Ye Xingchen and Jie Lingyao had just performed a love-hate drama in the light screen, and the next round’s match immediately paired them up. This made Jun Changxiao feel it was deliberately arranged!

The organizers’ reply meant simply: the Universal Sacred Battle was absolutely fair and just, with no behind-the-scenes manipulation.

Jun Changxiao naturally didn’t believe it, so he argued with the organizers. After just a few words, he was friendlily carried out by several muscular men, the reason being disrupting the match’s normal proceedings.

“There’s a conspiracy!”

Gou Sheng kicked and clawed with his legs and hands in mid-air, roaring, “There’s definitely a conspiracy!”

Jian Guixu and Gu Tianxing turned their faces away, saying in unison in their hearts, “How embarrassing. We don’t know him.”

Back to the arena.

Ye Xingchen shrugged his shoulders, “It seems heaven wants to give me another chance to make up for past mistakes.”

“Has Night Junior Brother seen the light?”

Su Xiaomo said, “Going to take responsibility for this woman?”

Wishful thinking.

The mistake Ye Xingchen spoke of was not killing this woman back then.

Meeting again today, he definitely wouldn’t be merciful. He must sever his inner demon, sever all distracting thoughts.

“Bang!”

The Fang Tian Painted Halberd appeared out of thin air before him.

When tormenting Ling Li, he hadn’t even used a weapon. Now summoning it clearly showed killing intent.

“Buzz!”

Light flashed between Jie Lingyao’s palms, a seven-chi long sword appearing.

From start to finish, her eyes were full of hatred, even intensifying the more she looked at Ye Xingchen.

He saved her.

The two should have had a harmonious relationship.

But in the stone cave, he made a mistake, transforming gratitude into resentment.

“The match begins!” the referee announced.

“Swish!”

Ye Xingchen grabbed the Fang Tian Painted Halberd and charged over with large strides. Whether in momentum or energy eruption, it far exceeded his torment of Ling Li.

Without doubt.

He was going for the kill.

“…” Su Xiaomo shook his head, “This kind of thing, probably only Night Senior Brother could do.”

“Swoosh!”

Jie Lingyao attacked with hatred, the long sword in her hand swinging.

“Bang—” The powerful Fang Tian Painted Halberd swept over first, fiercely shocking the sword away, then spinning and stabbing into the ground outside the arena.

Jie Lingyao staggered back several steps, unable to care about the numbness in her arm, using agile movement techniques to dodge sideways.

“Boom!”

Having just avoided it, the Fang Tian Painted Halberd struck down, directly shattering a small half of the arena.

Fortunately she dodged quickly, otherwise she would have been pulverized.

“Too ruthless!”

“That’s just a woman!”

Night Emperor’s complete lack of tender feelings immediately drew dissatisfaction from most of the audience.

“Thud thud thud!” Jie Lingyao barely dodged, stabilizing at the arena’s edge. Although hatred remained in her eyes, her heart was extremely bitter.

She had grown a lot these years.

She even won the Canghai System preliminaries championship.

However, compared to this man, the gap seemed even wider than before.

“Swish!”

Ye Xingchen swung the Fang Tian Painted Halberd, carrying powerful force sweeping over.

Facing this kind of offensive, Jie Lingyao could only barely rely on agile movement to dodge, completely unable to find a counterattack opening.

“Boom!”

“Boom!”

Ye Xingchen was like a bulldozer, swinging the Fang Tian Painted Halberd pressing step by step. Wherever he passed, floor slabs cracked, dust flew.

Jie Lingyao was suppressed and retreated repeatedly, until having no way to retreat. Her hands rapidly formed seals, saying with hatred, “Undying Fire Domain!”

“Buzz!”

“Buzz!”

The still relatively intact arena, the areas she had retreated through, gradually revealed crimson lines.

It turned out.

This woman had hidden mystery in every step back.

“Look at the sky!” someone exclaimed.

Everyone raised their heads one after another, discovering the sky also had crimson lines similar to the ground, gradually outlining a lotus-like pattern.

“Should be a long-lost fire-type divine ability.” Jian Guixu said.

“I’ve heard.”

Gu Tianxing said, “A top fire cultivator once appeared in the Canghai System. Could the divine ability be related to him?”

Their words were heard by Jun Changxiao, who leaned against the chair back, propping his chin, “Could this woman’s strength not only relate to the resources I gave, but also having encountered some great opportunity outside?”

Wait!

Wasn’t he carried out?

How did he come back?

The crimson pattern in mid-air finished outlining, echoing with the arena pattern. One rotated clockwise, one counterclockwise.

“Swoosh swoosh swoosh!”

Instantly, streams of searing fire light carrying scorching heat waves rapidly fell.

