The Prodigies War

Earlier, Huanglong Zhenjun had stood majestic and heroic, like a god ruling over the sword dao, radiating an air of supreme dominance that inspired awe in all who beheld him.

However, from that moment on, he was plunged into a tight encirclement, unable to break free! The reversal came so suddenly that it left everyone stunned.

Lin Xun’s strength once again shook the crowd to the core. His true body alone was already terrifyingly powerful, and now, with five dao bodies fighting at his side...within the Fate Lotus World, they could already be said to stand at the very pinnacle!

Rumble!

In the battlefield of victory or defeat, Huanglong Zhenjun was driven into desperate straits. He could barely fight back, let alone protect himself. In a short time, his body was riddled with wounds, bones shattered, blood spraying everywhere.

He roared again and again, trying to break through the encirclement, yet all his efforts were in vain. Even watching this scene was enough to make one’s scalp go numb and one’s heart race in fear. A monstrous figure like Huanglong Zhenjun was being beaten to such a miserable state. Who would have believed that just moments ago he had been so arrogant and carefree?

“Admit defeat?” Lin Xun asked coldly.

“Not even if I die!” Huanglong Zhenjun roared, eyes bloodshot, hair disheveled, his entire appearance ferocious and grotesque.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Dense barrages of fist force, sword qi, palm seals, and finger power surged in from every direction like a raging torrent, blasting his body apart again and again. Blood splattered across the battlefield.

The sight sent chills through Ying Tiansheng and Jiang Mingshui. They had hoped that Huanglong Zhenjun’s appearance would turn the tide. Now it seemed that even Huanglong Zhenjun was no match!

Even after seventeen battles, even when no longer at peak condition, Lin Xun was still far stronger than what Huanglong Zhenjun could contend with.

“Admit defeat?” Lin Xun asked once more. At this moment, he and the five dao bodies struck again together. It was no different from pinning Huanglong Zhenjun to the ground and beating him mercilessly.

“Never!” Huanglong Zhenjun roared wildly.

“Brother Xing, does Young Friend Lin Xun intend to beat Huanglong Zhenjun until he admits defeat?” Xun Daoyan couldn’t help but ask.

“Didn’t Old Man Huanglong say earlier that he would make Young Friend Lin Xun admit defeat wholeheartedly?” Xing Jianxia chuckled. “Young Friend Lin Xun is simply returning the favor, using his own words against him.”

Xun Daoyan and Divine Lord Linglong exchanged glances, their expressions turning strange. They had not expected Lin Xun to be so ruthless and so vindictive.

“It’s over for Huanglong Zhenjun...”

At this point, even the spectators in the distance could see clearly that Huanglong Zhenjun had no chance of turning the situation around. Their hearts trembled as their understanding of Lin Xun changed once again.

Boom!

Suddenly, a deafening explosion erupted from the battlefield. Under the gazes of everyone present, Huanglong Zhenjun’s battered body was blasted apart, blood spraying like rain.

In that instant, the same thought surfaced in countless minds: Was Huanglong Zhenjun about to end this battle by committing suicide to seek defeat? It was no wonder such a thought arose.

Before this battle, Huanglong Zhenjun had loudly declared that ‘suicide to seek defeat’ was nothing but a despicable trick and that he would never stoop to such a shameful act.

Now, he was already in mortal peril. If he did not do so, his primordial spirit would inevitably suffer devastating damage, perhaps even to the point where his very dao foundation would be irreparably destroyed.

The next instant, just as Huanglong Zhenjun’s body was shattered, Lin Xun reached out and seized his primordial spirit, imprisoning it in his grasp. He did not strike again. He merely confined him.

This meant that even if Huanglong Zhenjun wished to suicide to seek defeat now, it was already impossible. Unless Lin Xun personally chose to obliterate his primordial spirit.

“Old man,” Lin Xun asked calmly, “do you admit defeat now?”

At that moment, the entire region fell into dead silence. The spectators in the distance were stunned into speechlessness. Ying Tiansheng, Jiang Mingshui, and the others stood rigid and numb, their hearts sinking straight to the abyss.

The defeat of seventeen old monsters had already dealt them a devastating blow. Now, with even Huanglong Zhenjun defeated, their fighting spirit wavered completely. For the first time, they truly began to question whether continuing these challenges made any sense at all...

On the Five Elements Heavenly Pass, Xing Jianxia and the others exchanged glances and finally relaxed completely.

“I already said it! Never!” Huanglong Zhenjun’s imprisoned primordial spirit roared, filled with rage and resentment.

“But just now, you clearly intended to end this battle by committing suicide to seek defeat.” Lin Xun said with a faint smile. “Fortunately, I reacted quickly and sealed your primordial spirit first.”

Those words left everyone utterly dumbfounded. So it was true...Huanglong Zhenjun really had intended to commit suicide to seek defeat? The irony was unbearable! It was nothing less than him slapping his own face in public!

When they thought of Huanglong Zhenjun’s earlier righteous and thunderous declaration, many spectators could no longer hold back and burst into laughter.

“Lin Xun,” Huanglong Zhenjun snarled, his eyes burning with venom, “if you think humiliating me like this will make me submit, then you are sorely mistaken! As long as one is alive, no matter how great the humiliation or hatred, there is always a chance to take revenge!” His voice grew colder and more vicious. “You may one day reach the All-Wonder Dominion, but your family and friends will eventually come to this Sea of Fate as well. When that happens, all the enemies you’ve made will surely exact their revenge on them!”

