It Was You After All

"Tut, tut, tut..."

"This really is astonishing, just like the rumors said."

"However..."

The traitor king wearing a white mask rubbed his chin.

"To be honest, for a freak like you—the only one of your kind in human history—miracles have happened to you more than once. If anything beyond our expectations happens to you, it would still be within our expectations."

The eyes beneath his mask were cold, devoid of even a trace of warmth.

"It could be said that the importance we place on you is no less than that of Great Xia's Red King back then."

"Today's grand show will be ninety percent successful as long as we kill you. As for everyone else..."

He spread his arms, wild and flamboyant.

"They're merely extras."

Boom!

King-level Martial Dao Pressure erupted from him.

The void cracked apart. The frozen space-time split like ice, and countless black-and-white arcs of lightning spread outward. Everything they passed was annihilated, revealing a crumbling scene of tangled, corrupted data.

Some national war contestants unfortunate enough to be touched were erased outright.

"A king... It's been a long time since I last fought."

Jiang Yuan smiled, baring his teeth as killing intent surged around him.

The last time he had fought like this seemed to have been against the Sea-Subduing King outside Sea City.

And since then...

He had grown much, much stronger.

Whoosh!

An incomparably dense curtain of darkness spread from beneath his feet, covering the entire region in an instant.

"You don't know the difference between life and death."

The man in the white suit sneered. Martial Dao Pressure spread from him as though no technique could touch him, and an invisible barrier instantly blocked the Darkness Power outside his body.

"I heard about your battle with the Sea-Subduing King. In the end,