Told You I Can Turn Back Time
Chapter 222 - 160: Mindset Tactics

Chapter 222: Chapter 160: Mindset Tactics

Lin Xing once again watched a Sword Hero clean up the arena and challenge him, thinking to himself, "If I want to impress her and beat this crazy woman into submission so she doesn’t cause trouble everywhere, it seems I can’t focus solely on breaking her sword moves."

"If that’s the case, I need to change my approach..."

Through countless reversals of time, Lin Xing continuously battled the Sword Hero.

Unlike the first time he crossed swords with the Taiqing Sect, where the difference was too great and he only thought about buying time,

or the second time at the Zhou Tian Sect, where he thought of using them to block the Jiaolong, this time was a pure one-on-one duel with the enemy, allowing him to better understand his opponent.

Throughout these fierce battles, Lin Xing gradually learned more and more about the enemy.

Not only understanding her sword moves, but also deeply memorizing her various combat habits, personality, and even language.

To Lin Xing, the Sword Hero felt like a sparring partner accompanying him in intense fights day and night.

He even began to sense changes in the Sword Hero’s mentality,

like when he had been hit by her thirteen sword lights, each deploying their own sword technique, during the time reversals.

Through the sensations of the sword lights piercing his body time and again, he learned and tried to break her sword techniques,

and watched her emotions change from happiness and excitement to confusion, depression, and even anger...

In the depth of such repeated learning, Lin Xing felt he had gradually spotted a weakness in the Sword Hero.

Simultaneously, the Sword Hero, with her rising fighting spirit, locked her gaze on Lin Xing and repeated a phrase Lin Xing had heard countless times, "Lin Xing, I’m going to make a move, try to last longer today."

Amidst a burst of mad laughter, twelve sword lights were summoned from within her, charging towards Lin Xing’s position along with the Sword Hero.

Amidst the fierce clash of the sword lights and ’flying swords’, thunderous booms akin to lightning struck continuously.

Dang, dang, dang...

The Sword Hero cleared away the incoming ’flying swords’ like a bolt of lightning, swiftly advancing towards Lin Xing’s position.

"So slow, so slow, Lin Xing, why are your flying swords so slow?"

The Sword Hero’s longsword in her hand grew hotter and faster.

Every incoming strike seemed so slow and clear through her eyes, easily swept aside by her controlled sword lights.

"Just like that! Just like that..."

The Sword Hero strongly felt that the second sublimation of the Infinite Killing Dao within her was on the verge of a breakthrough.

All she needed to do was to thrust her sword light into Lin Xing’s body with the fastest speed and fiercest power, crippling him to complete the final step of the Infinite Killing Dao.

Combat spirit, sword technique, power, momentum... Everything was slowly pushed to its peak by the Sword Hero.

It was at this moment that Lin Xing, to her utmost fury, pulled out a stack of yellow talisman paper, "Sword Hero using talisman paper to fight me?"

She abruptly stopped in her tracks, the aura around her roaring like gunfire, sword lights creating airwaves that tore gashes across the surrounding ground.

The Sword Hero roared at Lin Xing, "Are you fucking underestimating me? I want to defeat you at your strongest."

Feeling the impatient sublimation within her,

She wanted to defeat the real Lin Xing, not one who was still using second-hand methods.

Staring intensely at Lin Xing, she said word for word, "Throw away that trash in your hands immediately, use your flying swords, show your strongest power and lose to me."

With the talisman paper fluttering in his hand, Lin Xing said lightly, "Sword Hero, it’s not hard for me to win against you, but to truly convince you... even I need to put in some thought."

"I hope that after you lose to this move, you won’t throw a tantrum or look for excuses everywhere."

Hearing Lin Xing’s words, the Sword Hero’s combat and rage instantly boiled even more.

"Would I throw a tantrum?" the Sword Hero shouted angrily, her twelve sword lights exploding with overwhelming Sword Intent, "I’ll shred your talismans first, then completely break your flying sword techniques..."

Boom!

In the next moment, the ground beneath the Sword Hero’s feet burst apart, and enveloped in sword lights, she shot toward Lin Xing like a thunderbolt.

With the seething rage and combat spirit in her heart, the Sword Hero felt her strength and speed break past their original limits once again.

Her sword lights, like thirteen wild thunders, tore through the air, causing bursts of air explosions and heat waves, sweeping furiously forward with her wrath, as if to grind all her path’s obstacles into dust and blow away all shackles in her path of ascension.

With explosive bangs, all incoming ’flying swords’ were swept away by her, seemingly unable to stop her even for a moment.

"Let all things be still, may I alone be revered, never relinquishing, doing nothing for myself. Calm your mind!"

At that moment, a string of high-speed incantations surged out of Lin Xing’s mouth, sweeping toward the position of the Sword Heroine as if carrying an invisible fluctuation.

