Chapter 988: Chapter 988

Speaking of cultivation, Ming Chen's cultivation is definitely not higher than Ding Fan's, but his combat experience is much richer.

It was precisely because of this that the last time, even in a situation where his cultivation was not as good as Ding Fan's, he was able to escape from Ding Fan's hands in the end.

"Die!" Ming Chen suddenly launched his attack on Ding Fan.

Ming Chen understood that attacking first would give him the upper hand; if he attacked later, he would only be passively beaten.

Between experts, even a detail can directly affect victory or defeat. Ming Chen's purpose at this time is very clear: to seize the initiative.

However, Ming Chen still underestimated Ding Fan. He thought he could seize the initiative from Ding Fan's hands this way, but he was mistaken.

Even before Ming Chen's longsword's sword beam reached Ding Fan, the Nine Profound Iron in Ding Fan's hand had already met the opponent's attack with sword qi.

No dodging or avoiding, a direct head-to-head confrontation.

Although Ding Fan's moves were initiated later, at this moment, they were the first to arrive, with significant power.

Even a strong player like Ming Chen couldn't help but have a fleeting sense of fear on his face upon feeling Ding Fan's sword beam!

The True Yuan of both collided directly, and the intense sound made the entire ground tremble fiercely.

Hoo... The vigor of the True Yuan caused the surrounding tall trees to be directly snapped.

Although the dust had not settled yet, within the arena, the sounds of longswords clashing were accompanied by sparks flying...

Mei Zhi didn't dare to watch the battle closely and hid far away.

The battle between experts like Ding Fan and Ming Chen is immensely destructive; watching from the side could really cost one's life...

In the indistinct arena, yet another tumultuous explosion echoed, making the ground quake fiercely once more.

Even though Mei Zhi hid far away, her face turned pale.

Having been a Core Disciple of the Spirit Sect, Mei Zhi had experienced countless battles between experts, but such an intense face-off was something she was seeing for the first time...

The roaring in the arena grew increasingly intense, the gusts stirring all around becoming stronger, causing the trees to snap at their trunks.

Mei Zhi could only hide behind a giant rock, not daring to lift her head...

Neither Ding Fan nor Ming Chen dared to be careless. They both saw each other as their strongest adversary.

"You truly are foolish. If we join forces, the whole world would be ours!" Ming Chen shouted loudly.

"I will never associate with an Evil Cultivator!" Ding Fan said and intensified his attack.

"Die!" Seeing he couldn't sway Ding Fan's mind, Ming Chen flung his longsword fiercely.

The longsword instantly transformed into a sword beam and struck toward Ding Fan.

During their previous battles, Ding Fan had already witnessed the opponent's flying sword, so he wasn't particularly surprised this time.

At the moment, Ding Fan directly threw the Nine Profound Iron out.

The Nine Profound Iron transformed into a sword beam, charging toward Ming Chen's longsword for a clash.

Ming Chen hadn't expected that on a resource-depleted Earth, Ding Fan would be able to find materials for refining a flying sword.

However, after the shock, Ming Chen controlled his longsword to engage Ding Fan's flying sword.

Ding Fan had been battling Ming Chen for over twenty minutes now, with both relying on their strengths to achieve a stalemate.

Ding Fan realized that if he didn't think of a way, this battle could drag on indefinitely.

Ding Fan was now contemplating using the technique of splitting the Nine Profound Iron into two.

Initially, after acquiring the Ancient Divine Weapon at the Longxi Auction, Ding Fan refined the Nine Profound Iron and that Ancient Divine Weapon into one upon returning.

Simply put, the Nine Profound Iron Ding Fan was using now appeared to be a flying sword, but in fact, it had two Sword Spirits inside and could split into two.

Unless faced with a true adversary, Ding Fan had not intended to use it until absolutely necessary; he planned to save it as his trump card.

Now, Ding Fan was preparing to try the split of the Nine Profound Iron.

Ding Fan spotted an opportunity and suddenly controlled the Nine Profound Iron to strike toward Ming Chen.

Ming Chen didn't dare to be careless, quickly dodging the Nine Profound Iron's surprise attack. Then he controlled his flying sword to continue entangling with Ding Fan.

And just then, something unexpected happened to Ming Chen.

Ding Fan's longsword suddenly split into two. One flying sword engaged his flying sword, while the other rushed directly toward him. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵※𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮※𝓷𝓮𝓽

"How... how is this possible!" Ming Chen was panicked at this moment.

Facing countless adversaries, Ming Chen had never seen anyone using flying swords with such dual focus like Ding Fan.

It is known that controlling a flying sword consumes a lot of divine sense; managing one flying sword is tough enough, not to mention two swords at once.

And now, Ding Fan is indeed controlling two flying swords, how could Ming Chen not be shocked.

Ming Chen understands that Ding Fan has exceptionally strong divine sense, and controlling two flying swords for a short time is not a difficult task for Ding Fan.

At this moment, Ding Fan's longsword arrived in an instant, and Ming Chen had no chance to avoid it.

