True Solution of the Sword Dao

The Night King stood atop a distant hill in the suburbs, gazing into the far-away sky.

In the sky, two massive, eerie auras spiraled in opposition, dominating most of the area across the United Kingdom, forming two large vortexes, one black and one red.

Cold and hot air transmitted through each half, creating an extremely eerie sensation.

Two other people were beside him; Roga was squatting on the ground drawing something.

The Snake Woman had her eyes tightly closed, her forehead covered in sweat, seemingly engaged in some unknown task.

"The commotion they’ve managed to stir up is really enormous," the Night King said gravely, "Even though in this world our powers have greatly increased and the speed of enhancement has become faster, even the three of us combined couldn’t produce such a magnificent display."

"True, a power that nearly envelops an entire nation is indeed grand, but they must also be relying on some augmentation devices. Such power can’t be achieved purely on their own," Roga replied while drawing strange, mysterious lines.

The Night King glanced at him. "Roga, has your Asura Serpent King Formation succeeded?"

"Almost; achieving the Asura Serpent King Physique is also near," Roga chuckled twice, "But your Blood Winged Golden Bat Physique should also be almost complete, right?"

The Night King laughed dryly, not responding.

Roga continued, "As for the Snake Woman, that kid destroyed her projection, and her avatar was severely injured by the opponent using the relic’s power. She must be furious. It looks like there’s also trouble with her avatar in the Inner World this time."

As soon as he finished speaking.

The Snake Woman’s eyes snapped open, bloodshot and fiercely distorted.

"Damned brat!!!" she growled, an uncontrollable rage spilling out, "To think he dared to destroy my Serpent Demon Troop’s Life Pearl..."

The other two were momentarily stunned.

"The Life Pearl of the Serpent Demon Troop? Weren’t you keeping it in your lair, Snake Woman? How could it be destroyed? That’s closely related to the Serpent Demon itself; once destroyed, the Serpent Demon’s main body’s strength will drop considerably!" the Night King exclaimed in astonishment.

The Snake Woman’s face turned crimson: "My lair... was taken by them..."

She said this with a face full of uncontrollable hatred.

"He even triggered the Eye of the Serpent Demon to self-destruct, ruining the core of my serpent nest and destroying the Serpent Demon Troop’s Life Pearl...!!!"

Roga and the Night King exchanged glances, both sensing the situation was spiraling out of control.

The person who brought the Snake Woman to such a sorry state was just a D-level and a common Psychic without any significant backing. To have managed to bring an A-level powerhouse like the Snake Woman to such a state was unprecedented in thousands of years.

Though it was also due to the inherent great weakness in the Snake Woman’s power structure, it still shouldn’t have been this easy to get her into such a mess.

"Do you need help?" the Night King asked offhandedly.

"No need!! I can handle it myself!!" the rage in the Snake Woman’s eyes nearly overflowing. "The most infuriating part is that that guy seems very familiar with the relic, able to utilize many of its mechanisms to indirectly resist my power without ever confronting me directly. In that kind of place, it doesn’t matter how many people go."

Roga and the Night King exchanged another look, then fell silent. Not having even seen his face, being so frustratingly defeated with such losses would make anyone furious.

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For two consecutive days, Lin Fei watched as the demonic clouds spread and covered the Demon Realm.

His and Griffin’s powerful emanations quickly spread across all districts in the United Kingdom.

Ireland and the adjacent Celtic Sea area were also completely covered by Lin Fei’s powers.

Meanwhile, Griffin’s powers slowly extended towards London, England, and towards Germany and Belgium. However, the tower of black smoke he constructed was continuously injecting black smoke into the entire atmospheric circulation.

Lin Fei, using the Myriad Forms Thousand Attraction Technique, also transformed his power into a cold current, surging rapidly toward all four directions, much faster locally than Griffin.

When compared, each had its merits; Lin Fei’s Myriad Forms Thousand Attraction was much quicker in the immediate area, far surpassing Griffin. However, overall, its effect was relatively slower.

Meanwhile, Griffin’s atmospheric modification was fundamentally global from the start, though slow at the beginning. Once fully formed, however, it would envelop and cover the entire globe.

For over ten days.

Both deployed all their powers into this contest. They were both aware that this competition would determine their subsequent actual power and potential for future growth.

For beings like them, Demon Kings, the more and stronger the subordinate Monster Clan, the purer and greater the demonic power fed back to them, and naturally, the quicker their strength increased.

In more than ten days, Lin Fei’s power spread from the mainland United Kingdom to encompass all of France. While the other three forces, one went directly towards the Hua Nation in the Demon Realm, and the other two swiftly spread towards Germany, following the demonized Ice Crystal Demon Race army.

During this time, the Ice Crystal Demon Race also had frictions with Griffin’s Black Flame Demon Race, but both sides restrained each other.

However, the native residents of the Demon Realm mobilized mechanized legions such as airplanes, missiles, tanks, and artillery, to bombard the advance of the demon races indiscriminately and even implemented scorched earth tactics. They managed to kill a batch of low-level demon races. Even high-level demon races suffered unexpected casualties.

Thus, Lin Fei and Griffin immediately ordered to deploy the United Kingdom’s technological prowess to establish a defense network. They ordered all demon races to conceal their distinguishing features and assume the appearance of ordinary humans, blending into the crowd.

