Mountain Beyond Mountain, Guidance Platform.
The storm of battle had finally subsided.
Amid the shattered world, only one man remained standing: Ji Wuri, hailed as the number one genius of the Central Divine Temple in the Heaven Realm. Not even when the mysterious man had pierced his chest in public with a single strike had he looked so wretched. Now, he was covered in wounds, drenched in blood, countless gashes deep enough to expose bone crisscrossing his body and sending chills down the spine of anyone who saw them. Ji Wuri, who had always stood high above others, whose glory and might rivaled that of a god, could not even stand steadily now... Blood dripped from his wounds drop by drop. His arm, with snapped tendons and fractured bones, could barely clench into a fist.
For the first time in his life, he had suffered such grievous injuries.
This.
All of it had been bestowed by another formidable foe in his life—not Yue Titan, whom Ji Wuri had regarded as his destined rival, but an enemy he had nearly overlooked: the mysterious man's disciple, one of the former three giants of the Western Heaven Realm, Jiuxiao!
"What a pity!" A voice seemed to emerge from the Netherworld, yet the instant it entered the ear, it was bizarrely sucked away as if by a black hole. "So you had hidden such enormous power. No wonder you dared to speak such shameless boasts. But today is only the beginning. Battle will follow you until your life ends. I guarantee it will be a struggle to the death, never to rest!"
"Jiuxiao." A flash of anger passed through Ji Wuri's eyes, but it quickly settled.
He took a deep breath.
He did his utmost to restrain the emotions brought on by pain and