Apocalypse: The Primordial Pearl Recognizes Its Master, Starting with Infinite Space

Another group of people came up to the arena, led by an old acquaintance—Luo Chen from the Tianfu Sect.

He led nine disciples, both men and women, onto the stage. After they took their positions, Luo Chen stepped forward, smiling, and cupped his hands in a respectful gesture towards Lin Chen: "Brother Lin, it's been a long time. Thank you for saving my life in the Guixu Secret Realm."

Lin Chen returned the greeting: "Brother Luo, you're too kind. It was nothing."

Luo Chen waved his hand, a wry smile on his face:

"To be honest, I didn't want to come up here, but I couldn't disobey my master's orders, so I had no choice."

Brother Lin, I know your abilities; going up there would be a waste of your time.

"I just ask that you go easy on me later, don't make me lose too badly, so I can explain things to the sect when I get back."

Lin Chen smiled modestly: "Brother Luo, you are too modest. The talismanic arts of the Heavenly Talisman Sect are profound and its methods are unpredictable. I would like to ask you to show mercy."

Luo Chen waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no. Then let's have a friendly spar and stop when we've reached our limit."

Lin Chen nodded and gestured for him to proceed.

Luo Chen retreated back into the group and gave a wink to the nine disciples around him.

The ten people raised their hands at the same time, drawing talismans in the air. The runes flowed from their fingertips for only a few breaths before Lin Chen felt the surrounding space completely sealed off, and he could no longer sense any spatial fluctuations.

He sighed. Here we go again.

After arriving in the Yuanxu Universe, everyone has too many ways to seal space. As long as you go on stage to fight, the first thing your opponent will do is seal space.

His proud spatial laws are targeted everywhere he goes.

This is normal, though. For someone who is skilled in spatial laws, if the space is not sealed off, other cultivators can't even touch the hem of their clothes.

With a sigh, Lin Chen didn't think any further and charged forward with his sword.

Luo Chen and the others remained calm. Their fingertips moved incessantly, and runes condensed one after another in the void, forming a seven-colored barrier in front of them.

Lin Chen slashed at the barrier with his sword, the blade striking the surface and creating a silent ripple. The recoil pushed him back three steps.

Before they could even get a foothold, the enemy launched a counterattack.

Fire dragons, ice spikes, wooden swords, earth spikes, golden blades, and lightning bolts rained down on him like they were free. Each attack was imbued with the unique luster of runes, making them several times more powerful than pure law attacks.

Moreover, these attacks were not all thrown at him at once, but rather in pairs, with some attacking first and others in coordination, blocking his retreat and attacking him head-on, forcing him to dodge and weave.

He glanced at the rune attack method opposite him. The amplification principle was essentially the same as his sword technique. Both were based on the laws, adding another layer of amplification to make the same law power produce a stronger effect.

The only difference is that they use talismans, while he uses a sword.

Lin Chen knew that to beat this group, he first had to break their shell.

The barrier, supported by ten people working together, was covered with runes. To break it, a direct, forceful strike would be inefficient; the force had to be concentrated into a single point.

Having figured this out, he dodged and weaved, returning to the edge of the barrier once more.

The laws of metal and the laws of power were simultaneously infused into the sword. Instead of slashing downwards, it thrust straight out, concentrating all its force on a single point.

The longsword pierced the barrier, and with a "pop," the seven-colored light curtain shattered, like glass breaking.

Luo Chen and the others' expressions changed slightly, but they were not too panicked. The moment the barrier shattered, five disciples had already given up their attack, took out five shields from their bodies and held them horizontally in front of them, and kept adding runes to the shields, layer after layer.

In an instant, its defensive capabilities were elevated to a new level.

Lin Chen sheathed his sword, took a step back, and raised an eyebrow.

The Heavenly Talisman Sect's methods are straightforward: attack is attack, and defense is defense; they don't resort to any underhanded tricks or convoluted tactics.

This kind of fighting style is actually more troublesome. If you want to win against them, you either have to wear them down until they run out of divine power, or... unleash a force in an instant that is enough to crush all their defenses.

He weighed the sword in his hand and began to consider the latter possibility.

Without hesitation, Lin Chen began to devise a new fighting strategy while dodging attacks.

His most powerful combat technique was none other than the Five Elements Divine Thunder, but the old man said that he could only win by relying on sword techniques.

If he could unleash the Five Elements Divine Thunder through sword techniques, the opponent's defenses would be utterly ineffective in his eyes.

So he began to dodge the rune attacks from the other side while pouring the power of the Five Elements Divine Thunder into the sword.

In this way, the audience below the stage could see that five-colored arcs of electricity would flash on his sword blade from time to time, flashing briefly and then going out, before flashing again.

Lin Chen discovered the problem after a few tries. Once the power of the laws entered the sword, without the precise guidance of the meridians, the five elements would explode upon contact and couldn't be stabilized at all, let alone infuse the law of thunder into it.

He frowned and murmured, "These laws of power are too difficult to control precisely on a sword. If only there were a power to harmonize them..."

Thinking of this, Lin Chen's eyes lit up: "The five elements need to be harmonized... and the most suitable harmonizing force is none other than time!"

This time, he didn't pour all the power of the five elements into the sword at once. Instead, he first poured in the law of time, creating a buffer layer inside the sword, and then poured in the power of the five elements one by one.

With the constraints of the laws of time, the five attributes no longer exploded upon contact; instead, they remained still within the sword, giving him the opportunity to reconstruct the mutual generation of the five elements.

Once the cycle was complete, he infused it with the Law of Thunder... A fist-sized ball of lightning condensed at the tip of the sword, its entire body swirling with five colors, its surface subtly glowing.

Compared to the watermelon-sized Five Elements Divine Thunder Balls he used to make by hand, this one was several sizes smaller, but the violent aura inside was even more intense.

Lin Chen's hand holding the sword trembled slightly, and his face turned pale... This time it was a genuine paleness, not an act.

While relying on the speed law to dodge, one must also control seven laws and infuse them into the sword. The mental energy consumption is incomparable to that of the previous sword techniques.

If it weren't for Zi Ling's help in his sea of ​​consciousness, he probably wouldn't have been able to hold on and would have fainted long ago.

The lightning ball on the sword tip looked harmless to the naked eye, but the violent aura inside made the entire arena and the surrounding space seem to collapse.

Looking at the Thunderball 2.0 version in front of him, Lin Chen's eyes were full of joy.

On the high platform, Zuo Qianqiu paused, stroking his beard.

Shen Youruo, Xiao Bufan, and the other leaders all sat up straight, their eyes fixed on the five-colored ball in Lin Chen's hand.

Zuo Qianqiu's eyelids twitched, and he muttered to himself, "What has this kid come up with...? Is there anyone below the thirteenth rank who can withstand this?"

Lin Chen glanced at Luo Chen and the others, a smirk playing on his lips, and softly commanded, "Break!"

Immediately, the Thunderball 2.0 flew straight towards Luo Chen and the others' defensive shields at an astonishing speed.