At this moment, Lin Chen was already at his strongest.

In terms of equipment, he possessed an Archaic Divine Artifact.

The Archaic Celestial Pinnacle!

The attack attribute increased by this one piece of equipment alone was comparable to a full set of nine-star level 120 crafted gear.

In addition, he had fully optimized, nine-star crafted gear for all slots from his first class advancement.

Stats were crucial for the Sky Walker class.

Because it was an all-rounder profession.

Its health was not low.

At the same time, both physical and magical attack had to be developed together, and speed had to be fast as well.

Lin Chen's stats were terrifying!

Nearly 800,000 health.

This was the standard for a mid-stage second class advancement.

One million for both physical and magical attack.

The standard for a peak second class advancement!

And then, he also had unparalleled speed.

That was why Lin Chen was confident that he could fight against Fire Ember.

Fire Ember!

Peak second class advancement.

Peak Divine Disciple Realm!

In the entire Zhenhai Province, perhaps only Golden Spear, who had been tempered on the Empire Battlefield, could compare to him.

But now...

A person in the mid-stage of his first class advancement was actually roaring, holding a long sword, and charging towards him.

"Fire Ember, today I, Lin Chen, will fight you to the death!"

Lin Chen shouted.

Sword energy surrounded his body, cutting through Fire Ember's fire dragon all the way, forcibly cutting a huge fire dragon into countless pieces, which were then swallowed and extinguished one by one by the Azure Dragon's water dragon.

Lin Chen himself continued to rush towards the high sky.

Until he was three thousand meters above the ground!

Three thousand streaks of sword energy also emerged from Lin Chen's body.

Silhouettes intertwined.

Cold light flashed.

"Just you?"

Fire Ember snorted coldly, his expression carrying seven parts indifference and three parts disdain, his tone stern, "You think that just because you killed Fire Ritual, you can kill this Marquis? Heh, daring to leave the range of the God-Slaying Formation... Lin Chen, today is the day you die!"

He let out a long roar.

Behind him, a Qilin Dharma Idol suddenly appeared.

The Qilin was bathed in flames.

"Qilin Fire, always with me!"

As Fire Ember spoke, the Qilin Fire blazed fiercely, and the color of the flames on his palm turned deep red, as if it could incinerate everything in time!

Immediately afterwards, Fire Ember struck out with his palm.

The heat was overwhelming!

The deep red flames roared towards Lin Chen like a tiger.

It looked like it was going to engulf Lin Chen completely!

Boom!

The flames expanded rapidly.

Lin Chen was completely enveloped in flames.

"Haha..."

Fire Ember laughed, "Your sword is nothing more than this."

At this time, the people watching on the airship also laughed.

Lin Chen was swallowed by the flames.

This was Qilin Fire!

It was also Fire Ember's forbidden spell, one of his ultimate moves.

Being surrounded and swallowed by Qilin Fire, how could anyone survive?

It only took a moment to turn someone into ashes!

"City Lord Lin... alas, what a pity!"

When Winter came back to his senses, he happened to see this scene.

Then, he shook his head.

"No, Boss!" Zhang Chunlin's eyes were bloodshot when he saw this scene, and he gnashed his teeth!

It wasn't just him.

Bai Shuyi and Ling Xiaoya couldn't help but hug Liu Mengyao's arms...

"Mengyao, Lin Chen, he..."

"Why did the City Lord do that! That's a peak second class advancement expert..."

"Lin Chen..."

Tears fell from Liu Mengyao's beautiful eyes.

Lin Chen... his chances were slim.

"Sword Master is fine."

But Jian Nishang spoke.

Everyone looked at her together.

Seeing everyone's questioning eyes, Jian Nishang explained, "I am the Sword Master's Sword Servant. If something happens to the Sword Master, I can sense it... but what I sense is that the Sword Master is fine now."

"What's going on? Is this real?"

Winter showed an incredulous expression.

"Could it be... the Vermilion Bird?" Bai Shuyi suddenly said.

As soon as she finished speaking, a clear bird call came from above the sky: Bi ~

The raging flames surrounding Lin Chen were rapidly moving towards the center, and they were shrinking more and more, as if some kind of force was devouring the Qilin Fire...

"It's really the Vermilion Bird!"

Liu Mengyao turned from worry to joy and asked, "What's going on!"

Bai Shuyi smiled, "Mengyao, you don't understand, do you? In our ancient myths, the Vermilion Bird is the God of Fire, controlling the most powerful fire, the Nanming Li Fire. Although the Qilin is also a divine beast, it is an auspicious beast and not a god of fire. This Fire Qilin is just one of the variants of the Qilin. Think about it, an auspicious beast that is not good at using fire is playing with fire in front of a god. Isn't this like showing off one's axe before Lu Ban?"

