Victory and Defeat

As the tournament drew closer to its later stages, maintaining a perfect record became increasingly difficult.

Qin Heng still had three high-difficulty battles left to fight, and those opponents likewise had people they needed to fear.

In the 933rd round, Feng Qianxue, who still held a perfect record, encountered Meng Xing, whose only defeat had come at Qin Heng's hands.

Meng Xing was a special life-form. With a star as his body, he cultivated the Star Avenue. Every gesture carried the mighty power of the stars. Against Thunderclap, Han Ren, Jing Yuan, and the others, he had won in an overwhelmingly dominant fashion. His tenth-order superior secret arts were capable of destroying heaven and earth, and his victories had been even more decisive than Qin Heng's.

But he could not defeat Qin Heng. Countered by the Space Avenue, he lost his perfect record.

Facing Feng Qianxue, Meng Xing once more displayed the vast and majestic momentum of the Star Avenue.

Feng Qianxue, an Immortal Race woman, cultivated the Life Law and possessed nearly inexhaustible power. Every brilliantly colored petal was like a soul-chasing writ, drinking life force and claiming lives.

But her power was useless against Meng Xing.

Strictly speaking, Meng Xing was not actually "alive." Though he lived, he was a celestial body possessing Spiritual Wisdom, not a creature born of nature.

He was more like a rock or metal-type life-form, unaffected by laws of life force.

Feng Qianxue's abilities against Meng Xing were like cannonballs striking the sea—barely making a ripple.

After ten minutes of battle, Feng Qianxue's body and artifact were destroyed by the scorching power of the stars. Her divine soul rolled up Ten Thousand Flowers, trying to continue, but against Meng Xing, this lump of iron, she was ultimately helpless. After twenty-four minutes, she was