Superb Level of Skill (Seeking Follow-up Reads)

Giant Axe Arena.

The emotions of the many spectators were stirred; those able to enter to watch the match had either spent a small fortune on tickets or were three-star clients of the bank.

"Kill him, Bai Yu! Can't a fourth-stage World Lord beat a first-stage World Lord?"

"Twist Wu Yun's head off for me!"

The vast majority of the audience were Star Level or Universe-Level. Seeing the World Lords, who were usually high and mighty, engaged in a life-and-death battle for their entertainment, they all became extremely frantic.

The shouting shook the heavens, especially from those who had placed heavy bets.

Wu Yun was putting on a perfect performance. He and Bai Yu were locked in face-to-face combat, and on the surface, it appeared to be an even match, with the momentum shifting back and forth occasionally.

At first, Wu Yun was suppressed by Bai Yu, dodging blade lights by the narrowest of margins time and time again.

Later, Wu Yun turned the tables and battered Bai Yu, though his opponent was also planning a counterattack while defending.

"Space-Splitting Slash!"

Bai Yu swung his hands violently. He practiced the Law of Fire, and infinite flames swirled around his Heavenly Blade, illuminating this entire patch of space.

"Space-Splitting Slash—Bai Yu's finishing move. He relied on this to win his previous three matches, even successfully killing a fifth-stage World Lord powerhouse."

Ka Wei's heart was in his throat. He was hoping for Wu Yun to win; after all, Bai Yu was not a World Lord under his command, so his death would be of no consequence.

Swoosh!

That fiery red blade light tore through the vast sky, shattering the very core of the space.

"Want to head out early? Then I'll grant your wish." Wu Yun had long since calculated the power of his opponent's move. Infinite sprays of water, as if pouring down from beyond the heavens, swept across the starry sky.

BOOM!!!

Water and fire merged. In truth, this was merely the collision of laws, transforming into a massive sphere of energy in the void before exploding in all directions!

The explosion spanned ten thousand kilometers. The two of them clashing like this could almost blow up an ordinary planet; the scene was truly shocking.

The crowd inside the arena screamed frantically. They had never seen such a sight in their daily lives—a massive destruction spanning ten thousand kilometers, truly earth-shattering.

It was only because the Giant Axe Arena was spacious enough that such a scene could be replicated to this extent.

Both were forced back by the energy ripples. Bai Yu's figure staggered, unable to steady himself in time.

Whoosh!

Wu Yun's speed surged violently, instantly reaching forty thousand kilometers per second.

For a World Lord powerhouse, this was already incredibly fast. Before a thought could even fully form, Wu Yun was already in his face. Bai Yu, having barely managed to steady his stance, hurriedly raised his blade to parry.

Wu Yun's movement technique was extremely bizarre; he dodged the blade by a hair's breadth and slammed a fist into Bai Yu's chest.

"Pfft!!" Bai Yu spat out a mouthful of blood, and blood also flowed from his nose and beneath his eyes. It was clear that he had been severely injured by Wu Yun's punch.

In a life-and-death battle, only one can survive.

Having cultivated to the World Lord level, one would hardly be naive. Bai Yu knew his situation well; he had to find a way to survive, to stake everything on one final gamble!

Kill Wu Yun, and he would live; otherwise, he would die.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Bai Yu swung his blade in what seemed like a chaotic manner, yet the blade light enveloped Wu Yun from all sides, intending to drive his opponent into a dead end.

But Wu Yun didn't care for such tactics now. His fist shattered the countless blade lights, and he grabbed the Heavenly Blade with his bare hand. No matter how hard Bai Yu tried, he couldn't pull it away.

After suffering heavy injuries, Bai Yu's strength was no longer at its peak, and he couldn't exert his full power. Those blade lights were at most comparable to the power of a second-stage World Lord.

In Wu Yun's eyes, they were shattered with a flip of his hand, turning into a rain of energy light drifting through the starry sky.

"This Wu Yun, his movement and technique are no less than many Immortals," a Marquis-Level Immortal watching the match remarked solemnly. "Law comprehension is one thing, but techniques are another."

Those with strong Law comprehension naturally have strong movement and techniques because their realm is high enough to easily create secret techniques of the same level.

However, those with weaker Law comprehension can also create higher-level secret techniques. The most classic example is Luo Feng, who created higher-level secret techniques at every stage starting from the World Lord level.

Venerable Luo Feng's Law comprehension certainly hadn't reached that of a Universe Master, but the level of his secret techniques crushed those of other Venerables.

In the eyes of the management at the Giant Axe Arena, Wu Yun was the type of World Lord whose technical level was high, but whose Law comprehension was slightly lacking.

Secret techniques, energy, and laws are the three major elements that determine combat power.

If these are all roughly equal, one must begin to compare who has the higher level of technique.

The suddenly explosive speed and the extreme detail in his movement were the keys to Wu Yun's victory. From beginning to end, he had not used any exaggerated power.

As for his finger, that relied on the defensive enhancement of the Third-Grade Golden Core. It would be obvious if used for attacking, but its defensive nature was internalized, so no one could tell.

Unless a Universe Master performed a spacetime reversal to investigate in detail.

"Die." Wu Yun grabbed the Heavenly Blade with his left hand and flicked his right finger, striking Bai Yu's forehead. The vast power instantly shattered his body.

Wu Yun felt no ripples in his heart. The World Lords who came to the Giant Axe Arena were different from those Universe-Level or Star Level fighters; they were almost all here voluntarily.

To earn more resources, to temper themselves, they chose this path of licking blood from the edge of a blade, so they had to be prepared to be killed at any moment.

Before Bai Yu died, his face was filled with unwillingness.

He hadn't expected to be miserably defeated by a first-stage World Lord. Even if his opponent's Law comprehension was higher, their strength should have been on par.

"World Lord-level life-and-death battle, winner: Wu Yun!!!"

The Immortal God's voice was devoid of any emotion, coldly announcing the result.

The scene inside the arena finally gave a close-up of Wu Yun.

With his indifferent expression, it did not look like he had just experienced a life-or-death battle at all; Wu Yun turned his head and walked toward the E-Grade Spaceship, preparing to return to Chenyan Planet to continue his cultivation.

Throughout the entire Virtual Universe, all the spectator planes fell silent; very few people had the true courage to bet on Wu Yun's victory, and the vast majority had lost their money.

"His comprehension of laws should still be some distance away from being acknowledged by the Origin Laws." Ka Wei was re-evaluating Wu Yun's strength: "In terms of technique, he is not inferior to me; his overall level should be at the fifth to sixth rank of World Lord."

Previously, their assessment of Wu Yun had been within the fourth rank of World Lord.

The stronger Wu Yun's strength was, the happier Ka Wei became; it would be best if the other party could gradually grow, ideally becoming a legendary World Lord-level Giant Axe Warrior.

That kind of World Lord was a legend even within the Ganwu Universe Kingdom.

To be able to fight one's way up from an unorthodox background to a World Lord-level Giant Axe Warrior, the lower bound of one's strength would have to be greater than an Elite World Lord Warrior, and the vast majority would possess the strength of a World Lord General.

Wu Yun had also successfully harvested quite a few Reputation Points, but he was still some distance away from unlocking the simulation.

Reputation Points were not calculated simply because others knew who you were; at least a certain degree of admiration was required, and that crowd of gamblers watching the match had mostly lost everything.

There was naturally no degree of admiration, but the level of resentment was maxed out.

The reason the clone in the Desolate Era world harvested Reputation Points so quickly was because it had a tribe as a foundation; among those members of the Wu Shan Clan, who could fail to admire this Heavenly Immortal ancestor?