The surrounding Buddhist disciples saw what had happened. Though they had not seen Maitreya Buddha cough up blood, they knew that he had lost.
Everyone was deeply shocked. They had never expected Carefree Great Emperor to be so powerful. After only a few exchanges with Maitreya Buddha, he had defeated him. It was truly astonishing.
Maitreya Buddha was also surprised. He had thought that even if he could not defeat Carefree Great Emperor, he should at least have been able to hold his own for a while. Yet he had ended up in such a sorry state and lost so quickly.
Carefree Great Emperor merely looked coldly at Maitreya Buddha, his eyes filled with disdain.
"Great Emperor, I lost," Maitreya Buddha said. Though admitting defeat was humiliating, he still had to say it.
Carefree Great Emperor said, "Do you know why you lost so quickly?"
"Because the Great Emperor is stronger. I am not your match," Maitreya Buddha replied.
Carefree Great Emperor snorted coldly. "Though you truly are no match for me, you should never have lost to me so quickly. You lost so quickly because you became afraid of me. You lacked confidence, and that was why you fell apart so fast.
"Although I have now entered the Saint Realm, it is not as frightening as you imagine. So long as you dared to face me, fighting for a hundred exchanges would not have been a problem. Yet you had already lost the will to fight. Naturally, you fell into a disadvantage during our battle and did not dare to fight without restraint.
"That is why you were defeated so quickly. If you had cast everything aside and fought me just now, we might still not have determined the victor."
As Maitreya Buddha listened to Carefree Great Emperor's words,