The information Ding Quan brought was staggering. This arena tournament would be elevated in scale. Not only would it include the prodigies of Great Qin Kingdom's younger generation, but outstanding talents from other nations would also join. Whoever could rise above the rest in this tournament would undoubtedly earn the glorious title of the number one Heavenly River Thearch across the seventy starfields!
Of course, it was the number one Heavenly River Thearch. Could a Heavenly River King or Heavenly River Emperor possibly turn the tables and defeat a Heavenly River Thearch?
Perhaps a Heavenly River Thearch with barely over a hundred Heavenly Rivers might carelessly lose—or be defeated by a Heavenly River Emperor with eighty or ninety Heavenly Rivers due to inferior cultivation arts—but of those qualified to stand on the arena, which one was not a heaven-blessed genius?
Which of them lacked high-tier cultivation arts? Which was not at least a high-tier Heavenly River Thearch with nine hundred Heavenly Rivers? Against such opponents, what Heavenly River King or Heavenly River Emperor could possibly work a miracle?
Zhou Heng could not care less about the title of number one Heavenly River Thearch. What he cared about was the prize!
With the tournament's specifications upgraded, the prize naturally rose in value as well!
It was a rune!
That was right—a rune like the one Huotian had bestowed upon him, or like the runes recorded in the Chaos Heavenly Scripture!
Runes represented the Great Dao of heaven and earth. They were a manifestation of laws, allowing martial artists to grasp them and unleash combat power far beyond their level of strength! Take Huotian, for instance. When she was still a mortal, she had directly blown Rong Jianlong of the Bright World apart!
That was the power of runes: they could invoke