After defeating Sword126, Lin Huang led Warlord straight to the next suspected Sword Servant base.
He had completely given up on hunting down other competitors.
The current competitors did not have high points, and most of their Sword Dao was far weaker than Lin Huang's. The Trial only lasted for ten days, and Lin Huang did not want to waste time on them. He was more willing to fight Sword Servants. The high basic points were secondary; more importantly, he would gain something from every battle.
After fighting Sword126 for more than an hour, the number of suspected Sword Servant bases that Warlord had discovered had increased to thirty-one.
Lin Huang followed the route that Warlord had set and soon arrived at his next destination.
This time, the Sword Servant was in a run-down two-story building. It was a tall, thin man in a gray robe. His name was Sword33.
When Lin Huang heard his name and serial number, he knew that this fellow was much stronger than Sword126, whom he had encountered before.
After fighting him, he was even more certain of this.
Sword33's Sword Dao was extremely simple. If he could solve a problem with one attack, he would never use a second attack. If he could solve a problem in a straight line, he would never use an arc.
His sword sought to create the most efficient effect with the simplest sword techniques.
Unlike Sword126's unconventional approach, his sword techniques had fewer variations and simple routines.
Sword33's Sword Dao foundation was much stronger than Lin Huang's. Although his attacks were simple, they were all simplified from countless sword techniques. They were bold and unconstrained, with no routines at all.
Lin Huang's battle this time was much more difficult than the previous two battles. His opponent's sword techniques were terrifyingly efficient, and almost every attack was fatal. Moreover, Sword33 could come up with the simplest way to counter almost all of Lin Huang's attacks.
The battle went on for more than six hours. Unrivaled Combat God surpassed Lin Huang's points once again and dropped to second place since his points did not increase at all.
However, Unrivaled Combat God had only celebrated for less than three minutes when Lin Huang's points suddenly skyrocketed by 100 again, and he returned to first place on the leaderboard.
After spending more than six hours, Lin Huang had exhausted almost all of his Saber Dao techniques before he finally won by a narrow margin.
During the battle with Sword33, Lin Huang realized that he had many shortcomings.
His moves were not efficient enough, and he had not completely mastered many of his saber skills. His will was not proficient enough in controlling his saber intent …
After the battle, Lin Huang sat cross-legged on the roof of the two-story building and spent more than three hours reviewing and summarizing the battle. Only then did he get up and lead the Warlord to their next destination.
After the battle with Sword33, Lin Huang encountered Sword87, Sword163, Sword159 …
He challenged one stop after another.
He had even completely forgotten about the trial points. Every day, he would spend all his time traveling, fighting, and digesting his gains. He wouldn't waste even a second. Not to mention eating and sleeping, he didn't even have a sip of water.
In order to increase the speed of his journey, he even summoned Thunder.
In the blink of an eye, more than half of the trial time had passed.
Five days of the trial's ten-day deadline had passed.
Xie Lin's name was still at the top of the leaderboard. His points had reached 8,937.
Apart from defeating 89 Sword Servants, he had also encountered a few other competitors in the past five days. However, he killed them all instantly without wasting even a second on the journey.
As for Unrivaled Combat God, who was in second place, his points were not low either. He had 3,341 points. Even though he tried his best to catch up, the gap between him and Lin Huang was still widening mercilessly.
Apart from Unrivaled Combat God, there were four other people with more than 3,000 points. The difference in points was very close. There were also three people with more than 2,800 points (including one with more than 2,900 points). Death's Scythe's Fallen Star was one of them.
Apart from Lin Huang who was ahead of everyone else in the top ten, the competition for the rest of the rankings was extremely fierce.
The smallest difference between the two rankings was only 17 points, and the largest was only 81 points.
On this day, Lin Huang was traveling as usual when a notification popped up before him all of a sudden.
"Competitor Forbidden Lamella has defeated the BOSS. 100 points obtained!"
Lin Huang was slightly stunned when he saw the notification. This was the first time he had seen a competitor other than himself successfully defeat a Sword Servant.
"This name is a little unfamiliar. Could he be a local resident of the Great Heaven Territory?"
Apart from checking the leaderboard a few times on the first day, Lin Huang had not paid attention to the leaderboard since then. If he had checked the leaderboard, he would definitely know that this fellow called Forbidden Lamella was in third place previously. However, his points had skyrocketed by 100 points after defeating the BOSS. He had surpassed Unrivaled Combat God to become second place.
However, this Forbidden Lamella was not a local resident of the Great Heaven Territory.
It was normal that Lin Huang had not heard of his name. Most of the other God Territory competitors who participated in the Great Heaven Territory Trial had not heard of him either.
This was because he was a super Sword Dao genius secretly trained by a grade-7 organization, Divine Clapnet.
Most of the God Territory competitors did not know much about him, but a few of them had some guesses about his identity.
His previous ranking in third place was already eye-catching enough. Now that he had defeated the BOSS and successfully moved up to second place, more people were paying attention to him.
Many of them also noticed the abnormality in the notification box.
Previously, every time Xie Lin defeated the BOSS, the notification box that popped up called him a "participant". Since it had popped up 89 times, everyone was slowly getting used to the term "participant". Even those who initially suspected Lin Huang's identity had almost forgotten about the abnormality of the title.
However, when Forbidden Lamella defeated the BOSS this time, the notification box that popped up called him a "competitor", which was completely different from Lin Huang's.
Many people could not help but start daydreaming.
"Xie Lin defeated the BOSS and was called a" participant "89 times in a row. However, Forbidden Lamella called him a "competitor". Something must be wrong with this Xie Lin! "
"I thought the only difference between a participant and a competitor was the way they were addressed, but there was no difference in essence. Now, it seems like a participant is a special identity."
"Why is it that we're all competitors but this fellow is a participant?"
"Now that I think about it, five days ago, a notification popped up asking me if I wanted to participate in the Competitive Trial. Could it be that Xie Lin was the one who activated this Trial?!"
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Lin Huang did not know that the "global" announcement that Forbidden Lamella brought had caused many competitors to suspect his identity. He had only taken a brief glance at the notification box and did not notice the word "competitor" at all. He did not even care who this Forbidden Lamella was because he had no intention of wasting even a second on anyone other than the Sword Servants.
He had calculated that he would not be able to challenge the remaining 200-odd Sword Servants in the remaining five days no matter what. Therefore, he had to race against time. He would challenge one more Sword Servant if he could. He had no time to care about other people at all.
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