Battle Tianji Zi!

On the battle platform, a murderous aura spread like a rising tide.

Lu Changsheng stood with his hands behind his back, his azure robe snapping in the currents sweeping across the platform. Five kinds of lightning slowly coursed around him—black, gold, purple, blue, and red thunderlight surged beneath his skin like five dormant thunder dragons ready to burst from his body at any moment.

Behind him, the phantom of the Dragon Elephant Golden Body slowly condensed. The roars of twelve dragons and twelve elephants echoed through the void. That savage, tyrannical power made the aura of a mere Fifth-Rank Martial Venerable rival that of an Eighth-Rank Martial Venerable!

Yet Tianji Zi across from him remained as calm as drifting clouds and a gentle breeze.

He held a jade-bone folding fan, his moon-white robes immaculate, a warm jade-like smile hanging from his lips. It was as though he was not standing upon a platform where life and death would be decided, but strolling leisurely through his own backyard. The residual lightning waves radiating from Lu Changsheng shattered silently into specks of electric light once they came within three feet of him.

Lu Changsheng's eyes narrowed slightly.

He could sense an exceedingly terrifying power lurking within Tianji Zi, like an undercurrent beneath the deep sea—calm on the surface, yet capable of devouring all things. This man was likely the strongest opponent he had encountered so far!

"Lu Changsheng, before you die, I might as well let you die knowing the truth."

Tianji Zi gently shook his jade fan, his voice mild as though recounting an amusing tale. "My Heavenly Secrets Pavilion has investigated you for a long time. Your father is Lu Tianxuan, the War God of the Immortal Realm. Back then, he was hunted down and left you and your sister