Sea of Bitterness Calamity

The great sun hung high in the sky. A few featherlike white clouds drifted silently across the blue curtain, and the fleeting shift between light and shadow left everyone's vision momentarily blurred.

Atop the circular platform, which stood over ten meters high and more than a hundred meters across, a carpet of blue-green grass covered the surface, reaching above the tops of their feet.

Strangely, the blue and green were distinctly separated on the circular platform, forming two swimming fish with fat heads and slender tails. One blue and one green, the fish joined head to tail; the blue fish had a green eye, and the green fish had a blue eye.

Chen Xin stood on the blue fish's eye, while Chen Jianjun stood on the green one. Father and son both stood tall and composed, each holding his Martial Soul, the Seven Kill Sword.

By contrast, the two pairs of brothers standing before them had spared some of their attention for someone at the edge of the arena.

In fact, it was not just the two pairs of brothers. Though the thousands of spectators around the platform eagerly awaited the battle about to begin, they could not help casting glances filled with complicated emotions at that peerlessly graceful figure.

Just moments ago, Ling Yi had spoken up to dispel Tang Sheng and Tang Xiao's concerns, allowing the long-impatient Tang Hao to accept the battle with Chen Xin outright.

They could hardly refuse. Before so many eyes, Pope Qian Xunji had made the proposal, and Ling Yi's side had no objections. If the Clear Sky Sect refused the challenge, it would not be so easy to brush aside as it had been for Dai Tianqi. After all, he was the honored emperor of the Star Luo Empire, a man whose