The Imperial Daughter Ji Xueyao Descends!

Provoking Xuan Zhou!?

Did he not know that Xuan Zhou was a direct descendant of the Xuan Clan?

Let alone the Barren Continent—even in the Central Region, how many would dare act like this!?

"Hehe, hahahaha!"

Xuan Zhou himself froze for a moment before suddenly bursting into wild laughter.

"Interesting, truly interesting!"

"In all these years, no one of my generation has ever dared challenge me!"

But suddenly, Xuan Zhou's eyes turned icy to the extreme.

"Since you seek death today, I'll grant you your wish!"

Qi Chuan hurried forward. "Young Master Xuan Zhou, you are the Chief Judge. This violates the rules!"

In a sect tournament, how could an outsider's junior take the field?

Moreover, Xuan Zhou's cultivation had already reached the Myriad Manifestation Realm, and he possessed a Dao Body talent. If he truly made a move, how could Ye Xuan possibly be his match!?

If the champion of all three sect tournament rankings died in Tianxuan City, Qi Chuan would have no way to answer to the imperial dynasty.

"Hehe, as the Chief Judge, this young master bears the duty of review and punishment!"

"This man has shown contempt for the Chief Judge. He should rightfully be punished!"

But with a sweep of his hand, Xuan Zhou treated Qi Chuan's words as nothing but hot air.

"However, this young master will not bully trash as lowly as you!"

"I will only use Heavenly Gang Realm cultivation. If you can take one move from me without dying, I'll acknowledge you as the champion!"

Xuan Zhou narrowed his eyes, a savage grin on his face.

At that moment, hundreds of thousands of cultivators throughout the venue looked at one another, and discussion erupted once more.

A noble of the Xuan Clan was personally taking the field!?

Even if he suppressed his cultivation, Ye Xuan had no chance of surviving!

"Hehe, Ye Xuan, keep being arrogant. Aren't you still going to die at Young Master Xuan's hands!?"

"You deceived me—this is your punishment!"

Meanwhile, Liu Yunxi, who had been healing her injuries in the Azure Mist Sect seats, slowly woke. Seeing this scene, she felt even more delighted!

If Ye Xuan did not die, she would never be satisfied!

"One move!?"

Behind Su Ziyun, Ye Xuan merely chuckled and shook his head. "So what if I let you have three moves!?"

Three moves!?

Hiss!

For a moment, everyone in the venue could not help but suck in a sharp breath once again.

Even at a time like this, Ye Xuan was still provoking him!?

"You're courting death!"

Xuan Zhou had completely run out of patience. The radiance of his Dao Body surged forth, and his dharma manifestation burst from his body, shooting into the sky!

The dharma manifestation resembled a rising sun in the black night, silver radiance stretching endlessly. Its pressure rolled down like a vast torrent, as though the heavens were collapsing!

"The Silver Sun Dao Body, one of the Xuan Clan's innate Dao bloodlines!"

"We had only heard of it before—at last, we are seeing it today!"

"There is no suspense to this battle. Now we'll see whether Ye Xuan can even leave behind an intact corpse!"

As they looked at Xuan Zhou suspended beneath the silver glow of that rising sun, everyone shook their heads.

What a pity. The first monstrous genius in Northern Region history to claim all three titles was about to fall just as he rose!

"Die!"

With the might of his dharma manifestation climbing to its peak, Xuan Zhou raised his hand amid the dazzling radiance and threw down a punch, like a great star plunging from the sky!

Cloud Palace Nine Absolutes, Falling Star!

Though the technique Xuan Zhou used was not an ultimate art of the Xuan Clan, it was still a top-tier inheritance of Cloud Palace Academy.

The fist fell like a star, its radiance blazing for a hundred zhang!

Su Ziyun's entire body tensed, and Qi Chuan was also ready to intervene at any moment!

"A Dao Body?"

"Nothing impressive!"

Yet Ye Xuan only sneered at the sight. Then he raised his hand as arcs of lightning suddenly burst across it!

Interwoven lightning wrapped around Ye Xuan's arm almost instantly.

Not only did the lightning radiance grow ever more dazzling, even its color was continuously changing!

"Why hasn't he drawn his sword yet!?"

At this moment, Bai Mu and Mo Feng, who had rushed over upon hearing the news, anxiously slapped their thighs!

Ye Xuan was a peerless prodigy they had waited so long to find. If he used the Extreme Thunder Sword, he might still have a chance of taking it head-on!

Yet now, they discovered that Ye Xuan still had no intention of drawing his sword!?

Wasn't this joking with his life!

