Open up and break into another world

"What?" Wei Yumo couldn't believe it. "How did your mental defense suddenly become so strong?"

It was only then that Xu Ming saw the mental defense secret skill that Little Bro had chosen for him.

《Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Lock》 First Layer: A Heaven-Rank Mental Defense Secret Skill. After mastering it, mental power circulates according to the trajectory of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, protecting the Sea of Consciousness. If the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Lock isn't broken, the Sea of Consciousness is immune to all attacks! This is the instant-learn version of the first layer.

"This is good!" Xu Ming's eyes lit up.

As expected, anything produced by Little Bro is a masterpiece. With this mental defense secret skill, as long as Xu Ming doesn't encounter an opponent with much stronger mental power than himself, he can be fearless of the opponent's mental attacks!

As for someone like Wei Yumo, whose mental power isn't very strong, but whose mental attack methods are bizarre, Xu Ming completely counters her! Wei Yumo's mental attacks on Xu Ming's Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Lock can be described in four words—an ant trying to shake a tree!

"I should also choose a new mental attack secret skill!"

Xu Ming realized that the 《Storm》, an Earth-Rank secret skill, was only good for practice and familiarizing himself with mental power; but once the opponent was also proficient in mental power, he would instantly be dumbfounded.

《Storm》 belongs to the "crushing" type of mental attack, specifically used to bully opponents with weak mental defenses.

To put it simply: it's for abusing noobs to show off.

But if the opponent isn't a noob, then it can't be abused.

"I have to choose a mental attack secret skill of the illusion type!"

Illusion-type mental attacks will cause people to fall into dizziness, hallucinations, and other states. Imagine, if it were during a life-and-death battle, suddenly falling into this state would be terrifying and fatal!

"Heaven-Rank Secret Skill 《Dream Loss》 First Layer?" Xu Ming is rich and generous now, and the Xuan Stones he spends are all mined from the Liang family's mines, so he doesn't feel any heartache at all—Heaven-Rank Secret Skill? Buy!

After learning another Heaven-Rank secret skill, Xu Ming couldn't wait to… test it out on Wei Yumo.

"Hehe!" Xu Ming grinned again—this was already the unknown number of times he had stood on this arena and grinned mischievously.

But just then, Wei Yumo suddenly said, "I'm not fighting anymore, I admit defeat!"

Admit defeat?

Xu Ming was stunned. Why did she admit defeat so quickly? He had just learned "Dream Loss" and hadn't had time to use it yet, and she was already giving up?

"Admit defeat?" The host, Master Mei Cheng, also asked in surprise.

Wei Yumo had never taken the initiative to admit defeat when participating in the Sect Tournament before! Even if she lost, she would fight until the end, when she was really unable to fight anymore, before regrettably losing.

"Yes, admit defeat!" As she said that, Wei Yumo jumped off the arena.

"Uh…"

The whole audience looked at each other in dismay.

Wei Yumo, who was ranked tenth in last year's Sect Tournament, actually admitted defeat directly after only a few tentative moves with Xu Ming?

"I'm not convinced, I'm not convinced with my loss! I'm not betting anymore, give me back my Xuan Stones!"

However, the experts in the sect saw the clues—it's not strange for Wei Yumo to admit defeat!

Wei Yumo is strong because of her mental attacks. If she can suppress her opponent in mental attacks, then she can still fight on.

But now, Wei Yumo doesn't seem to have any advantage in mental attacks!

And in terms of material attacks, Xu Ming also has the record of defeating Gu Fei in three moves, so he is definitely stronger than Wei Yumo.

Wei Yumo couldn't see any hope of winning, so it was natural for her to admit defeat.

"We still underestimated Xu Ming!" The Gu faction's higher-ups sighed.

"Yes, I really didn't expect that he would not only be better than Gu Fei in material attacks, but also better than Wei Yumo in mental attacks… and he's so young, he's really a monster!"

"Xu Ming's strength has already reached the Half-Step Core Formation level, right?"

"Definitely reached it!"

"A fifteen-year-old Half-Step Core Formation, he's really a treasure!"

Gu Kongshan's gaze was distant: "To be able to enter the top eight in his first time participating in the Sect Tournament is indeed incredibly monstrous! However, the next battle…"

Gu Kongshan's gaze couldn't help but drift towards the Zhang faction's higher-ups.

The next battle, Xu Ming's opponent is Zhang Kuang's son, the helmsman of the Zhang faction—Zhang Youtian!

At this time, the Zhang faction's higher-ups were also fiercely discussing Xu Ming.

"The Gu faction is about to produce an extraordinary figure!"

"Indeed… when he grows up, he might become another Gu Kongshan! If the Gu faction has two Gu Kongshans, then our two factions shouldn't compete with them for anything!"

"Hmph! That also depends on whether he can grow up!"

"The Liang faction certainly won't let him rise…"

"We don't know what will happen in the future!" Zhang Kuang shook his head and laughed, "But for now, watch, my son will soon let this genius taste the taste of failure!"

The other Liang faction elders also said: "It will naturally be easy for Youtian to win against him."

Zhang Youtian is only at the peak of the Perfected Houtian Realm; however, even though Xu Ming has already shown the strength of the Half-Step Core Formation Realm, the Liang faction's higher-ups, or rather, the higher-ups of the entire Desolate Sect, still believe that—Zhang Youtian will definitely win!

Because…

Zhang Youtian's realm is too high!

He is only at the peak of the Perfected Houtian Realm, but he has already comprehended the Domain-level realm!

The "Harmony of Man and Nature" realm can already faintly feel the help from the natural world; the "Domain" realm can directly borrow the power of nature!

It's not虚的, but really borrowing the power of nature—the power of heaven and earth!

Moreover… the ethereal power of nature is actually infinitely powerful!

Those whose realm is not high enough cannot feel the vastness of the power of nature. But Domain Realm martial artists can feel that the power of heaven and earth is unfathomable; even if they use just a little bit, it is terrifying—at least more terrifying than the full power of a Half-Step Core Formation Realm warrior!

Although Zhang Youtian's cultivation is only at the peak of the Perfected Houtian Realm, just relying on the Domain Realm is enough to despise all Half-Step Core Formation Realm warriors who have not comprehended the Domain Realm!

Looking at the many genius disciples of the Desolate Sect, only Lin Xuan and Ye Qianliu, who are also in the Domain Realm and have higher cultivation, make Zhang Youtian feel inferior!

As for Xu Ming… obviously, Zhang Youtian hasn't put Xu Ming in his eyes!

Zhang Youtian's third battle was also very smooth. He didn't even need to show his Domain Realm to easily defeat his opponent.

So, when the fourth battle—that is, the "quarterfinals"—began, Xu Ming and Zhang Youtian undoubtedly stood on the same arena.

"Xu Ming… I really didn't expect that we would fight here! You really gave me a big surprise!" Zhang Youtian sneered, "But… don't admit defeat at the beginning! In this battle, I will beat you so badly that you won't even have the chance to admit defeat!"