"Does Lord Chu's appearance mean you are certain you can defeat me?"
Upon the arena, a violent gale suddenly arose.
Zhang Tianhao looked at Chu Fan, who wore a calm expression opposite him, and smiled slightly. He seemed somewhat helpless, but his edge was actually hidden within.
"To tell the truth, I have always acted with caution, never underestimating any opponent."
He spoke slowly: "Yet no matter how I think on it, I still do not know whence Lord Chu's confidence-disregarding the gap in cultivation realms-originates."
Before his voice faded-
His left hand slowly raised, and a slender index finger pointed casually toward the sky.
"Rumble!"
This single finger seemed to trigger the mechanisms of heaven and earth.
In an instant, the wind and clouds rolled backward, and the color of the world changed!
The Training Ground had originally been bathed in bright sunlight, yet solely over this square inch of the Mind Clarification Realm Arena, a vast expanse of ink-like dark clouds abruptly surged forth.
The black clouds roamed and pressed inward, while within them, lightning like silver snakes danced frantically.
The muffled rumble of thunder seemed to explode directly above everyone's heads, pressing down upon them so heavily that they could barely catch their breath.
"This-this is the Mind Clarification Realm!" someone beneath the platform exclaimed, gazing at the apocalyptic scene with eyes full of reverence, "Where the heart's intent is directed, the realm reaches. With a single thought, one can manipulate the power of heaven and earth for one's own use!"
"Indeed," another person chimed in. "Do not let the second stage, the Supernatural Power Realm, sound so imposing; it has merely touched the threshold of supernatural powers. The Primordial Qi within the body can only circulate through the host's hundred apertures. If one wishes to stir