Chapter 17. True and False Lin Nuo

Chapter 17. True and False Lin Nuo

Seeing the scene, Lin Nuo realized that the Demon Sect disciples were dead, running, or both—no one could threaten Su Kexin.

The explosive arrival of the protagonist was just a slice for a little kid, right?

After clearing the field, the spiritual light around Su Kexin gradually faded.

Her fluttering hair returned to normal as she felt weak, drenched in sweat, resting her hand on her spirit sword while gasping for breath.

Alright, the burst is over. Now is the time.

Lin Nuo jumped down from the tree, planning to go over and chat aimlessly with Su Kexin, pretending to join her, confirming if she was back to normal, and then taking the chance to st*b her to de*th.

His blade was already thirsty, waiting to taste Su Kexin’s blood.

Just then, a faint sound of footsteps came from nearby.

Emerging from the eerie forest was a sturdy man.

【It’s him】

A honest-looking flat-top with eyes that were like two straight slits, a friendly-looking guy, but Lin Nuo knew this friendly facade concealed a vicious nature.

The two locked eyes, the cold wind filled with the scent of blood.

“Hello, I remember you’re a disciple of the Xuanyun Sect. By the way, I got separated from my companions—have you seen them?”

Zhong Ping approached Lin Nuo with a smile, moving slowly. Most people would be caught off guard by such a harmless grin.

But Lin Nuo wasn’t like that; he was on guard against everyone. Besides, Zhong Ping probably knew the Demon Qi erosion techniques, so he couldn’t let his guard down.

What was he coming over for? Surely to shake hands and then cause Lin Nuo to drop dead.

Wasn’t that his usual trick?

But now wasn’t the time to fight this flat-top squinter. At Lin Nuo’s current second-tier spiritual realm level, he’d already used most of his spiritual power to take down a few Demon Sect disciples, and all his talismans were spent on the Heavenly Grade Li Long—fighting this squinter would probably be a no-go.

He needed some tricks to force him away.

As Zhong Ping continued to close the distance, Lin Nuo maintained a calm expression, pulling a crystal stone from his pocket.

“Zhong Ping, this is our Xuanyun Sect’s transmission crystal stone. As long as I infuse it with spiritual power, all the images can be sent to Elder Yuan.”

“Oh, little brother, what do you want to send back?”

Zhong Ping still wore a smile, approaching Lin Nuo at the same steady pace.

Lin Nuo: “I’ll get straight to the point. I’ll send your images back. You came to take the spiritual weapon and spiritual pills, right? Lots of people died there; their things belong to you, and I’ll only take my Junior Martial Sister with me. If I use my techniques, your acts of violence against me will transmit to the Xuanyun Sect and Yulin Sect. At that point, you won’t be able to escape. Once I take my Junior Martial Sister away, this crystal stone will be destroyed, how’s that?”

After Lin Nuo spoke, Zhong Ping halted his steps.

This kid seems to know my background.

Judging from his aura, he’s probably around tier three, and he’s likely not carrying anything good. He still has to maintain his good guy image in the Yulin Sect—he can’t be exposed because he’d have to keep hiding until they’re wiped out.

If he takes action, his malicious deeds will be revealed, and he can’t stay in the Yulin Sect anymore.

So just let it go? No, he didn’t plan to let anyone go.

“What a pity.”

Zhong Ping opened his slitted eyes, a fierce murderous intent shimmering in his gaze.

A surge of black energy surrounded his body, and in an instant, he transformed into Lin Nuo’s appearance.

“You didn’t activate the transmission crystal early, but now it’s too late.”

He transformed into Lin Nuo—this was the Body Doppelganger technique, able to mimic the appearance of others for a short time.

However, the flaw of the Body Doppelganger technique was that it couldn’t change at will; once it took on the clone’s appearance, it had to revert once the time was up.

That meant even if he sent the images back, it wouldn’t be obvious it was Zhong Ping.

Lin Nuo was somewhat surprised—a flat-top guy with so many skills.

Too late? Not at all, since the crystal in his hand wasn’t a real transmission crystal—just a tool to bluff this flat-top guy.

If Lin Nuo had a real crystal, wouldn’t he have activated it already? Why waste time talking to you?

If the bluff failed, he’d have to come up with another plan.

“Then there’s no choice; only one of us can survive.”

Lin Nuo drew his sword, his expression unflustered.

He could still create a few illusions, distract him with those, and then take the chance to retreat to Su Kexin, stab her, and then run.

In an instant, a powerful gust of demonic wind swept through, and a man flew in from afar, crashing to the ground, rolling around before losing consciousness.

Lin Nuo looked over and saw it was Zhou Jianhu. It seemed he’d been knocked over by that gust of demonic wind and was likely unconscious now.

“Not even a single strike.”

From the distant forest emerged a group of black-clad Demon Sect disciples, leading the way was a scruffy-looking middle-aged man—this was their leader, Du Xu.

Lin Nuo felt uneasy; the number of Demon Sect members was a bit much. As a second-tier player, he was already low on spiritual power, struggling with Zhong Ping, and now facing a horde of Demon Sect disciples was asking for trouble.

This was bad; the number of his illusions wouldn’t compare to this group, so the original plan probably wouldn’t work.

“Master, look! That’s the kid who killed the Heavenly Grade Li Long!”

One disciple excitedly pointed towards Lin Nuo, and Du Xu followed his gaze.

He noticed there were two Lin Nuos.

“How can there be two identical people?”

Du Xu looked puzzled.

The disciple replied, “Master, this is his illusion technique; our companion was tricked before.”

“Illusion technique? Hidden weapons!”

The disciple acknowledged with urgency, immediately launching a few hidden weapons toward Lin Nuo.

Realizing the hidden weapons were coming, Lin Nuo hastily dodged, while Zhong Ping was rather tough, directly using a gust of wind to deflect the hidden weapons.

Du Xu understood the situation, shouting, “The one attacking is the real body; ignore the illusions and just attack the real one to death!”

“Understood!”

Du Xu led the group of Demon Sect disciples to surround Zhong Ping, who was imitating Lin Nuo, while no one paid attention to the real Lin Nuo…