188: Chapter 188 Interception

The war halberd swept across, tearing through the vacuum!

As soon as the attack was launched, Lin Yuan's pupils shrank violently.

This seemingly ordinary strike actually contained the peak of ultimate martial arts techniques!

The trajectory traced by that bronze war halberd in the air unexpectedly aligned with some profound and unfathomable Great Dao Principles, completely sealing off all of Lin Yuan's paths of retreat.

"Come!"

Lin Yuan let out a wild roar, the muscles in his right arm bulging as he smashed a fist fiercely toward the side of the halberd, attempting to knock it away with brute force.

However, an eerie scene occurred.

Just as Lin Yuan was about to strike the halberd, the headless war soul's wrist gave only a slight flick.

The edge of the halberd actually followed the rim of Lin Yuan's fist wind, tracing a bizarre arc that bypassed Lin Yuan's absolute defense!

Sshhh—!

The bronze halberd blade, at an inconceivable angle, carved a bloody gash directly across Lin Yuan's chest!

Divine blood instantly gushed out, dyeing Lin Yuan's chest red.

"Shatter for me!"

In pain, Lin Yuan's eyes flared with a fierce light.

Enduring the intense agony, he suddenly whipped out his left leg, carrying ten thousand tons of force capable of kicking apart mountains, aimed straight for the headless war soul's waist and abdomen.

Faced with this destructive blow, the headless war soul did not retreat but advanced.

He slightly turned his body, and the long shaft of the war halberd in his hand circled around his waist, pressing against Lin Yuan's calf with incomparable precision.

Using the opponent's strength against them, deflecting a thousand pounds with four ounces!

The war soul actually took Lin Yuan's ten thousand tons of pure force and redirected it along the halberd's shaft, discharging it into the earth beneath his feet!

Boom!

The ground beneath them violently exploded into a giant crater, but the power of that kick was like a clay ox entering the sea, disappearing without a trace.

Before Lin Yuan could retract his leg, the headless war soul utilized the rotational force from the redirection to jab the butt of the halberd into Lin Yuan's chin.

Bang!

His entire body was sent flying like a cannonball, crashing into the ruins of the ancient battlefield.

Over the next half-hour, Lin Yuan experienced the most brutal one-sided beating.

The headless war soul's attacks had no redundant movements; every strike pointed directly at the body's blind spots.

As the war halberd danced, dozens of crisscrossing bloody gashes were carved into Lin Yuan's shoulders, thighs, and back.

The earth was completely stained red by Lin Yuan's blood.

Had it been anyone else facing such a desperate situation, their Dao Heart would have long since collapsed.

But Lin Yuan did not.

He stood up shakily from the ruins, spitting out a mouthful of blood-tinged water, his eyes fixed on the headless war soul!

"Hahahahaha!"

Lin Yuan suddenly burst into laughter, his voice filled with a spine-chilling madness.

"System! Enable maximum precision scanning!"

Lin Yuan roared in his mind.

He actually abandoned passive defense, leaving his center wide open, and charged once more toward that headless war soul!

Taking a beating? Taking a beating is also a form of learning!

The most abnormal thing about Lin Yuan was his terrifying combat intelligence and his will, which was ruthless to the extreme toward himself!

In this life-and-death struggle, he actually intended to use his body to feel and steal the ancestor's force-exertion techniques!

Puchi!

The war halberd left another bloody hole in Lin Yuan's thigh.

"No, force rises from the ground, the spine is the axis... again!" A flash of frantic realization flickered in Lin Yuan's eyes as he swung a hand-blade in a counterattack.

Thump! The halberd's shaft smashed and broke two of Lin Yuan's ribs.

"Spiral force redirection... I understand now!" Lin Yuan coughed up a large amount of blood, but the smile at the corner of his mouth became increasingly sinister.

In just a few minutes, the wounds on Lin Yuan's body doubled, but his punches and kicks already carried a faint hint of Great Dao charm!