After Bai Shuyi's explanation, everyone understood everything.

But when the flames became smaller and smaller, and Lin Chen's head finally appeared above the flames, everyone found that Lin Chen was not intact at this time, and there were two burns on his cheeks.

Lin Chen was still injured.

But at this time, the sword energy around Lin Chen was also re-condensing.

Moreover, it was around three thousand again.

"Sword One, Myriad Energies Arise!"

"Swords, come!"

Lin Chen roared twice in a row.

At this moment, six or seven thousand swords in Tianyue City flew into the high sky, forming a string of flying sword dragons with Lin Chen as the target. Those flying swords eventually all gathered above Lin Chen's head...

A huge sword stood upside down in the sky.

"Go to hell!"

Lin Chen shouted.

The hundred-meter giant sword slashed towards Fire Ember.

The speed of the giant sword was not fast.

Everything along the way, including the Qilin Fire and even the air, was cut away by this sword. The huge vacuum suction also pulled everything in front of and to the left and right of the giant sword towards where the giant sword was slashing.

This was a sword that locked onto its target!

An extremely powerful sword!

A heavy sword has no edge, and great skill is without artifice.

Not using skill.

But...

Destroying everything!

Facing Lin Chen's move, Ten Thousand Swords Return to Nothingness, Fire Ember felt that he couldn't resist it head-on.

He subconsciously wanted to dodge.

However, as soon as he moved, the giant sword deviated by a few points.

However, the speed at which the giant sword fell was not fast.

This was simply torturing people!

Either give a quick death.

Or just slash down directly, allowing it to be dodged...

Can you not lock onto the target and then slowly slash down like this?

Obviously, no!

This was a sword of destruction.

Under this sword, you either endure it.

Or, you escape.

However, everything you pass through as you escape will be destroyed!

Even Fire Ember did not dare to withstand this sword, so who else would dare?

When Fire Ember retreated, the marquises on the airship who were still laughing wildly changed their expressions and had already fled. Now only the Huo family was on the airship.

"Form the formation!"

Fire Ember spoke.

Everyone worked together to immediately form a formation.

Sky Burning Blaze Formation!

This was a type of formation of the Huo family that used human figures as formation flags.

Its power was around level six.

Fire Ember hid under the airship.

He was using the Huo family's airship, as well as the lives of hundreds of people on the airship, to fight against Lin Chen's sword.

"Slash!"

Lin Chen raised his arm high in the distance.

Then, he quickly slashed down!

Boom!

The hundred-meter giant sword suddenly accelerated at this time.

It slashed down with one sword.

Bang ~

The huge sound was like a thunderclap.

The airship was blown up with one sword!

At the same time, the Sky Burning Blaze Formation was also destroyed with one sword.

The people on the airship were immediately blown away by the explosion.

However, that sword continued to slash towards Fire Ember...

"Forbidden spell, Wrath of the Fire God!"

Fire Ember also gained some time to breathe. He used the lives of the airship and countless Huo family worshipers and disciples to exchange for the crucial seconds to chant the forbidden spell. When he opened his eyes again, his whole body was on fire.

At this moment, he was like a fire man.

No...

It was as if the God of Fire had descended upon the world.

Fire Ember raised one of his palms.

From his body, a Fire God Dharma Idol suddenly flashed out, raising its left hand high and grabbing towards the giant sword.

Bang bang bang ~

The giant sword continued to slash down.

Two forces collided, and several explosions occurred in an instant.

For a time, people could not see Fire Ember clearly.

Until after the explosion, Fire Ember spat out a mouthful of blood. When he looked at others, his left arm had disappeared...

Lin Chen's sword actually cut off Fire Ember's left arm!

Not only that.

The giant sword also destroyed Fire Ember's Fire God Dharma Idol!

What terrifying strength was this?

In the "New World" online game, because it was a fully immersive virtual reality game, it was inevitable that there would be times when two skills attacked and hit each other during PK. At this time, the strength of the skills would be calculated based on the total amount of damage dealt by both sides in this attack.

The side that dealt more damage would directly devour or negate the skill that dealt less damage.

At the same time, the skill that dealt more damage would also have part of its damage negated.

Therefore, this time, the collision between the giant sword of Ten Thousand Swords Return to Nothingness and Fire Ember's Fire God Dharma Idol was actually a victory for Ten Thousand Swords Return to Nothingness...

In the end, when the giant sword destroyed the Fire God Dharma Idol, it also cut off Fire Ember's left arm that was raised!

Fire Ember's health instantly dropped to 50%!

He possessed the bloodline of the Fire Qilin.

Moreover, the awakened bloodline attribute was one of the best.

His health was permanently increased by 30%, and his affinity and control over fire-type techniques were increased by more than 50%. Therefore, Fire Ember's health exceeded one million.

