This was Platform A, one of eight Martial Practice Platforms.
The opening match of the Under-30 Unlimited Arena's qualifiers was the first challenge: Sheng Xuehuai of the Sheng Kingdom versus Ji Zhaonan of the Qi State.
For top Prodigies like Murong Longqie and Ye Lan'er, the next few qualifying matches were ones they could afford to miss. But this match, with Ji Zhaonan taking part, was one they absolutely couldn't.
The six great powers of All-Under-Heaven had always been rivals.
Without his armor, Ji Zhaonan wore only a fitted martial uniform the color of frost, its cut tracing the lines forged through a thousand trials.
Broad shoulders, long legs, arms like an ape's, waist like a wasp's. The snow-white spear flowed through his hands like a strand of moonlight.
The moment he stood on the Martial Practice Platform, every eye in the arena turned to him. His bearing was peerless.
The two faced each other without another word.
Xian Nankui announced the start of the duel.
A pinpoint of brilliant white light had already burst open at the center of the platform!
It was hardly even a spear tip.
It was more like the instant a white point of light exploded.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye. Yet as that point of light stretched without end in every direction, bursting into everyone's field of vision... the process unfolded with startling clarity.
It was a clear, tangible speed that pointed straight toward the end of life.
It seemed to remind you just how fleeting your life was.
The entire arena was stunned.
A spear thrust this close to the Dao!
The fight had reached its climax from the very start.
How could anyone possibly block a spear thrust like that?
Sheng Xuehuai lifted his head.
Short as he was,