"No, Ye Xuan cannot die!"

Mo Feng could wait no longer and made to enter the arena!

"Don't move yet!"

But Bai Mu suddenly stopped him.

"What are you doing!? Are you going to watch him die, damn it!?" Mo Feng roared.

"Heizi, look at Ye Xuan's fist!"

"That is... the sixth form of the Six Treasury Thunder Fist!" Bai Mu's expression was exceedingly grave.

"What did you say?"

Mo Feng froze at those words, then looked toward the arena, his pupils abruptly contracting.

White, green, blue, orange—at last, the lightning radiance enveloping Ye Xuan's entire arm turned purple!

The brilliance of the lightning had reached its utmost limit!

Six Treasury Thunder Fist!

Sixth Form—Annihilation Thunder!

Buzz!

In that instant, Ye Xuan gave a cold snort. Thunder energy burst forth as he threw a savage punch!

Boom!

Thunder energy surged into the heavens, blasting dust like a tidal wave.

The intense light was like a blazing sun flashing into existence, stabbing so fiercely into everyone's eyes that they could not open them.

The force of the impact sent the entire arena barrier into a mad tremor!

The earth rumbled as though mountains were collapsing!

Qi Chuan and the others' cries of alarm mingled within it.

Only after three breaths did everyone regain clear vision.

But when they looked toward the arena, their mouths could not help falling wide open!

At this moment, the arena had cracked inch by inch. Arcs of lightning and scattered sparks littered its surface, and it had nearly become ruins.

Yet Ye Xuan, who should have been blasted to death by that punch, was still standing where he was!?

His hair whipped in the wind, purple lightning lingering around his left arm!

Ye Xuan had actually blocked that punch!?

And he was even completely unscathed!?

"H-How is that possible!?"

Everyone was dumbfounded, and Liu Yunxi's eyes widened in utter disbelief!

A mere early-stage Heavenly Dipper cultivator had actually taken Xuan Zhou's Falling Star head-on without harm!?

"The sixth form of Six Treasury—the Annihilation Thunder Fist!"

"You actually mastered the final form!"

Qi Chuan cried out in shock.

Only those of their generation knew that, ever since the founding patriarch, no one had cultivated one of the Violet Firmament Sect's two supreme inheritances, the Six Treasury Thunder Fist, to the sixth form!

Who would have thought that today, in the hands of a Heavenly Dipper junior, they would witness the Annihilation Thunder punch that had once shaken the Barren Continent!

"The Annihilation Thunder form is no weaker than Cloud Pavilion!"

"No wonder it could block Falling Stars!"

Even Chairman Mo Feng's eyes shone brilliantly. The surprises Ye Xuan had brought them were simply too many!

"Is that all?"

At this moment, atop the utterly shattered arena, Ye Xuan slowly gripped the Extreme Thunder Sword embedded in the ground. Looking at Xuan Zhou, still suspended high in the sky, the corner of his lips lifted!

"Ant!"

"This young master will make sure you die without a burial place!"

Only now did Xuan Zhou recover his senses. Faced with Ye Xuan's mockery, humiliation and rage surged within him to the extreme.

Never had he imagined that Ye Xuan could truly block this punch of his!

If word got back to Cloud Palace Academy, would he have any face left!?

Consumed by fury, Xuan Zhou directly drew his sword. Silver radiance blazed from its edge as sky-rending Sword Qi, empowered by the Rising Sun Dharma Manifestation, slashed forth!

The sword qi was like a silver rainbow, spanning the entire arena!

"Th-this is the Heavenly Authority Sword Art!"

"One of Cloud Palace Academy's Seven Secrets!"

"Xuan Zhou has actually obtained one of Cloud Palace's Seven Secrets!"

The crowd froze for an instant before cries of shock erupted.

Cloud Palace Academy possessed the Fourteen Absolutes and Seven Secrets. Every inheritance was unique to the academy and peerless among those of the same rank!

This Heavenly Authority Sword Art was by no means comparable to the Falling Stars fist technique from before!

"Draw your sword!"

In the distance, Mo Feng could no longer remain composed and roared toward the arena.

Although Xuan Zhou was still at the Heavenly Gang cultivation level, he had now used a sword art. No matter how powerful the Annihilation Thunder Fist was, it could never withstand that edge of the Sword Dao!

"Heh, it is worthy of drawing the Extreme Thunder Sword after all!"

On the arena, Ye Xuan naturally needed no reminder.

Almost the instant Xuan Zhou drew his sword, Ye Xuan's hand, wrapped in purple lightning, abruptly pulled out the Extreme Thunder Sword!

