'This guy is powerful. The hell is he from? I am certain that he isn't someone from that town or the neighboring towns that surround it.' Xiao Lin said within.

"Surprised?" The hat-wearing male unexpectedly asked.

He then said further by asking "How can a devil that doesn't know how vast the world is, hope to match me, the Ghostly Sword Deserter in battle?"

Immediately he asked that question, Xiao Lin looked at him with a smirk expression in his face and said "You were using that your damned Ear of Heaven listening technique. If you don't do without it, where you won't know my thoughts, there is no way you would be able to match me in battle, Deserter, or whatever trash you called yourself."

Once Xiao Lin said that, the male that called himself the Ghostly Sword Deserter, laughed out loud in amusement.

He then asked, looking at Xiao Lin with a chilling, cold gaze in his eyes, "What do you call yourself, since you called mine trash?"

"Well, since we are here in this region, I call myself the Ring Collector. My purpose here is to collect everyone's spatial rings. Hence the name." Xiao Lin calmly replied.

"Haha. I like that." The Ghostly Sword Deserter said after he finished giggling due to what Xiao Lin said.

He then said further "Since we are here, then I will choose to call myself the Devil Soul Collector."

Haha!

As soon as the hat-wearing male said that, Xiao Lin laughed.

He then said "Nice name. But let's see if you can actually collect my soul without using that damned, mind-reading technique of yours."

"Nah." The Ghostly Blade Deserter quickly uttered in a somewhat unhappy tone.

He then questioned "Why won't I use the listening technique that I spent years under my vast and enlightened, ancient teacher to master to a certain level? Come on!"

Then as soon as he finished saying that, he continued "So, use whatever technique you have, while I will use whatever technique I have. Then let's see who will end up collecting the items that belong to the other."

"Hmm. Alright" Xiao Lin said and then deeply inhaled.

Then very quickly, he prepared himself for a battle that he knew would be tremendously difficult for him to win, since his challenger at the moment, was someone that possessed powerful mysterious techniques, as he was trained by an immensely knowledgeable teacher from the primitive era which the Ghostly Sword Deserter mentioned moments ago with great pride in his tone.

Still looking at the Ghostly Sword Deserter that stood in the distance, Xiao Lin could understand that he was powerful alright, but so was he.

And now that he had filled up his Blood Energy, Hermetic Demonic Energy, Divine Plane Energy, Overworld Celestial Energy, Primal God-Devil Energy, Golden Immortal Divinity Matrix energy, he was certain to some extent that the Ghostly Sword Deserter won't be able to subdue him in any way, talk more of overpower him and tie him up to take to his master. He was even sure that he should be able kill him with a single, massively destructive hit of the fusion of the different energies that he mentioned in his mind.

However, as Xiao Lin thought this, the Ghostly Sword Deserter who could listen to whatever thoughts that would surface in the mind of anyone that he focused upon, could actually vividly know what Xiao Lin was thinking aloud in his mind.

'Blood Energy? Hermetic Demonic Energy? Divine Plane Energy? Overworld Celestial Energy? Primal God-Devil Energy? Golden Immortal Divinity Matrix energy? What in the world are these?' The Ghostly Sword Deserter questioned in a perplexed manner within himself.

Then still gazing at Xiao Lin, he asked with a bewildered tone in his voice "What the hell are those energies that you just mentioned? What are their usefulness?"

"I know that this world is endlessly vast and that so many strange and unknown things could actually be taking place which even my primordial teacher may not know about and may only come across in primitive universal records."

However, not getting a reply from Xiao Lin but only grave silence after a few moments of asking that question, he said with a broad smile in his face, "Since you couldn't even dare to answer me, then I guess that you were only mentioning stuffs that don't even exist. Haha!"

He then mentioned further by saying "So, were you trying to make me dread you simply because of those inexistent energies that you mentioned, huh?"

"Do you think I will fear you because of those? Even if you truly cultivated those energies, you would still be useless before me, as I possess tons of powerful techniques that you won't be able to match up against with your stupid excuse for a strength."

However, as the Ghostly Blade Deserter said all these, Xiao Lin who didn't want him to know about Blood Energy and Hermetic Demonic Energy, as they were the other energies that he depended on for this battle, and then simply added tyrannical names of other energies that weren't real to them as he listed them in his mind, only broke a cold and vicious smile in his face.

