“Alright, everyone’s here, right?”
After his gaze swept over Oriental Smile, Shan Xiuran, Zheng Beihong, and He Shengtian, who were standing around the four sides of the arena, Li Hai shouted loudly towards the stands outside the arena:
“Gong Lida, Zhen Lianbiao, Lan Yuanwu, do you three want to enter? If so, hurry up!”
Upon hearing the shout, the three of them looked at each other from several hundred feet away, then sighed and shook their heads, indicating they did not wish to go on stage.
Lan Yuanwu, among them, replied directly:
“Young Commander, Brother Zhen, Brother Gong, and I are only of Thousand Army Grade; we are truly powerless to contend with a Grandmaster. This Tianjiao Ranking—we’ll leave it to you.”
After he finished speaking, the robotic host in the sky seized the opportunity and quickly announced:
“Alright everyone, listen—there’s been a slight change in this Tianjiao Ranking event. Contestant Li Hai of the Demon Slayer Division has requested to be the Arena Master and wishes to face four challengers alone. This actually—”
“Blabbering on is so annoying.”
Li Hai, who had long been impatient, shook his head, raised his head, and coldly stared at the four people in the arena, then sternly shouted, “Let’s fight directly!”
With that, he abruptly unleashed the Perfection Grandmaster-level martial Dao Divine Might that he had forcibly suppressed for a very long time.
Boom! Rumble!
In an instant, an invisible, intangible, colorless, and shadowless yet terrifyingly oppressive sensation—heavy as a towering mountain, cold as an ocean of ten thousand years of ice, sharp and keen as if hundreds of blades and swords were at one’s throat—suddenly covered and filled the entire massive arena.
He Shengtian and the other four also changed their expressions drastically at this moment and were simultaneously ‘frozen’ and firmly pinned to the four sides of the arena.
Swish, swish, swish, swish~^
This invisible and shadowless spiritual Divine Might was so terrifying that the covering array formation on the four sides of the arena, composed of copper pillars, black ropes, and yellow talismans, was actually impacted with continuous cracking sounds, manifesting from invisible to visible, and bursting forth with dense, spiderweb-like brilliant cracks, as if it would completely explode in the next moment.
This scene horrified many spectators in the surrounding stands who were quite knowledgeable about spell formations, causing them to cry out repeatedly:
“Oh no, this array is going to crack!”
“What exactly happened in the arena? How could such a strange situation occur?”
“It’s simply incredible! This arena talisman array is strong enough to withstand the combined internal bombardment of several high-level Grandmasters!”
Although many spectators were filled with fear, they paled in comparison to He Shengtian and the other four in the arena.
At this moment, all four of them were like mosquitoes covered in thick glue; they couldn’t move a muscle, only able to helplessly wail and roar in despair in their hearts.
“How is this possible? How is this possible? How is this possible?!!!”
He Shengtian still maintained a relaxed standing posture and an arrogant, unruly expression, but his heart was filled with immense terror and despair:
“Why can this Li Hai be so strong?! Isn’t he only eighteen?! I am a dual-system Grandmaster, why can’t I even move?! Why? Why?!”
“Demonic martial Dao, demonic rebirth.”
Li Hai glanced at him with interest, “Interesting, but that’s all there is to it.”
Just after that glance, He Shengtian inexplicably spontaneously combusted, and in just an instant, his internal organs were incinerated, collapsing into a pile of dry bones, completely dead.
His swift death immediately caused exclamations of surprise from all the spectators in the entire arena:
“What’s going on? How did He Shengtian die in an instant?”
“This looks like a spell. Could it be that Li Hai’s spell—is also equally powerful?”
“This is truly terrifying! It’s an instant kill! How strong is this Li Hai exactly?!”
“Li Hai, I’ll fight you to the death!”
He Shengyi on the spectator stand roared and was about to fly towards the arena. However, just as he made a move, General Wang, who had been sitting nearby, slapped him unconscious and carried him off the stage. Before leaving, he gave Li Hai a deep look.
Meanwhile, in the arena, Zheng Beihong, who had caught sight of He Shengtian’s tragic death out of the corner of his eye, had already shed his arrogant facade in his heart, trembling and roaring in both despair and fear:
“It’s Great Perfection! It’s definitely Grandmaster Great Perfection! Otherwise, how could his martial Dao Divine Might be so terrifying? Otherwise, how could his Realm cultivation be so secretly hidden?!
I’m finished, I’m finished! Zheng Beihong, oh Zheng Beihong, why did you rush out? You still have a great future, you still have a glorious life. Why, why, why?! Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!!!”
Just as Zheng Beihong was silently wailing, Li Hai had already turned his gaze towards him:
“Hmm, your palm technique is not bad.”
After he spoke, Zheng Beihong’s Grandmaster-level body suddenly burst open with hundreds of bloody holes, gushing out blood all over the ground before he limply collapsed and died completely.
And Zheng Beihong’s death once again caused an uproar among the spectators in the four stands.
At the same time, Zheng Beihong’s master also roared and stood up, wanting to rush onto the arena.
But just then, the robotic host suspended in the sky dramatically swung the microphone in its hand, unleashing a scorching light whip hundreds of feet long, and with one whip, it knocked out Zheng Beihong’s master, who was also a Grandmaster Initial Realm, without causing him any harm.
And after knocking out the old man and retracting the light whip back into a microphone, the host loudly announced:
“Observe the match civilly, do not move. If you offend again, you will be whipped to death!”
Precisely at the same moment the old man fainted, Oriental Smile, who was frozen at the corner of the arena, his heart filled with extreme despair and sorrow, suddenly, under Li Hai’s gaze, collapsed from a complete flesh-and-blood body into a thumb-sized dark mysterious bead with continuous cracking sounds.
Thus, Oriental Smile, the man who dreamed of becoming the protagonist of his era, completely died.
Ke Qing, who witnessed all of this from the stands, also sobbed, spat out a mouthful of blood mist into the sky, and fainted on the spot.
And Dan Xiuxiu, from another stand, was screaming in terror and desperation towards the arena:
“Brother, quickly use your secret weapon, hurry! Use it now!”
Secret weapon?
Many people in the stands who heard this shout were somewhat confused, completely unaware of what it meant.
But Shan Xiuran, who was also frozen like a statue in the arena, knew.
But what use was knowing? He couldn’t even move a muscle now.
“Heh~ secret weapon.”
Li Hai slowly walked to Shan Xiuran’s front, suddenly smiled coldly, and raised his hand to plunge it into the blue glowing indentation in the opponent’s chest. Then, under Dan Xiuxiu’s furious, tearful, and hoarse roars from the stands, he vigorously rummaged inside.
Finally, after a series of crackling sounds, sparks, and black smoke, he forcibly pulled out a silver-white cylindrical object, only slightly thicker than a finger.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, a super-miniature anti-matter sniper cannon.”
Looking at Shan Xiuran’s despairing and dim eyes, Li Hai said coldly, “You think you can deal with me with something like this? Naive.”
With that, he casually tossed the small cannon into the Guiyou Cave Heaven, then slapped Shan Xiuran’s head, letting his body sway and fall to the ground.
At this point, all four challengers who had entered the arena were dead, and Li Hai also obtained three fragments.
The entire Tianjiao Ranking venue was silent, dead quiet.