Gou's Liver Experience in the World of Demons and Demons

As soon as he finished speaking, he and several other Saint Realm experts, as well as the Tianyuan Holy Land experts who were maintaining order, retreated to a greater distance and enveloped the entire arena area with their aura, both to prevent the aftershocks from spreading and to ensure that no one would interfere.

On the vast blue stone arena, only Gu Sheng and Shi Wufeng remained, facing each other from afar.

The air seemed to freeze completely at that moment. Countless gazes, both inside and outside the valley, were focused on the arena.

A life-or-death battle, with vastly unequal strength but involving the thoughts of many parties, is about to erupt!
Shi Wufeng was the first to respond to the question from the Holy Lord of All Things, his voice loud and clear, carrying a deliberately displayed confidence and disdain.

"This Holy Son has no objection!"

Immediately, his gaze, like two icicles, pierced fiercely at Gu Sheng, who stood calmly with his hands behind his back. A cruel smile curled at the corner of his mouth, and his voice carried undisguised killing intent and condescending condescension.

"Gu Sheng! The arena is open, and the rules are set! If you are willing to kneel down and kowtow, repent and beg for mercy from my Myriad Elephants Holy Land, and swear a great oath to be a slave of my Holy Land for all eternity, then this Holy Son may spare your dog's life for the sake of your talent, and take you into the Holy Land as the lowest-ranking menial disciple! How about it?"

These words were both an insult and a form of psychological pressure, an attempt to break down Gu Sheng's defenses before the war even began.

Upon hearing this, Gu Sheng's face showed no anger, but rather a playful expression that was neither a smile nor a frown.

He raised his eyes, calmly meeting Shi Wufeng's malicious gaze, and slowly spoke, his voice echoing clearly in the now silent valley.

"What Shi Shengzi said has reminded me."

He paused, his tone still calm, but carrying an even stronger sense of "charity" than the other party's.

"How about this? You admit defeat right now, cripple your cultivation, and then go to the Wanbao Hall to work as a janitor for a hundred years. After a hundred years, if you behave well and your character has changed, perhaps... I can consider sparing your life."

This proposal is far more sincere than your "slave of the Holy Land" argument, don't you think?

"You—! Arrogant and ignorant! Boastful and shameless!"

Shi Wufeng instantly flew into a rage, his face flushed red, feeling utterly insulted! How dare a mere ant at the Sect Realm humiliate him, the Holy Son of the Holy Land, in such a way?!

Gu Sheng stopped looking at him and instead looked at the three Saint Realm experts high in the sky, and said calmly.

"We have no objections. May we begin?"

Tantai Mingjing and Zhenyue Shengwang exchanged a glance, a hint of amusement flashing in their eyes. Wanxiang Shengzhu, on the other hand, had a livid face and let out a cold snort.

"Since both sides have no objections, then..."

The voice of the Holy Lord of All Things rang out again, carrying a cold decisiveness.

"The battle to the death begins immediately! The rules are reiterated."

"You must not leave the arena area! Otherwise, it will be considered a surrender, and the other party may kill you on the spot!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he, Tantai Mingjing, and Zhenyue Shengwang attacked almost simultaneously!
Three vast, ocean-like holy powers were not attacks, but rather transformed into invisible chains of laws and spatial barriers, descending from three directions toward the massive arena in the center!

"Spatial Imprisonment - Seal!"

"Earth Guardian - Fortify!"

"All Things Return to the Origin - Lock!"

With a gentle wave of her hand, Tantai Mingjing invoked the laws of space, completely solidifying and sealing off the space within a hundred feet around the arena, eliminating any possibility of teleportation or escape techniques! Zhenyue Saint King let out a low shout, and a thick, mountain-like earthen-yellow Daoist aura merged into the arena's foundation and the surrounding earth, reinforcing it to the extreme to prevent the aftershocks of the battle from destroying the arena and causing controversy over "going out of bounds".

Meanwhile, the Lord of Myriad Phenomena unleashed the "Myriad Phenomena Return to Origin Lock," a secret technique passed down in the Myriad Phenomena Holy Land. Visible cyan chains, seemingly composed of countless tiny runes, crisscrossed and completely enveloped the arena from all sides, forming a second, solid barrier!
Three Saint Realm experts joined forces to seal off the arena! With such a formation, even those possessing top-tier life-saving items like the "Great Teleportation Ancient Talisman" would find it extremely difficult to break through these multiple layers of blockade and escape the arena in an instant!

This is not only to ensure the fairness of the life-or-death battle, but also to prevent Tantai Mingjing and Zhenyue Shengwang from intervening at the crucial moment to protect Gu Sheng or help him escape! Wanxiang Shengzhu is trying to completely cut off all of Gu Sheng's escape routes, forcing him to fight Shi Wufeng to the death on the arena!

The moment the blockade was completed, the arena seemed to transform into a secluded gladiatorial arena. Most of the outside noise was shut out, leaving only a suffocating atmosphere of solemnity and tension.

