When facing such opponents who had higher might but were inferior in techniques, in general, it would end with the one with the better techniques winning. After all, if you didn't know how to put your strength to use, it was useless.

That would be the case when it came to mortals.

For cultivators, the real ones that were at the spiritual stage, it did not work quite like that. Being able to bridge the gap of one stage during the early spiritual stages? That was possible for the geniuses. Two? Only the selected few sons and daughters favored by the heavens could do that. Three? Dream on!

The increase in quality was not linear but exponential.

For Jin to be able to contest with his opponent who was already two stages higher than him spoke lots of his ability. But the reality was that this was far from Jin's limit.

Jin had yet to reveal all his cards.

In fact, he had not revealed any as the people here were unable to understand the 'will' or even perceive it. Let's not talk about the compression of spiritual energy. It was a high-level spiritual technique.

If he continued like this, he would undoubtedly end up winning. Without suffering any damages. However, it would take a while.

As such, he had to give something up in order to finish this faster.

He deliberately opened his right side to the opponent.

Yu Chin saw it. And, taking for the opportunity it seemed to be, went for it. He plunged his wind blade through Jin's arm... But there was neither an eruption of blood nor a painful scream for his opponent. The wind blade had indeed pierced straight through the skin and he could see it.

However, that was it.

That single instant in which Yu Chin's blade pierced his arm, Jin sliced his own blade at him. That moment of surprise was what cost his neck to Yu Chin. His focus had been on the arm. Expecting to slice it. Yet it had not been sliced and the wind blade had remained stuck within.

A second was all it took for Jin's blade to approach.

And Yu Chin could not react. His brain was still processing what happened to his own blade, unable to cope.

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A head flew in the air, leaving behind a trail of bright red blood. Yu Chin's eyes were still open and his gaze showed his surprise.

However, Jin did not even gaze at it and quickly moved past the body that was starting to fall to the ground.

Obviously, Jin had used one of his trump cards.

Corruption.

That arm that looked like any regular human arm was nothing like that. It was the accumulation of the corruption element concealed by the earring. The wind blade did not pierce flesh but another element.

The wind blade's wind element was of a higher stage and, as such, higher quality than the corruption. But so what? It could not do completely eliminate all of the corruption there. The 'mass' of corruption was far too much. As such, the blade was stuck in a constant battle within the arm. Even if it 'killed' the corruption, there was more to replace it, hence it got stuck.

Quantity overtook quality.

And Jin planned to capitalize on this from the very start.

This was the principle of a successful trade of blows. You let yourself suffer a bit in exchange for making the opponent suffer far more. It was just that thanks to the concealed Corruption, Jin could take it to the extreme.

Not suffering any damage in exchange for the life of the enemy.

And so, Yu Chin, died.

Jin did not bother with his corpse or the belongings he left behind. There were more pressing matters.

The three idiots were crying in gratitude as Jin freed them. It was not difficult. They were very ordinary restraints. The one restrained would be unable to escape by himself but everyone else could easily open them.

Obviously, they did not invest much on that. Though they did not really have the need to. After all, who else but their own was supposed to come here?

As soon as the first was free, Jin and him helped the other two. Next, he ordered them to help the other 'experts' here and go help Ame. In less than a minute, the three idiots and the ten cultivators that had been prisoners were running away towards the outside. Jin told them that he would take care of things here alone but that they needed to go support Ame right away.

After all, if Ame and the others died up there, everyone here would also end up being killed.

A single of the three elders outside was enough to take on many of them without difficulty. Only Ame had the cultivation level to battle them as equals.

Jin hoped that by sending those thirteen over, it would be enough for her to take care of things. In any case, he could not be of much help himself. Battling people in the first decades was one thing but trying to go against those that had gone beyond the 20th stage? Impossible. Truly impossible.

Bridging such a gap was not something he could do.

No one could.

It was best for him to remain here. With the excuse of 'helping' the others and taking care of the other elder. According to the trio, that man, Elder Liao Hu, was at the 14th stage.

If Jin gave it his all with Corruption, Fear, the will and the compression, it was doable.

Tough but doable.

At least, he believed so.

And if it seemed like it was impossible, he simply would not engage. He planned to first go down and observe the man. If he saw that he had a chance, he would kill him. Otherwise, he would not risk it.

Because of Ame, he already took too much risks.