"A dignified Innate Realm expert actually stepped into the ring himself to interfere in a match between me and a junior. Truly shameless."
On the arena platform, watching Qiu Jianfeng, an Innate Realm expert, personally intervene and stop him just as he was about to defeat Jian Wuchen, Li Chengfeng clenched his teeth, utterly unwilling to accept it.
In the match just now, although Jian Wuchen had relied on his unique sword intent to draw upon the world's primal energy, allowing him, with only an initial Aperture-Condensing Realm cultivation, to fight Li Chengfeng to a standstill—
—the expenditure was tremendous, an enormous drain on his mental strength.
As the battle dragged on, so long as he failed to defeat Li Chengfeng immediately, he would inevitably lose later on against Li Chengfeng's explosive bursts of blood, qi, and true energy.
And Jian Wuchen had already begun to show signs of defeat. If Li Chengfeng had continued attacking, he might have taken Jian Wuchen down within ten moves.
After all, every move Jian Wuchen made surely consumed no small amount of mental power. Otherwise, how could he possibly command so much of heaven and earth's energy?
After all, no matter how one used "four ounces to move a thousand pounds," one still had to obey the law of conservation of energy. First, one had to expend those four ounces of force.
Dragged to that point by Li Chengfeng in battle, with himself already at the brink of his limits, every sword Jian Wuchen swung was undoubtedly a massive expenditure.
Perhaps even ten moves was Li Chengfeng overestimating him.
Yet at this critical moment, Qiu Jianfeng, an Innate Realm expert, had actually intervened personally to stop the match between Li Chengfeng and Jian Wuchen from continuing!
Any clear-eyed person could see his selfish