The third battle!
Tie Xiong versus Helian Shanque.
With Xiao Feng's side having lost two consecutive matches, the importance of this third battle went without saying. Everyone in the arena focused their attention on it.
Everyone knew that once Tie Xiong lost, the position of Remnant Immortal City's City Lord would fall to Xiao Yun.
Of course, that outcome would not come so quickly, at least.
Whether Tie Xiong or Helian Shanque, both had long been renowned. The spectators had a fair grasp of their relative strengths.
Therefore, with the stronger Tie Xiong holding greater odds of victory, all the audience wanted from this match was a hot-blooded, fierce battle.
Unfortunately, Helian Shanque did not fulfill their wishes.
From the very beginning, Helian Shanque knew that his was the battle meant to be sacrificed. Thus, from start to finish, there was none of that inch-for-inch, life-and-death struggle.
The two sides exchanged merely a dozen or so moves. After probing with all his might and discovering the enormous gap between himself and his opponent, Helian Shanque decisively admitted defeat on the spot.
Naturally, this drew boos from the entire arena.
What a perfunctory display!
Where was a martial artist's dignity?
Where was an expert's standing?
Helian Shanque seemed utterly unaware of it all and merely declared his defeat with wholehearted conviction.
To him, losing this match was not humiliating. On the contrary, it gave him plenty to boast about in the future.
After all, under his probing, Tie Xiong, who had wanted a swift victory, had revealed Unleaking Realm methods as expected. He could later claim that he had fought across realms and survived.
The third battle ended hastily. Before the spectators could even grow angry over Helian Shanque's voluntary defeat, the fourth battle arrived.
It was also a battle many