The old man could hardly be called foolish. On the contrary, he was meticulous in his thinking and possessed an exceptional mind.
He now understood perfectly well that the middle-aged cultivator was not someone he could bully at will. Merely watching the first two matches had shown him how extraordinarily formidable his opponent's methods were.
Yet he had no choice but to step forward with such a forceful attitude.
Over the past several months, he had fought thirty or forty matches without suffering a single defeat. That was precisely why ten or twenty people followed him. If he let his opponent frighten him off now, he could forget about showing his face here again.
That was not an outcome he wanted to see.
Watching the old man fly away, the Xu family female cultivator's eyes revealed a faint smile. With her powerful divine sense, she had naturally seen the two Beast Roar Talismans being activated.
Although she did not know what kind of talismans they were, she had recognized them as talismans that unleashed sonic attacks.
Judging by how long the cultivator surnamed Li had remained dazed, she could gauge the power of those sonic attacks. Even a Ghost Lord cultivator caught unawares, with such a talisman activated nearby, would surely lose focus for an instant.
Although that lapse would be much shorter than a Ghost Commander cultivator's, the talismans would undoubtedly have an effect. With such powerful sonic-attack talismans in the middle-aged cultivator's possession, anyone would find him exceedingly difficult to deal with.
When the old man Ximen stepped onto the platform, everyone immediately fell silent and fixed their gazes on the arena in the air.
Everyone had witnessed the old man Ximen's methods many times, so his formidable abilities needed no explanation. Many of those present had been