Ordinary demon races, as long as they were not the lowest level like Annis, could easily disguise themselves as ordinary humans without being detected. Therefore, this measure greatly reduced the losses of the demon race members. It also greatly accelerated the pace at which the demon races spread, allowing members to stealthily spread demonic power containing their collective will everywhere like a virus. They only needed to inflict minor wounds on ordinary humans to quickly demonize them, igniting their inherent demonic genes, and turning them into their own allies.

The territory of the demon races rapidly expanded, growing larger and larger. The demonic power within Lin Fei and Griffin’s bodies also grew stronger.

But at that moment, Lin Fei finally encountered a problem.

The excessive demonic power completely overwhelmed the True Force within his body, with only a sliver of True Qi stubbornly resisting, huddled within his heart. Moreover, if it weren’t for a bit of strength that had merged with Holy Spirit’s Blood acting as a barrier and the Divine Artifact stabilizing the demonic power, Lin Fei would have completely lost control the instant demonic power overwhelmed True Force, losing control over his True Force and True Qi.

This way, although the excessive demonic power completely suppressed the True Qi and True Force, preventing the dilemma of exploding and dying, it greatly damaged Lin Fei’s overall strength.

True Force and True Qi were the source of energy for all his swordsmanship and Sword Techniques. High-level Sword Techniques such as the Star Shattering Sword Technique, Gold Cloth Sword Technique, Heavenly Net Bright Moon Sword, and Tracing Shadow Sword Techniques would be completely lost along with the disappearance of True Force and True Qi.

Thus, Lin Fei’s combat power would drastically decrease. He might even fall to the level of an ordinary Demon King. Although a Demon King itself is quite strong, it is only slightly stronger than an average A-level entity. With Lin Fei’s current strength just entering A-level, he could at best match up with mid-A-level powerhouses. And that does not consider their trump cards, treasures, and secret techniques.

With such strength, let alone matching up with peak A-level entities like Griffin, even the Night King and Rogha would be hard to defeat, barely equaling the Serpent Woman. This is something Lin Fei could not tolerate.

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Demon Realm, London, England

At night, by the Thames.

All of London was lit up with dazzling lights. A green halo bathed the giant Ferris wheel in a pale green light. Yellow, white, and red lights reflected off the surface of the river, turning it into a sparkling expanse.

The evening breeze brought a chill.

Lin Fei stood on a concrete pier by the riverside, leaning on the railing, gazing at the night view of London.

Vehicles continuously passed behind him, their headlights flashing on and off.

Time slipped away second by second, and it was unknown how much time had passed.

A young man, in his forties with somewhat curly black hair and dressed in a white trench coat, approached Lin Fei.

The man came to Lin Fei’s side and spoke with slight respect.

"Your Highness, the monster clan from the Black Flame has completely withdrawn from London, and our mutual agreement takes effect starting tonight," he said.

Lin Fei nodded and glanced at the man.

This man was a member of the British Parliament’s House of Lords and a current head of a certain noble family, originally from London. Such members were common in Parliament, most being either hereditary members or nobles appointed by each other with actually little power. After all, according to the structure of the British Parliament, the main authority lies with the House of Commons, not the clerical or noble members of the House of Lords, and these people mostly stopped involving themselves in affairs early on.

However, during the demonization process, this middle-aged noble named Archibald was among the parliamentarians with the noblest bloodlines and closest to the original lord. Thus, Lin Fei appointed him as the highest authority responsible for all parliamentary affairs. As for the original monarch, the so-called Royal Court, it ceased to exist from the moment the demon cloud covered the area.

"Archibald, has everything stabilized?" Lin Fei asked indifferently. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

"Stability hardly matters," Archibald replied respectfully. "The nature of our monster clan makes it hard for us to feel fear or panic unless facing the original lord. So apart from some initial shock at the start of demonization, the majority of the monster clan have resumed their normal lives and work. Only some of the youngsters who are just beginning to grasp their power are a bit excited, causing minor chaos, but with little casualties."

"How many are there at the lowest level of monster servants?" Lin Fei asked about monster servants, referring to the lowest-level monster clan like Annis, who would go berserk the moment they moved more than twenty meters away from Lin Fei. Unfortunately, since they were surrounded by much stronger official members of the monster clan, it hardly caused any chaos and was easily suppressed by the surrounding ’citizens of London’. But the exact number was unclear.

Archibald recalled for a moment. "A hundred and thirty-three people, all confined in a unified location. For easier management, or rather, breeding, haha."

Behind Lin Fei, Annis in the shadows, immediately trembled. She lowered her head, not daring to look this way again.

Clearly, Archibald’s words had alarmed her. In just over ten days, she had transformed from a member of an intelligence agency into the lowest-level monster servant, to be kept like a pet.

This significant contrast was truly difficult for her to accept. Now her only hope was to stay close to Lin Fei, for if she ventured too far, her fate might resemble those of the hundred or so monster servants, confined and bred like pets.

Lin Fei glanced at her and remained silent, seemingly deep in thought.

After a moment, he finally continued, "How many are there specifically above level B? How many main combat monster clan members capable of forming combat power are there? Calculate it."

Archibald, prepared in advance, smiled confidently and said, "Your Highness, I have already calculated it, and all the data are stored in my mind." He cleared his throat.

"In London, we have nearly seven million people. The hundred or so monster servants are negligible. After demonization, we have one at level A, 153 at level B, initially over six thousand at level C, some of whose powers are not fully discovered yet, so their ratings might change. Level D has nearly twenty thousand people. The remaining monster clan members have at least tripled in strength from their original basis. This is even after the transformation of the civilian administrative members."(To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets; your support is my greatest motivation.)