As soon as One Sword crushed the jade slip, there were two balls of light that appeared, entering both him and the turtle.
This jade slip contained a temporary contract with the turtle True Spirit Beast and once One Sword crushed it, he would become its master.
One Sword was a sword cultivator and in normal situations, sword cultivators wouldn't need pets because of their power. However, there were certain situations where sword cultivators would take pets.
Sword cultivators were powerful because of their mighty attacks, but it was because of those mighty attacks that they also had a flaw.
They were lacking in defense!
This was usually solved by sword arrays or using powerful attacks without care of defense, but those weren't proper solutions. They were just a way of patching this deficiency and not solving it.
The real way to solve it was by using a pet with a defensive ability, like this turtle.
As long as they had a pet at the same level that defended while they attacked, they could be considered truly invincible on the battlefield.
Not to mention, One Sword had already seen how powerful the defenses of the turtle was just now. This turtle would definitely be a perfect match for his One Kill Sword!
So with a single thought, the turtle shrank and came up to his chest. Then with a bright flash of green light, the turtle suddenly disappeared and there was a turtle shell armour that appeared on One Sword's chest.
Looking down at this, he broke out in wild laughter as he charged at Ling Tian again.
Ling Tian had been warily watching all of this happen, but since he didn't know what was going on, he hadn't made a move. It was just too bad that he hadn't, otherwise he could have stopped One Sword from getting stronger. If he knew this, he definitely would have kicked himself.
Still, seeing One Sword charge at him, Ling Tian didn't have any fear since he had received this artifact from young master Bing. This was an artifact that contained powers far surpassing his own, so he naturally was confident.
But when the two sides clashed, Ling Tian was the one that was knocked away.
Ling Tian looked at One Sword in shock before looking down at the artifact in his hand.
When the two of them had just clashed, his artifact had been stopped by the green turtle shell that had been around One Sword and then he had been overwhelmed by the countless swords that One Sword three at him, sending him flying.
Ling Tian was in a daze for a full minute before turning back to look at One Sword and shouting, "How?! How did you stop me?!"
One Sword just gave a cold smile and said, "This is just the difference between the two of us."
Then without another word, One Sword charged out at Ling Tian again.
This situation didn't just happen between One Sword and Ling Tian, the same situation was happening all over the battlefield.
In the fight between the True Soul Realm Experts of the Thunder Sect, True Spirit Sect, and the Assassins Association and the nine great factions, it was the experts of the nine great factions that were coming out on top.
That was because all of them had received the same True Soul Realm Beast temporary contract as One Sword.
The True Soul Realm Beast that Lin Fan sent to every one of them perfectly matched them, covering for their weakness, which brought their power to a whole other level. So even if the True Soul Realm Experts of the Thunder Sect, True Spirit Sect, and the Assassins Association had the artifacts that they received from Bing Jun, they still couldn't match the experts of the nine great factions.
Some of them even began wondering if they had made a mistake siding with young master Bing…
Of course, during this time, Lin Fan didn't remain idle.
After sending the eight True Soul Realm Beasts to each of the experts from the nine great factions, he rushed off towards Qing Ao.
The situation on the battlefield had already stabilized, so it was up to him to tip them in their favour since he had the ability to do so.
Since Qing Ao was facing two different True Soul Realm Beasts this time and Lin Fan only had the lion True Soul Realm Beast helping him, he had no choice but to release his Nascent Soul Realm Beasts as well. They immediately scattered in different directions and formed the pseudo domain array, working with the lion True Soul Realm Beast to suppress one of the True Soul Realm Beasts.
Qing Ao immediately caught onto this and suppressed the other one.
It was easy this time because this True Soul Realm Beast didn't have an ultimate move like the turtle True Soul Realm Beast had.
Lin Fan didn't hesitate at all to land a punch on that True Soul Realm Beast, immediately taming it and turning it to their side.
The four of them then all turned onto the other True Soul Realm Beast, suppressing it in a matter of seconds.
When the surrounding enemies saw that their True Soul Realm Beast allies were turning on them again, they could only reveal looks of despair. At the same time, the forces from the nine great factions were filled with spirit as they charged the enemy.
In one single move, Lin Fan once again tipped the scales of the battle in their favour, but he wasn't done with just this.
After taking care of these two True Soul Realm Beast, he rushed over to where Feng Ling was with these four True Soul Realm Beasts and quickly tamed the two that she had been facing as well.
Lin Fan spread across the battlefield like a disease that infected the True Soul Realm Beasts of the enemy, turning them to their side one by one.
Bing Jun and Huo Fei who had been watching this clenched their fists. With each True Soul Realm Beast that had been turned, they clenched their fists even more until they finally couldn't take it anymore.
Bing Jun slammed his fist into the table in front of him and said in a voice that was seething with rage, "It seems that we have no choice."
Huo Fei beside him was also seething with rage as he said, "So you're finally willing to call for reinforcements?"
Bing Jun glared at him and said, "This isn't the time, do you not see what's happening?"
Huo Fei was silent for a bit before giving a silent nod.
He had indeed been poking at Bing Jun to vent a bit of his anger, but Bing Jun was right. This wasn't the time since if they kept going at it like this, it would mean that their plan would fail and it would be over for them.
The two of them turned to look at the final cloaked figure that was in this room and Bing Jun said, "Master You, it seems like we do need your assistance after all."
This cloaked figure had been sitting there the entire time, but he hadn't said a single word. He had his eyes closed too, so he hadn't even seen what had happened on the battlefield.
It was as if none of this had anything to do with him, or rather, he was above all of this.
But hearing Bing Jun talking to him, he suddenly opened his eyes that were like pits into the abyss.
This Master You looked at Bing Jun with narrowed eyes before turning to look at the battlefield. Seeing the situation that had been developing, he couldn't help shaking his head and saying, "The masters of the Bing and Huo Families can't even take care of a simple upper realm, this truly is disappointing."
He didn't even bother hiding the disdain in his voice, but even when Bing Jun and Huo Fei heard it, they couldn't say anything.
Right now, they were nothing more than juniors of the Bing and Huo Family and this Master You was one of the experts that their families had sent. He was a true World Realm Expert and he was worth far more to their families than they were.
So even if he looked down on them, they had no choice but to show respect to him.
Bing Jun bowed his head before saying, "We have to ask Master You to act in the end still."
Master You ignored him and just looked at Lin Fan who was making his way through the battlefield with narrowed eyes. After a while, he said, "This kid really has strange techniques, even I'm not able to see through them. I'll take this kid back and play around with him for a bit. He should make a good puppet."
Bing Jun and Huo Fei both revealed a slight look of disgust when they heard this.
They had long heard about this Master You's hobbies before. The puppet he referred to were corpse puppets that he refined that he used to fight with, but that wasn't all that he did with those corpse puppets…
It was said that most of his corpse puppets were handsome men…
After this, Master You turned to Bing Jun and Huo Fei and said, "I'll leave the rest to you, I'll only take care of that kid."
Without even waiting for a response, he jumped out of the room and flew out at Lin Fan at an incredible speed.
By the time that anyone could react, his hand was already slapping down towards Lin Fan.