At this moment, what Lin Xing had deployed was the first talisman he had learned by himself, the Calming Talisman.

This was the talisman that had come to him along with the resurgence of the memories in his mind when he first comprehended the skill.

Originally, this talisman had always been used on himself, enhancing the effects of his meditation and breath regulation.

However, through continuous use, he vaguely felt that the Calming Talisman could also be used in battle.

It just required selecting specific opponents to make use of it.

And the Sword Heroine, in her battle with Lin Xing, continuously exhibited surging combat intent and even revealed her furious side before each time reversal, which made Lin Xing feel that the Calming Talisman could influence the Sword Heroine’s mentality in the heat of battle.

At this moment, with the explosion of ten Calming Talismans, the Sword Heroine, who had just been full of hot blood and spiraling combat intent, felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over her after being swept by this invisible force.

At the same time, a giant Yellow Turban Warrior suddenly appeared in front of Lin Xing, striking towards the Sword Heroine with a palm across the air.

The Sword Heroine swiftly dodged, avoiding the location of the palm strike, yet still felt her entire being swept by an invisible force, a sense of unprecedented calm arising in her heart.

The rage and combat intent that had been burning fiercely just moments ago suddenly calmed down.

The strength, speed, and Sword Intent that had been continuously pushed to the peak were rapidly sliding down, as if about to plummet from the peak.

This enforced calming and abrupt interruption of her combat intent made the Sword Heroine feel extremely uncomfortable, and even the sword light around her seemed less sharp.

"You..." the Sword Heroine began to speak, feeling like she should explode in anger, but her heart was unusually calm, "I..."

While continuing to attack with his flying sword, Lin Xing indifferently said, "Sword Heroine, haven’t you realized? You’re too eager to win today."

"You indulge in killing, taking pleasure in the madness brought by the Taiqing Sect, which has made you boldly advance on the path of a swordsman, yet it has also made your mentality unstable."

"When you bully the weak, your frenzy scares your opponents and makes you invincible."

"But when you meet an opponent of equal strength, or even stronger than you, this unstable mentality becomes a flaw..."

With the ’flying swords’ sweeping down, the Sword Heroine swung her sword light again to block, but she took two steps back.

This was the first time she had retreated since the battle began.

"You think just a few words from you can confuse my mind?"

The Sword Heroine scoffed, while resolving Lin Xing’s offensive and focusing her spirit once more, her combat intent returning, "Today, I must defeat Lin Xing and complete the picture..."

Under Lin Xing’s relentless attacks, the Sword Heroine’s combat intent and rage quickly rose again.

Just as she was about to charge at Lin Xing once more, she saw that at some point, Lin Xing had pulled out another ten talisman papers.

"Dammit..."

Seeing this, the Sword Heroine furiously charged towards Lin Xing, trying to prevent him from deploying the same talisman as before.

"Natural forces, heed my command, bring forth fire!"

This time, along with the extremely fast incantation emerging, a blaze soared into the sky.

As the Yellow Turban Warrior threw a punch, the glaring blaze swept across the field, igniting the weeds under their feet.

The Sword Heroine dodged rapidly, avoiding the firelight that rushed toward her, only to discover that in Lin Xing’s subsequent attacks, many burning objects were incorporated, adding numerous fiery swords to the surge of sword moves.

And when the Sword Heroine charged at Lin Xing again, this time, the released talisman was again the Calming Talisman.

The combat intent and rage she had just accumulated dissipated once more, and her originally sharp and rapid sword moves instantly softened.

Sword Control Technique allowed Lin Xing to block the Sword Heroine, giving him the opportunity to cast talismans.

And while Lin Xing’s talismans were not powerful against the Sword Heroine, they always managed to distract her and enhance the variations and power of the Sword Control Technique.

The Sword Heroine felt as if this battle with Lin Xing was like being mired in a quagmire...

She tried repeatedly to push herself to the peak state to overcome Lin Xing.

But every time, Lin Xing’s Calming Talisman forcibly pressed her down, forcing her into a state of calm, and in this subversive emotional change, she felt a sense of emptiness and loss.

Although she could quickly recover from this state through the intense battle with Lin Xing and push herself to the peak again, Lin Xing would hit her with another Calming Talisman.

Especially today, when the Sword Heroine had expected to defeat Lin Xing in one go and complete the picture, she was now trapped in a grueling struggle with him.

The wonderful anticipation met with a tough reality, and this huge contrast also severely impacted the Sword Heroine’s spirit.

She felt as if her current emotional state was being endlessly kneaded and toyed with by the opponent, which then affected her performance in battle.

Even the host on the commentator’s platform seemed to notice something off about the Sword Heroine, puzzledly saying, "The Sword Heroine’s offensive seems to have weakened? Lin Xing seems to be handling it more and more effortlessly? Hui Ling, is that so?"