The Clash of Two Heroes

This astonishing aura was like that of a god descended from ancient times, crushing heaven and earth, suffocating all who faced it, rendering everything Ye Xiwen had done before this utterly useless.

Before this, Ye Xiwen's string of unexpected achievements had given many people considerable confidence in him. They believed he could stand against Mu Shengjie.

After all, he had accomplished many things that ordinary people thought fundamentally impossible. Thus, although many believed Mu Shengjie could sweep through everything, many still had faith in Ye Xiwen and felt that he should be able to win. After all, he was no fool—would he dare challenge Mu Shengjie so openly without a certain degree of confidence?

Since he had dared to challenge him, he must have had some measure of certainty. It was hard to say whether Ye Xiwen might ultimately turn the tables.

But now, two steps—merely two steps—had overturned everything. Those who had originally favored Ye Xiwen no longer thought highly of him. It was not that they underestimated Ye Xiwen; Mu Shengjie was simply too terrifying, truly far too frightening.

He was like a god, impossible to contend against, difficult to defeat. If Ye Xiwen had been given several hundred years for his cultivation to catch up with Mu Shengjie's, people would still have felt that he had a chance to battle Mu Shengjie. After all, no one dared deny his talent. Reaching this level in such a short time, his talent was powerful enough to shake the past and awe the present.

But he did not have that time. He was not at his strongest, yet he had encountered Mu Shengjie at the height of his power. That terrifying aura, like that of a god, caused nearly everyone to unanimously lose faith in Ye Xiwen.

Mu Shengjie had