Three Tribulations Mountain.
Huo Yuanshan sat in the seat of honor, receiving the news of Ji Jingqiu’s visit, momentarily somewhat bewildered.
Could it really be a visit to seek guidance?
An attendant whispered aside, "Your Highness, deploy the Killing Formation, draw that person into it. With the suppression of the Killing Formation, we will certainly capture him in one fell swoop! Even at the worst, we can trap him within the Killing Formation and wait for reinforcements to arrive, taking him down together. By then, the Sun and Moon Alliance, afraid of harming the innocent, will inevitably descend into internal chaos!"
Huo Yuanshan glanced at him, coldly saying, "This is the Inheritance Ancient Road. The visitor has come openly to challenge, if I were to use the Killing Formation to encircle and kill, am I prepared to directly tell the world I am inferior to him?"
The attendant was at a loss for words.
"Let’s go, to meet this Sun and Moon Alliance Leader."
Huo Yuanshan abruptly stood up, striding towards the outside of the city, finally laying eyes on the long-famed but never-seen Sun and Moon Alliance Leader.
The young man holding a sword had eyes shining like lightning, his expression calm, yet possessing an aura that not even the likes of Huo Yuanshan could ignore.
Gazing at the youth in the distance, Huo Yuanshan muttered to himself, "Ji Jingqiu?"
He saw the Senluo behind him and knew it was indeed right.
This mastermind behind the Ancient Road conflict had, after news had spread, finally appeared on the battlefield after two months.
And his arrival was aimed directly at Huo Yuanshan!
"What trick is the Sun and Moon Alliance trying to pull this time?" Huo Yuanshan’s eyes bore down, missing none of the shifts in Ji Jingqiu’s expression.
Ji Jingqiu stepped forward, saying:
"This battle should come to an end, giving both you and me an opportunity. To come to the Ancient Road and not see each other would be excessively dull."
Huo Yuanshan’s eyes blazed:
"Well said! Having ascended the Ancient Road, if one does not meet the foes from all sides, better not to have come at all!"
"How shall this battle be waged?!"
Ji Jingqiu placed his hand on the hilt of his sword, a sharp sword intent as if cutting through the Void, pointing straight at Huo Yuanshan, calmly saying, "Survive three strikes from me, and the Sun and Moon Alliance will never invade again."
Huo Yuanshan’s gaze sharpened, not deriding him for his arrogance, nor deeming Ji Jingqiu as belittling him, but rather feeling a blazing battle intent from this man.
Huo Yuanshan looked deeply at him, not expecting him to be so direct, differing from the image rumored.
He slowly said, "If Ji can indeed take me down in three strikes, what harm is there for Three Tribulations Mountain to make way in this life? When shall this battle be set?"
"A single battle, do we really need to choose an auspicious day?"
Ji Jingqiu’s entire Qi became more and more refined, an invincible belief emerging naturally, his aura majestic, like an insurmountable high mountain,
"Right now, this very moment, is quite excellent."
Huo Yuanshan exhaled softly, feeling for the first time an uncontrollable pounding desire for victory in his chest.
The area was instantly cleared.
Ji Jingqiu stepped out gracefully, without much polite conversation, simply drawing his sword and striking casually.
This sword strike was upright and honest, using the back of the sword!
The long sword fell, and the airflow around it moved with the blade, sweeping up and merging into a Vortex, giving Huo Yuanshan a sense of inevitable engagement, as if this sword enveloped Heaven and Earth, and could not be avoided.
Huo Yuanshan’s right fist swelled, and he violently threw a punch, the shadow of the punch raging like tides, as if filling Heaven and Earth, containing a world of End of Tribulation.
The punching wind and Qi Force overflowed, making it seem as if the surrounding air was being forcibly expelled, giving the illusion that Heaven and Earth were expanding!
The punch like a world overwhelming!
Senluo behind Ji Jingqiu revealed a hint of shock.
He had exchanged blows with Huo Yuanshan a few times, and this punch incorporated the might of Divine Skills, exceeding any of Huo Yuanshan’s past engagements with him.
It was an unreserved full-strength blow, and also a potential burst pushed to the brink!
However, what he faced was an insurmountable mountain!
The long sword met the fist, and an unimaginable force pressed down, extinguishing all brilliance, Huo Yuanshan’s expression registering horror.
This stroke seemed casual, yet it seemed to concentrate all strength and the Power of Heaven and Earth into a single point, the concentrated "one."
The next moment, Huo Yuanshan’s figure sank abruptly, with his feet penetrating the ground, tiny cracks spreading rapidly, like the parched earth encroached upon by a downpour.
These cracks deepened continuously, as if the Earth itself let out a deep moan at that moment.
Huo Yuanshan roared furiously, trying to struggle free, but the long sword pressing on his fist remained immovable, like Divine Mountain, utterly crushing any resistance in Huo Yuanshan’s heart.
Only when the long sword was retracted did Huo Yuanshan take a deep breath, the previous sense of suffocation vanishing.
At that moment, Huo Yuanshan finally understood who stood before him!
A peerless... Invincible!
"Protect the His Highness’s security!"
Behind him, the Martial Artists of Three Tribulations Mountain, besides being shocked, could not believe that their lord could not even take a single strike; they were only worried that Huo Yuanshan might encounter danger, and they rushed forward fearlessly to assist.
"Everyone, back off!"
Huo Yuanshan gritted his teeth to drive back the Martial Artists that formed the Killing Formation, looking deeply toward Ji Jingqiu, he said in a deep voice:
"Brother Ji is extremely powerful, Huo admits his inferiority!"
"If the Far East battle zone is led by Brother Ji, I am convinced in both heart and speech. In the coming trial land, I am willing to follow by your side, acting as your vanguard!"
In this moment, Huo Yuanshan truly set aside his fighting spirit, because before him stood a true Invincible, someone with the credentials to strike for the top ten, even top five, of the Ten Thousand Ancient Stele!
Ji Jingqiu had already sheathed his sword. Upon receiving Huo Yuanshan’s concession, he nodded slightly, turned with somewhat dazed Senluo, and left for the next battlefield.
Watching Ji Jingqiu’s receding figure.