"Send someone at the Late-Stage Nine-Step Supreme Realm... up here to die!"
Lu Ren's cold, commanding voice cracked like thunder across the deathly silent Border Region.
Everyone, whether from the Heavens Alliance or the Evil Dao, felt their hearts shake at his words.
Lu Ren was challenging someone at the Late-Stage Nine-Step Supreme Realm?
At the Nine-Step Supreme Realm, the gap between even minor stages was like an uncrossable chasm.
Challenging someone two minor stages above him was no longer confidence. It was madness!
"Arrogant fool!"
Deathflame Evil Scion's face turned livid, rage nearly bursting from his eyes.
The Evil Dao had already lost more than a dozen top Mid-Stage Nine-Step Supreme Realm fighters in this battle. The blow had struck them to the bone.
And now Lu Ren dared provoke them like this? It was an insult to the entire Evil Dao!
"If none of you dares come up,"
Lu Ren stood with sword in hand, his lightning-sharp gaze sweeping across the Evil Dao's ranks. Cold mockery edged his voice. "Then the All-Heavens Alliance wins this battle. For the next million years, your Evil Dao will not set foot anywhere near the Border Region!"
His imperious words, coupled with the fearsome might he had shown by slaying more than a dozen experts in succession, drove his presence to its peak. Many on the Evil Dao's side found it hard to breathe.
"I'll kill you!"
At that moment, a figure wreathed in vicious Baleful Intent tore through the void like black lightning and slammed onto the Righteous Path Arena.
His upper body was human, but below the waist he had the hideous body of a scorpion, covered in pitch-black armor. A pair of enormous pincers gleamed coldly, while a barbed scorpion tail arched behind him, radiating an evil aura that