Competing Backgrounds? Who Doesn't Have One?

"Bronze Heaven Measuring Slash!"

A massive blade of light interwoven with antique bronze and black burst from the ruler, like a streak tearing apart the heavens as it hacked viciously into the nine-colored giant bird's abdomen!

Boom—!

The blade of light cleaved into the giant bird's body, unstoppable as a hot knife through butter!

The enormous nine-colored bird let out a shrill, miserable cry. Its massive body shuddered violently as the nine-colored radiance on its surface rapidly dimmed and shattered!

Luo Tong's body jolted, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. His face instantly turned pale—his Nine Phoenix Worship had been broken!

The nine-colored giant bird finally could not hold on any longer. With a piercing cry, it completely shattered, turning into countless nine-colored motes that scattered between heaven and earth.

At that moment, the Devouring Vortex spun violently, swallowing every last shattered mote.

Lin Dong landed on the platform and dropped to one knee, breathing heavily. Most of his azure robes had been torn apart, while blood seeped from the cracks across his skin. The clash just now had clearly drained him greatly.

But he was still standing.

Luo Tong... on the other hand, was already half-kneeling on the ground, a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth and a paper-white face. At last, a flicker of disbelief surfaced in those eyes that had always been calm.

He had lost?

He, a genius of the Nine Phoenix Clan and foremost among Mangshan's Five Kings, had actually lost to a human?!

Luo Tong opened his mouth, wanting to say something, only to realize that he had nothing to say.

He had used every trump card he possessed. Nine Phoenix Worship had been broken, the Four Symbols Immortal-Suppressing Pillar had been taken, and even the Nine Phoenix Life-Generating