Duel Day (2/3)

The news that Zhou Heng, the newly promoted Saint Apothecary, was going to battle Gongyang Taisun had long since spread throughout Immortal Severance City, leaving many people caught between laughter and tears!

—You were a dignified Saint Apothecary. Did you really need to stoop to the level of an Ascension King?

But after learning that the cause of their feud was Bing Xinzhu, everyone could not help sighing over how a beautiful woman could bring disaster, unaware that this entire affair had been pushed along by Gongyang Taisun himself.

As for the outcome, though the battle had yet to begin, everyone had already seen it.

Zhou Heng was bound to lose!

In terms of status, a Saint Apothecary could stand shoulder to shoulder with a Transcendent Creation Emperor, but that did not bring Zhou Heng the slightest increase in combat power. In a vendetta, a Saint Apothecary could use his influence to invite numerous experts to fight for him, but could he do the same in a "fair" duel?

One was a Sunflare Emperor, while the other was an Ascension King. At a glance alone, the victor and loser were obvious! What was more, Gongyang Taisun was a fifteen-phase Ascension King, a genius among geniuses and one of Immortal Severance City's four supreme Ascension Kings!

This completely erased any possibility of Zhou Heng winning by luck!

Of course, Zhou Heng would certainly lose, and he would inevitably suffer a little too, because his lofty status as a Saint Apothecary held no intimidation whatsoever for Gongyang Taisun—his father was also a Saint Apothecary, so there was no need for him to ask Zhou Heng to refine pills!

Still, he would only suffer a little. Gongyang Taisun did not dare kill anyone, at least not openly! The Apothecary Association was no mere