Verification

"I... I..."

Zi Zai Tian felt that Sword Qi pierce straight through his skull.

Although it had only left a wound on him that would have been fatal to ordinary people, yet beneath contempt to a Star God possessing a divine body...

He knew very well that if this had been a true fight to the death, the energy contained within that Sword Qi could have erupted and released, effortlessly destroying his brain—the repository of consciousness—and directly annihilating him on a spiritual level.

In other words...

"I lost?"

Zi Zai Tian's eyes were full of disbelief.

It was not only him. The contestants of the Hegemon Tournament were the same.

"Zi Zai Tian... lost!? How could he suddenly lose?"

"Something is wrong, completely wrong. Just now... Zi Zai Tian had clearly held the upper hand, but then the situation suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse. What happened?"

"That feeling... it was as though Li Pin had directly 'broken through' Zi Zai Tian's spiritual defenses, peered into every change within his mind, and then, like one who knew the enemy before they moved, landed a fatal finishing blow. It was so effortless... it almost reminded me of when we Zhou Guang faced Sunblazes whose minds were completely undefended. But... how could that be possible!?"

"What exactly happened? Did Li Pin possess some powerful Mind Secret Art that silently gained Insight into Zi Zai Tian's hidden thoughts, or... was it some other reason? I actually cannot understand at all how he lost?"

The mental fluctuations of the Hegemon Tournament contestants surged violently, revealing the extent of their shock.

Even Great Emperor Shenwu and Profound Emperor Mo Xuan had astonishment in their eyes.

The contestants could not understand how Zi Zai Tian had lost...

Yet these two Heavenly Emperors had failed