Buzz!

The Extreme Thunder Sword had already been incomparably sharp, and now it was further enhanced by the scabbard Mo Feng had given him. The moment its blade left the sheath, brilliant lightning erupted like daylight splitting the heavens!

Sword Light that illuminated the sky surged forth. Ye Xuan swung with one arm and slashed sideways!

Boom!

In an instant, two blinding Sword Qi collided in the center of the arena.

The violent explosion was like thunder bursting across the heavens. The terrifying shockwave of Sword Qi swept out, shaking the arena barrier until it was covered in cracks!

At that moment, the entire arena was swallowed by radiance and swirling dust.

Even cultivators standing nearby had to brace themselves with all their strength to remain upright.

Cough, cough!

Yet just then, amid the crowd's utterly stunned gazes, a figure suddenly staggered backward from within the dust!

Only after the aura of the Myriad Phenomena realm erupted did he manage to steady himself!

"Th-that is... Young Master Xuan Zhou!?"

"Was he just knocked back?"

"Gasp, where is Ye Xuan? Is he dead?"

The crowd cried out in shock, then looked again toward the arena, only to discover that the other figure was still standing firmly at its center!

His robes fluttered lightly, his expression unchanged. Only arcs of lightning still slithered across the lowered blade in his hand!

Compared to Xuan Zhou's silver armor, covered in scorched black lightning marks, he was clearly far more at ease!

That strike of Heavenly Authority had actually been defeated!?

Xuan Zhou had attacked twice, and even after using his Sword Dao, he still could not do anything to Ye Xuan!?

How was that possible!?

At this moment, everyone looked at one another, stormy waves raging in their hearts.

"Th-Thunderous Cloud Sword Art!"

"Ye Xuan has mastered the Thunderous Cloud Sword Art!"

All of a sudden, the Heavenward Sect Master growled as if he had gone mad. He looked at Su Ziyun, his entire body trembling!

The other sect masters also felt their hearts tighten at his words.

The Thunderous Cloud Sword Art was the Violet Firmament Sect's sole inheritance. Its founding patriarch had relied on this sword art to sweep across the three provinces of the imperial dynasty, never suffering a defeat against anyone in the same realm!

He had even once crossed swords with Cloud Palace Academy's first Tianquan Tower Master, defeating him with half a strand of sword qi.

Who would have thought that Heavenly Authority would once again lose to Thunderous Cloud today!

"Hahaha, once the Extreme Thunder Sword is drawn, it truly is invincible!" Mo Feng laughed wildly at this moment.

After all, the Extreme Thunder Sword in Ye Xuan's hand had come from the Heavenly Mystery Artificer Guild!

"Damn it!"

Xuan Zhou, whose hair had fallen loose around his temples, found the astonishment around him even more unbearable. The fire of humiliation and rage swallowed him whole. With a furious curse, he prepared to charge at Ye Xuan under the pressure of the Myriad Phenomena realm.

"Are you going to go back on your word!?"

But at that moment, Qi Chuan appeared directly outside the arena, the power of Nirvana pouring forth.

"Xuan Zhou, even if you are of the Xuan Clan's direct bloodline, do not push your luck any further!"

Letting Xuan Zhou strike twice was already his limit.

"You are the Chief Judge. You said he was to be punished, and now Ye Xuan has taken two blows. If you strike again, does your Xuan Clan have no shame at all?" Nangong Shou also snapped.

There was no bullying people like this!

"Heh, how laughable. So what if you acknowledge him as the champion?"

"Once he enters Cloud Palace Academy, let's see which of the Seven Towers would dare take him as a true disciple!?"

"Once he leaves the academy, can you protect him from death!?"

Xuan Zhou laughed in fury.

Su Ziyun and the others could not help but feel a chill in their hearts at those words.

The Xuan Clan covered the skies with one hand in the Central Region. Now that Ye Xuan had offended them, indeed, no one in Cloud Palace Academy would dare take him in!

"Hmph, if no one wants him, Tianshu Tower does!"

"If no one will protect him, I, Ji Xueyao, will!"

"What can your Xuan Clan do about it!?"

Just as Xuan Zhou was feeling smug, a voice suddenly rang out across all of Tianxuan Square!

Everyone was startled. They immediately looked up, only to discover that beneath the clouds in the firmament, a Magic Array had split open.

A figure stepped down from it upon a stairway of clouds, silver hair like snow, ethereal as an immortal!

At the Violet Firmament Sect's seats, Chu Wan'er's beautiful eyes narrowed slightly.

The Imperial Daughter, Ji Xueyao, had arrived!