The entire venue fell silent.
A moment later, no one knew who started cheering first.
"He won!"
Then, thunderous cheers erupted like a tidal wave, nearly overturning the entire arena.
"He won! Bing Tianxuan won!"
"Heavenly Ranking top ten! A freshman has made it into the top ten!"
"He's too strong! Is this the strength of the Ice Emperor Academy?"
Bing Tianxuan withdrew his stance and stood upright, exhaling a puff of white mist.
"Phew... three days of seclusion."
He snapped his fingers.
Crack!
The layer of ice around Zhou Fan instantly shattered and dispersed, turning into ice shards that filled the sky.
Zhou Fan staggered to the ground, his whole body trembling slightly.
He had clearly been frozen stiff by the cold.
Looking at the smiling youth before him, his eyes were full of complicated emotions.
After a long silence, he let out a bitter sigh and said, "I lost."
"You weren't bad either."
Bing Tianxuan smiled.
With a wave of his hand, he dispersed the chilling scythe, turning it into streams of dark icy light that merged into his body.
Just then, an ancient aura suddenly burst forth from within him!
Boom!
The spiritual energy between heaven and earth seemed to be drawn by some force, wildly converging toward Bing Tianxuan and forming a massive spiritual-energy vortex visible to the naked eye.
At the center of that vortex was Bing Tianxuan.
The fluctuations of spiritual energy around him broke through that invisible barrier, and he stepped into an entirely new realm.
Hua Tianjie!
The power of that aura was already several times stronger than it had been before!
"This..."
Zhou Fan, still sprawled on the ground, suddenly stiffened, his face revealing a look of shock.
"He actually just broke through to Hua Tianjie?!"
It was not just him.