On the arena, Shi Wufeng's eyes flashed with killing intent, and he said no more nonsense!
"Death!"

With a roar, his figure instantly transformed into a blinding white light, like lightning tearing through the night sky, accompanied by a sharp sonic boom, rushing towards Gu Sheng, who was dozens of feet away! His speed was so great that he left a clear afterimage in his wake!

At the same time, he put his right hand together, and the powerful true energy of the second level of the Venerable Realm in his body surged out wildly without reservation, condensing in his palm!

"Mountain-Turning and Sea-Overturning Palm!"

He struck out with a palm! Not directly at Gu Sheng, but rather pressing down from mid-air!

"Boom—!"

The immense true energy left his body and instantly condensed above Gu Sheng's head into a nearly tangible, earthen-yellow giant hand that covered half of the arena! The giant hand had clearly defined five fingers and palm lines like ravines, radiating a terrifying pressure as heavy as a mountain and as vast as a raging sea!
Before the palm print had even fully landed, the terrifying pressure had already caused the specially reinforced bluestone floor of the arena to groan under the strain, cracking inch by inch and collapsing downwards!

This palm strike was far more powerful than the attacks of those rogue cultivators at the Heavenly King Realm outside the city yesterday; it had clearly reached the level of the mid-stage Venerable Realm! Shi Wufeng's first move was a killing blow, without any reservations, intending to crush the opponent with absolute power and win in one strike!
However, Gu Sheng's expression remained unchanged in the face of this terrifying palm print that blotted out the sky and seemed capable of crushing everything.

In the split second that the giant, earthen-yellow hand, carrying destructive power, was about to completely crush down—

Gu Sheng's figure, like a ghost, gently took a step to the left.

This step, seemingly casual, is both incredibly fast and incredibly precise!
"Whoosh!" His figure left a faint afterimage in place, and his true form had already appeared hundreds of feet away, on the other side of the arena!
The arena prepared by the Myriad Manifestations Holy Land for this life-or-death battle was nearly ten thousand feet in circumference, extremely spacious enough to accommodate high-level cultivators to unleash their full power. And Gu Sheng's current position was precisely at the edge of the area covered by the "Mountain-Turning and Sea-Overturning Palm"!

If you deviate even an inch further, you might be swept up by the aftershocks of that violent palm strike; if you are a fraction of a second slower, you might be completely locked in by the palm print and unable to escape!
This kind of evasion is not just about speed, but also about a precise calculation and prediction of the attack range, power decay, and one's own position! It's as if he had already "seen" the landing point and the range of the attack, and made the most optimized and effortless evasion choice in advance!

"Ok?"

Shi Wufeng's pupils contracted slightly.

Although his palm strike wasn't a spatial-locking kill, its speed and coverage were immense. Ordinary cultivators at the Grandmaster Realm wouldn't have time to react, let alone dodge it so precisely! Gu Sheng's reaction and speed seemed to be even faster than he had anticipated!
However, Shi Wufeng was no ordinary fighter; though he was startled when his first attack missed, he remained calm.

Just as he was about to change his move, he suddenly felt an incomparably sharp sword intent that seemed to pierce his soul, which had already locked onto him!

In the distance, Gu Sheng, who had just regained his footing, held his right hand in a fist. A three-foot-long sword, formed entirely from highly refined, transparent qi, had appeared in his hand. The sword's blade shimmered with a faint starlight and possessed an all-encompassing, sharp will!

"Northern Star Annihilation God Sword - Shadow!"

Gu Sheng gave a low shout and moved again! This time, he wasn't dodging, but attacking!

He took a step forward, and it seemed as if the trajectory of stars flowed beneath his feet. His figure blurred instantly, turning into an elusive stream of light, carrying that transparent sword of energy, and thrusting back at a speed even faster than Shi Wufeng's attack!

The sword's edge was aimed directly at Shi Wufeng's throat! The sharp sword intent made Shi Wufeng's hair stand on end instantly, and he had a terrible premonition that no matter how he dodged, he would be pierced by this sword in the next moment!
"Hmph! A mere trick!"

Although Shi Wufeng was surprised, he was not afraid.

His footwork shifted, his figure suddenly becoming elusive, as if several afterimages appeared simultaneously, swaying in different directions—this was none other than the Myriad Manifestations Sacred Land's ultimate movement technique, the "Myriad Manifestations Divine Transformation Step"! This technique, with its blend of illusion and reality, is most effective at confusing the enemy's perception and evading their lock-on!

He was confident that with his Venerable Realm cultivation, Gu Sheng would have no chance of instantly determining his true location when he used this footwork!
However, just as his form began to shift and his true body was about to merge into a fleeting afterimage and teleport away—

The transparent sword in Gu Sheng's hand, which was originally aimed straight at his throat, unexpectedly and illogically drew a strange arc in mid-air. The tip of the sword suddenly changed direction, as if it had foreseen the future, and stabbed with perfect accuracy three zhang behind Shi Wufeng's left side, in a seemingly empty void!