Then seeing how he had caused a confused expression to appear in the face of the Ghostly Blade Deserter, Xiao Lin produced a smile in his face.

He then unexpectedly shouted "Come at me, you useless and puny Devil Soul Collector. What are you doing wasting my time for? I have rings to collect if you won't attack!!"

Immediately Xiao Lin screamed that, the Ghostly Blade Deserter looked at him with an icy-cold expression in his face.

Then in the next instant, he punched out at Xiao Lin and immediately discharged large amounts of a dark grey-colored, Devil Suppression Energy from his fist which instantly turned into a dark grey pillar that shot out at a furious speed towards Xiao Lin in the distance.

Seeing the massive and towering pillar that was shooting towards him at an extreme speed and was constantly emitting the power of Devil Suppression which actually affected him a bit, Xiao Lin quickly used the Awakening Doom blade in his hand to slash out at it.

Slash!

The moment his blade struck the dense, enormous pillar, the pillar suddenly cleaved apart into halves.

But as soon as it split apart into two, it exploded to release a terrifying, sweeping wave of an alarming shredding power which impacted really hard into Xiao Lin and sent him flying into the far distance, where he crashed through many walls of rooms before landing at a place that was many dozens of feet away from where he previously stood.

Standing back to his feet like he was pulled by a particular unseen force, Xiao Lin quickly looked into the distance to look at the Ghostly Blade Deserter who would be preparing to unleash another powerful attack at him.

But he saw to his shock that he couldn't find him standing there anymore. Then as he began to look around and readied himself for the next fierce attack that the Ghostly Sword Deserter might send out at him, he suddenly heard the voice of the Ghostly Sword Deserter directly behind him.

"Hey!" He shouted from behind Xiao Lin.

Then before Xiao Lin could turn around to look at him, he was suddenly grabbed by the neck and raised powerfully into the air. And before he could free himself from that powerful grasp while being suspended in the air by that powerful arm which the Ghostly Sword Deserter used to fiercely lift him above the ground from behind, he was suddenly shoved into the floor with a tremendously heavy force.

BANG!!

The instant his body was savagely slammed into the marbled floor of the room that they were in, a loud bang sound rang out and was immediately accompanied by a wave of a frightening destructive power which then swept out at a great speed into the far distance, shattering the floor of the room in a ripple-like pattern as it propagated through it to many dozens of feet away.

However, even after doing this and effortlessly resisting the fragmenting power of the wave that had abruptly surfaced, he grabbed Xiao Lin by his hair. Then with a small scream after mustering great physical strength in the arm that used to grab Xiao Lin by the hair, he viciously flung him far into the distance where he crashed into the floor of another room that was far from here.

He then began to leisurely walk towards Xiao Lin from where he was to continue attacking him until Xiao Lin would succumb to his demand and enter into the storage treasure that he earlier instructed him to go into.

While Xiao Lin who had quickly understood a few things about the Ghostly Sword Deserter, which were that he possessed an amazing body toughness and resilience, and also a terrifying physical strength that was possibly equal or higher than his own even in his true vampire form, quickly stood back to his feet.

Therefore, like an invisible pulling force was acting upon him, he was made to stand back to his feet like gravity wasn't acting on him.

Then with a thought, the Awakening Doom blade and Sorrowful Sea blade returned to his hand from where they fell off to when that wave of shocking destructive power suddenly surfaced and heavily impacted into him.

And as soon as the blades appeared in his hand, Xiao Lin closed his eyes to focus on only the sounds around him using his incomparably powerful, Vampiric Hearing ability.

This time, he didn't want to use his vision anymore, as he felt that it slowed him down, or more precisely, his reaction and response time, to a level where it was really disadvantageous to him.

Then immediately he did so, Blood Energy and Hermetic Demonic Energy that contained numerous, large wisps of his Paragon Werewolf Energy and his dark-colored, overbearing Spiritual Energy, began to move into the blades through special veins in the blades.

Once he did this, the blades immediately lit up with a deep scarlet red light, an intense silver-white light, a dazzling dark-black brilliance, and a blinding but ominous, blood-red light that dyed everywhere and everything around him in their different colors.