The entire area fell into a dead silence. He spoke without any regard for face or decorum, his words brutally direct.

“Do you know why so many old monsters you’ve never even met targeted you the moment you entered the Fate Lotus World? It’s because your master, the Lord of Fangchun Mountain, offended far too many people here back then. They couldn’t get revenge on him, so they chose to vent their hatred on you instead, a successor of Fangchun Mountain!” Huanglong Zhenjun’s expression twisted into something ferocious and sinister.

The silence grew heavier, because everyone knew he was not wrong. Zhu Tianjun, Sage Emperor Kong Yu and the others...which of them weren’t enemies of the Lord of Fangchun Mountain back then? Was that not exactly why, the moment Lin Xun appeared, they all took him as their target for revenge?

Lin Xun, however, remained calm and unperturbed, as if none of this concerned him in the slightest. He said casually, “Since I’ve personally tasted this so-called revenge, I naturally won’t allow such things to happen again in the future.”

He paused, then continued in an even colder voice, “Back then, my master didn’t wipe you all out. Perhaps it was mercy, perhaps there were other reasons, or perhaps he simply never took you old vermin seriously at all.” His gaze shifted toward the distant enemies. “But I’m different. I have never shown mercy to my enemies!”

“Unless you hide in your own epoch worlds and never come out again, otherwise, as long as you remain in this Fate Lotus World, I will kill you, one by one!”

In an instant, countless old monsters shuddered. It was as if an icy wind from the abyss had swept through their hearts, and their expressions changed drastically.

In the past, a threat from a young man would never have been taken seriously. Now, no one dared to ignore it.

The spectators in the distance all felt a chill run through them. Lin Xun’s words were clearly not meant for Huanglong Zhenjun alone. They were aimed at everyone present. Anyone who made an enemy of Lin Xun would be treated as someone to be eliminated at all costs.

“Hah! If you’re really capable of that, then why are you hiding on this Five Elements Heavenly Pass?” Huanglong Zhenjun sneered coldly.

Lin Xun chuckled. “With your status, don’t you think that’s a stupid question?”

He swept his gaze across the crowd. “You mobilized nearly fifty experts from different factions just to deal with me, and yet you still ask why I’m staying here. That’s not stupidity...it’s malice.”

Before Huanglong Zhenjun could say another word, Lin Xun directly sealed him away. At this moment, the battle was still not over. Although Huanglong Zhenjun was left with only his primordial spirit, he was not in immediate danger of death. As a result, the laws of the battlefield did not intervene.

Then, under the astonished gazes of everyone, Lin Xun calmly sat down cross-legged, took out a bottle of divine elixirs, and began swallowing and refining them. He began recovering his strength right there on the battlefield!

The spectators in the distance were completely stunned. This...could actually be done?

Ying Tiansheng, Jiang Mingshui, and the others were dumbfounded, their lips twitching, a suffocating pressure building in their chests as if they were about to explode with anger. They had planned everything so meticulously, but they had never imagined that Lin Xun would recover his depleted power in such a way!

This was just like ‘suicide to seek defeat’! Both methods took advantage of the laws of the battlefield of victory or defeat.

Even Xing Jianxia and the others were stunned; they had never thought this was possible either. According to the rules of the victory or defeat battle, a single battle could last up to six hours. If neither side was defeated within that time, it would end in a draw.

Of course, six hours was more than enough for Lin Xun to recover a portion of his strength! The atmosphere instantly became strange and oppressive. After Lin Xun entered meditation, he became completely absorbed, as if the entire world had ceased to exist around him.

As time passed, Ying Tiansheng and Jiang Mingshui gradually lost all hope. Eighteen consecutive battles...starting with Lu Zhongyan and ending with Huanglong Zhenjun, Lin Xun had won every single one. How were they supposed to continue?

Lin Xun could still let others fight in his place, and he could also take advantage of the rules of the battlefield to recover. All of this meant one thing: Even if the various factions continued sending challengers, it would be almost impossible to seize the Five Elements Heavenly Pass!

The only option left was to retreat. Unfortunately, retreating would be a public humiliation, a complete and utter loss of face. However, what weighed even heavier on them was the fact that they had failed to kill Lin Xun. Which meant that in the future...they would inevitably face his retaliation!

After all, they came from different factions. Their alliance today was only temporary. Once the opportunity to seize the Fate Lotus Dao Altar appeared, they would turn against each other without the slightest hesitation. This was what one truly called trouble without end!

Time slowly slipped by. The spectators gradually calmed down, and many of them felt secretly inspired. They made a silent note to themselves: If they ever seized a heavenly pass in the future and were challenged, they could imitate Lin Xun by sitting on the battlefield and simply waiting out the six hours.

That way, even if an opponent wanted to wage a war of attrition, they would be forced to wait six hours between every single round! Of course, the prerequisite was being strong enough to win like Lin Xun. Otherwise, it would all just be empty talk.

For everyone present, the six hours felt unbearably long, like an endless torment. Just as the time limit was about to be reached, Lin Xun, who had been sitting in meditation all this while, suddenly opened his eyes. He rose to his feet and turned his gaze toward the sealed primordial spirit of Huanglong Zhenjun.

Huanglong Zhenjun had been silent and gloomy, yet outwardly calm. However, the moment he sensed Lin Xun’s gaze, a deep sense of foreboding surged within him.

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