"You finally came. I thought you wouldn't dare."
Yan Fei curled his lip, seething with resentment. One breath! Just one more breath, and he could have gone to sleep. Damn this Wu Yun!
"It's not a matter of not daring. Since I've entered the fight, I'll certainly give it my all," Hua Yunfei said.
"I heard your cultivation is at the Early Second Step?" Yan Fei asked uncertainly.
"Yes." Hua Yunfei nodded.
The Early Second Step?
Questions hovered over the heads of the spectators from the Nine Profound Ancestral Domain. Could someone at the Early Second Step even take a seat at this table?
They remembered that this second round was supposed to pit the strongest combatants of each realm against one another, right?
With Early Second Step cultivation, wasn't he just serving himself up on a platter?
For a moment, the spectators from the Nine Profound Ancestral Domain all beamed with the joy of victory, already popping the champagne.
"Do you realize your cultivation is a little low?" Yan Fei drawled, his eyelids drooping.
"It is a little."
Hua Yunfei nodded. "There's no helping it. The Thirty-Three Heavens isn't like Beyond the Boundary. We only have a single realm, and we couldn't find a top-tier expert at the Second-Step Apex on such short notice, so I had to step in."
Yan Fei said, "Would you like an ugly defeat or a graceful one? I can give you a choice."
As he spoke, he stretched lazily. "It's not kindness. It's admiration for your courage. If it were me, I certainly wouldn't court death like this."
Hua Yunfei smiled faintly. "A graceful defeat, if possible. I'm someone of standing in the Thirty-Three Heavens, after all. I care about saving face."
Yan Fei laughed heartily. "Prodigies like us all care about saving