Meeting an Old Acquaintance Again

"Talk about asking for death!"

Chen Fan sneered, sheathed his sword, then turned and walked away.

When he'd bought the Azure Sacred Flower earlier, the Star-River Pavilion had demanded an outrageous price. Chen Fan had been a little displeased, that was all.

He wouldn't have targeted its disciples just because of the Pavilion's name.

If this man had been willing to pay a certain price and ask nicely, Chen Fan might even have let him go.

But he'd actually dared to use that condition to threaten him. He was truly asking to die.

Chen Fan had always been someone who yielded to kindness but not force.

Of course, by "not yielding to force," he meant when his opponent wasn't strong enough...

If he were up against an expert on the level of a Demon God King or an immortal, Chen Fan wouldn't fight them to the death either...

Meanwhile, outside the illusion.

At a viewing venue.

The Star-River Pavilion Master stared in shock as his own genius was hacked to pieces by Chen Fan. His face turned deathly pale in an instant.

"How could this happen?"

With strength at the third level of the Dao Domain, he'd even had a chance at the top three tiers. But now he'd been eliminated and could, at best, enter the fifth tier. The difference between those outcomes was like heaven and earth!

"I told Xing'er that the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect intended to buy the Azure Sacred Flower..."

He'd thought that, because of the Azure Sacred Flower, even if his genius ran into Chen Fan, he'd still be given a chance to survive. But what happened had been completely beyond his expectations...

In this round, the viewpoint shifted according to the seeded contestants in each setting. They could see what was happening, but