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At this moment, the entire arena was filled with nothing but shocked gazes and heavy breathing.

Everyone stared blankly at Xu Ming, who stood proudly on the stage, then stared blankly at Chi Jishang, who was sprawled face-down on the ground, unable to accept this reality for a moment.

The script of the story shouldn't have been like this!

Logically speaking, Chi Jishang should have displayed his powerful, terrifying, and invincible strength, crushing Xu Ming horizontally, vertically, and diagonally, until Xu Ming couldn't even lift his head!

Or, even if Chi Jishang wasn't in good condition today, and Xu Ming's strength exceeded everyone's expectations, Chi Jishang should have won with difficulty!

Or, even if Chi Jishang was not only in very bad condition, but also overused his kidneys last night; and Xu Ming's strength far exceeded everyone's expectations, then at most, Xu Ming would have won a hard-fought, bloody battle, and ultimately emerged victorious with difficulty, right?

But—

The battle had barely started for three breaths, and Xu Ming slapped Chi Jishang away; what the hell was that?

"A bunch of idiots!"

Ye Qianjue's mood right now should be the best in the entire arena. He had long expected that Chi Jishang would definitely be crushed, and now it really happened.

"You thought Xu Ming was as easy to bully as he looks? If that were the case, I, Ye Qianjue, wouldn't have been afraid to even step onto the stage!—The stupidest one is that Chi Jishang. An opponent who makes me, Ye Qianjue, afraid to even step onto the stage, is he someone he can provoke?"

Seeing that someone was finally suffering at Xu Ming's hands, and losing face even more miserably than himself, Ye Qianjue was extremely happy!

Moreover, compared to Chi Jishang's miserable state, Ye Qianjue's surrender without a fight didn't seem like such a shameful thing after all.

"What is Chi Jishang doing!" The Liang faction's higher-ups immediately erupted in chaos.

How could they not erupt in chaos? Their faction's bet with the Gu faction had placed 100,000 low-grade Xuan Stones on Chi Jishang. As a result, Chi Jishang didn't struggle or resist at all, and was slapped off the stage; this also meant that the Liang faction directly lost 100,000 low-grade Xuan Stones.

"Could this Chi Jishang be a plant arranged by the Gu faction?"

"Yeah, this is too坑了!"

"Shut up!" Liang Weihe had absolute authority in the Liang faction. "Chi Jishang's temperament would never allow him to be a plant!"

"But Great Elder, then why was Chi Jishang slapped away before he could even fart?"

"Because…" Liang Weihe solemnly scrutinized Xu Ming, "Xu Ming's mental attack is very strong!"

"Very strong?"

"If I didn't sense it wrong just now, Xu Ming's mental attack is probably not much weaker than Wei Yumo's!"

"So perverted?"

Wei Yumo excelled at mental attacks, and his cultivation had already reached the Perfection of the Acquired Stage. He was among the top ten inner sect disciples! Xu Ming's mental attack was actually not much weaker than Wei Yumo's?

"That's right!" Liang Weihe said, "Just now, Xu Ming first used a mental attack to put Chi Jishang into a brief trance; therefore, he was able to slap Chi Jishang away so easily—I think Xu Ming very likely has the strength to be among the top sixteen! The Gu faction has really produced an extraordinary genius!"

To be only fifteen years old, to have only just entered the Desolate Sect, and to have the strength to challenge the top sixteen of the sect martial arts competition was indeed very extraordinary!

"Such a genius…" There was a coldness in the voices of many Liang faction elders.

Liang Weihe said indifferently: "Of course, we must kill him! But we must do it without leaving a trace!"

In recent years, the Gu faction's top geniuses had been far weaker than the Liang faction's. One reason was that the Gu faction had bad luck and failed to recruit several geniuses; the second reason was that the Liang faction had assassinated several talented Gu faction geniuses in secret.

"Liang Hui, I'll leave this matter to you!" Liang Weihe instructed.

"Yes, Father!" Liang Hui had originally been thinking about when to kill Xu Ming, and now that he had his father's "edict," he was naturally even more eager.

"To be able to easily defeat Chi Jishang at fifteen years old, and be able to challenge the top sixteen of the sect martial arts competition?" Even Liang Hui was a little jealous of such talent. "But what's the use? Dead people have no distinction between good or bad talent!"

