The others in the Great Hall lowered their heads one after another when they heard He Pingsheng's words.
They dared not let their patriarch see their expressions.
They could not help it!
It really was hard to keep a straight face over something like this.
"You misunderstand!" Gongsun Shiliu shook his head and said calmly, "I am in the Divine King Realm. Naturally, I would not stoop to fighting you one-on-one!"
"Just now, I unleashed two bursts of Divine Sense upon you, but those were not attacks. They were tests!"
"How about this? I will give you two chances now!"
"You may strike at me twice!"
"As long as you can inflict even the slightest injury on me, today's matter will be laid to rest!"
"Everyone in the Great Hall can bear witness!"
This was not a question of sincerity, but of confidence.
Gongsun Shiliu felt that, as a Divine King facing someone in the Divine Lord Realm, allowing his opponent two strikes was not excessive at all.
Normally, no matter how extraordinary your gifts or how heaven-defying you were, you could at most kill someone one realm above you, could you not?
For instance, someone in the Divine Venerable Realm killing someone in the Divine King Realm.
Or someone in the Divine Lord Realm killing someone in the Divine Venerable Realm.
Surely no one could leap across two major realms?
Someone in the Divine Lord Realm could kill me, a Divine King?
Such a thing had never been heard of.
That was the source of Gongsun Shiliu's confidence.
Forget killing me. Even if I stood perfectly still and let you hack at me, you might not even breach my flesh.
The might of the Divine King Realm was not something someone in the Divine Lord Realm could comprehend.
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