A Grand Opening, a Whimper

"Damn it! How could he be this strong?!"

"How could this damned brat possibly have reached such a level?!"

Although he had blocked Shen Changchuan's Space Slash,

there was not the slightest trace of joy on Xuan Tianxing's face. Instead, he was deathly pale, his back almost soaked through with cold sweat, his eyes filled with both shock and fury.

A miscalculation!

A colossal miscalculation!

Xuan Tianxing's heart skipped a beat.

He had never fought an opponent who had truly comprehended Space Power.

In the past, the opponents he had faced who could wield Space Power had all relied on external artifacts capable of controlling it. None had comprehended Space Power on their own like Shen Changchuan.

Precisely because he had never seen it before, Xuan Tianxing had instinctively assumed that the difference between Space Power wielded through an external object and Space Power comprehended by oneself could not be all that great.

This directly caused him to make an enormous misjudgment regarding Shen Changchuan's strength!

He had thought

that since he could easily shatter the attacks of those opponents who wielded Space Power through artifacts,

he could do the same against Shen Changchuan!

Therefore,

when he had watched Shen Changchuan's previous few battles, where he had instantly defeated his opponents in a single move,

Xuan Tianxing, like everyone else, had generally believed that Shen Changchuan's record was only due to his opponents being trash.

If they had not been so useless and incompetent,

how could Shen Changchuan have so easily defeated them in one move with Space Power?

But only now,

when it was his turn to face Shen Changchuan and face the other man's attack head-on,

did Xuan Tianxing truly understand just how utterly wrong his previous thoughts had been!

Wrong beyond measure!

Shen Changchuan's Space Power attacks