"Die!" He Xian barked, crushing the girl's head with one hand.
What a joke! As if being from a King Clan meant she could threaten him.
Come to think of it, the White Silver King Clan seemed to be a powerful clan that fiercely shielded its own.
Still, He Xian paid no heed to her threats.
A dozen breaths later.
The arena had almost been cleared, leaving only seven or eight demon-god-like figures standing drenched in blood.
He Xian glanced at the survivors. Most were formidable elites from the King Clans, with only one or two unaffiliated cultivators.
Unaffiliated cultivators were those pitiful fellows whose clans had never even produced an immortal.
In the Foreign Realm, calling them unaffiliated cultivators was hardly an exaggeration.
Without even an immortal presiding over their clan, what were they if not pitiful?
The third arena returned to one-on-one combat. The winner advanced; the loser was eliminated.
This time, He Xian's opponent finally warranted his full attention.
He was an Emperor Clan being in the escape one realm.
The Gu Clan!
Once one of the ancient Ten Fiends of the Nine Heavens, ranked alongside the True Dragon and Qilin.
This was a powerful, mysterious race, said to sever space with one hand and time with the other.
These two peerless divine abilities were their supreme arts, the foundation that allowed them to sweep aside all the world's mighty warriors.
Wherever they stood, theirs was an invincible race!
Its members were as scarce as those of the Emperor Clans, and reproduction was difficult, but any one of them who emerged into the world was a terrifying figure.
Moreover, this was a great Gu Clan cultivator on the verge of breaking through to the supreme realm.
"Stand down, junior. You are no match for me!" This Gu Clan being had entered just under the age limit. He would turn five hundred next year.
The Title Ranking Tournament barred no young being under five hundred from competing.
Even those who had cultivated to immortality could enter the arena.
However, no one had ever broken the curse that prevented anyone under five hundred from becoming a supreme.
He Xian said nothing. He raised his hand to test the depths of this great Gu Clan cultivator!
He unleashed a punch, the profound principles of the Indestructible Scripture surrounding and shielding him. He also wanted to see just how much he was worth.
The great escape one realm cultivator from the Gu Clan wore a cold expression. Merely standing there, he made it difficult for others to breathe.
His eyes seemed to hold the terrifying weight of endless ages-the collapse of mountains and rivers, the passage of time-that belonged only to the older generation.
"Young man, you truly are bold."
Suddenly, he moved, becoming utterly terrifying and filled with demonic power. Mountains crumbled beneath his gaze, seas dried up beneath his gaze, and wherever his eyes fell, mountains and rivers overturned!
He likewise threw a punch to answer He Xian.
Rumble! He Xian retreated half a step. His knuckles throbbed from the impact, but they had not split.
"The Indestructible Scripture at major mastery! So that is what gives you the confidence to turn your blade against me." This great Gu Clan cultivator clearly knew more than the others about this supreme scripture originating from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
"To cultivate this scripture to such a level at your age-you can indeed be considered a heaven-gifted talent." His praise held no emotion!
"He Xian of the Crane Clan humbly requests your guidance, senior!" He Xian had always respected the strong, and he introduced himself.
"Very well! I accept, little fellow! But you may die." The great Gu Clan cultivator cautioned him again. He truly sensed a threat, and he would not hold back.
"Fight!"
He Xian's aura soared into the heavens. An all-out battle was precisely what he wanted. Unless he defied the gap in realms and defeated a great cultivator, he could hardly call himself a peerless prodigy, the foremost of the Foreign Realm's younger generation.
Whoosh!
Dense great sun divine light surged out. With the Indestructible Scripture circulating, he swung his arms, instantly forming a golden mountain ten thousand zhang tall and hurling it down.
Heaven and earth shook.
This was his first time using the Indestructible Scripture in this way.
"Split!" The great Gu Clan cultivator lightly swept his left hand. The void fractured, and the golden mountain hanging in the air shattered outright.
"Space in the left hand, time in the right." He Xian watched closely, studying the mysteries of this peerless art as the great cultivator performed it.
"As expected of a lineage of the Ten Fiends!" He could barely suppress his admiration.
"Only this is worth risking my life to fight!" He let out a long cry.
"Kill!"
He Xian's golden hair whipped wildly as he unleashed his full strength without holding anything back. He could pit himself against a great escape one realm cultivator, even one from an Emperor Clan at the very peak of that realm.
Rumble!
Surging blood energy, wrapped in chaotic golden light, shot skyward like an immense waterfall sweeping upward. It pierced the heavens and rushed toward boundless heights, beating the firmament like a great drum.
From his very first move, He Xian unleashed all manner of peerless secret arts, merging them into one. Wrapped in immeasurable divine might, he met the great Gu Clan cultivator head-on, keeping the battle in the close-quarters physical combat he favored most.
As soon as he closed in, he attacked with fists and feet together, accompanied by all manner of world-shaking divine abilities.
Their blows shattered the sky, set the high heavens trembling, and stirred layer upon layer of ripples in the Great Dao.
"Time, space!" The great Gu Clan cultivator remained unhurried. In his hands, divine abilities and Ancestral Arts seemed to shed their complexity and become simple.
Every move he made accorded with the Great Dao and contained the principles of heaven.
"Freeze!" the great Gu Clan cultivator commanded softly.
He Xian immediately felt his movements slow. This stretch of void had been fixed in place.
At that moment, a hint of disdain appeared in the great Gu Clan cultivator's eyes.
Boom!
Abruptly, the void, frozen like a painted scroll, broke.
"You truly underestimated me!" He Xian thundered. One punch shattered the rigid space, his divine power surging and shining like a tidal wave. His fist drove straight into the great Gu Clan cultivator's chest and blasted him away.
A large section of the great Gu Clan cultivator's chest instantly caved in, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
"You!" The great Gu Clan cultivator's eyes turned vicious as he stared at his own chest in disbelief.
"What do you mean, 'you'? What do you mean, 'me'?"
He Xian's eyes blazed like two seething suns. He had really given this Gu Clan being too much face.
If he had lived for five hundred years, he could have killed this great Gu Clan cultivator with one hand, a thousand times over.
Moreover, in his extreme fury, He Xian seemed to enter a wondrous, profoundly mysterious state. His body and primordial spirit reached their peak, and his entire being became clear and flawless.
It was as though he were about to attain some extraordinary fruit of the Dao.
The divine forbidden realm was a name for a domain of ultimate limits, a term used in later ages. There were also terms from even later times, such as Great Universe, Dual Eternity, and so on.
His talent truly was extraordinary. Across tens of millions of years, one could not find three like him.
"Kill!" He Xian pressed his advantage. His current state was simply too good; even a casual strike seemed to receive some inexplicable enhancement.
Heaven and earth trembled!
"Immortal Fist!"
A fist shrouded in golden flames swept across the sky, punching straight through the void. The flames along its path burned open a swath of rifts, piling them into terrifying folds.
In a single instant, this punch sent the great Gu Clan cultivator flying once again, before he had even recovered from his disbelief.
This brought about a terrifying result.
Explosions rang out across the great Gu Clan cultivator's body in succession, spraying bloody mist. His tendons snapped and bones broke, and his chest was battered into tatters, leaving a gaping hole from front to back.
Even though he was a great escape one realm cultivator.