Lack of talent? I'll buy a year's worth of cultivation for one dollar!

He is searching.

The search is for that mysterious venerable one who could make Mo Yuan swear a poisonous oath and who could make the Chamber of Commerce readily hand over 60 trillion top-grade star stones.

but.

His divine sense swept around.

Mu Xing's brows furrowed slightly.

No?

He saw Cangxuan.

I saw Mo Yuan.

The two key figures from the chambers of commerce were flanking a young man in a plain robe, like stars surrounding the moon.

They entered the passageway to the competition venue.

Mu Xing's gaze fell on the young man.

very young.

Bone age is even less than twenty.

His aura was restrained, and he was almost too composed.

but.

No matter how Muxing investigates.

All he sensed from this young man was the pure aura of a domain lord.

There is no immortal matter.

There was no trace of the laws of the Great Dao.

He's a complete and utter domain lord!

"Where is the Venerable One?"

A hint of doubt arose in Mu Xing's heart.

He turned to look at Yuan Qiong.

"Didn't the Venerable One that Mo Yuan brought back come?"

Yuan Qiong also looked completely bewildered.

"Reporting to the Chairman."

"I don't know either."

"Vice President Cangxuan sent a message saying that the person has been brought to the competition venue."

"But this..."

Yuan Qiong looked down at Su Yu, who only possessed the aura of a Domain Lord, and was completely bewildered.

Mu Xing fell silent.

His eyes, which had seen through countless eras, were fixed on Su Yu.

An absurd thought flashed through his mind.

Could it be... that young man?

The moment the idea came to mind, Mu Xing rejected it himself.

so funny.

He himself is a Venerable One, and he knows all too well the immense foundation and long years required to achieve that status.

A person with a bone age at the Domain Lord level cannot even fill their original blood, let alone comprehend the Great Dao.

"Could it be that the Venerable One is proficient in some extremely profound technique of spatial concealment?"

"Hiding in the shadows, unwilling to show themselves?"

Mu Xing made the most reasonable guess.

"That's enough."

"Since the Venerable One is unwilling to show himself, there must be a reason for it."

"Let's observe this competition first before making any decisions."

Mu Xing withdrew his divine sense.

They remained hidden in the shadows, observing the situation.

He wanted to see what was so special about this young man who was treated with such respect by Cang Xuan and Mo Yuan.

Inside the competition venue.

The array around them lit up with light.

The entire area was enveloped in an indestructible defensive barrier.

The elders in the stands stopped talking and all turned their gazes toward the center of the arena.

hum.

A dark golden sword light, like lightning tearing through the night sky.

Fall from the sky.

boom!

The sword light landed, unleashing an astonishing shockwave.

Two shallow footprints were forcibly trodden into the hard, immortal material ground.

Jian Chen.

He wore a dark gold sword robe and held a long sword.

Standing proudly in the center of the field.

He slightly raised his chin, his eyes sweeping over the entire room with a disdainful look.

The oppressive force of the five immortal substances was released without reservation.

The air in the entire arena seemed to be shattered by this sharp sword intent.

The elders in the stands all changed color.

"What terrifying sword intent!"

"As expected of the Ancient Sword Sect's prodigy, such power would be too much for an ordinary early-stage Immortal Realm cultivator to withstand even a single strike!"

"It seems that the captaincy this time is a foregone conclusion."

Listening to the discussions around me.

Jian Chen's smile grew increasingly arrogant.

He has absolute confidence in his abilities.

He turned his head.

Their gazes were like two sharp swords, piercing straight towards the entrance of the passage.

There.

Cang Xuan and Mo Yuan were accompanying Su Yu as they walked slowly over.

Jian Chen's gaze completely ignored the two half-step Venerables.

They locked onto Su Yu, who was walking in the middle.

Domain master level?

Jian Chen was stunned for a moment, then a strong mockery flashed in his eyes.

