The Giant Axe Arena.
The audience was completely riled up. Those who could afford to watch either paid a hefty price for their tickets or were three-star bank customers.
"Kill him, Bai Yu! You can't beat a First Stage Realm Lord when you're a Fourth Stage Realm Lord?"
"Rip Wu Yun's head off!"
The vast majority of the audience were Star-Level or Universe-Level. Seeing the World Lord experts who usually held themselves above everyone else fighting to the death for their entertainment drove them wild.
Their shouts shook the heavens, especially those of the people who had placed heavy bets.
Wu Yun had set things up perfectly. He and Bai Yu fought at close quarters, face to face, and appeared evenly matched, trading offense and defense from time to time.
At first, Wu Yun was forced back by Bai Yu, dodging several flashes of his blade by the narrowest of margins.
Then Wu Yun had the upper hand, pummeling Bai Yu, though Bai Yu was still looking for a chance to counterattack.
"Space-Splitting Slash!"
Bai Yu swung both arms with all his might. He cultivated the Law of Fire, and boundless flames wrapped around the Heavenly Blade, lighting up this stretch of the universe.
"Space-Splitting Slash—the finishing move Bai Yu is famous for. He won his previous three matches with this move, and even managed to kill a World Lord Fifth Order expert."
Ka Wei's heart was in his throat. He desperately wanted Wu Yun to win. After all, Bai Yu wasn't one of his World Lords. If he died, so be it.
Whoosh!
The crimson blade light tore across ten thousand kilometers of space, shattering even the core of the surrounding universe.
"Want to get this over with? Fine, I'll grant your wish." Wu Yun had long since calculated the power of Bai Yu's attack. Countless waves seemed to pour down from beyond the heavens, sweeping across the cosmic expanse,
Boom!!!
Water and fire collided. In truth, it was the laws clashing, transforming into a massive sphere of energy in the void before exploding in every direction!
The blast covered a range of over ten thousand kilometers. Their clash could almost have blown apart an ordinary planet. The scene was breathtaking.
The spectators in the arena shouted themselves hoarse. How could they have ever seen anything like this? The destruction spanned tens of thousands of kilometers, enough to shake the heavens and earth.
Only the Giant Axe Arena was spacious enough to recreate a scene like this to the fullest.
Both men were driven back by the ripples of energy. Bai Yu staggered, unable to recover his balance in time.
Whoosh!
Wu Yun's speed suddenly surged, reaching forty thousand kilometers per second in an instant.
That was already incredibly fast for a World Lord. Bai Yu had barely registered the thought before Wu Yun was right in front of him. He had just managed to steady himself and hurriedly raised his blade to meet the attack.
Wu Yun's movements were extremely uncanny. He slipped past the blade and slammed a fist into Bai Yu's chest.
"Pfft!" Bai Yu suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. Blood was also streaming from his nostrils and beneath his eyes. Wu Yun's punch had clearly left him gravely injured.
In a life-or-death battle, only one of them could survive.
How could anyone who had cultivated to the World Lord level be naive? Bai Yu knew how dire his situation was. He had to find a way to survive, and put everything on the line!
If he killed Wu Yun, he would live. Otherwise, he would die.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Bai Yu swung his blade as if without rhyme or reason, but its light enveloped Wu Yun from head to toe, trying to leave him nowhere to run.
But Wu Yun had no reason to care about such tricks now. His fists shattered countless blade flashes, then his bare hand seized the Heavenly Blade. Bai Yu threw everything he had into it, but couldn't budge it.
After being gravely injured, Bai Yu's strength was nowhere near its peak. He couldn't bring his full power to bear, and his blade flashes were at most as powerful as a Second Stage Realm Lord's attacks.
In Wu Yun's eyes, they shattered with a casual flick of his hand. The blade light broke into motes of energy that drifted through the starry sky.
"This Wu Yun's movement technique and skill are on par with those of many Immortals," a Marquis-Level Immortal watching the battle said gravely. "Law Comprehension is one thing; combat technique is another."
Those with strong Law Comprehension would naturally have strong movement techniques and combat skills. Their level of understanding was high enough that creating secret techniques at the same level came easily.
But even those with weaker Law Comprehension could create secret techniques of a higher level. Luo Feng was the classic example: starting at the World Lord level, he created secret techniques of a higher level at every stage.
Venerable Luo Feng's Law Comprehension was certainly below that of a Universe Master, yet his secret techniques far surpassed those of the other Venerables.
In the eyes of the Giant Axe Arena's management, Wu Yun was the sort of World Lord whose skill was exceptional, but whose Law Comprehension still fell somewhat short.
Secret techniques, energy, and laws were the three main factors that determined combat strength.
If all three were more or less equal, then the deciding factor was whose skill was superior.
Wu Yun's sudden burst of speed and his exquisitely precise movements were what let him win. From beginning to end, he hadn't even used any especially overwhelming strength.
As for his fingers, the Third-Grade Golden Core reinforced their defense. Using it to attack would have made it obvious, but the defensive effect was subtle, so no one could tell.
Only a Universe Master could use a spacetime rewind to investigate the details.
"Die." Wu Yun held the Heavenly Blade in his left hand and suddenly thrust out a finger with his right, striking Bai Yu on the forehead. His vast power instantly shattered Bai Yu's body.
Wu Yun felt nothing. The World Lords who came to the Giant Axe Arena were different from the Universe-Level and Star-Level fighters. Almost all of them chose to fight voluntarily.
They chose this blood-soaked path to earn more resources and temper themselves. That meant they had to be ready to die at any moment.
Bai Yu's face was filled with unwillingness as he died.
He hadn't expected to suffer such a crushing defeat at the hands of a First Stage Realm Lord. Even if his opponent's Law Comprehension was a little better, their strength should have been about equal.
"World Lord-level life-or-death battle. Winner: Wu Yun!!!"
The Immortal God's voice was utterly devoid of emotion as he coldly announced the result.
The final image in the arena was a close-up of Wu Yun.
His indifferent expression made it seem as if he hadn't just fought for his life. Wu Yun turned and walked toward the E-Grade Spaceship, preparing to return to Chenyan Planet and continue cultivating.
All across the Virtual Universe, the Spectator Planes fell silent. How many people had truly had the courage to bet on Wu Yun? The vast majority had lost money.
"His Law Comprehension is probably still some distance from being acknowledged by the Origin Law." Ka Wei reassessed Wu Yun's strength. "As for skill, he's no worse than me. Overall, I'd put him at World Lord Fifth or Sixth Order."
Previously, they had assessed Wu Yun as no higher than a Fourth Stage Realm Lord.
The stronger Wu Yun grew, the happier Ka Wei was. He hoped Wu Yun would continue to grow, and perhaps even become a legendary World Lord-level Giant Axe Warrior.
World Lords like that were the stuff of legend in the Ganwu Universe Kingdom.
Anyone who rose from an unorthodox background to become a World Lord-level Giant Axe Warrior had to be stronger than an Elite World Lord Warrior at a minimum. The vast majority were as strong as World Lord Generals.
Wu Yun had also earned quite a few Reputation Points, though he was still some way from unlocking the simulation.
Reputation Points didn't increase just because people knew who you were. You needed to inspire a certain degree of admiration, at the very least. But most of the gamblers in the audience had lost everything.
They certainly weren't feeling any admiration. Their hatred, on the other hand, had reached its peak.
The incarnation in the Desolate Era world gathered Reputation Points so quickly because he had a tribe to rely on. Who among the members of the Wu Shan Clan could fail to admire their Heavenly Immortal patriarch?
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