Thirty, three hundred, three thousand!
Hearing Li Xian's words, Beiming and Tai'e felt their heads spin.
Was this...
Had he gone mad?
The crucial point was that Li Xian had not transmitted these words through Divine Sense. Nor had he merely invited Shi Chan, Ying Yue, and anyone unwilling to accept the outcome to challenge him, as he had before. He had openly announced them to everyone.
It was tantamount to challenging every Dao Lord in the Heaven's Mandate Cult.
It allowed every Dao Lord to legitimately circumvent the Heavenly Book Tower's "one-on-one" challenge rule and surround him together!
This...
It was sheer madness.
"Dao Lord Li, mind your words. Please, mind your words."
Tai'e hurriedly warned him.
Li Xian offered no further response. Instead, he simply sat down on the "terrace" Sword Thirteen and the others had specially prepared earlier.
Faced with this display of resolve, Tai'e and Beiming exchanged a glance, both feeling helpless.
Still...
Li Xian's strength was plain to see.
He had challenged three hundred, even three thousand people, but at most, only one or two hundred Dao Lords would truly risk their lives to fight to the death against someone capable of slaying even a Great Luo Golden Immortal.
Many Dao Lords who had no hope of winning a chance to study the Book of Destiny in the first place would not seek their own deaths.
Even if Li Xian could not defeat an encirclement of one or two hundred Dao Lords, he would still have a very good chance of breaking out of the Heavenly Book Tower and escaping back to the safe zone.
It was not as though his safety was entirely unassured.
Besides, challenges in the Heavenly Book Tower were not a one-time affair.
After being driven out of the Heavenly Book