"So powerful a sword aura. This man truly isn't simple!" Li Muqing had already returned to Dugu Ghost Sword's side. Sensing the towering intent unleashed when Chen Fan's sword left its sheath, she could not help but feel astonished.
Dugu Ghost Sword merely stood quietly to one side, her gaze fixed intently on Chen Fan, yet she said nothing.
Seeing that Chen Fan had actually made the first move, Xu Tianguang's face flickered with amusement and scorn. He gave a cold laugh. "You think far too highly of yourself. Do you not know the gap between the Golden Core Realm and the Nascent Soul Realm?"
As his words fell, blazing rosy radiance suddenly bloomed around Xu Tianguang. His aura abruptly shook and swept outward in every direction. The air nearby instantly ceased to flow, as though it had become a world unto itself.
This was a domain—the true domain of a Nascent Soul Realm powerhouse.
Yet Chen Fan's sword did not pause in the slightest. His expression was icy, his eyes slightly narrowed. With a movement born from the heart, he drew a bloom of violet-gold sword flowers, his momentum surging like a rainbow.
Two black-and-white fish swam out from behind him. In an instant, they fused together and spun rapidly, forming a Taiji diagram that hung behind his back.
In that instant, an aura erupted from Chen Fan's body. Its range was only two meters, yet it was incomparably forceful and terrifying, directly invading Xu Tianguang's domain and matching it evenly.
"A domain? How is that possible?"
The many prodigies watching from the sidelines were immediately stunned, crying out in disbelief.
Many of the elites who had originally watched with composed calm, treating it as a show, also widened their eyes and shot to their feet from their chairs.