual Qi.
Under the operation of withered and flourishing qi, it could not only dispel evil qi but also tear through illusions and directly attack the essence.
With the operation of withered and flourishing qi, the black mist formed from spiritual power instantly dissipated. A brilliant light burst out from Lin Beichen, melting Cobra’s feathers like spring snow, exposing Cobra’s true form.
"I’ll send you on your way."
Lin Beichen brought his two fingers together and thrust forward.
A ray of withered and flourishing spirit light turned into a three-foot sword peak. This sword light, as thin as a cicada’s wing, was more powerful than the previous tenfold.
The sword light cut through the air, turning half the alley into a verdant color.
Cobra’s feathers almost touched Lin Beichen, but upon feeling the withered and flourishing spirit light, he let out a scream, his figure dissipating.
Lin Beichen relentlessly pursued, turning into a shadow, chasing Cobra.
Cobra was in a sorry state, seeing that Lin Beichen was about to catch up, a cold light suddenly flashed in his eyes.
"Lin Beichen, you’re pushing me too far."
He suddenly turned around, one of his eyeballs instantly burst, and a black-golden little snake emerged from the mist.
This little snake was lifelike, covered in black feathers without a single scale.
It grew rapidly upon emerging, stretching to ten meters in an instant.
The ten-meter-long black-golden monstrous snake, hideous in appearance, coiled around Cobra, constantly flicking its tongue, its eyes filled with boundless killing intent.
"Fool, one blinding technique is enough. Did you think you could fool me twice?"
Lin Beichen moved forward without stopping, the sword light in his hand howled with the wind, instantly slashing at the black-golden monstrous snake.
The withered and flourishing sword light, thin as it was, could cut through steel.
Even Qin Wenwu didn’t dare to take Lin Beichen’s sword light head-on, let alone something formed from spiritual power.
"Death Devouring Heaven!"
The black-golden monstrous snake spoke in human language, carrying an ancient aura, as if cursing and summoning monsters from the Purgatory Yellow Springs to possess it.
Lin Beichen was expressionless upon hearing this.
The black mist in the night gradually gathered into the black-golden monstrous snake, with waves of black talismans condensing on its body, forming a menacing tongue flying towards Lin Beichen.
This tongue was inscribed with countless wriggling black insects, which opened their mouths to scream, as if countless living people were struggling and howling.
This was Cobra’s killing move.
Over the past decade, he had used this move to slay countless formidable enemies and had vaguely touched the God Gene.
Unfortunately, this move was too overbearing, each use consuming a huge amount of spiritual power, and once his spiritual power was drained, it was almost equivalent to exhausting his soul.
So every time he used this move, he had to rest for at least half a year, during which he would be like a cripple, needing someone to take care of him.
Therefore, he rarely used it unless he encountered a super master.
"Burning the soul, similar to Qin Wenwu’s Ice World, both are self-destructive moves that push one’s breath to the limit."
Lin Beichen thought to himself.
Although he had never seen the technique used by Cobra, when he fought Qin Wenwu, Qin Wenwu used a similar move.
But Qin Wenwu’s spiritual power was not strong, so the momentum was not large, whereas Cobra’s spiritual power was extraordinary, making the move appear grandiose.
Having understood this point, Lin Beichen showed no mercy.
The three-foot sword light instantly expanded, turning into a ten-meter giant sword, its green light as bright as the blazing sun.
The Withered and Flourishing Body, under Lin Beichen’s operation, was revealed to Cobra for the first time.
Since the death of Qin Wenwu, Lin Beichen had not used the Withered and Flourishing Body.
He felt that not many people were worthy of him using this move.
Cobra could die under the true Withered and Flourishing Body; it was his honor.
Bang!
The black-golden monstrous snake couldn’t even withstand a single blow, being sliced in half by the withered and flourishing sword light as if cutting tofu.
Hiding within the black-golden monstrous snake, Cobra saw a green light descending from the sky, gradually occupying his entire vision. In the next moment, his body was engulfed by the clear light, and his whole world turned into countless starlight.
The withered and flourishing sword light, cleaving the black-golden monstrous snake, continued through the air, splitting the clouds in the sky with a thin line.
One of the legendary assassins, revered as the ultimate killer by all, the Death God Cobra, was thus obliterated into nothingness.
"Impossible!"
Cobra’s body dissipated, but his spirit stubbornly lingered in mid-air.
A vague figure floated, staring blankly at Lin Beichen, with a hint of disbelief remaining in its eyes.
This was impossible, his eyeball contained at least seventy percent of his spiritual power.
This immense spiritual power, upon exploding, was enough to alter reality.
The black-golden monstrous snake could withstand steel bullets, so how could it not block a single sword light?
However, there was no time for him to ponder.
A breeze passed, and Cobra’s ethereal figure gradually turned into foam, bursting into countless specks of dust that scattered in the air.
Lin Beichen stood under the streetlight, quietly watching this scene, his expression neither joyful nor sorrowful.
Killing the Death God Cobra should be enough to deter those assassin groups.
They wanted the bounty, but they first needed to understand one thing: some money can be seen but not touched, beyond their reach.
The murder in the Imperial Capital soon reached international organizations.
The assassin groups waiting for the assassins to return were completely stunned.
They thought that even if they couldn’t kill Lin Beichen, these people could return safely.
Training a super assassin required immense resources.
The loss of any super assassin was an immeasurable loss to the assassin groups.
Looking at the intelligence sent from the Imperial Capital, they wished they could rush to the Golden Mountain Sect to question the Great Elder.
After this battle, the underground assassin realm was set back nearly three years.
Especially the organization to which the Death God Cobra belonged.
The Death God Cobra was the ace of the Death God Squad and one of the rare figures in the entire assassin realm.
It’s precisely because of masters like the Death God Cobra that the underground assassin realm could deter masters at the Death Gate Realm.
His status was equivalent to that of Qin Wenwu in the Golden Mountain Sect.
The death of a Death God Cobra was enough to set the entire industry back decades.
It wasn’t just the loss of a master; it directly caused the underground assassin realm to lose the trump card of their top-tier organizations.
In just a few days, the billion-yuan bounty from the Golden Mountain Sect turned from a prize everyone competed for into a hot potato.
Assassins who originally planned to threaten Lin Beichen’s associates and then seek an opportunity to assassinate Lin Beichen immediately fled the Dragon Country in fright.
Those who hadn’t yet made a move felt extremely grateful and didn’t dare to act.
Even the Death God Cobra had died at Lin Beichen’s hands. Who else could be his opponent?
Due to the rapid deaths of the assassins and the unclear details of their deaths, some speculated that it wasn’t Lin Beichen who killed them but the Dragon Country government that had been quiet all along.