Ming Chen suddenly relinquished his right arm...

Shua... The sword beam sliced through, and Ming Chen's right arm was directly severed. With his right arm severed, Ming Chen no longer continued to fight Ding Fan.

When he had his right arm, he managed to fight Ding Fan to a stalemate, neither winning nor losing. Now, without his right arm, continuing to fight would only lead to death...

Ming Chen fled, and the longsword he controlled immediately lost divine sense control, finally falling straight to the ground.

Ding Fan did not pursue Ming Chen; a desperate person would still put up a fierce fight.

What Ding Fan needs to do now is the simplest task, which is to rescue the disciples of the Immortal Sect, then communicate with the forces of the various Hidden Sects, to join together against the Ghost Sect.

Ding Fan already has the Spatial Ring, which means he now has the means to clear the channel to the Immortal Sect.

However, the Ghost Sect is strong, and when clearing the Spirit Sect channel, the other side certainly won't sit idly by. At that time, the strength of the Spirit Sect alone won't be able to stop the Ghost Sect's attack...

Ding Fan walked to Ming Chen's severed arm, grabbed it across space, and held it in his hand.

Ding Fan actually respected Ming Chen a little.

Just now, when the Nine Profound Iron split in two, cutting towards Ming Chen, there was little chance for him to avoid it!

But Ming Chen forcibly relied on his movement techniques to abandon his right arm and keep himself alive. This decisiveness, this calmness... was truly rare.

Ding Fan took off the storage ring from the fingers of the severed arm.

Back at the Mount Lu auction, Ming Chen had auctioned off the Spirit Sect's trident halberd. Ding Fan wanted to see if that treasure was in Ming Chen's storage ring.

After probing with his divine sense, Ding Fan was pleasantly surprised to find that the trident halberd was indeed in that storage ring.

Ding Fan immediately took out the trident halberd to play with it a bit.

Back at the Mount Lu auction, the moment this item was presented, Ding Fan sensed an aura very similar to that of Wen Yizhou.

Ding Fan explored the trident halberd with his divine sense.

Just as Ding Fan's divine sense probed into the trident halberd, an overwhelming mental power directly impacted Ding Fan's sea of consciousness.

"Fated one... Spirit Sect was founded through telekinesis, controlling all things, commanding all living beings... hence the Spirit Sect. Today, I bestow you Wen Yizhou's hundred-year telekinesis power, hope you do not forget the enmity with Ghost Sect, and do not forget to revive Spirit Sect's enterprise..."

At this moment, a voice rang in Ding Fan's sea of consciousness.

While Ding Fan was secretly stunned, an immense telekinesis force suddenly surged toward Ding Fan's sea of consciousness.

The sudden increase in telekinesis made Ding Fan's head feel like it was going to explode.

Ding Fan didn't dare to use divine sense to resist; he quickly sat cross-legged, continually digesting the absorbed telekinesis...

No one knows how much time passed, Ding Fan slowly opened his eyes.

Now, the world before him appeared many times clearer than before.

Ding Fan suddenly remembered Wen Yizhou's hundred-year telekinesis; he immediately used his divine sense to probe far away.

This time, Ding Fan was astonished to find his divine sense could detect conditions forty to fifty kilometers away.

It must be noted that when Ding Fan was at the Nascent Soul Stage in the Cultivation World, he could never probe such distances at once!

Ding Fan glanced at the trident halberd beside him.

He was indeed very fortunate! He had unexpectedly gained another inheritance from Wen Yizhou... this time it was a telekinesis inheritance!

Ding Fan pondered slightly and picked up the trident halberd again.

At this moment, the trident halberd already lacked the ancient aura...

This trident halberd had passed through many hands; surely some had used telekinesis, and Ming Chen had even probed it with divine sense, yet why hadn't they received Wen Yizhou's telekinesis inheritance?!

After thinking for a while, Ding Fan felt that it might be related to the iron piece that previously enveloped Wen Yizhou's residual soul.

It was precisely because he inherited Wen Yizhou's cultivation legacy first, upon obtaining the trident halberd now, the sealed residual soul power released the remaining telekinesis power entirely to him...

Ding Fan felt that this was highly likely.

If this were true, then Wen Yizhou must have been an extraordinary figure.

To have made such comprehensive arrangements in times of crisis, who else in the world could accomplish this?

"Sect Master, are you alright?" At this moment, Mei Zhi, who had been waiting on the side, came over with concern.

Ding Fan shook his head slightly. "Nothing happened... How long did I meditate just now?"

"It should have been ten minutes." Mei Zhi replied honestly.

Ding Fan felt that the time just now seemed to have passed for several hours, but it turned out to be only ten minutes.

On second thought, indulging in the spiritual world gives little sense of time in reality.

"You mentioned earlier that Ming Chen sealed the Immortal Sect disciples, what exactly happened?"

Now that Ming Chen had been driven away, Ding Fan was most concerned about the situation of the Immortal Sect's disciples.

"Sect Master, the Immortal Sect disciple is sealed in the Heavenly Cave outside Dejiang..."...