"Second Brother!"
Seeing Balhu's right arm fly into the air, Balong, the First Deputy Hall Master, let out a startled roar.
Along with it came cries of alarm throughout the hall, and gasps that sounded like raging waves crashing against the shore!
It could be said that of the 150,000 priests of the Barbarian Spirit Hall watching the battle, over ninety percent believed that Ye Zhen, the Left Grand Chief Priest, was doomed to lose. After all, the gap in strength was simply too great.
Even among the remaining ten percent, most believed that Ye Zhen must have something to rely on, that he would not lose too badly or at least had some means of protecting himself.
But absolutely no one had expected Ye Zhen to win, much less win so cleanly and decisively.
Thus, the sound of tens of thousands of priests drawing sharp breaths was no exaggeration at all.
Not to mention those priests—even Princess Changle looked somewhat surprised. Clearly, she had not expected Ye Zhen to win so cleanly either.
In truth, it had to do with the two Acquired Spirit Treasures in Ye Zhen's hands.
One of Ye Zhen's Acquired Spirit Treasures was the Lightning Whip, capable of unleashing Evil Slaying Divine Thunder. It was a treasure whose grade came infinitely close to that of a High-grade Acquired Spirit Treasure.
Yet its power was still inferior to Ye Zhen's Purple Spirit Immortal Sword.
The Evil Slaying Divine Thunder of the Lightning Whip might have possessed the power to heavily injure Balhu in a single strike, but it was absolutely not as monstrous as the Purple Spirit Immortal Sword.
Balhu's attainments in the Arrow Dao were exceptionally high. Not only was he adept at long-range combat, he was even more skilled in close combat.
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