Ye Xingchen sneered, “Petty tricks!”

“Swish!”

With one arm swinging the Fang Tian Painted Halberd, he directly dispersed all the falling fire light, then quickly turned to stab at Jie Lingyao.

However.

That woman had already disappeared.

Ye Xingchen withdrew the halberd, raising his head to look at the sky, seeing Jie Lingyao positioned at the pattern’s center area, casually spreading her hands. Searing flames instantly wrapped around her.

“Buzz buzz!”

The two patterns’ rotation speed increased.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

Increasingly strong fire attributes permeated, enveloping Jie Lingyao. Then watching her move both hands toward Ye Xingchen’s direction, saying coldly, “Undying Fire Domain, Burn Through Eternity!”

“…”

Jun Changxiao was depressed.

This name was too infuriating!

“Whoosh whoosh!”

Right then, the flames permeating Jie Lingyao’s body poured down like a waterfall. The searing power instantly shattered space and shook the defensive barrier condensed in front of the viewing platform, causing its surface to appear distorted.

“Quickly reinforce!”

The organizer powerhouse ordered.

Instantly, dozens of formation masters flew over, using professional techniques to reinforce the barrier near the viewing platform. The defensive standard rose steadily.

Supposedly, the audience should be worried.

But while the organizers reinforced, no one looked over even once, because their minds were entirely on the sea-of-fire-like scene.

“Stomp!”

Ye Xingchen stepped forward. The instant flames pressed down, the Fang Tian Painted Halberd pierced through the void.

“Boom—”

The halberd tip fiercely collided with the flames, instantly forming a standoff state.

“Whoosh whoosh!”

Searing flames like a fierce tiger descending the mountain madly impacted, but always couldn’t break through the Fang Tian Painted Halberd’s solid defense line.

“Just this much ability?” Ye Xingchen said indifferently.

“…”

Jie Lingyao desperately mobilized the pattern’s energy. But each time she added it to the sea of fire, she still couldn’t break through, as if standing below wasn’t a person but a firewall.

“A powerful opponent can make my blood boil.” Ye Xingchen raised one foot, “A weak opponent only makes me feel bored.”

“So.”

“This match ends here.”

“Boom!”

Ye Xingchen stomped the ground. Powerful force spread in all directions. The entire arena instantly shattered into powder, and the existing crimson pattern also turned to nothing.

Without the mutually corresponding pattern, the clockwise-rotating pattern in the sky came to an abrupt halt, then dissolved into pieces of flames that scattered.

“Poof!”

Jie Lingyao spat blood, her entire face deathly pale.

However, Ye Xingchen not only broke the formation—at this moment he had already flown upward from below, killing intent infused in the Fang Tian Painted Halberd, revealing dazzling radiant luster.

This strike.

Jie Lingyao would undoubtedly die.

“My god!”

Su Xiaomo exclaimed, “Is Night Junior Brother really going to kill his wife to prove the dao!”

“…”

Xiao Zuiji and others turned their heads away.

“Sect Master!” Li Qingyang looked toward Jun Changxiao.

At this time, only Sect Master could stop Ye Xingchen.

“Ah.”

Jun Changxiao shook his head, “Their grudge, let them settle it themselves.”

“Swoosh—”

Carrying towering air waves, Ye Xingchen shot upward at extreme speed. The killing intent flashing in his eyes grew stronger and stronger, clearly intending to put Jie Lingyao to death.

“…”

Audience members turned their heads away one after another, not daring to watch the cruel scene about to occur.

The divine ability broken, Jie Lingyao had already been injured.

She watched the dazzling radiance draw closer and closer, a smile resembling liberation appearing on her pale face, then dispersed the little remaining force gathered in her palms.

“Die!”

Ye Xingchen roared, the Fang Tian Painted Halberd piercing through the void.

The energy enveloping the surroundings, let alone killing an injured woman—even the Celestial Net Realm’s spatial barrier could be directly pierced!

However.

Right then, a change occurred.

“Screech!”

The Fang Tian Painted Halberd was only a few fingers’ distance from Jie Lingyao when Ye Xingchen suddenly withdrew all force. His entire body seemed struck by lightning, standing dumbfounded in place.

“What’s going on?”

Everyone asked puzzledly.

Jun Changxiao leaned his head out, gradually narrowing his eyes.

Li Qingyang, Xiao Zuiji, and others were the same.

Until they clearly saw that although Ye Xingchen stood in the void with a dumbfounded expression, he kept staring at Jie Lingyao’s belly. Immediately understanding something from this, they shouted in unison with loud voices in astonishment, “No way!”

How loud was the sound?

It directly shook the Celestial Net Realm.

And the greatest credit for this went to Jun Changxiao, because he used an amplifying megaphone to shout.