265: One knife!

After understanding the rules, Lin Chen immediately understood.

This final opportunity elimination round was a team competition!

The geniuses participating in the Black Pagoda trial from different dimensional worlds would form camps and engage in life-and-death battles... This third layer of the trial.

In an instant, it could gather geniuses from countless dimensional worlds into this space.

Lin Chen couldn't imagine what kind of great power this was!

Perhaps, only an Ancestor Realm expert like 'Abyss' could achieve it.

Lin Chen glanced in Ye Shaoyang's direction and noticed that the other six trial participants were all standing with him.

He appeared very calm about this.

Those few trial participants were all geniuses from empires and kingdoms.

This was a good opportunity to deal with them all at once!

Just then, above the continent where Lin Chen and the others were located, the void twisted.

Then, more than 20 figures appeared out of thin air.

These figures were of various races; Lin Chen even spotted two humans.

Is this... the elimination round starting?

Buzz—

Mysterious light patterns lit up on the continent where Lin Chen and the others were, instantly enveloping the entire landmass.

【Trial participants, the battlefield has been sealed!】

【After 5 hours, the side with more camp members wins; the losing side will be annihilated!】

Battlefield sealed?

Lin Chen understood why Ye Shaoyang had said his escape technique would be useless here.

Moreover, the most important thing was that the camp battle had a time limit.

This was actually very unfair.

If the two camps were of similar strength, the camp with more people would be declared victorious... This third layer of the trial was too cruel!

However, Lin Chen merely complained about it.

After all, true powerhouses would not be affected by numerical superiority.

"Boss, it seems our luck is pretty good; we're matched with such a weak camp in the first round."

Bursts of laughter came from the sky.

Lin Chen watched the sky with a calm gaze.

He noticed that the more than 20 matched trial participants were actually led by two humans.

Those two humans were both at the Nine-Step Emperor Realm level, and the other trial participants were also very strong, mostly above the Third-Step Emperor Realm.

His boundary fixing pearl was useless here, so he didn't know if these two humans were seeds.

However, it no longer mattered!

Lin Chen's aura slowly rose, and he looked at Ye Shaoyang with murderous intent.

"Let's settle things between us as well."

Ye Shaoyang, like Lin Chen, paid no attention to the more than 20 trial participants in the sky.

He looked at Lin Chen, his eyes burning with fervor, and said,

"As you wish!"

Above, the group of trial participants immediately began to mock them.

"Looks like there's a good show to watch."

"We don't even need to make a move."

"..."

Only the two leading human youths had solemn expressions.

The two humans below gave them a strong sense of dread.

"Shut up!"

"Don't be careless; these two are very strong!"

One of them, a youth in blue armor holding a long blade, roared, and all the trial participants immediately quieted down.

"If these two start fighting later, we'll seize the opportunity to attack."

"Remember, we are a team now. If anyone dares to cause trouble, I'll cleave them!"

Upon hearing this, dozens of trial participants broke out in cold sweat, clearly very afraid of this human youth.

At this moment.

The blue-armored youth whispered to the other youth beside him,

"Big Brother, do you have confidence?"

The youth called Big Brother had a head of bewitching red hair. He squinted his eyes, continuously observing Lin Chen and Ye Shaoyang below.

"They should also be seeds, and they are no weaker than us!"

"However, these two are too overconfident."

"If they look down on us, they will have to pay the price!" the red-haired youth said coldly.

Lin Chen below naturally knew what those matched trial participants were planning.

But he didn't care.

Because, from the very beginning, he had decided to complete all 100 battles of this third layer of the trial by himself!

He would never cooperate with Ye Shaoyang and the others.

This Ye Shaoyang was very mysterious; he had to eliminate him early!

Lin Chen flipped his hand, and a long blade appeared in his grasp.

This long blade was merely at the High-Grade Sacred Artifact level, a trophy he had acquired earlier, and also the highest quality weapon he currently possessed.

On the other side, Ye Shaoyang also took out his purple-gold long halberd.

A murderous glint flashed in Lin Chen's eyes, and he directly unleashed a blade strike!

Taiyi Blade Art First Form — Chaos Heaven-Opening Blade!

A gray blade light flashed, directly leaping through layers of space to reach Ye Shaoyang.

This blade strike contained ultimate destructive power, with Chaos, Space, Power, and Destruction as its core Great Dao attributes!

Ye Shaoyang, seeing this, also cleaved with his halberd.

Boom—

A massive explosion occurred in the void, and then the space in front of them shattered inch by inch.

A terrifying shockwave spread outwards, and Ye Shaoyang was directly sent flying backward by the blade strike!

This single blade strike directly destroyed 5% of his vitality!

After stabilizing himself, Ye Shaoyang looked at Lin Chen with a horrified expression.

A few more strikes, and he would be gone... "How is this possible!"

"What level of Great Dao is this of yours!" Ye Shaoyang roared in disbelief.

Lin Chen was also slightly shocked at this moment, because the Great Dao Combat Skill Ye Shaoyang displayed was actually at the Elementary Origin level!

One must know that he was only able to deduce a Mid-Grade Origin level Battle Skill with the help of the system.

To create a Battle Skill of this level on one's own was too difficult; Lin Chen estimated that there might not be any in the entire Endless Realm.

He hadn't expected Ye Shaoyang to also possess such a Battle Skill.

The amplification of Origin level Battle Skills was extremely terrifying!

Limit-Breaking Battle Skills could amplify Great Dao power by 200 times.

Elementary Origin Battle Skills, Lin Chen had once tested, could amplify Great Dao power by 2000 times, which was 10 times that of Limit-Breaking Battle Skills!

As for Mid-Grade Origin level Battle Skills, although he hadn't tested them, they were at least 4000 times amplified!

The amplification here was based on the power of the foundational Great Dao.

Lin Chen's Taiyi Great Dao was at the Ultimate level, with power at least a hundred times stronger than Top-Tier Great Daos!

What's more, he had now elevated his Taiyi Great Dao to the Origin level, which was the Half-Step Great Emperor Realm.

Therefore, this blade strike, after final amplification, reached a terrifying realm of power!

This was still just Lin Chen using an ordinary long blade.

His physical body was now comparable to a Ninth-Grade Emperor Artifact; if he were to use the Taiyi Blade Art through his physical body, it could further amplify Taiyi Great Dao power by 900 times!

Therefore, one step ahead, always ahead!

The Great Dao created by Ye Shaoyang was formed by the fusion of six Great Daos, reaching the Top-Tier Great Dao level.

Hence, his combat power was also incredibly heaven-defying.

If he were to face ordinary Emperor Realm cultivators of the same realm, he could easily crush them.

However, he encountered Lin Chen!

The reason Lin Chen lost to Ye Shaoyang last time was because his martial arts realm was too low...

"So strong!"

The red-haired youth above was greatly shocked, and he looked at the young man below with a solemn expression.

After a moment of thought, he quietly transmitted a message to Ye Shaoyang:

"Interested in cooperating?"