Champion's Battle

Atop the mountain peak, a massive luminous seal floated silently.

"Hahaha, this Peak Seal is mine, and no one can take it away from me!"

Amidst excited roars, a burly man wielding an iron hammer, shirtless, charged up the mountain in a striking manner.

"Step back, this seal already has an owner."

On another mountain path, a tall figure slowly and steadily ascended, reaching the summit at the same time as the burly man.

"I am Giant Spirit Hammer Qin Yuan, ranked seventh on the Rising Stars Ranking. And who are you?"

Holding a massive iron hammer, Qin Yuan sized up Lin Dong with an unfriendly expression. His muscles bulged like coiled dragons, giving him a rather imposing presence.

"Number one on the Rising Stars Ranking: Lin Dong of the Dao Sect."

The handsome young man smiled and gestured.

"Hahaha, number one on the Rising Stars Ranking? So what if I'm number one on the Rising Stars Ranking? Do you really think I, Giant Spirit Hammer Qin Yuan, am the kind of person who bullies the weak and fears the strong?"

Upon hearing this, the burly man glared angrily at Lin Dong, put away his mighty iron hammer, and clasped his hands in a fist salute, saying, "Farewell!"

After saying that, Qin Yuan, with an agility that was completely out of character for his burly physique, headed straight down the mountain and disappeared from Lin Dong's sight in an instant. The whole set of movements was quite fluid and graceful.

Lin Dong: "..."

"Hmm, I have a feeling I just encountered some strange creature~"

Lin Dong rubbed his temples wearily, stepped forward, and grabbed the Peak Seal in his hand. With a loud boom, an incredibly thick pillar of light shot into the sky, enough for people both inside and outside the country to witness this magnificent sight.

The first of the Master of the Ten Peaks has emerged: Lin Dong of the Dao Sect!

Ten minutes later, as if in response to Lin Dong's emergence, beams of transparent light rose one after another from the other nine mountain peaks.

Apart from Mu Lingshan and two Dark Horses who did not make the list, Faceless Man Xu Xiu, Tang Xinlian the Fire Fairy, Little Elephant King Zhou Ze, Qing Teng the Illusionary Demon Green Vine, Yin Demon Teng Kui, Giant Spirit Hammer Qin Yuan are all among the top ten on the Rising Stars Ranking.

"Hua Chen didn't show up. Was he killed on the way? Heh, the people of the Yuan Sect are really useless. I have to complete the task assigned by the adults all by myself."

Within one of the pillars of light, the thin figure shrouded in a cloak glanced around at the figures in the other nine pillars of light and gave a rather low laugh.

"Buzz!"

After standing for a moment, the ten pillars of Connecting Heaven flashed simultaneously, sending the figures on the pillars to the mountainside of the central main peak, where the final Champion's Battle would begin.

On Boundless Mountain, a vast stone platform stretching as far as the eye can see lay there. Ten figures with obscure auras suddenly appeared there, eyeing each other warily.

"Heh heh, a bunch of useless trash. I have no interest in playing this boring standoff game with you guys."

Faceless Man Xu Xiu cloaked in black, glanced coldly at the group before turning and rushing up the mountain.

"How dare you! Who gave you the right to speak here!"

Clad in Red Soft Armor, Tang Xinlian, looking heroic and valiant, let out a delicate shout and brandished her crimson spear, ready to launch an attack from behind.

"Xin Lian, step back. This is a battle between the first and second place winners."

At that moment, an exceptionally fair and slender hand suddenly appeared and blocked Tang Xinlian.

After seeing that tall figure walk out, the restless people around them all fell silent. If it was him who came forward, then those of them who were ranked lower really had to step aside.

"Lin Dong, right? I've heard of your name before. I advise you not to mess with me, or you'll be dead before you even get comfortable at the top of the Top Rank."

Xu Xiu stopped in his tracks and coldly stared at the person who had stepped forward from the crowd.

"Brother Xu, you're sick."

Lin Dong, who had arrived casually, suddenly uttered a sentence.

Xu Xiu: "..."

"You are ill, and it is a terminal illness. Only I can cure it. I hope Brother Xu will not shy away from seeking medical help so that I can take action and cure it as soon as possible."

With a holy look on his face, Lin Dong reached out his large hand and lightly extended it towards Xu Xiu.

No matter how Xu Xiu retreated, that large hand always clung to him like a leech, impossible to dodge, and the distance between them remained exactly the same.

"Treat your mother's illness? I'll punch your dog's head off!"

Having had enough of this eerie feeling, Xu Xiu's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he raised his right arm, which was gathering black light, and threw a punch.

"Heavenly Demon Seal!"

As soon as the hundred-zhang-long Demon Seal, compressed from extremely pure Alien Demonic Qi, took shape, it crashed down on Lin Dong below with a thunderous roar.

"Brother Xu, don't worry, I don't blame you. Once I capture you, I will continue to treat your illness."

Seeing this, Lin Dong smiled nonchalantly, then suddenly clasped his hands together, his ten fingers rapidly changing, forming a series of dazzling and mysterious hand seals.

"The Emperor Scripture, the Great Heaven Cloud-Grinding Sword!"

The hand seals that had been changing rapidly at his fingertips suddenly stopped, and a surge of overwhelming Origin Energy swept outwards, quickly condensing into a giant light sword hundreds of feet long behind Lin Dong, with an astonishing sword aura spreading outwards.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The enormous lightsaber roared continuously, then abruptly changed direction in mid-air, aiming its incredibly sharp tip at the oncoming Demon Seal, before slashing down with terrifying, all-tearing power.

With a single sword strike, the terrifying Demon Seal, hundreds of feet long, was instantly shattered!

"Boom!!!"

Xu Xiu narrowly dodged the hundred-zhang sword beam formed by the Great Heaven Cloud-Grinding Sword. The sword beam swept across the sky and cut an astonishing ravine hundreds of zhang long on the platform below, with dense sword energy swirling around it.

"Stasis!"

As soon as he finished speaking, an unusually profound and invisible wave swept over, instantly freezing Xu Xiu, who had just dodged the Great Heaven Cloud-Grinding Sword.

"Bang!"

Xu Xiu's body suddenly stiffened, and the image shattered like a mirror. He instantly broke free from the restraints of the Stillness Plate. With his exceptionally rich combat experience, he didn't think twice and slashed his finger in mid-air with lightning speed.

"Sky Devouring Demonic Abyss!"

With a flick of the finger, a massive rift suddenly opened in space, within which endless, eerie Demonic Qi writhed and surged, like a colossal beast from the abyss opening its gaping maw, both malevolent and bizarre.

"Huh, the Stillness Plate doesn't seem to have any effect on you."

Lin Dong raised an eyebrow in surprise, then instantly unleashed the hand seal he had already formed with his fingertips, sending a profound wave of energy swiftly piercing through the void.

"But it's alright~ Flood Emperor Scripture, descend!"

As the light laughter subsided, the entire world instantly darkened. Tang Xinlian and the others subconsciously looked up and saw a vast star field rapidly emerging from the void above the Nine Heavens, adorned with countless ancient stars.

"The Flood Emperor Scripture, the Flood Emperor's World Destruction!"

The vast ancient star field suddenly shone brightly. After an accelerated writhing and contraction, countless stars leaped out of the star map, transforming into meteors that plummeted down with terrifying power, heading towards the enemy.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Ancient stars, each as large as a small mountain, crashed down relentlessly, instantly shattering the Demon Abyss that Xu Xiu had hastily summoned, all before his eyes were filled with an extremely ugly expression.