"No matter how fierce the storm outside may be.
I remain calm in the face of it.
Chaos Hall gave me enough shelter, so there are many things I do not understand."
Xiao Anshan looked somewhat dejected and let out a deep sigh.
"I lost," he replied. "I am thoroughly convinced by my defeat."
He walked down from the arena step by step.
Ever since he had begun cultivating, he had always been invincible among his peers.
This was his first crushing defeat.
A defeat so miserable it could not have been worse.
And even if he were given more time, even if they fought several more times, he had no confidence that he could win.
His heart was a jumble of flavors, as though something had been knocked over inside him.
Xiao Anshan did not know how to describe it. He only felt rueful and sorrowful.
As he stepped down from the arena, a middle-aged man was somehow already standing beneath it, waiting for him.
"Hall... Hall Master," Xiao Anshan greeted in surprise upon seeing the middle-aged man.
He knew who the Hall Master of Chaos Hall was.
The man had always been like a divine dragon whose head could be seen but whose tail could not. Very few people in all of Chaos Hall had ever met him.
Even Xiao Anshan, as his personal disciple, had only seen him a handful of times.
Other than when the man instructed him in cultivation.
"I have disappointed you," Xiao Anshan said ashamedly.
The Hall Master smiled and patted his shoulder.
Then he replied, "What is disappointment?
Does losing one battle count as disappointment?
Whether it was me, the Fire Ancestor who founded our Chaos Fire Domain,
or even the most stunningly gifted existence of Blazing Fire Domain—
which one of