He thought the one who dared to challenge him was some kind of immortal freak secretly cultivated by the Chamber of Commerce.

After all that, he turned out to be a piece of trash who hadn't even finished converting his source blood?

"It's you, kid??"

Jian Chen pointed his longsword.

The sword tip pointed directly at Su Yu, and his tone was extremely arrogant.

"A mere domain lord dares to provoke this young master?"

"Who gave you the courage?"

He mocked her without restraint.

They didn't take Su Yu seriously at all.

Listen.

Jian Chen slightly raised his chin, his eyes revealing an arrogant air of condescension.

"I'm in a good mood today."

"Defeat me, and that so-called Origin of Destruction will be yours!!"

"But only if you can withstand one of my sword strikes."

"If you can't catch it."

Jian Chen's eyes instantly turned cold and cruel.

"This day next year will be the anniversary of your death."

Inside the competition venue.

Jian Chen's voice echoed across the hard, immortal material ground.

Arrogant.

Arrogant and overbearing.

The elders in the stands were even prepared to watch a one-sided crushing defeat.

however.

Faced with Jian Chen's oppressive swordplay imbued with destruction.

Su Yu stood still.

The plain robe remained unmoved.

He looked at Jian Chen, his deep eyes showing neither anger nor the humiliation of being looked down upon.

There is only one kind of peace that comes from seeing through the cause and effect of life and death.

"Anniversary of death?"

Su Yu repeated those two words calmly.

The sound wasn't loud, but it reached the ears of everyone present clearly.

next second.

He did not draw his gun.

It also failed to mobilize the terrifying quality of the eighty-one trillion drops of primordial blood within its body.

He simply raised his right hand slowly.

Bring your index and middle fingers together.

Facing the arrogant Jian Chen ahead.

Gently, just a little.

There was no earth-shattering surge of spiritual energy.

There was also no energy surge tearing through the void.

Only a faint, almost imperceptible, silvery-white ripple flashed and disappeared from Su Yu's fingertips.

Click click click!

A sickening, teeth-grinding sound, like glass shattering at a microscopic level, suddenly exploded in the center of the competition arena.

Space confinement!

Om-! ! !

Centered on Jian Chen.

The space within a radius of one hundred feet was completely frozen in a fraction of a second.

This is not a conventional formation constraint.

It was not a chain formed from spiritual energy.

It's a direct modification of the fundamental logic of the universe!

The spatial coordinates within this area were forcibly locked by a supreme force that transcends everything!

In the center of the field.

Jian Chen's cold smile froze instantly.

He maintained the posture of holding the sword hilt, with the sword energy emanating from it.

The whole person was like a flying insect sealed in amber.

He couldn't move at all.

Even the originally rampant dark golden sword energy around him seemed to have been paused, frozen in mid-air, maintaining its menacing form.

Surprising.

An unprecedented and bizarre situation.

The elders in the stands were all stunned.

They stared wide-eyed at the scene that seemed to freeze time.

My mind went blank for a brief moment.

"What happened?"

"Why isn't Young Master Jianchen moving?"

"What did that kid do?"

The elders at the realm master level simply couldn't comprehend the significance of this single finger strike.

They just felt that Jian Chen seemed to be acting in cooperation with Su Yu.

but.

Jian Chen, caught in the middle of the situation, was experiencing an indescribable storm of emotions within his heart!

I can't move!

I can't move at all!

Jian Chen tried desperately to move his eyes, but found that even the microscopic coordinates of his eyelids were locked.

He attempted to mobilize the five immortal substances within his body.

but.

Those five indestructible law crystals, at this moment, felt as if billions of tons of mercury had been poured into them, pressing down heavily on his body.

It's completely unusable!

As for the prototype of his proud Destruction Swordsmanship.

Faced with this silvery-white power, it was like a young beast encountering its natural enemy.

Not even the slightest trace of its aura could be released!

"this……"

"What kind of power is this?!"

Jian Chen's rationality was challenged like never before at this moment.