"Ancestor!"

Drenched in blood, Lin Yuan stared at the headless war soul charging at him again and roared: "Did you not eat enough before this move?!"

"Kill!"

Although the headless war soul had no consciousness, it instinctively felt the provocation. It gripped the bronze war halberd with both hands, body and weapon becoming one as it transformed into a meteor that could pierce through everything, stabbing straight for Lin Yuan's heart!

This strike was unavoidable.

But Lin Yuan had no intention of avoiding it at all!

At the critical moment when the halberd blade was about to pierce his heart, Lin Yuan forcibly twisted his waist.

Puchi!!!!

The remnant bronze halberd pierced through Lin Yuan's left shoulder! It emerged from his back, bringing with it a large spray of hot divine blood!

A life for a life!

Lin Yuan had actually used his left shoulder as bait to forcibly pin this headless war soul with its ghostly movement right in front of him!

Absolute zero distance!

"Got you!"

A cruel, manic laugh bloomed on Lin Yuan's blood-covered face. Ignoring the halberd impaling his shoulder, his right arm suddenly sank.

At this moment, he perfectly replicated the spiral force-exertion technique he had just stolen from the war soul, layering and multiplying the power within his body!

Boom!

A pillar of blood-qi smoke rose into the sky from Lin Yuan's right fist.

A tragic and ultimate Rising Dragon Punch, condensing all of Lin Yuan's realizations, struck from below directly into the center of the headless war soul's chest!

Thump!!!!

The ground of the ancient battlefield completely collapsed under this punch.

Under this desperate strike that fused primordial techniques with ten thousand tons of force, the headless war soul exploded into a sky full of golden fragments!

Along with the fragments of laws exploding everywhere, the remnant halberd stuck in Lin Yuan's left shoulder lost its support and fell onto the blood-soaked earth.

Lin Yuan panted heavily, but he didn't immediately tend to his wounds because his eyes were fixed ahead.

After the headless war soul exploded, it did not dissipate like ordinary vengeful spirits but transformed into a mass of pure, unadulterated Primordial Martial Dao Intent!

This mass of intent was not mixed with any high-dimensional laws; it was the most simple and peak force-exertion techniques and insights tempered by this martyr through millions of life-and-death battles and seas of corpses and blood during his lifetime!

"I, your junior, accept this gift from the ancestor!"

Ignoring the dozens of wounds all over his body, he sat cross-legged directly in the center of the ruined ancient battlefield.

"god-demon furnace, swallow!"

Boom!

The dark-gold giant cauldron behind him, which blotted out the sun, suddenly opened its abyssal mouth and swallowed the mass of Primordial Martial Dao Intent in one gulp.

In an instant, a massive amount of memories, like a bursting flood, poured frantically into Lin Yuan's mind!

...Countless profound and unimaginable body-tempering knowledge, coupled with Lin Yuan's abnormal comprehension, were frantically dismantled, absorbed, and mastered by him!

Crack... crack crack!

Bones all over his body emitted a continuous series of explosive pops.

Blood-qi was frantically compressed, and power was tightened hundreds and thousands of times over!

That ten thousand tons of pure force was actually completely refined at the junction of blood vessels and bones, compressed into a dark-gold airflow—Ultimate Path Astral Qi!

Pure force transformed into Astral Energy!

Lin Yuan snapped his eyes open and flicked a strand of Astral Energy with his finger.

Sshhh!

This strand of Astral Energy, no thicker than a chopstick, actually pierced through a distant giant meteorite instantly without any resistance!

"So that's how it is; this is the true way to exert force."

Lin Yuan slowly stood up from the pool of blood and pulled out the bronze fragment from his left shoulder. Under the circulation of Astral Energy, the wound closed rapidly.

He looked up toward the highest peak of the Primordial Divine Mountain.

The ancient path leading to the summit still had the final thirty thousand stone steps remaining.

"Continue."