The surroundings were noisy and chaotic, but Shen Ye remained unmoved, his heart as still as an ancient well. Most of his attention was immersed in cultivation.
Although he had the Destiny Orb as an aid in this life, he had never relaxed his standards for himself. He cultivated diligently almost every moment.
He had reached the pinnacle of the Human Realm in his previous life through far more than just talent.
At that moment, the commotion outside suddenly quieted considerably.
Without turning around, Shen Ye knew that his opponent for the day had arrived.
Though Shen Ye did not care about his opponent, the other party clearly did not feel the same.
As he passed Shen Ye, Wang Bing lowered his voice and said in a tone only the two of them could hear, "Kid, put some effort into your act today. Don't let anyone see through it!"
Shen Ye opened his eyes and looked at him in confusion. Had this guy been kicked in the head by a donkey?
Even with his intelligence, he could not decipher what this guy was thinking.
Yet Wang Bing was quite pleased with Shen Ye's expression. "Not bad. You got into character pretty quickly."
Without waiting for Shen Ye to react, Wang Bing walked to the other side of the arena and stood there, chin raised high with an arrogant look of utter contempt for everyone else.
After a Longhu Mountain Taoist announced the start of the match, Wang Bing deliberately said loudly, "Shen Ye, right? Interested in putting on a battle of geniuses for these mediocre people?"
The spectators who had merely come to watch the show were initially stunned. How had the drama suddenly turned on them? Then, intense dissatisfaction erupted.
"Little brat, who are you calling mediocre?"
"Brother Shen Ye, smash that bastard's dog head in for me!"
Shen Ye narrowed his eyes and smiled faintly. "How do you want to play this?"
"Use that technique you learned yesterday." Wang Bing rather enjoyed the insults, sweeping a provocative gaze over the stands. "Was I wrong? You spent a little time learning an ordinary technique, and it was enough to shock all of you?"
"That bastard actually dared to call our family's Spirit Binding and General Dispatching an ordinary technique!" Feng Shayan roared furiously from the stands.
Beside her, Feng Zhenghao's expression turned solemn. "What does he mean? Could it be that he also..."
"Come on! Let's each summon our own spirits and see who can seize the other's spirits!" Wang Bing shouted, spreading his arms. "Come out!"
In an instant, more than a dozen soul forms flew out of his body. Yin winds surged through the arena, as though a hundred ghosts were parading through the night.
It seems that borrowing the name Spirit Binding and General Dispatching made him misunderstand something. Shen Ye chuckled inwardly. He roughly understood what Wang Bing was thinking. Since you took the initiative to help expand my reputation, I won't hold back.
When Shen Ye truly summoned that incomparably powerful humanoid phantom, Wang Bing felt completely at ease. He looked around and mocked, "Watch closely. This is Spirit Binding and General Dispatching!"
Everyone felt a gust of yin wind pass by. Then, nothing happened. It was practically a perfect reenactment of yesterday's scene.
"Pfft, did this guy come here to tell jokes?"
"Though I want to laugh too, didn't Feng Xingtong's Spirit Binding and General Dispatching fail yesterday as well?"
"So does he actually know Spirit Binding and General Dispatching or not?"
Quite a few people turned their gazes toward the Feng Family, hoping to find an answer from their expressions.
Feng Zhenghao exhaled heavily, his expression dark. "That is indeed Spirit Binding and General Dispatching!"
However, Wang Bing turned a deaf ear to those voices. Looking at the humanoid phantom, he seemed at a loss. "What is going on?"
He had originally thought Feng Xingtong's Spirit Binding and General Dispatching had failed because his inheritance was incomplete, but why did his own command not work either?
Could it be that this spirit is too powerful, exceeding the limits of Spirit Binding and General Dispatching? Even better. Once I devour this spirit, even the Ten Elders won't be my match! Wang Bing steadied himself and said in a low voice, "Hey, you can lose now."
After saying that, he put on a show and shouted, "Spirit Binding and General Dispatching!"
Yet the phantom behind Shen Ye remained as immovable as a boulder.
This time, Wang Bing felt he could no longer save face. His gaze turned hostile. "What do you mean by this?"
