"Is this the Blood Bat Heaven-Defying Scripture? Truly extraordinary! Even from dozens of meters away, merely watching from afar, my blood boiled like an overflowing river, battering my body madly, trying to burst free and surge toward Xiao Yuntian!"
Xiao Chen stared in shock at Xiao Yuntian nearby, wreathed in black smoke and surging blood-red light as he drove his heaven-defying power to the limit.
The Blood Bat Heaven-Defying Scripture truly deserved its reputation as a wondrous ancient art. It could draw out one's blood and stir one's vitality, its mysteries as unfathomable as a dragon.
"What? Scared? Where did that ice-cool composure of yours go?" Xiao Yuntian shook his head.
He had thought Xiao Chen truly possessed a trump card, allowing him to remain fearless in the face of danger.
Who would have thought that the moment the heaven-defying power appeared, he would turn pale with fright like some country boy?
A moment later, he understood.
He was a Mountain Lord, backed by a Dust Rank elder and an entire Ancient Clan. His talent, family background, and opportunities were all of the highest order.
Though the white-robed youth before him possessed astonishing talent and could be called a prodigy, how could he truly remain as calm and composed as he had appeared earlier when faced with absolute power?
He had merely been struggling to hold on, forcing a show of composure.
Take the Blood Bat Heaven-Defying Scripture, for instance. Without someone supporting him, no amount of spiritual aptitude or comprehension would let him lay a finger on it.
Even he had endured countless twists and turns, narrowly escaping death and paying a tremendous price to obtain this Ancient Scripture.
Though Xiao Chen was quite the prodigy, he had come from the Mortal World, after all. He could not possibly