Four bouts were taking place at once. Unable to spare any attention for the others, Mu Bai devoted himself entirely to his battle with Bai Yu.
Treading on a clear breeze, Bai Yu swept the Dingkun Spear sideways, drawing on the boundless earth's aura and whipping up a Dark Yellow Earth Dragon that roared as it lunged at Mu Bai. Mu Bai's heart trembled. Turning his palm into a blade, he slashed diagonally at its head. With a crack, slight fissures appeared in the Dark Yellow Earth Dragon's skull, but Mu Bai's blade-like palm also ached faintly. He felt that this earth dragon was far harder than metal or stone.
After these probing exchanges, both had gained a rough understanding of the other's strength. Bai Yu truly deserved his position as the successor of a super sect. His fighting strength was probably already infinitely close to the peak of Dao Zun.
Bai Yu was inwardly astounded as well. Mu Bai appeared not to have formed an Inner World yet, but he had caught Bai Yu's "Earth Soul Nether Dragon" while still in the Xiu Zun Realm. Clearly, his victory over Hao Feng had not relied entirely on crooked, unorthodox methods. His own fighting strength was extraordinary too.
The four bouts proceeded simultaneously, every one blazing with light and shaking heaven and earth. The thousands of cultivators watching on Tianmu Mountain's Northern Peak could scarcely take it all in. Their minds were gripped, their hearts deeply shaken again and again. They marveled that these could hardly be the methods of the younger generation. Surely even those old fellows who had been famous for years could do no more than this.
Indeed, the three Yuan Zun Sect Masters seated on the main platform were also watching intently, nodding repeatedly in praise. They