News that Lu Ren had defeated Xue Wudi and become the defender of the Tier-One Immortal Talent Arena soon spread across the entire Immortal Battlefield.
The whole battlefield erupted.
The prodigy who had defeated Xue Wudi a hundred years ago had beaten him once more.
The Demon Immortal Clan's camp could not accept it, while the Dao One Immortal Realm's camp was delighted. With Lu Ren defending the arena, their Immortal-Below-Immortal cultivators would no longer be forced to challenge the Immortal Arena when they entered Yellow Springs Mountain.
But the experts of the Supreme Immortal Sect Powers were torn. As they saw it, Lu Ren had overcome his Bloodthirsty Gene by slaughtering more than ten thousand cultivators, an act the heavens could not abide. Yet if they killed him, who could hold the Tier-One Immortal Talent Arena?
"Since Lu Ren has overcome his Bloodthirsty Gene, we'll spare him for now. Let him defend the Immortal Talent Arena for our Dao One Immortal Realm camp and make amends for his crimes!"
When Young Master Tianming heard the news, he made his position clear.
The sect masters of the Four Great Immortal Sects—Piaomiao, Zixiao, Tianji, and Haoyue—all wanted Lu Ren dead, but they understood how important he was.
Having Lu Ren defend the arena on the Immortal Battlefield was crucial to the Dao One Immortal Realm's camp.
The Immortal Battlefield!
Fierce battles raged across it without pause. Disguises, ambushes, sneak attacks—every sort of tactic emerged one after another.
The Immortal Realm cultivators of both camps could only enter the Immortal Battlefield for trials if they wanted to exchange for Immortal Pills or cultivate the Path of Attack and Kill in the Enlightenment Pavilion.
Of course, those trials also tempered Immortal Realm cultivators greatly.
In the blink of an eye, a hundred years