Mountain Summit.
A Grand Array covered the Demon Race's side, and another covered the Human Race's.
Between the two Grand Arrays lay the battlefield, with no defenses or shelter whatsoever.
Snow fell like a curtain; wind cut like a blade.
Heaven and Earth stretched bleak and boundless.
By now, the entire test had changed in nature.
Only Cultivators willing to fight to the death could step forward and enter the fray again.
"Begin!" the Referee shouted.
The Lion Demon dropped his arrogance, roared, and charged straight at Xu Yuan.
His body was heavy and powerful.
Even the ground trembled beneath him.
Xu Yuan's face betrayed nothing. The moment his opponent moved, he moved too.
He bent his knees slightly, kicked off the ground, and shot toward him.
The two closed rapidly.
They met!
The Lion Demon suddenly spat out a cloud of black mist and laughed wildly.
"Secret Treasure: Black Cloud Barrier!"
The mist swelled in the wind, instantly expanding to half the size of a soccer field and swallowing everything within it.
Xu Yuan was engulfed too.
In the viewing stands.
Lu Qingxuan suddenly spoke. "The Black Cloud Barrier can only be activated by someone in the Foundation Establishment Realm. It blocks every sense. You activated it beforehand and had a Qi Refining Realm lion spit it out. Isn't that going a bit too far?"
A Demon Race envoy smiled.
"The Human Race brought out a sword of that caliber too. What's so excessive about this?"
Lu Qingxuan was about to say more when he sensed something was wrong.
It was too quiet inside the Black Cloud Barrier.
No clash of blows, no screams, no sound at all.
Normally, only a caster who had prepared the Spirit Light Art in advance could see inside the Black Cloud Barrier.
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