Progress

Just as Fang Chunyang had said, time was tight. There was no way to raise the Number One Martial Arts Tournament in the World's profile to the point of shaking the entire world.

Despite Xiya Nation's vigorous promotion and Shouzhen, a newly advanced supreme powerhouse, coming forward to declare his support, after more than half a month, only twelve level-ten supreme powerhouses had confirmed they would attend the Number One Martial Arts Tournament in the World. Another fourteen said they were still observing.

Whether they would attend remained unknown.

In fact, even counting only the native level-ten martial artists, their number had long surpassed a hundred.

Twelve was merely one-tenth.

But this situation came to an abrupt halt after Xiya Nation publicly conducted a nuclear test.

When the mushroom cloud produced by that hundred-thousand-ton nuclear explosion soared into the sky, its fierce radiance bathing the daylight in a dark crimson glow, the entire world was thoroughly shaken.

The Destruction Power of this terrifying weapon instantly tore the pride of all level-ten supreme martial artists to shreds.

Their individual strength, capable of deciding the course of a war, had absolutely no possibility of contending against such power.

Under such circumstances, shock came first, followed by fear, and then...

Boundless fury.

Fury that Xiya Nation had dared disregard the "Stoppage Protocol" and develop a weapon that threatened the ruling status of martial artists.

At once, world-class martial arts factions that had never regarded Xiya Nation as worthy of notice stepped forward one after another to denounce it with pen and tongue, painting Xiya Nation as a peerless fiend about to destroy the world, one that should be exterminated by the combined strength of the world.

It was amid this thunderous wave of condemnation that Li Pin once again brought the Number One