"Hiss—!"
When the dazzling "Win rate: 100%" and the long string of consecutive victories after it came into view.
Lava Venerable sucked in a breath, the dismissiveness on his face instantly replaced by gravity. "Interesting... matched against me right after reaching Transcendent Rank. So you're a mighty dragon crossing the river."
Surprised though he was, as a Master Rank expert, he had his own pride and confidence.
He believed that if he started over from scratch.
As long as he wasn't unlucky enough to be matched against those supreme prodigies entering the Limit Martial Arena for the first time, he could achieve an extremely high win rate too.
Even if he couldn't beat the man before him, he wouldn't concede easily.
Besides, this was only a battle in the Virtual Universe.
Losing would only mean dropping a match.
At that thought, his fighting spirit soared instead.
[3—2—1—Battle begins!]
The instant the countdown reached zero, scorching waves of air erupted around Lava Venerable.
A heavy hammer burning with dark red flames appeared out of thin air. With force that could cleave mountains and shatter stone, it tore through the air and smashed down toward Li Wen's head.
The hammer blow was powerful and weighty, imbued with the power of the flame laws he had painstakingly cultivated, enough to smash the defenses of an ordinary peak Transcendent to pieces.
Facing this ferocious hammer strike, Li Wen's expression remained unchanged. He still answered with the simplest, most fundamental movement—drawing his blade and slashing diagonally!
"Clang—!"
The piercing clash of metal rang throughout the arena.
This time, the gleaming blade did not cleave his opponent apart as effortlessly as splitting bamboo.
Violent ripples of energy erupted where the blade struck the hammer.
Lava Venerable felt an overwhelming, irresistible force surge along the