He also had very high defense!

Part of it came from equipment and armor.

They were all seven-star or eight-star top-quality items.

In addition, the Fire Qilin bloodline also provided a 10% defense bonus.

With his defense, he could withstand one million attacks.

But...

He couldn't defend against Lin Chen's sword!

When did a person in the mid-stage of his first class advancement become able to cut off nearly 700,000 health from Fire Ember with one sword?

Fire Ember raised his head and said in a cold voice, "Lin Chen, if I, Fire Ember, don't destroy you today, and don't slaughter the entire Tianyue City, I swear I will not be human!"

Fire Ember was furious.

He no longer had the composure he had before.

Only because Lin Chen's sword was too powerful!

However, precisely because it was so powerful, the price of using this sword was also high!

Fire Ember knew that Lin Chen should have no more trump cards.

Moreover, at this time, Lin Chen had actually been burned for more than 400,000 health by the Qilin Fire, but because three pets shared the damage, Lin Chen only lost a little over 100,000 health.

Of course, the damage of the Qilin Fire was not so low.

What's more, it was Fire Ember's forbidden ultimate move!

However, the damage was absorbed by the Vermilion Bird.

Even the Vermilion Bird's level had been raised to the mid-stage of the first class advancement!

Although, when the pet was in the possessed state, the pet could share the experience points of all the characters or monsters killed by the master, Lin Chen's advancement to the mid-stage of the first class advancement was actually more due to the experience points given by the stone statues in the Sword Tomb.

This type of experience could not be shared by pets.

Of course, the experience required for pets to level up was not as much as that required for characters.

Therefore, pets often leveled up faster than their masters.

But there was also a limit.

The pet's level could not exceed the master's level by more than five levels.

At this time, the Vermilion Bird had only been raised to the mid-stage of the first class advancement, but it could no longer gain experience.

Lin Chen had not canceled the possessed state.

At this time, facing the angry and aggressive Fire Ember, Lin Chen was also a little depressed... Fire Ember was too powerful!

His sword had killed Wu Xingtian!

However, it could only cut off about half of Fire Ember's health.

At this time, Lin Chen's magic points were empty.

What to do?

He could only run!

Back to Tianyue City!

It seemed that Lin Chen had somewhat underestimated Fire Ember's strength.

He originally thought that he could kill a Fire Ritual without using Ten Thousand Swords Return to Nothingness, so he would definitely be able to kill Fire Ember with Ten Thousand Swords Return to Nothingness, but now it seemed that he had taken it for granted.

Fire Ritual was not that strong.

Fire Ember was not that weak.

However, although he failed to kill Fire Ember with one sword, he had removed one of his left arms, which was also a remarkable feat.

Why was Fire Ember angry?

Not only because his left arm had been cut off.

It was also because he was Fire Ember!

He was the Flame Marquis with the highest status in the entire Zhenhai Province!

Now, he was actually cut off his left arm by a small city lord, a weakling in the mid-stage of his first class advancement?

This was humiliation!

It was even more of an insult!

The angry Fire Ember only knew that Lin Chen could not use any skills now.

Therefore, when he saw Lin Chen fleeing, he immediately chased after him.

However, with Lin Chen's speed, descending two thousand meters was only a matter of a second.

Lin Chen was fast and was about to land in Tianyue City.

At this time, Fire Ember descended at full speed.

He didn't care about the God-Slaying Formation. He just wanted to kill Lin Chen!

"Lin Chen, you die for me!"

Fire Ember roared.

At this time, his face was extremely ferocious.

"Lin Chen, I'll heal your magic points!"

Liu Mengyao spoke.

However, her skill range was obviously not hundreds of meters away.

So Liu Mengyao said loudly, "Come down a little more."

"I think I don't need to."

At this time, Lin Chen stood on the spot.

Behind him, the sound of a dragon's roar came.

The Azure Dragon circled and arrived.

"God-Slaying Formation, activate!"

"I command... God-Slaying!"

Lin Chen activated the God-Slaying Formation.

At the same time, the mark was also given to Fire Ember who was falling towards him.

Then, the God-Slaying Strike rose from the ground!

Boom!

At that moment, the sky and clouds changed color.

Black clouds loomed over the city.

Lightning intertwined!

Above Tianyue City, a huge divine sword appeared once again.

A sword slashed down on the sky.

This sword had the extremely strong stat bonus from Lin Chen, the formation master in the mid-stage of his first class advancement.

In addition, there was also the stat bonus from the formation spirit, the Azure Dragon!

It was even more powerful than the God-Slaying Strike when Lin Chen activated it to kill Demille before.

This strike seemed to cut off a section of space.

It also cut off a section of time.

More... it cut off a trace of life!

The life belonging to Fire Ember!

The road to rise began with the first step from here!