Shen Ye shook his head slightly. "Actually, I wanted to ask you the same thing. What do you mean?"
Before Wang Bing could respond, the phantom behind Shen Ye exhaled. A fierce gale tore through the arena, and the raging wind sent Wang Bing flying straight into the wall at the edge of the arena. He slid down like a lump of mud.
Wang Bing struggled to climb up from the ground, then spat out a huge mouthful of blood. Shocked and enraged, he blurted out, "You actually dared to betray my grandfather!"
The moment those words came out, the entire venue erupted.
"What's going on? Why can't I make sense of this?"
"Don't look at me. I don't understand either."
Though he had accidentally let it slip, Wang Bing could no longer care about that. He simply exposed everything. "Hmph, do you really think he and I comprehended Spirit Binding and General Dispatching on our own? Don't be stupid. Anyone with a brain would know that's impossible. My grandfather clearly taught him Spirit Binding and General Dispatching!"
The already noisy stands now boiled like scalding water.
"I knew it. A genius like this couldn't possibly exist in reality!"
"Wait, why does his grandfather know the Feng Family's Ultimate Skill? Could it be... Elder Wang Ai used to be a live-in son-in-law of the Feng Family?"
Feng Shayan immediately perked up from one side of the stands. "So they're two thieves. Hmph, they put on quite a convincing act!"
Feng Xingtong, however, shook his head. "It's different!"
Feng Zhenghao looked at his son. "Xingtong, you...?"
Feng Xingtong took a deep breath. "Do you remember? Yesterday, Shen Ye forcibly bound Grandpa Wang Zizhong from my hands, but the problem is, I hadn't summoned him at the time!"
Feng Zhenghao's pupils suddenly contracted. "You mean that not only did he learn Spirit Binding and General Dispatching at a glance, he even developed it further and derived an even more powerful divine ability from it?"
The expression on Feng Shayan's face froze. She mechanically turned to look at her little brother, hoping to hear him deny it.
Unfortunately, Feng Xingtong did not grant her wish. Instead, he nodded and looked at Shen Ye with awe. "That's why I said he's completely different from an idiot like Wang Bing!"
Feng Shayan recalled what Hua Yue had said yesterday, and her worldview finally shattered completely. "Heh heh, so I really am the abnormal one!"
Although more than a hundred gazes were fixed on him, Shen Ye's expression did not change in the slightest. He merely smiled and raised his index finger toward Wang Bing. "Heh, you said my Spirit Binding and General Dispatching was taught by your grandfather. Then I wonder, did he teach you this move?"
Shen Ye lightly tapped with his index finger, and the spirits and ghosts surrounding Wang Bing were instantly pulled away.
"Hmph, it's just an application of Spirit Binding and General Dispatching..." Wang Bing was not surprised that his spirits had been taken. He was still trying to talk tough when his expression abruptly changed. "Bastard, what did you do to me?"
Countless streams of black qi flew out from his ears, nose, eyes, and mouth, creating an eerie and sinister sight.
Immediately afterward, his aura visibly declined at a rapid rate!
"No, no! This is all my power! Impossible! The spirits I devoured with the Spirit Devouring Method should have permanently become my power!" Wang Bing had gone mad, using both hands and feet as he tried to stuff the dissipating soul forms back into his mouth.
"This guy is finished." Feng Zhenghao sighed.
"That's too overbearing. In his hands, Spirit Binding and General Dispatching is practically an immortal art!" Feng Xingtong watched the scene enviously.
The people in the stands were also utterly shocked. Though Shen Ye had not directly responded, Wang Bing's reaction made it clear that he had been imagining things. The technique Shen Ye had comprehended was fundamentally not the same as the Wang Family's Spirit Binding and General Dispatching.
"Tch, so in the end, this idiot couldn't do it himself and assumed no one else could either!"
"How shameful. I misunderstood Brother Shen Ye just now. I never expected someone so astonishingly gifted to truly exist in this world!"
Hearing those remarks, Wang Bing, who had already suffered grave damage to his vitality, was so enraged that he spat out another huge mouthful of blood and fainted on the spot.
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