Liang Hui still quite enjoyed the feeling of killing geniuses.

Because killing a genius was like killing a future expert! And killing a genius was much easier than killing an expert!

Especially for a genius like Xu Ming, whom he found displeasing, Liang Hui wanted to kill him even more; he would definitely feel even better when he killed him!

What had erupted in chaos was not just the Liang faction.

The Gu faction's shock was no less than the Liang faction's!

"Sect Master, this Xu Ming is the genius that Miss brought back, right? To be able to defeat Chi Jishang at fifteen years old, this talent is simply shocking! Miss really has an eye for talent!"

"Once he grows up, he will definitely be a person who can stand alone!"

As he said that, Liang Weihe directly threw a storage ring over. The storage ring was filled with 100,000 low-grade Xuan Stones.

"Then we'll gladly accept them!" Gu Kongshan happily took the storage ring. The Liang faction had 100,000 fewer low-grade Xuan Stones, while the Gu faction had 100,000 more low-grade Xuan Stones; this feeling was truly satisfying!

"Sect Master!" A Gu faction elder said, "There's something not good!"

"Oh?"

"It seems that Xu Ming will encounter Gu Fei in the next match!"

Gu Fei?

Gu Kongshan couldn't help but frown.

Gu Fei was one of their Gu faction's top geniuses, and was guaranteed to be in the top sixteen. Xu Ming would encounter him in the next battle?

Gu Kongshan looked at the arrangement of the martial arts competition, and sure enough, as long as Gu Fei defeated his opponent Ge Rui, he would encounter Xu Ming.

Ge Rui?

Gu Kongshan's lips curled into a slight smile: "That Ge Rui is also interesting!—He clearly made great progress this year, but he insisted on hiding his strength, pretending that he was still only at the late stage of the Acquired Stage, even at the cost of losing a match first. It wasn't until later, when he encountered a relatively strong opponent in the Perfection of the Acquired Stage, that he suddenly burst out, catching his opponent off guard, and even making it into the elimination round!"

Although Ge Rui was a genius from the neutral Zhang faction, Gu Kongshan still didn't hesitate to praise him.

"Interesting is interesting, but his strength is completely on a different level compared to Gu Fei. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had to painstakingly hide his strength in order to make it into the elimination round."

Gu Fei would definitely be able to win against Ge Rui.

Therefore, Xu Ming was destined to encounter Gu Fei in the next match.

"I originally thought that Xu Ming could challenge the top sixteen, but now it seems…" Gu Kongshan could only silently shake his head, "Although Xu Ming's mental attack is not bad, wanting to rely on this to defeat Gu Fei… difficult!"

Mental attack was a very "simple and crude" attack method.

Why do I say that?

If your mental attack was much stronger than your opponent's mental defense, then you could instantly defeat your opponent, or at least put your opponent into a brief dizziness—in a battle between experts, a brief dizziness was enough to determine the outcome.

But if your mental attack was only slightly stronger than your opponent's mental defense, then the mental attack would seem very鸡肋—it couldn't instantly defeat your opponent, nor could it put your opponent into a dizziness; other than giving your opponent a headache and slightly distracting them, it had no other effect.

In other words, mental attack either had a significant effect, directly crushing the opponent; or it was useless and you would be crushed by the opponent instead—it was that simple and crude!

And Gu Fei had already reached the limit of the Perfection of the Acquired Stage, and his mental defense was naturally as stable as Mount Tai.

"Xu Ming wants to break through Gu Fei's mental defense? I think it's hopeless!"

"Xu Ming's next match will be difficult!"

"It's a pity. If he hadn't encountered Gu Fei, Xu Ming might have been able to challenge the top sixteen, but now…"

"Our Gu faction doesn't have many geniuses who can rank in the top sixteen; as a result, we're about to have one consumed internally, alas…"

After Gu Hanmo finished being shocked by Xu Ming's power, she also realized that Xu Ming's next match would be difficult: "Xu Ming, your next opponent is Gu Fei, a genius at the limit of the Perfection of the Acquired Stage from our Gu faction. What do you think?"

Facing such a powerful opponent, Gu Hanmo naturally wanted to remind him in advance, so that Xu Ming could be mentally prepared.

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