The figure standing tall with his spear in the arena was like bedrock, seared deep into everyone's pupils.
Blood from his split tiger's mouth dripped slowly down the dark spear shaft.
Opposite him, Xiao Bieli's longsword had flown from his hand and lodged diagonally in the bluestone floor several zhang away.
His face was pale as paper, his chest heaving violently. He forcibly swallowed the mouthful of blood rising to his throat, yet the streak of crimson spilling from the corner of his lips was incomparably glaring.
He staggered and steadied himself. The aloof bearing he had once possessed, like the clear radiance of a cold moon, had vanished without a trace. All that remained was incredulous horror and a trace of bewilderment.
He, Xiao Bieli, Hanyu Valley's most outstanding genius, one of Yunlin Prefecture's younger generation's Five Heroes, undefeated across the four directions of Edge Tempering—had actually lost?
And he had been crushed head-on just as he unleashed his hidden trump card, his newly formed Ice True Qi, intending to lock in victory with the force of thunder rolling over ten thousand jun!
How was that possible?!
After a brief, deathly silence came an enormous uproar, like a volcano erupting!
"He—he won?! Senior Brother Chen won!!"
A Wutai Sect disciple suddenly leaped to his feet, his voice turning shrill and warped from extreme excitement, nearly cracking.
"My heavens! Chen Qing! Chen Qing beat Xiao Bieli!"
"Hahahaha! We won! We won!"
"One spear! Just one spear! That was too domineering! So satisfying!"
The Wutai Sect disciples' section instantly plunged into an ocean of wild jubilation. The suppression, humiliation, and despondency from before erupted completely at this moment!
Countless people raised their arms and shouted, their faces flushed red, too excited to contain themselves.
Li Wang glanced at Li Lei beside