"Today's first battle: Ma Zhanyuan challenges First Arena Master Di Kuohai!" With several challengers refusing to yield to one another, the black-robed steward Yi Xun followed the order of the life-and-death writs and selected the first challenger.
Ma Zhanyuan's cultivation had reached the Mystic Palace Realm Ninth Heaven Peak. A faint baleful aura radiated from his entire body. He was likely the sort of martial artist who had been trapped at the World King Realm for years without breaking through and had come to the Five Immortal Arena seeking fierce battles in hopes of making a breakthrough.
Ma Zhanyuan was not the only one. Several other martial artists who had come to challenge Ye Zhen were in the same situation. After all, arena masters were scarce resources. If one was carelessly blasted off the arena, the battles at the Five Immortal Arena would turn into a succession of ordinary fights between martial artists, and they would no longer have anything against which to sharpen their blades.
"I know this Ma Zhanyuan. He's been stuck at the Mystic Palace Realm Ninth Heaven Peak for more than fifty years. Over the past thirty years, whenever more than one arena had an arena master, Ma Zhanyuan would appear. At least three First Arena Masters and one Second Arena Master have fallen to his hands. Yet despite all those great battles, he never broke through. Still, his combat strength absolutely rivals that of an early World King Realm expert." As he spoke, Luan Da turned his gaze toward Huang Dong. "Even you would find it difficult to defeat Ma Zhanyuan without using that Acquired Spirit Treasure."
There were simply too many martial artists around the Five Immortal Arena, a vast sea of people. Thus, Luan Da, Huang Dong, Yun Peng, and Ling Qianbi found