Blood-red waves immediately rippled around him, and a sharp golden gleam flashed in his palm.
"Brat, you're courting death!"
He raised his hand to strike Shi Qingyun dead. The wisps of mighty power spilling out instantly shook countless stars from the sky.
Bang-
A golden gleam enveloping a sharp divine needle hurtled toward the arena, striking its barrier.
Towering ripples surged outward. The void around the protective barrier was annihilated, and spiderweb cracks rapidly spread across it.
Shi Qingyun abruptly raised his head and felt an overwhelming killing intent sweeping toward him. His body involuntarily stiffened.
Looking up, he saw the divine needle, blazing with boundless golden light, descending straight toward him.
If this strike landed, all the prodigies of the Nine Heavens standing in the arena would be reduced to ash beneath it.
But the instant that strike shot forth, the Immortal King burial shroud behind the Third Elder emitted a crimson glow.
Crack-
The moment the protective barrier broke, Shi Qingyun and the others flashed away, swiftly leaving the arena behind.
Boom-
The golden divine needle landed on the black-gold arena with world-destroying might. The arena, as hard as divine gold and divine iron, shattered inch by inch beneath the blow.
By then, however, Shi Qingyun and the others had long since been transported away.
Elder Xu's vicious gaze pierced the world barrier, settling on Shi Qingyun and the others as they appeared behind the Third Elder amid flickering divine light.
"It seems that after tens of thousands of years, the cultivators of the Foreign Realm have only grown weaker."
"The only thing that hasn't changed is your shamelessness."
The Third Elder spoke lightly, yet his words carried the authority of heavenly law. The young prodigies standing silently behind Elder Xu could not help paling.
Crack-
They wanted