Cried Himself to Tears? This Was Truly Seeing a Ghost

"Second Brother, what did you mean by this? Were you going to indulge Little Tian's reckless behavior and let him undermine the sect's unity?" Sha Qi flickered in Ye Tianxiong's eyes, and his voice seemed to tremble with rage.

Boom!

At that moment, a terrifying Dao aura suddenly spread out, making the confronting Ye Tianxiong and Chu Tianwang shudder as they turned to look toward the arena.

There, facing the thousands upon thousands of densely packed, bald Hui Mei figures, Chu Tian's brow split open with a vertical eye, from which purple light shot forth.

In an instant, the vast majority of the afterimages melted away like spring snow after the rain.

"The Eye of the Heavenly Dao." Ye Tianxiong's pupils abruptly contracted.

"This is..."

"My heavens."

"The Eye of the Heavenly Dao!" Grand Elder Duanmu blurted out, his eyes wide with endless disbelief.

"Dao aura runs through it, purple radiance overflows, the laws resonate—it bears the semblance of piercing through the heavens. Its appearance and characteristics are exactly the same as the Eye of the Heavenly Dao created by the Destiny Dao Venerable."

"The Eye of the Heavenly Dao—why? How could you..." Hui Mei's voice trembled with horror. With the cover of his many afterimages gone, he stood alone behind Chu Tian.

Boom!

Without the afterimages to conceal him, Chu Tian instantly appeared before him and threw a punch straight into Hui Mei's chest.

Pfft!

Hui Mei spat blood, the bones in his chest shattered, and he was sent flying into the air.

But at that moment, Chu Tian appeared above him and stomped down. Hui Mei crashed viciously from midair onto the arena. The terrifying impact was like a falling meteor, making the arena quake as dreadful cracks spread across it.

At this moment, on the other side of the platform, a white-robed old man who had worn a smile at the corner of his lips suddenly rose to his feet and barked, "How dare you injure my young master!"

Terrifying Sha Qi spread from his body, and the sky darkened.

Yet at that very moment, Chu Tianwang appeared before the white-robed old man. His expression was indifferent as he placed a hand on the old man's shoulder and pressed lightly, forcing him to sit back down.

"Elder Chu, don't be in such a hurry. This is a battle between juniors; the outcome has yet to be decided."

Chu Tianwang spoke calmly, then turned to look at Chu Tian, his eyes filled with shock. How could something like the Eye of the Heavenly Dao have appeared on Little Tian?

What had happened that he did not know about?

The Cihang Sacred Sect was likely about to be shaken to its core.

"I'm invincible under heaven! How could I possibly lose to you!"

Hui Mei's furious roar rang out from the crater.

Boom!

His body shot out like a sharp sword, his gleaming bald head becoming the arrowhead as he charged straight at Tianhong. Dense spiritual power circulated through him, concentrating all his strength into a single point. The force he unleashed reached a full 2.6 million jin, directly doubling his power.

With such vast power, even a great mountain would be smashed apart by his charge, let alone a person.

"You want to clash head-on? I'll grant you that."

The Eye of the Heavenly Dao on Chu Tian's brow closed. Releasing dense spiritual power and circulating the Chaos Creation True Scripture, he shouted and fiercely swung out a heavy slap.

Boom!

Air currents swept out, wind and clouds reversed. This strike seemed to make even the void tremble and hum.

Vigorous blood qi surged into the sky, making him seem like a blazing sun suspended in the air, radiating in all directions.

At this moment, he possessed a full 1.8 million jin of strength.

With the reinforcement of his powerful spiritual power, the force of this slap directly surpassed four million jin. Even his roar was like thunder exploding, making the eardrums of those near the arena ache.

The slap struck Hui Mei squarely on his gleaming head. Five deep, dark-red palm prints visibly appeared on that bare scalp. Hui Mei screamed, his bewitching face twisting as he flew backward into the crater even faster than before.

