All Pretenses Torn Away, the Players Take the Stage!

A deathly stillness had settled over the foot of the mountain. Everyone was shaken by the force of Li Daochen's charge up the mountain.

They felt that Li Daochen was like a sharp divine sword, ready to pierce the heavens!

"He really made it up! Since the Battle Sect began keeping records, no one has ever heard of a Blood Refining cultivator making it up there!"

"No, he's already broken through!"

"Even a Spirit Foundation cultivator couldn't make it up there, could they?"

The crowd whispered among themselves, their eyes full of shock.

"Was this contest supposed to be about who reached the summit first?" Mu Qingqing gritted her teeth in anger. Unable to maintain her composure any longer, she said coldly, "He's putting the cart before the horse!"

"That's right, this is about telling the real one from the fake!"

"The real senior brother seems to be becoming one with White Dragon Mountain!"

They looked at Yang Chen below, who seemed to have become one with White Dragon Mountain.

Yang Chen had taken out the Holy Dragon Bone. As golden light flared from it, wisps of light stretched out and connected with White Dragon Mountain!

He had clearly established a connection with White Dragon Mountain!

Before long!

Yang Chen suddenly shuddered. His half-closed eyes flew open, golden light surging within them.

At that moment, he had indeed established a connection with White Dragon Mountain.

In the unseen depths, Yang Chen also discovered that an extremely ancient power lay within White Dragon Mountain!

Moreover, it was a power that would help him forge the Battle Holy Dragon Physique!

This was a great opportunity!

Yang Chen was ecstatic. He hadn't expected such an unexpected gain.

Then.

Yang Chen looked up at Li Daochen on the summit and couldn't help laughing. "Hahaha, I've won! Why don't you get down here, you fake?"

He had established a connection with White Dragon Mountain, so no matter how fake his Holy Dragon Bone was, it was real!

Li Daochen hadn't. So what if he had reached the summit? Even if he was real, he had become the fake!

On the summit, Li Daochen looked down at Yang Chen, his gaze calm. "First, let me congratulate you on establishing a connection with White Dragon Mountain."

Yang Chen immediately snapped, "What's with the sarcasm? Get down here and die! Are you going to force us to do it ourselves?"

By now, Li Tianxing and the others had also rushed in.

Li Daochen continued as though he hadn't heard him. "Second, I have bad news for you. The Holy Dragon Bone... cannot establish a connection with White Dragon Mountain!"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Yang Chen's eyelid twitched, and he had a bad feeling.

Mockery showed in Li Daochen's eyes. "I mean, I played you."

Li Tianxing and the others, who had rushed up, were stunned.

What kind of turn was this?

Yang Chen flew into a rage. "You're just a sore loser! You saw me establish a connection with White Dragon Mountain, so now you're turning black into white!"

"You should know perfectly well that you can't establish a connection with White Dragon Mountain through the Holy Dragon Bone in your body," Li Daochen said indifferently.

Yang Chen was shaken to the core, with the illusion that Li Daochen had seen right through him.

However.

Yang Chen managed to steady himself. He turned to Li Tianxing and shouted, "Father, he's exhausted all his tricks! Facts speak louder than words. Kill him!"

Li Tianxing's expression shifted as he stared fixedly at Li Daochen.

And at that moment, Li Daochen stopped pretending.

A strand of Battle Origin lay within White Dragon Mountain, but unfortunately, it was dormant. Even with the Holy Dragon Bone, Li Daochen could not awaken it.

But.

Yang Chen's Dragon Transformation Emperor Scripture could!

The supposed connection with White Dragon Mountain was actually the process of awakening the Battle Origin!

And so, Li Daochen had carefully arranged this contest!

Moreover, Li Daochen's cultivation had reached the Spirit Foundation Realm, giving him the ability to expose Yang Chen!

The next moment.

Boom!

Li Daochen charged down, the Holy Dragon Bone in his body erupting with its full power.

Having undergone a transformation and refined a flood dragon's remnant soul, his Holy Dragon Bone was more than ten times stronger than Yang Chen's!

After all, breaking before rebuilding often meant becoming stronger!

Most importantly, Yang Chen's Holy Dragon Bone came from the same source as his!

And sharing a source... often meant that one was dominant and the other subordinate!

Li Daochen possessed the most fundamental part, giving him the innate advantage from the start, to say nothing of the fact that his Holy Dragon Bone was now stronger!

Furthermore, once he reached the Spirit Foundation Realm, Li Daochen could guide the spirit patterns on the surface of the Holy Dragon Bone to devour.

Boom!

Another boom rang out. The spirit patterns on the Holy Dragon Bone leaped to life, forming a little golden dragon.

Under Yang Chen's abruptly stricken gaze, the little golden dragon roared and charged at him, actually beginning to devour his Holy Dragon Bone.

