# Chapter 1878: Fierce Battle
At this moment, the middle-aged man's body was covered in a layer of death nether qi. Clearly, having fought his way out of the death vortex had not been easy for him either. That withered old man was by no means an ordinary character—the death nether sea was extremely formidable. The middle-aged man's body was being eroded by a surge of death nether qi. Although he remained expressionless, he was secretly using the power of law to dispel it.
"If you're willing to hand over everything you have on you, I won't kill you," the middle-aged man said, looking up at Lin Feng. He remained very calm. The reason he had made the first move to kill the withered old man was simple: Lin Feng could be killed at any time, but dealing with that withered old man required a single, decisive strike.
Lin Feng shook his head slightly, causing a flicker of surprise to pass through the middle-aged man's calm eyes. "You think I can't kill you?"
"With a swift sword like that, killing me would naturally be easy," Lin Feng said indifferently. He was not flattering the other party. That sword strike just now was indeed a terrifyingly fast sword, pushing the law of speed to its extreme. The essences of speed and slowness had always complemented each other—comprehending one meant comprehending the other. The essences of speed and slowness gave rise to the laws of speed and slowness. This man had achieved the law of speed; it remained to be seen whether he had also cultivated the law of slowness.
"You understand, then," the middle-aged man said calmly. "The Immortal Kingdom Trial is not a place you should be. Even if I don't take what you have, others will. I'm sparing your life. You'd better find a place to preserve it."
"Thank you for the guidance." Lin Feng tossed out a storage ring, then flickered away. The middle-aged man caught the storage ring, his divine sense invading it. His expression suddenly changed, and his sharp eyes shot toward Lin Feng's retreating figure, filled with undisguised killing intent.
Suddenly, his entire body transformed into an incredibly sharp sword, shooting forth. The entire void roared, as if only the killing sword existed. His speed was far greater than the withered old man's—a speed Lin Feng could not escape.
Lin Feng's brow opened wide, as if a mass of destructive power was spreading out from within. Suddenly, Lin Feng spun around. The demon sea instantly surged forth, spewing black water and wasteland sea like a tidal storm, all of it blasting toward the other party. The sky darkened, and the space before Lin Feng turned into a black, destructive ocean, completely obscuring his body.
"Chi..." The other party's sword was still simple and clean, slicing through the heavens and earth, cutting through the terrifying black water and demon sea. His body charged forward unyieldingly, piercing through this power of death and destruction, continuing to attack Lin Feng.
"Slash!" A dazzling light cut through. The sharp sword light split heaven and earth in two. Lin Feng's body was suddenly cleaved down the middle, exploding in both directions. The middle-aged man remained expressionless, his eyes cold. He glanced inadvertently ahead, where there seemed to be a strange, peculiar aura.
"Earth!" A gravitational force suddenly descended, followed by a surge of terrifying death qi falling upon him. The void seemed to be pulled apart from both sides, and a figure stepped out from within—it was Lin Feng. The middle-aged man's eyes stiffened slightly. The Lin Feng he had just killed was a fake, nothing more than an ordinary clone.
Lin Feng had struck out from right in front of the other party. The distance between them was too short—so short it could almost be ignored. A mass of destructive black lotus suddenly shot out from Lin Feng's hand, terrifying beyond measure.
The middle-aged man's reaction was as fast as lightning. He raised his hand and struck with his sword, as if every move he made could replace the sword light, slicing through the void.
"Boom!" A destructive aura raged through the void. The black lotus exploded, flames seeming to devour the entire void. The terrifying power burned toward the middle-aged man, instantly engulfing the arm that had struck the sword light, incinerating it. The destructive flames continued to erode upward, causing the middle-aged man's expression to turn extremely ugly. He could no longer remain calm. With his left hand, he swung his sword and severed his right arm at the root.
"Kill!" The middle-aged man opened his mouth and exhaled. Sword howls rolled forth, breaking through the air, all of them slashing toward Lin Feng, nearly destroying and killing him in an instant.
Lin Feng had prepared the terrifying heavenly demon tribulation force for the middle-aged man, but seeing this endless sword light coming at him, the ten thousand calamities force could only be unleashed. The void exploded, the space trembled violently. Lin Feng's body retreated explosively, coldly glancing at the middle-aged man. Truly worthy of being a mid-rank nether emperor—a simple attack contained terrifying power. Earlier, he had used the boundary force within his martial soul to wrap himself up and hide within it. Only after the other party had destroyed one of his ordinary clones did he suddenly strike out, destroying one of the other party's arms and wounding him.
Against this man, without relying on the martial soul world, it would likely be very difficult to kill him. However, Lin Feng did not want to easily expose the martial soul world in this crisis-ridden place, not knowing if someone was secretly watching him.
Therefore, after this strike, Lin Feng fled at top speed. But the cold-faced middle-aged man would not let Lin Feng leave. Having an arm severed by Lin Feng—though he could regenerate it—was still a great humiliation.
