Chapter Eighty-Six: Our Sun-Moon Order Prefers to Win by Piercing the Heart

Before Jiang Lin, the two fox-eared women saw his gaze gradually regain its luster, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly with a lewd but damned handsome smile.

"As I thought. The two of you are not from the Evil Cult of Solitary Desolation."

He lifted the husky perched atop his head and set it down on the ground. Then Jiang Lin held his sword horizontally before him and lightly blew on the increasingly frigid frost gathering on the blade of First Snow. The blood spilling from his rear was frozen by sword qi and dripped slowly to the floor, hanging like crimson beads from a dagger.

"You heard all that?"

The white fox elder sister bared her teeth as rings of chill radiated from her body, spreading outward until everything in the room was covered in layer upon layer of frost.

Jiang Lin tilted his head indifferently, his expression absurdly dramatic, though blood was still spurting endlessly from his rear.

"Villains always like to reveal their motives when victory is already in their grasp. That is why villains die from talking too much. Though, to be fair, I am a villain too."

Layer upon layer of ice crystals coated the blade of First Snow. Blossoms of ice thorns spread out around Jiang Lin, and when he raised his sword and pointed it at the pair, even the bright moon above seemed to dim.

"Though I, Jiang Lin, never strike women, that only applies when the other side holds a place in my heart. If the two of you can tell me your purpose, and who is behind this, I can spare your lives. Otherwise..."

"Otherwise, what will the young master do?" the white fox elder sister asked with amused curiosity. "What could the young master possibly do to us sisters?"

Jiang Lin shook his head.

"You two going on stage at the Spring Breeze Pavilion would be extremely..."

Before he could finish the words, the two white foxes vanished from where they stood. In the next instant, their claws tore through the air and appeared before Jiang Lin's eyes.

Their claws pierced into his eye sockets and into his head, showing not the slightest mercy.

But just as the two white foxes thought they had succeeded, heaven and earth abruptly changed. When they steadied themselves again, the ruined temple was gone. Before them lay a barren stretch of ground, like an ancient battlefield.

High in the sky hung a scarlet moon. Beneath that red moon, the blood-soaked earth bristled with one strange long sword after another, none alike, yet each exuding a chilling, murderous sword intent.

"I am made of sword bones!"

On the foremost mound, packed full of swords, a man in white slowly spoke incomprehensible words.

Though it was unclear why this man, whose outer shell and inner nature were so utterly mismatched, was insulting himself, once he had finished, all the swords on this ancient battlefield awakened like beasts from slumber, opening their formless eyes.

"An illusion?" the busty one spoke again. With her noble bloodline, she was the first to sense how troublesome the man before her truly was.

"No education," Jiang Lin said, giving her a sidelong glance. "This is called Unlimited Sword Control."

No sooner had Jiang Lin spoken than more than twenty longswords shot forth, streaking beneath the red moon in one arc after another of broken rainbow light.

The two white fox sisters swept out their sleeves, and two white silk ribbons flew from within to meet the swords.

Like dancers, the sisters continually fended off the incoming blades. Every sweep of their sleeves carried frost and icy qi, and the spiritual wind raised by those flowing sleeves repeatedly and precisely altered the trajectory of each flying sword. Especially with their seamless coordination, what should have been a fierce slaughter instead looked for all the world like an ancient dance.

This reminded Jiang Lin of the girls with ancient-style performances he had followed in the dance section in his previous life. But this sort of natural, improvised dance, coupled with real tails and fox ears, seemed even more beautiful.

Now Jiang Lin finally understood why some powerful cultivators in the upper realms often spent lavish sums just to travel to Monster Sea Continent and watch a single dance. Seeing the sisters move like this, it did seem to make sense.

"Doge! It's your turn! Avenge your shame!"

"Woof woof~~~ woof-woof~~~"

At the sound of the bark, a black-and-white husky, somehow both fierce and adorable, stepped onto the sword with its four short legs and flew out riding the blade. Behind it followed twenty-eight more longswords.

Altogether, that made fifty-five swords, which was the maximum Jiang Lin could control within Unlimited Sword Control.

Aside from the sword beneath the dog's paws, another fifty-four swords joined the battle, and already fine beads of sweat had appeared on the white fox sisters' brows.

One after another, the swords tore through the sisters' clothing, yet with perfect tacit understanding, none of them harmed their skin. After a quarter of an hour, sacred light descended, falling on the sisters like a dark cleric's blessing.

Jiang Lin, seated on the hillside, stared at the battlefield with bright eyes and a solemn expression, not missing a single moment. After all, losing focus on the battlefield could be fatal.

Only, as he watched, Jiang Lin wiped the blood from his nose.

Had he been eating too much heaty food lately?

"System, bring me two bottles of blue potion. Blue bottles, sugar-free."

"Certainly, Host."

After six hundred notoriety points were deducted, two bottles of blue potion appeared in Jiang Lin's hands, and he downed them.

This was a battle of mana!

And just as Jiang Lin finished both bottles, his eyes lit up.

"Doge! Now!"

"Woof!"

"Big sis, be careful!"

The husky, not even fifty centimeters long from head to tail, barked once and lunged forward, biting directly into the white fox elder sister's thigh. Thin streams of blood seeped downward and stained her skin.

A moment of disorder was enough to decide the outcome. More than a dozen longswords shifted from solid to insubstantial at once, passing simultaneously through the bodies of the two white fox sisters.

"Pu..."

Bright red blood spurted from their lips. Their skirts spread as they dropped to their knees on the ground like blooming snow lotuses. At that same moment, dozens of swords shifted back from insubstantial to solid, all pointing at their throats, chests, and other vital places. One wrong move, and they would be turned into hedgehogs.

Then another longsword passed through both of them once more, leaving them unable to move.

Seeing that the outcome was decided, Jiang Lin wiped his nose and walked forward.

"If you have the ability, then kill us!"

Holding her younger sister in her arms, the white fox elder sister bit her red lip and sent the words through their shared mindscape, blood sliding from the corner of her mouth.

At that very moment, he could have killed both her and her sister with a single sword.

But the swords had changed from solid to insubstantial. Though they had pierced her bodies, they had only left her grievously wounded.

And the reason he spared the lives of the two sisters was only one: Jiang Lin was despicable.

Jiang Lin raised First Snow and tipped up the white fox elder sister's chin.

"I hear white foxes are proud and aloof, and if one of you falls in love, she will love only one person for the rest of her life. When one dies, the fox dies. You place the greatest importance on your purity."

"Shameless! Lewd! Filthy pervert!!"

The younger white fox, nestled in her sister's arms, cursed furiously through their shared mindscape.

"Ah~~~ I, Jiang Lin, may resort to scamming, selling corsets, and black eating black, but I am clearly a good person. Why does no one believe me?"

Jiang Lin looked up at the sky and sighed, shaking his head.

"If you can, then kill us!"

"I do not take pleasure in killing."

Retracting his gaze, Jiang Lin bent down and approached the sisters, his expression twisted into something ferocious.

"We of the Sun and Moon Sect prefer to break the heart before the body."