Boom!

The arena trembled violently, truly as though an extraterrestrial meteor had fallen and smashed fiercely into Sacred Emperor Peak. Fine cracks spread even around the edges of the arena.

Dust soared into the sky, and shattered stones sprayed everywhere. The sight was terrifying.

"Th-this, this, this..."

Around the arena, countless sect disciples stood with their mouths agape, unable to say a single word for a long while.

Looking at Chu Tian's slender body and youthful face, they simply could not imagine that the fierce, majestic power of blood qi just now had erupted from within his body.

It was truly unimaginable that a child's body could possess the strength to blast apart a mountain.

On the platform, the sect's high-ranking members were all stunned. As they looked at Chu Tian's small figure, only one thought remained in their minds.

This kid had not been bragging.

He truly had the strength.

"This is the monstrous genius of our Sacred Heaven Sect! Hahahahaha..." Grand Elder Duanmu suddenly burst into laughter, laughing wildly and freely as he released all the frustration he had been holding in.

"So what if you're a prodigy of the Cihang Sacred Sect? If he said he'd defeat you in three moves, then he'd defeat you in three moves."

"That was satisfying! Let that little bald head keep acting arrogant."

"On the territory of our Sacred Heaven Sect, who gave you the face to act like that? The Little Holy Son was still too merciful—he held back at the very end. If you ask me, he should've slapped that head crooked."

The sect's high-ranking members also began cursing, venting all the anger they had endured.

For so many years, no one had ever dared to be so arrogant on Sacred Heaven Sect territory, pointing at the world and declaring that the Sacred Heaven Sect had no one capable.

It was only because this was a prodigy from the Cihang Sacred Sect and his backing was too powerful. If it had been some small sect, they would have flattened the entire sect mountain long ago.

This time, no movement emerged from the crater for a long while. Hui Mei did not climb back out.

It was as though Chu Tian's words had been proven.

He had said three moves, and it was three moves—not one more, not one less.

"Young Master, are you all right?"

The white-robed old man appeared in the crater. Seeing his young master lying at the bottom with lifeless eyes, his heart ached terribly. He hurriedly helped him up, crushed Divine Medicine into powder, and sprinkled it over Hui Mei's head.

The young master had enjoyed smooth sailing since childhood and had grown accustomed to doing whatever he pleased. How could he have endured such a blow?

"Wuuuuuu..."

Hui Mei suddenly burst into loud sobs, his cries heart-rending.

"Grandpa Chu, he hit me and humiliated me, and I still couldn't beat him."

Hui Mei cried bitterly, tears the size of beans streaming madly from the corners of his eyes as if they cost nothing.

It was as though he had not been the one who came knocking on their door and beaten all the Sacred Heaven Sect's Bone Forging Realm geniuses into the ground, but rather Chu Tian had bullied him beyond all measure.

Hui Mei threw himself into the white-robed old man's embrace, his shoulders shaking endlessly, looking utterly aggrieved.

"Young Master, don't cry, don't cry. You're the best. You only couldn't beat him this time because he has the Eye of the Heavenly Dao. Otherwise, he would not have defeated you so easily."

The white-robed old man consoled him softly, though his heart was full of shock. He understood that even without the Eye of the Heavenly Dao, the young master absolutely would not have been able to defeat Chu Tian. It was only that Chu Tian's victory would have been more difficult.

But with four million jin of force, if Chu Tian had not pulled back at the final moment, that slap would likely have burst the young master's head apart.

Forget the young master's head—even a mountain peak would have exploded.

"Wuuuuuuuu..."

Hui Mei cried even more miserably. "Wasn't Cousin cultivating the Destiny Dao Venerable's inheritance? Why did the Eye of the Heavenly Dao appear on him? That's what Cousin wants most."

The white-robed old man sighed. "Grandpa Chu doesn't know either. We've already sent word back to the Sacred Sect. This really is like seeing a ghost."