The entire audience was stunned!
No one had expected that Qin Zhizhen, who had dragged the battle to its final stage and pushed Yama Hall to its last step, successfully manifesting the true form of the Yama Son of Heaven, would still lose!
But losing to this Sword Immortal, who wore frost, bathed in scarlet flames, and trod upon azure clouds, was no cause for anyone to cry foul!
This was a sword strike at the very summit of eternity, an immortal wielding the peak of a mountain as a sword, piercing the darkness of the Long Night and Netherworld and defeating the Yama Son of Heaven.
Its form was towering; its momentum, lofty.
Its radiance blazed; its might thundered!
This battle was in no way inferior to the peerless clash between Dou Zhao and Chongxuan Zun. It might even have surpassed it.
The Prodigies who had shone together in the Outer Tower Arena were so dazzling, so brilliant, that many spectators had grown weary, unable to summon much interest in the battles in the Inner Palace Arena.
Jiang Wang had set a record for the fastest victory ever the moment he stepped onto the stage, while Lin Zhengren of the Zhuang Kingdom had conceded without fighting.
But that only made people think all the more...
Was that all there was to it?
Was this what the Inner Palace level was like, where one could even suffer a backlash before the battle began?
Only when Deng Qi, a Prodigy of the Mu Kingdom, displayed his supreme talent, blending numerous terrifying killing techniques into one, did the Inner Palace Arena finally become worth watching.
By the time the Prodigies of Qi and Chu faced off at their peak, many had begun to take the quality of this year's Inner Palace Arena