"First stage cleared."
The cold prompt echoed through the Pure White Space.
"The second stage begins. Defeat your opponent."
As soon as the voice fell, another light pillar descended ahead.
Within the radiance, an upright figure swiftly condensed into form.
It was a blue-haired youth with neat short hair and handsome features. A few traces of casual languor lingered between his brows, as though he were indifferent to everything.
He stood there casually with a smile on his face, giving off an elegant and gentle air.
The instant Huo Yuhao made out the other's face, his gaze abruptly sharpened.
That face... gradually overlapped with someone from a fragment buried deep in his memories.
Although the youth before him looked several years older, the expression in his brows and eyes, that distinctive temperament, were almost identical to Bei Bei—the man Huo Yuhao had once encountered at the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest ten thousand years ago!
If the person before him truly was Bei Bei...
In a flash, every Soul Skill used by the Golden-Haired Girl just now surfaced in Huo Yuhao's mind.
He had already found them somewhat familiar before. Now, they matched the information he had seen in the Spirit Pagoda library about ten thousand years ago.
That girl just now should also have been Jiang Nannan, one of the Shrek Seven Devils from ten thousand years ago!
Just as his thoughts raced...
Crackle!
A piercing explosion of thunder tore through the silence of the space without warning!
Bei Bei moved. His languid eyes turned sharp as lightning in an instant, while dazzling blue arcs erupted around his body.
He seemed to transform into a walking thunderstorm, charging fiercely at Huo Yuhao with a terrifying aura that made one's scalp tingle!
Ever since the first generation