Zhou Haitang had lost.
In both body and heart, he had lost.
He had lost to the martial arts intent concentrated in that single finger, to the invincible youth's Grandmaster power!
But immediately after Zhou Haitang's defeat, another Grandmaster stepped onto the Martial Dao Platform, eager to contend with that dazzling game piece beside the surging Dragon River!
Most of the Grandmasters present felt the same impulse as Zhou Haitang. Apart from Xu Nuo of Boundless Mountain, they all wanted to experience the martial dao intent and power the youth had displayed in defeating opponent after opponent, to pursue it, to witness that pinnacle of strength beyond anything they had imagined!
Bang!
Bang!
Yet the Grandmasters who took the platform were routed and sent flying one after another.
They unleashed their signature arts-sabers, swords, spears, staves, fists, palms, and divine techniques. But before that dazzling game piece, every variation of the martial dao seemed to meet its counter. In the end, not a single person could shake it!
With one game piece, he suppressed the Grandmasters of the world!
None of those present could move that single finger!
As no more Grandmasters stepped onto the platform, every Grandmaster present, along with the relatives they had brought and the prodigies gathered from the Nineteen Provinces, fell speechless. A deathly silence reigned!
Only that Heaven and Earth Dharma Form remained, wreathed in the blazing flames of divine might, like a deity sitting serenely with an icy gaze, looking down upon all living beings!
No one else took the platform. No one could speak of competing anymore!
Whether in martial dao intent, physical strength, vast spiritual perception, or a Grandmaster's divine might, that fourteen-year-old youth had already climbed to the summit!
He was beyond their match!
This challenge, initiated by Qin Wuque, had