"Ah... you're courting death!" Yang Chen grunted in pain, then growled and frantically circulated the Dragon Transformation Emperor Scripture, intending to refine Li Daochen's Holy Dragon Bone as it charged at him.

But before he could circulate the Dragon Transformation Emperor Scripture, Li Daochen withdrew the Holy Dragon Bone.

In that brief time, Li Daochen had already reclaimed around thirty percent!

With Yang Chen possessing the Dragon Transformation Emperor Scripture, Li Daochen had never expected to reclaim it whole!

He had devoured it now mainly because Yang Chen's Holy Dragon Bone had been guided by the Dragon Transformation Emperor Scripture into establishing a connection with White Dragon Mountain.

That connection was what Li Daochen wanted!

The strand of Battle Origin in White Dragon Mountain was a valuable thing. In his previous life, Yang Chen had refined it, and his Battle Holy Dragon Physique had immediately reached minor accomplishment!

Moreover, it was connected to the legendary Battle Sacred Emperor, with many benefits to come!

At that moment, everyone who had rushed into White Dragon Mountain was shaken.

Anyone with eyes could see that Yang Chen was the impostor. After all, his Holy Dragon Bone had been completely suppressed.

Moreover, with thirty percent devoured, Yang Chen's Holy Dragon Bone was now incomplete, and the signs of a source without roots were unmistakable.

For an innate Holy Dragon Bone, this was something that should never have appeared!

Which Holy Dragon Bone was real and which was fake was plain to see!

Moreover, Yang Chen had been completely played in the palm of Li Daochen's hand!

"Impossible. Brother Chen couldn't have lost..." Mu Qingqing still refused to believe it and glared hatefully at Li Daochen.

And then.

A murderous aura appeared in Li Tianxing's eyes.

If Yang Chen was the fake, then while Li Tianxing had been away, his son's Holy Dragon Bone had been dug out, and he had nearly died!

How much despair and pain must he have suffered?

Li Tianxing's rage soared to the heavens.

"Die!" Without another word, Li Tianxing charged at Yang Chen.

Everything that had happened was enough for Li Tianxing to make his judgment.

"Father, save Brother Chen!" Mu Qingqing shrieked. "If Brother Chen dies, I won't go on living either!"

Mu Cheng froze. He realized his daughter had played him and was annoyed, but she was his only precious daughter. Even if she had played him, he could only accept it and clean up her mess.

Whoosh!

Mu Cheng went to intercept Li Tianxing. "Tianxing, don't be rash!"

"Get lost! You're no better! Our friendship ends here!" Li Tianxing shouted.

Mu Cheng's eyes abruptly turned cold. Now that things had come to this, their old friendship had indeed been worn away.

In that case, Mu Cheng had to consider whether to cut the grass and pull out the roots.

And at that moment.

"Hahaha..." Yang Chen's hair hung loose. Though he still wore Li Daochen's appearance, his bearing had changed completely, becoming arrogant and unruly, as though none but him mattered.

His eyes cold and terrifying, he threw back his head and laughed. "You think you can kill me? Are you worthy?"

At that moment.

Even a blind person knew Yang Chen was the fake!

Then.

Yang Chen shouted, "Luo Beiyue, now that things have come to this, what are you still hesitating for?!"

"I'm not hesitating!" Luo Beiyue lowered his eyes, killing intent flickering within them.

"Good!" Yang Chen abruptly snapped his fingers.

"Lin Jingfeng!"

At the low shout, a young man suddenly appeared beside Yang Chen.

He wore blood-red robes and carried three blood-colored war spears on his back. A blood lotus mark rested between his brows, and his cruel, cold bearing also held a noble, overbearing air.

At the sight of him, even Li Tianxing's previously indifferent expression grew extremely grave. He sensed that this man was extremely dangerous.

The man merely stood there, yet terrifying Blood Qi spread from him, sending chills down everyone's spine.

Li Daochen narrowed his eyes as well.

This was Yang Chen's Dao protector, Lin Jingfeng. Though young, his origins were astonishing.

He came from the Blood Sect, a sacred sect, though he was now its sole remaining member!

Because he needed something from Yang Chen, he had willingly become his Dao protector!

His current strength should be at Divine Bridge Peak!

"Well?" Lin Jingfeng asked, his voice cold and hoarse.

"Kill!"

Yang Chen spoke menacingly, then looked down at Li Tianxing and said coldly, "You should feel honored that I called you Father! Couldn't you have just accepted it obediently? Did you have to make trouble for me? In that case, die!"

Today, he would leave Li Daochen and Li Tianxing, father and son, dead without a burial place!

"I could never have sired a wretch like you!" Li Tianxing said coldly.

For a moment, swords were drawn and crossbows bent.

Meanwhile.

At the edge of the Battle Sect, Yun Qingshui's figure appeared silently.

Having watched the whole affair, she was thrilled.

"That was wonderful! It's finally this young lady's turn to take the stage!"