Dead!
Situ Ye, hailed as a rarity in this world, who had defied heaven and changed his fate through supreme talent to return to the Ancient Emperor's clan-the foremost of the Western Province's younger generation, a "prodigy" granted a Blood Mark opportunity by the Great Emperor-had been mercilessly crushed in a single encounter by that foreign successor of the Ancient Emperor, his head severed and returned to the moat...
It had happened too quickly. Not only had Situ Ye failed to react, but even the imperial uncle secretly preparing to suppress Ren Ye had not managed to act before his nephew's blood splashed across the city gate, his head separated from his body.
A prodigy had fallen. The entire city fell silent.
The Royal Hunting Grounds, filled with over a hundred thousand people, had been crushed into something like a land of death by that finger spanning the sky. Whether they were Supernatural Ability Users who had come to watch or commoners who had just been shouting wildly, all felt their cheeks burning, their shock beyond words.
That was Situ Ye-the central figure of this gathering of prodigies. The Heaven Arena in the hunting grounds could be said to have been built by the king himself specifically for him, using this opportunity to cultivate his invincible reputation and pave the way for his formal return to the Imperial Clan...
An illegitimate son born to a "slave woman," of such lowly birth, yet an unrivaled talent who had forced the entire Western Province Imperial Clan to tacitly acknowledge his identity-whatever his character, he represented the whole Western Province.
Yet before that successor of the Ancient Emperor, he had not even had a chance to struggle?
And that successor of the Ancient Emperor was merely a Third Grade Supernatural Ability User!
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