"what?!"

"What's going on?!"

This scene caused many martial artists watching from the sidelines, especially those with keen eyesight, to gasp in surprise! Gu Sheng's change of direction was too abrupt and too unpredictable! It was as if he already knew that Shi Wufeng's true form would appear in that location!
How is that possible?! Unless... he can predict Shi Wufeng's movement trajectory?!

On the high platform, Tantai Xueli tightly gripped the hem of her clothes, her beautiful eyes filled with worry, yet she forced herself to remain calm.

Tantai Xuefei, standing to the side, seemed much more relaxed, even displaying a detached, almost theatrical composure, as if she had absolute confidence in Gu Sheng.

It's too late to say, then soon!
Just as Gu Sheng's sword tip changed direction and pierced towards that void—

The void rippled like water, and Shi Wufeng's true form just emerged from a fleeting afterimage!
Judging from his position and posture, it was as if he himself... had deliberately brought his throat to meet Gu Sheng's sharp and incomparably keen sword tip, which was already waiting there!

"Pfft—!"

The soft sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh was exceptionally clear on the silent arena!

The ferocity and killing intent on Shi Wufeng's face instantly froze, turning into utter astonishment and disbelief! His eyes widened as he looked down at the transparent sword of energy that had pierced below his left shoulder, only three inches from his heart. He felt the cold blade and violent sword energy frantically destroying his meridians and flesh, and his mind went completely blank!
He'd been predicted?! His "Myriad Manifestations Divine Step" had its true location predicted with such precision?! How...how is this possible?!
In battles between opponents of higher levels, especially between a Sect Realm cultivator and a Venerable Realm cultivator, due to the comprehensive differences in cultivation, experience, and reaction speed, lower-level martial artists can often only react passively. It is already difficult enough for them to barely defend or dodge. Trying to predict the exquisite movements of a higher-level martial artist and launch a targeted attack is simply as difficult as climbing to the sky!
Unless... the difference in strength between the two sides is not as simple as it seems on the surface, but rather there is some kind of fundamental, experiential, or insightful overwhelming force! It's like a seasoned old man toying with a novice child!

"what--!!"

The intense pain and boundless humiliation brought Shi Wufeng back to his senses instantly, and he let out a roar of extreme anger!
His inner energy erupted, forcefully dislodging the tip of the qi sword that had pierced his body. His body was violently thrown backward as if he had been electrocuted! At the same time, his left hand pressed on the acupoints on his chest to stop the bleeding, while his right hand gathered inner energy and tightly covered the wound. His face turned deathly pale in an instant!

Having succeeded in his attack, Gu Sheng's eyes flashed with a fierce light. How could he let such a good opportunity slip by?

"Strike while the iron is hot and take your life!"

His aura surged once more, starlight swirling beneath his feet as he relentlessly pursued the retreating Shi Wufeng! The transparent qi sword in his hand, though slightly damaged at the tip but still solid, erupted with dazzling starlight once more, transforming into a white rainbow tearing through the sky, piercing straight for Shi Wufeng's heart! This sword strike was faster! More ruthless! More intense in killing intent!
"You bastard!!"

Shi Wufeng was filled with extreme resentment and anger! He, the Holy Son of the Myriad Manifestations Holy Land, with a cultivation level of the second stage of the Venerable Realm, had actually been injured and chased down by a junior at the seventh stage of the Sect Realm in front of everyone, and beaten so badly! This was simply an utter disgrace!
"Get out of my way!!"

He roared, no longer caring about manners or tactics, and unleashed both palms simultaneously. His inner energy surged out like a volcanic eruption, condensing into two more solid and enormous earth-yellow palm prints in front of him, one on the left and one on the right.

Like two moving mountains, carrying a violent momentum that could crush everything, they slammed into Gu Sheng, who was chasing after them! He wanted to use brute force to overcome skill, and with absolute power, he would swat this annoying fly into dust!
However, faced with this double palm strike that was enough to turn an ordinary peak Heavenly King Realm cultivator into mincemeat, a knowing look flashed in Gu Sheng's eyes, as if he had already anticipated that Shi Wufeng would respond in this way.

Just as the two palm prints were about to merge and completely engulf him—

Gu Sheng's forward-rushing figure, with an agility and flexibility that defied the laws of physics, was like a hummingbird flitting among flowers. In the nick of time, he skillfully and precariously slipped through the barely perceptible gap between the two violent palm prints!

At the same time, he thrust out his sword of qi once more!

"laugh--!"

The sword light flashed like a white rainbow, faster than the naked eye could perceive!

Shi Wufeng felt another chill in his right chest, followed by a piercing pain! Looking down, he saw another horrific sword wound, deep enough to expose bone and almost piercing through his lung! Blood gushed out like a fountain! (End of Chapter)