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"This Light of Origin... had quite a... quite a straightforward personality."

Great Emperor Shenwu smiled as he put it in a tactful manner.

Mo Xuan replied somewhat awkwardly, "That was simply his temperament... After all, he had cultivated for only a little over two hundred years. Never mind in our eyes—even before these prodigies who belonged to the same era as him, he was an out-and-out young man..."

"The young ought to be high-spirited and domineering."

Great Emperor Shenwu nodded. "I think highly of him, and I look forward to his performance next."

Elsewhere.

When Li Pin uttered the three words, "Defeat me," even Di A paused in the midst of lifting his tea.

Then, as though he had recalled something, he smiled nostalgically.

It seemed...

In Li Pin, he saw his own figure running beneath the sunset all those years ago.

That...

Was his youth, now gone.

Unfortunately, as he gradually grew up, his status and position no longer required him to prove them through such meaningless things as words.

Because...

He—Di A—his very name represented status and position.

"Truly..."

Zi Zai Tian slowly rose into the air. "How utterly arrogant."

Seeing this, Great Emperor Shenwu pointed casually, and rings of ripples spread outward.

Those ripples swiftly activated a formation somewhere within the Palace of Emperor Shenwu. Streams of light shot into the heavens, while the fluctuations they gave off spread farther into the distance.

Any Star God who had lived in the Court of All Stars for years would know that these fluctuations not only served as a precaution, but also as a warning.

They informed those passing through that a great battle was about to erupt here, warning them not to enter rashly.

"The Shenwu Battlefield has been opened. However, considering that the Myriad Races Hegemony