Chapter 468 — The Evolution of Crimson Eye

The second: its blade curved and bright red, red light wreathing its entire form. This Sword Clone had grown within the divine-tier resource, the Flame of Living Beings, and been tempered and entwined by Crimson Eye's Phoenix Sword Intent. Upon this blade, Crimson Eye's Flame of Regeneration had received an epic-tier enhancement—even stronger than her main body's.

The third: its blade interwoven with darkness and blue-green death aura, containing the fluctuations of silent annihilation and death. This Sword Clone, through a great many perfect-tier World Tree fruits, had perfectly fused the Demonic Sect's strongest Deathly Annihilation Sword Intent into itself, bringing it extremely close to the laws of death. At the same time, since Crimson Eye was herself an undead being, this Sword of Death also had the highest base stats of all her swords—the vast death aura accumulated from the enemies slain by Crimson Eye's main body had all served as nutrients for its growth.

The last: for now, it had only comprehended the Sharp Metal Sword Intent through the fusion of numerous metal-type sword techniques—unremarkable on the surface, but having undergone the trials of the Heavenly Sword Ruins, it was in truth sharp beyond measure. It could be said that each of these Sword Clones, taken individually, could crush a top-tier Overlord.

And now, Shi Jin meant to fuse them all into Crimson Eye's true body and complete the Return-to-Origin evolution!

WHOOSH!!!!

Around Crimson Eye, four swords materialized. Right after, Shi Jin drew out the god-tier meteoric iron, which floated in the air. Crimson Eye controlled the Flame of Living Beings, wrapping and melting the metal, attempting to fuse it with the fourth sword, the Sword of Sharp Metal.

Under the Flame of Living Beings' tempering, the god-tier meteoric iron slowly changed form, blooming with a startling light of sharpness, resisting fiercely as it fused into the Sword of Sharp Metal.

CLANG!!!

With every fraction fused, the Sword of Sharp Metal burst forth and keened a shrill sword-cry that set the entire Legendary Ruins space trembling!

SHRRRK!!!

Dazzling sword-light sprayed outward, and now and then even the void itself was slashed open, leaving wounds in the emptiness.

"Even a single clone is this formidable." Shi Xiao was forced back by the piercing radiance the god-tier meteoric iron unleashed.

His anticipation only grew—what potential would Crimson Eye hold after evolving with such lavish evolution resources!

The final tempering of the sword clone was indeed a long process.

But Shi Jin and the others had patience enough to wait.

Who knew how long later—with a hum, the Legendary Ruins space was rent with cracks by countless blades of sharp-metal sword-light, large and small; the Flame of Regeneration melted back into the Sword of Life; and the four sword clones, thrumming with intense fluctuations, circled around Crimson Eye. At a single thought from Crimson Eye, these sword clones could merge into its body!!!

"Now."

At Shi Jin's command, he kept up his mental link with Crimson Eye, hoping to sense its bodily changes at the very first instant.

Hum!

In the next moment, first came the Sword of Sharp Metal, fused with the god-tier metallic meteorite, radiating intense golden light—a sharpness whose might seemed able to cleave a divine body cleanly in two. It flipped itself over, and its tip plunged straight through Crimson Eye's chest into its body, vanishing from sight.

At the same time.

Crimson Eye, in its Sword Maiden form, surged with climbing aura, its energy value breaking a hundred million in an instant. The sword intent in its eyes was a hundred times keener than before—and that was not the end. Right after, the Sword of Death, carrying the sword intent of deathly silence and annihilation, also fused into Crimson Eye's body in similar fashion, wreathed in ghostly death-qi, with a thunderous boom!!

The aura climbed again, step by step.

Shi Jin's voice rang out in Crimson Eye's heart as well.

"The Slaughter Immortal is keen, the Slay Immortal brings death, the Trap Immortal raises red light on all sides, the Sever Immortal transforms in infinite wonder, and the blood of gods and spirits dyes all garments. Crimson Eye, your evolution template this time, the Immortal-Slaughtering Sword Formation, is fabricated, invented—unlike the Azure Dragon template, it has no mind-domain to assist it. But each of the four sword clones was cultivated according to your greatest needs and your strongest aptitudes."

"In this evolution, your weapon shall be the sword formation formed from many sword clones, and you shall be its core sword-spirit, commanding the formation."

"Believe in yourself. By another path, you will become the first Immortal-Slaughtering Sword-Spirit—the God-Slaughtering Sword-Spirit."

"Yes!"

As Shi Jin's words fell, Crimson Eye, gaze firm and gentle, fused the Sword of Life and the Sword of Space. It too wished to evolve successfully—if it was the weakest on the team, how could it still protect Shi Jin? In that moment, Crimson Eye activated the fusion-evolution effect of its peerless-grade soul avatar.

BOOM!!

In the next instant, Crimson Eye's body was shrouded in heaven-flooding radiance of sword intent.

The world-shaking white sword intent became the light of evolution.

Soul Avatar, Return-to-Origin Evolution!

The rate at which Crimson Eye's aura rose began to far exceed before; the astonishing sword-intent fluctuations made Little Machine, Duck-Duck, and the others in the second-team space change countenance sharply, turning to look toward the first-team space, uneasy.

"This power……"

At that moment, Shi Jin could fully sense the terrifying force upon Crimson Eye—truly dreadful.

In terms of energy value alone, it had likely surpassed Eleven and Chongchong, drawing near Qican Baobao, and was still climbing.

After all, two god-tier resources had been used as evolution materials, converted into racial potential!

Though it lacked the aid of a mysterious Taiji-Yin-Yang domain as Eleven had, this evolution ought to have no trouble carrying Crimson Eye into the divine domain.

Under Shi Jin's gaze of greater expectation.

With a hum, colossal projections of four hundred-meter swords appeared in the skies on all four sides of the Legendary Ruins.

BOOM!!

Space warped.

Beneath their sword-intent pressure, the entire Legendary Ruins seemed to become a world of swords, countless shadows of sword-light leaping and dancing, so that the sword fluctuations here even surpassed those of the many layers of the Heavenly Sword Ruins.

Within this domain of sword formation, the oppression Eleven and the others felt reached its extreme; every one of them wore a look of utmost gravity.

Their instincts screamed frantic warnings, telling them they faced mortal peril.

As if mirroring the terror of Crimson Eye's power after evolution.

"Metal, Space!"

As Shi Ying shouted, some of the post-evolution information about Crimson Eye surfaced in her mind.

[Beast Name]: Crimson Eye

[Attributes]: Necromancy, Fire, Metal, Space

[Growth Tier]: Overlord

Of course, at this moment the evolution was not yet complete. The power of the four sword incarnations had only preliminarily remodeled Crimson Eye's body; the mighty potential they contained had not yet merged into a new racial skill.

This evolution was not, in fact, guaranteed to succeed. Like Eleven's evolution, it was an extremely complex process. Eleven had had Shi Ying's Taiji Domain to assist it, but this time, the risks facing Crimson Eye were unknown!

The World Tree fruit eaten in advance was, at least, a boon.

She hoped that with her comprehension talent enhanced, she could master and fuse this new form!