"Congrattions to the remaining participants for passing the ninth round, nowmencing the tenth round. First match: Dao Xuanyuan versus Su Tian"


    Hearing the names announced by the mechanical voice, the crowd starts moring as they chat about the match about to proceed, excited at the prospect of seeing a top tier genius battle again.


    "Damn, another good fight is about to happen huh?"


    "Indeed, those two feels like they''re the same type of people so I''m looking forward to how they will fight"


    "That Dao Xuanyuan might be in a slight disadvantage, the other guy has that arsenal of intangible weapons after all"


    "What use is there if Dao Xuanyuan uses the Dao Seeking Mountain''s renowned technique?"


    "What renown technique?"


    "Heh, you''ll know when the match starts"


    As the crowd discusses, the barrier separating the two people already disappear, the two young men starting at each other face to face while assessing their opponent through different means.


    [Name: Dao Xuanyuan]


    [Age: 30]


    [Affiliation: Dao Seeking Mountain]


    [Cultivation: Perfection state Nascent Source Realm (Currently suppressed to the Perfection state Core Formation Realm)]


    [Soul: Dao Attunement Heavenly Soul]


    [Stats]


    [Strength: 17,000 innate strength]


    [Agility: 14,000 innate strength]


    [Intelligence: 19,000 innate strength]


    [Stamina: 13,000 innate strength]


    [Vitality: 13,000 innate strength]


    [Aptitude: High Quality Celestial Level]


    "You look even taller up close" Dao Xuanyuan greeted as he and Wu Xiaotian stood in front of each other, smiling amiably as he cupped a fist as his greetings.


    "You seem to bepletely different than the other daoists from your force" Wu Xiaotian replied while also cupping his fist, surprising the people of the Dao Seeking Mountain particrly those that fought him in the arena, as while he replied to their greetings politely as well, he never reciprocated the salutation they did.


    "He… he acknowledges eldest senior brother''s strength…"


    "Yeah, I thought that he''s just a bit uncultured, who would''ve known that…"


    "To be honest, I find it alright being treated like that by the guy, he''s one hell of a monster after all"


    While discussing about the action Wu Xiaotian made, the disciples of the Dao Seeking Mountain didn''t even realize that even their strongest representative was surprised by the action, even going as far as wave his hands as if in denial of his opponent''s acknowledgement.


    "You''re overestimating me a bit, fellow daoist, I''m just a normal practitioner with a little skill" Dao Xuanyuan said while smiling wryly, the genuine thought in his mind the very same thing that he said.


    "Being overly humble is a sign of pride, fellow daoist" Wu Xiaotian just smile as he replies while drawing his de from its sheath, pointing it downwards as if waiting for his opponent to also draw his weapon.


    Hearing his reply, Dao Xuanyuan was surprised for a bit but started tough after he recovers, theughter covering the entire arena for a while before he stops as he cups his fist again and greeted, "Dao Xuanyuan from the Dao Seeking Mountain, asking guidance from this fellow daoist here."


    "Su Tian from Thousand Roads City, I hope fellow daoist can also enlighten me" reciprocating the salute, Wu Xiaotian smiles as he starts looking forward to the match between the two of them.


    After the greetings, the two stands close to each other, making the audience surprised as they had never seen a match proceed like this since the start of thepetition.


    After all, cultivators of their level are far superior than mere mortals, and distance of dozens of meters can be crossed with a single step, so the two standing really close at each other makes it looks like they''re mortals rather than cultivators fighting.


    Their questions and confusions are about to be solved though as the two starts with the first swing, indicating the start of the battle.


    *ng!!!*


    The first attack was a meeting of two weapons, an extremely sharp, in-looking de exuding a proud, dragon-like aura, and a refined sword with subtle intricate carvings on it, exuding an aura simr to that of a seasoned warrior that turned into a schr.


    "Am I seeing things?"


    "That''s the wrong question, it should be, why are we seeing things?"


    "What the fuck is that?"


    "You ask me, who should I ask?"


    Looking up above them, the audience start to get stupefied, some of the weaker willed ones even started to shake on their knees in terror, as they observe what is happening in front of them.


    The two young men, the moment their weapons crossed with each other, producing an extremely terrifying aura that burst out of them, an extremely oppressive golden figureing out of the immortal-like young man''s back while another equally oppressive yet crimson red figureing out from the man wearing daoist robe.


    While the two both exudes an oppressive might making the weaker people palpitate, the two figures are making them feel apletely different feeling altogether.


    The golden figure releases an oppressive aura that makes them feel that all sort of resistance is futile, and all they could do is yield in front of such divine might, while the crimson red figure releases a deste, bloody oppression, as if they are prey about to be ughtered, and there''s no escaping the ughterer.


    Witnessing such sight in front of them, even the geniuses that reaches the second phase of thepetition couldn''t help but marvel at the sight, astonishmentpletely covering their faces as they watch the two figures collide as the two figures beneath them have their exchange.


    "A good sword!"


    "A good de!"


    Looking at each other, the two praised at each other, having a feeling that this match is going to be something that would happen only once in their lives, a feeling that the person in front of them will be someone that will have a great impact to each of their future.


    Not wasting a single second, they continue the exchange, both going for a diagonal sh, Wu Xiaotianing from up above while Dao Xuanyuaning from below.


    As the second exchange takes ce, no sound of weapons shing with each other sounded, but rather, an even more terrifying even takes ce, the view in the spectator''s eyes changing from the clouds as they float in the sky to a deste battlefield, on one side an army d with bright golden armor and a de as a weapon having the same color is floating in the sky, in front of them another massive army with blood red armor covering them, wielding swords pointing towards the other army.


    Retracting the bands holding their weapons, the two young man didn''t even try to create a distance between the two of them, instead cing even more force on their attacks, trying to break each other''s defense, the extremely fast movements they produced making it so that not a single person from the spectators can follow the movement of their weapon, well, except for one woman that looks like a mature, white-haireddy to everyone else around her except for the immortal-like young man on the stage, the only one who can see her true appearance right now.


    The third sh of the weapon happened, and from it, the sound of metal shing against each other resounded, signaling the start of the war between the two armies, the point of contact starting the sh between the two, turning into a great visual and spectacle for the spectators watching on the ground.