Now he understood why he was the empire's strongest!

"Your Highness King Frost Extreme, aren't you going too far?!"

Flender helped Yu Xiaogang up, blood streaming from the corner of his mouth. His concern for his best friend even surpassed his fear of Luo Li.

"Going too far?"

Luo Li scoffed disdainfully.

"From beginning to end, you were the ones violating the Great Soul Arena's rules, yet you dare accuse me of going too far?"

"These are the rules of soul fighting. If you cannot even accept getting hurt, then you should not have come here."

"Babbling like infants in a greenhouse is where you belong."

"If you attempt to undermine the Great Soul Arena's rules, you should be prepared to pay the corresponding price."

"Besides, I am also the leader of the Imperial Dou Team..."

His words fell like a massive stone plunging into a lake.

What?!

Flender's pupils abruptly constricted.

He had never imagined that the leader of the Imperial Dou Team was actually His Highness King Frost Extreme standing before him.

The doubts that had lingered in his heart were now answered.

Why had King Frost Extreme appeared at the Austera Great Soul Arena? Why had the Imperial Dou Team's teacher never shown up from beginning to end...

Yet before he could think further, Flender felt every hair on his body stand on end.

In the distance, Luo Li raised his hand, and brilliant golden light flashed like a blazing sun.

The Sun Eclipse Sword appeared in his hand, carrying scorching heat and holiness.

"You, prepare yourself."

The golden blade of the Sun Eclipse Sword pointed directly at Zhao Wuji.

This fellow was rather stubborn. He had kept looking at Luo Li with a gaze Luo Li disliked.

So he would start with him!

The next instant, he moved like a white ghost.

In but a moment, Luo Li had already appeared before Zhao Wuji.

The intense sense of danger made Zhao Wuji tremble all over. With no time to think, he hurriedly mobilized all his Soul Power.

The terrifying pressure brought by the empire's God of War left him not daring to hold anything back.

The black spirit ring in the seventh position suddenly lit up.

Great Vajra Bear Martial Soul True Body!

Zhao Wuji's body grew enormous and ferocious, finally transforming into a massive Great Vajra Bear!

His enormous body made him seem like a small mountain before Luo Li, who stood less than two meters tall.

Yet for some reason, despite such a vast difference in size, no one felt that the smaller Luo Li was any less imposing.

That slender figure instead gave off a strange sense of towering grandeur.

Though Zhao Wuji's Great Vajra Bear Martial Soul True Body was far larger than him, standing before Luo Li, he somehow gave people the bizarre impression of a toy bear.

In an extraordinary world, the disparity created by size could indeed be endlessly erased and reversed by an absolute gap in strength.

Facing Zhao Wuji in his Great Vajra Bear Martial Soul True Body, several times larger than himself, Luo Li's expression did not change. He merely slowly raised the longsword in his hand.

Such an utterly simple motion sent chills down Zhao Wuji's back.

Black, black, black, black, black, black, red, red—eight spirit rings whose configuration could no longer be described by any so-called optimal ratio circled the white-clad figure.

This...

Everyone who saw it was deeply shocked.

"What is going on?!"

"I remember King Frost Extreme's spirit ring configuration was not this outrageous!"

"Could spirit rings also change after they are obtained?!"

"..."

This was the first time Luo Li's spirit rings had appeared before the public since receiving the rewards of the Asura God's inheritance.

That absurdly different configuration naturally drew astonished, bewildered, and probing looks from everyone.

But Luo Li did not care in the slightest.

Hiding one's edge and playing the fool was something only the weak did, fearing that a tall tree would catch the wind and forced into such measures.

But he no longer needed to do so.

With combat strength that had already surpassed that of a Super Douluo, Luo Li had long since entered the ranks of the continent's greatest experts.

Any malicious intent lurking in the shadows could simply be cut down with a single sword.

With sufficient strength, would being so timid and restrained not be wronging himself?

What did their speculation have to do with him?

Almost no one could understand why Luo Li's spirit rings had changed so drastically. Only one person was an exception:

Qian Renxue.

Looking at the spirit rings with their strange configuration circling Luo Li, she too was shocked and surprised, but she was not as lost as the others.

Knowing secrets unknown to ordinary people, she had already vaguely guessed a few clues.

His spirit ring configuration is completely different from before...

Could it be that Luo Li has already come into contact with an inheritance?!

Luo Li, just how many more things do you have that can surprise me...

Qian Renxue looked at Luo Li in the distance, a faint gleam in her golden eyes as though she wished to see through him completely.

Yu Xiaogang, meanwhile, seemed possessed. His eyes were lifeless as he kept murmuring, "Impossible, this is impossible!"

Luo Li's spirit ring configuration had undoubtedly trampled the soul master theory Yu Xiaogang had been so proud of into the dirt.

Everyone reacted differently, but Zhao Wuji had no mind to spare for such thoughts.

Because he was the one facing Luo Li right now!

The black spirit ring in the fifth position lit up.

The Sun Eclipse Sword descended.

Its blade tore through space, stirring ripples through the air.

Fifth Spirit Skill, Life-Consuming Sword Edge.

This was also the spirit skill Luo Li had used when he killed that enemy commander, a Soul Douluo.

The effect of this spirit skill was simple: sharpness!

Based on Luo Li's own strength, it granted the sword in his hand an absolute increase in sharpness!

Under the enhancement of Life-Consuming Sword Edge—

Even a Soul Douluo's protective Soul Power was as fragile as paper, and could only have its throat easily slit by a single sword!

Zhao Wuji frantically activated his Soul Power to block it, pushing his Martial Soul True Body to its limit.

Thanks to the advantages of the Great Vajra Bear Martial Soul, Zhao Wuji's defense did not lose out even to some purely defensive soul masters.

Because of this, some called him the Immovable Bright King.

Even if King Frost Extreme is a Soul Douluo, he should not be able to break the Great Vajra Bear Martial Soul True Body's defense so easily, right?

Zhao Wuji thought to himself.

However, he soon understood just how laughable that thought was.

The Sun Eclipse Sword, enhanced by Life-Consuming Sword Edge, fell upon the Great Vajra Bear Martial Soul True Body.

"How is this possible?!" Zhao Wuji cried out in shock.

He actually felt the defenses of his Great Vajra Bear Martial Soul True Body shatter beneath that blade without the slightest resistance!

"Ridiculous."

When it came to piercing defenses alone, even the Seven Kill wielded by Sword Douluo, a Super Douluo, could not compare to Luo Li's Sun Eclipse Sword enhanced by Life-Consuming Sword Edge!

Zhao Wuji was merely a Soul Saint. Even if he activated all his Soul Power to resist, it was futile!

The Sun Eclipse Sword cleaved into Zhao Wuji's Great Vajra Bear Martial Soul True Body like it was cutting tofu, meeting no obstruction whatsoever.

The terrifying blade went straight for Zhao Wuji's true body!

"Thud!"

A dull sound rang out, as though something had fallen to the ground.

Everyone looked over.

On the ground lay a long object, spurting blood.

It was unmistakably an arm!

Zhao Wuji clutched his now-empty right shoulder, his face deathly pale.

So close!

Had he not shifted slightly at the last moment, that blade would not have cut off merely one arm, but his entire body!

A little closer, and he would have been cut in two!

Only now did he truly understand.

Why the white-clad youth before him was called by some the empire's strongest!