"Kill!" The middle-aged man became like a drawn sword, pursuing Lin Feng. A brilliant light seemed to flash through the void. At the same time, the space ahead transformed into sword light. Endless sword intent shot toward Lin Feng, all swift and deadly killing swords, as if the entire world was made of swords. Lin Feng was trapped in a void world wrapped in swords.
This scene caused Lin Feng's body to tremble slightly. Those sharp swords shot toward him from all directions like arrows, seeking to put him to death.
"Thump!" Lin Feng's steps suddenly stopped. He stomped heavily on the void, and a tai chi life-and-death halo appeared between heaven and earth. Boundless heavenly demon tribulation force surged from Lin Feng's body.
"Annihilate!" Lin Feng roared. What appeared now was not just the nine calamities sword, but tens of millions of terrifying calamity swords roaring together, shooting out in all directions. At the same time, Lin Feng suddenly turned around. His pupils became incredibly sharp. The middle-aged man charging toward him suddenly felt an invisible sword light slashing at him, as if from within his thoughts, from the void itself.
His steps abruptly halted. Light blazed from the middle-aged man's brow. A powerful surge of willpower poured into the void, completely erasing that sword from nothingness. However, his eyes burst forth with extremely sharp, cold light. Although his powerful will was enough to erase such a sword, he dared not underestimate the terror of this void sword. If Lin Feng's strength were equal to his, this void sword would pose an extremely terrifying threat, possibly even capable of taking his life.
While the middle-aged man paused, Lin Feng frantically stomped on the void. The surrounding world blazed with the two colors of life and death, merging into the enormous tai chi life-and-death ring beneath his feet. The terrifying power of life and death caused the middle-aged man to reveal a shocked expression. He stopped, staring fixedly at Lin Feng.
Will-killing sword technique, as if coming from nothingness; powerful demon tribulation force, already at the mid-rank nether emperor level; and now, carving a life-and-death dual-pole formation—its power would likely be terrifying as well.
"Mid-rank nether emperor!" The middle-aged man stared at Lin Feng, the killing intent in his eyes undiminished. He had to kill Lin Feng today, or his heart would not be at ease.
"Life-and-death formation—even if I don't enter your life-and-death formation, I can still kill you," the middle-aged man said. His left hand slowly extended, holding up the sky. The void gathered boundless sword intent, as if no law power could be seen, only swords. His law was fused into his sword, making the law's attack power imperceptible, and thus even more formidable.
"Kill!" With a great shout, endless swords shot toward Lin Feng. Centered on Lin Feng and his life-and-death formation, the entire world was filled with swords. Thousands upon thousands of sword rain attacked Lin Feng simultaneously, as if trying to pierce through this space.
"If swords could kill me, why would I bother carving a formation?" Lin Feng said coldly. He continuously stomped on the void. Above the tai chi life-and-death halo, destructive patterns seemed to appear. Lin Feng pressed down with both palms, and destructive power surged forth, shooting toward the sky. The entire void was wrapped within the destructive formation. Swords clashed with destructive power, the void incomparably brilliant, filled entirely with destructive force.
Lin Feng was now extremely proficient with the destructive formation. Coupled with his cultivation of the Heavenly Derivation Scripture, his derivation ability was terrifying. He could now carve the destructive formation in an extremely short time.
At this moment, Lin Feng stood within the formation. No matter how violent the destructive power in the void was, he remained unmoved, calmly looking at the middle-aged man. "Can you kill me?"
The middle-aged man's expression was ugly. In the distance, several cold gazes seemed to shoot toward them. The middle-aged man understood that this battle had attracted many people from the surroundings. What would follow would likely be an even more chaotic situation. He wanted to kill, but others wanted to hunt him.
"Life-and-death formation—can it destroy me?" The middle-aged man pondered for a moment, then spat out another sound. He stepped forward, entering the formation.
Stepping onto the formation, the middle-aged man became the sovereign of ten thousand swords. Endless sword light crushed beneath his feet, as if trying to destroy the formation itself.
"The life-and-death formation governs life and death. What use is your attack?" Lin Feng stomped his foot. The patterns blazed brightly. The power of life and death in the void crazily descended upon the formation. Suddenly, it all transformed into black death, like doomsday. The endless death instantly enveloped the middle-aged man, all of it surging into his body. His entire body was filled with death qi, as if he could die at any moment. The sword intent on his body seemed to dim.
A brilliant sword light suddenly lit up on the middle-aged man's body, resisting the power of death. His body shot straight up into the air. Staying here any longer, the power of death would take his life.
"Die!" Lin Feng roared. The death qi of heaven and earth pierced through the sky into the middle-aged man's body. At the same time, destructive light shot up simultaneously, causing the middle-aged man's face to turn deathly gray. Death qi eroded his entire body; he could no longer resist.
"Stay!" Lin Feng charged forward. His palm trembled, and the power of earth law and imprisonment surged forth, blocking the other party's body for an instant. At the same time, a tai chi life-and-death halo blasted from his palm, entering the other party's body. The middle-aged man gradually closed his eyes. This power of death had no terrifying destructive force, but it could truly take a person's life, causing them to die!