"Was that... a True Lord?"
"It must have been. Only a True Lord could reach across the Great Void and leave Wenren Shangzhi utterly powerless to resist."
"Come to think of it, he fought three opponents alone. Does that count as... winning?"
The Celestial Persons watching the spectacle exchanged bewildered glances.
Wenren Shangzhi had broken the rules, prompting a True Lord to act from afar and throw him back to the South Sea. Deng Qiuzhi and Lu Danyan had both fled as well. Did that mean this man had defeated all three of them?
"I... suppose it does. After all, he had them pinned down throughout the fight, while Wenren Shangzhi and the other two were clearly on the back foot."
"Who is he? So handsome, and so accomplished in cultivation, too. How have I never heard of him?"
"If I'm not mistaken, he should be Zhang Yuan of the Ya Kingdom, Senior Return to True!"
"Zhang Yuan?!"
Zhang Yuan stood tall in the center of the ruined battlefield. He watched Deng Qiuzhi and Lu Danyan flee into the distance without choosing to pursue them.
As for Wenren Shangzhi...
After revealing his True Body, he had become so enormous that he had directly broken through the Buddha Kingdom's restriction on Skyflight and hovered above it. When Immortal Lord Duo Ning the Usurper saw this from the distant East Sea, he had naturally intervened and thrown him back to the South Sea.
Although Zhang Yuan had fought three opponents alone this time, Deng Qiuzhi and Lu Danyan had barely contributed, leaving Wenren Shangzhi to face him head-on. Even so, this achievement was enough to look down upon all rivals. He could justifiably call himself unrivaled at celestial person perfection.
And he still had room to improve.
In other words, as