Open up and break into another world

Ten thousand sword-shaped mental attacks simultaneously lunged toward Xu Ming's soul.

“Damn it!!!”

Xu Ming was shocked and furious beyond compare.

“To actually use a killing move right from the start!!”

Facing Lin Chen, a Fifth-Step Dao Lord, Xu Ming dared not be careless in the slightest!

He directly activated the "Three-Buff Package" to Level 20!

He directly activated the Cross-Realm Battle Buff to Level 15!

As for the Power of Mist Rain, the Body of the Sacred Beast, Super Perfect Battle, Halo of the Protagonist, and other methods, they had already been activated when dealing with Wu Tianling and the others.

Boom!!

All sorts of terrifying buffs stacked together, instantly causing Xu Ming's strength to soar to a hundred times his strength without buffs!!

A hundred times!!!

What kind of concept was this?

Xu Ming's own strength was originally only close to a First-Step Dao Lord. A hundred times buff directly made his battle strength step into the Fourth-Step Dao Lord level!!

If it were any other genius in the Dao Origin Battle, out of the tens of thousands of them, Xu Ming would have no fear of a head-on clash!

But now, his opponent was Lin Chen!

Lin Chen, a genius of the entire human race, at the "once in ten thousand years" level, possessing the strength of a Fifth-Step Dao Lord!!

Fourth-Step Dao Lord battle strength, facing Fifth-Step Dao Lord battle strength, although the battle strength was only one level apart, it was still a difference of several times!

A difference of several times was enough to crush one side!

Boom!!!

Ten thousand sword-shaped mental attacks almost simultaneously bombarded Xu Ming's soul, causing Xu Ming's soul to tremble!!

“Hmm?” Lin Chen, however, revealed an expression of extreme shock. “You… you actually didn't die?”

Die!?

Xu Ming's eyes were ice-cold: “You really intended to kill me!!”

Lin Chen, however, didn't seem to notice Xu Ming's ice-cold gaze at all: “How could you not have died? — Although mental attacks are my weak point, they are still enough to easily annihilate a Third-Step Dao Lord; even a slightly weaker Fourth-Step Dao Lord would find it difficult to withstand! You aren't even a Dao Lord, yet you're actually fine!?”

“Very surprised!?” Xu Ming's face was as cold as frost. “You and I have no past grudges and no recent animosity, so why use a killing move right from the start!?”

Xu Ming's doubts were also the doubts of the top experts such as Palace Master Po Tian.

And this kind of arrogance might cause Xu Ming to pay a great price when facing real enemies in the future!

…

“Why use a killing move right from the start?” Lin Chen sneered. “Does this count as a killing move? — I don't have much research into mental attacks at all. If I really wanted to use a killing move, then just now, I would have already drawn my sword!”

“You didn't draw your sword because you underestimated my strength, not because you deliberately showed mercy!” Xu Ming coldly smiled, tightening his grip on the long spear in his hand.

“Underestimated? That's right, I indeed underestimated you! — Very few people can make me misjudge, and you are one of them, you should feel proud!” Lin Chen slowly drew the purple long sword behind his back.

For every bit the purple long sword was revealed, the sword intent on Lin Chen's body would become stronger by a bit!

Xu Ming didn't dare to be careless, holding his spear and waiting solemnly. And the battle intent on his body not only didn't weaken in the slightest, but instead continued to rise.

“Under my sword intent suppression, your battle intent can actually still increase — you do indeed have the qualifications to make me draw my sword!”

“Are you fighting with your mouth, or fighting with your sword?” Xu Ming deliberately used words to disturb the other party's sword intent. “Why don't you hurry up and draw your sword!”

Lin Chen's sword intent soared to the sky, not affected in the slightest.

“Hurry up and draw my sword?”

The corners of Lin Chen's mouth slightly curved into a cold smile; almost in the same instant, the purple long sword in his hand directly stabbed towards Xu Ming!

Hiss—

The space of the Mountain and River World was far less stable than the space of the Endless Continent.

When the purple long sword stabbed through the space, it was like a large ship passing through a calm lake; the originally calm space rippled with layers of spatial ripples.

The sword intent that originally soared to the sky on Lin Chen's body directly reversed the “sword edge”; the majestic and sharp sword intent also stabbed towards Xu Ming along with the purple long sword.

The towering battle intent that Xu Ming condensed seemed to be pierced to pieces by this sword intent!

However, Xu Ming knew that what was even more terrifying than the sword intent was the purple long sword that was stabbing towards him! — This long sword was actually just an ordinary standard low-grade Dao artifact; but it was refined by Lin Chen using special means, so it appeared purple, and its power was even greater!

“Let me see just how terrifying the genius hailed as the once-in-ten-thousand-years genius of the entire human race truly is!!”

Xu Ming's long spear also had the momentum to crush space.

It's just that the spatial ripples stirred up by the long spear were obviously not as turbulent as the spatial ripples stirred up by the purple long sword.

From this, it could also be seen that Lin Chen's strength was indeed much stronger than Xu Ming's!

Boom!!!

The long spear and the purple sword collided terribly at a certain point in space. This "spatial point" was almost torn apart!!

The spatial ripples formed by the terrifying collision were even like terrifying waves, sweeping so that Xu Ming felt a little difficult to stand firm.

Bang!

Under the collision, Xu Ming's long spear directly bent into a crescent shape. And the purple sword's offensive was also greatly affected.

“You actually blocked my charged-up sword?” Lin Chen couldn't help but sneer, “But, if you can block my first sword, can you block my second sword, my third sword?”

The purple long sword hardly paused, and once again killed towards Xu Ming.

And Xu Ming's second resistance, his movements were slightly stagnant — he was at a disadvantage in the previous collision, and he needed to slow down a bit. And… the long spear was bent into a crescent shape, and it was still a bit bent, not completely sprung back!

It doesn't matter if it doesn't spring back!

Xu Ming, man and spear as one, of course understood how to deal with such a situation.

Whoosh!

Xu Ming no longer blocked the purple long sword's attack, but directly swung the long spear, and using the elasticity of the long spear, angrily whipped towards Lin Chen!

“Trading injuries for injuries!?”

Lin Chen couldn't help but laugh — this move was indeed bold.

“However… will I give you a chance to trade injuries for injuries?”

Lin Chen's figure directly retreated violently.

But, while retreating violently, he directly loosened his grip on the sword hilt!

Lin Chen retreated violently to avoid the long spear's angry whip, while the purple long sword, under the blessing of the power of the Origin of Wind, instead killed towards Xu Ming with even more fierce sword intent!

Any expert with a little bit of insight could see that Lin Chen would avoid the long spear's angry whip unscathed; and Xu Ming would not be able to avoid the purple long sword's attack at all!

The choices placed before Xu Ming seemed to be only two: one, crush the message talisman and give up the Dao Origin Battle; two, be injured by the purple long sword, or even directly assassinated!