Because of Qin Chen’s words.
On the plains, many people couldn’t help but recall the scene that had occurred earlier on this very stage.
It was merely a duel, but because Ying Xuan and her husband lacked strength, Hua Run directly crippled their cultivation.
The couple, who once harbored endless fantasies and great expectations for their future, had their journey abruptly ended.
Had Hua Run ever considered the feelings of Ying Xuan and her husband back then?
Not in the slightest!
Even till the end, he remained amused, not sparing even the last bit of time for Ying Xuan and her husband.
How arrogant, how domineering?
The roles seemed to have undergone a dramatic change.
Hua Run had become the one whose cultivation was to be crippled.
The fear in his eyes, the pleas for mercy, the trembling—they saw it all.
Everyone present, even those from the Flying Star Sect, felt not the slightest pity for Hua Run.
On the contrary, many thought it was a case of reaping what he sowed.
"Please, spare me, don’t cripple my cultivation, I beg you..."
Hua Run didn’t know what to do anymore.
Previously, when he had crippled the cultivation of Ying Xuan and her husband, he never imagined that his day of retribution would come.
Thinking of the consequences of losing his cultivation, Hua Run couldn’t even begin to imagine.
Thus, he began to plead for mercy.
He had lost his dignity, his face, everything.
He was begging Qin Chen.
"If you had known this would happen, why did you do it in the first place?"
Qin Chen looked at the sorrowful Hua Run and coldly said.
Qin Chen’s fist struck out, directly bursting Hua Run’s Dantian, pulling out his Primordial Power Seed, and refining it into rolling energy.
With the Dantian broken and the Primordial Power Seed extracted, Hua Run was thoroughly disabled.
His right arm broken, his lifeline shattered, his Dantian broken, and his Primordial Power Seed extracted.
Hua Run’s fate was even more tragic than that of Ying Xuan and her husband.
His entire person was sprawled out on the stage like a dead dog.
Qin Chen activated a strand of Elemental Power, taking the Sect Token and Qiankun Bag from his body.
Finally, Qin Chen kicked, sending Hua Run flying off the stage.
Falling heavily to the ground, Hua Run breathed his last breath.
Dead, Hua Run had met a tragic end.
A death filled with immense sorrow.
The plains were very quiet.
As if everyone had yet to recover from Hua Run’s death.
At that moment, Qin Chen’s gaze suddenly shifted to Hu Yanxuan and Huo Gang below the stage.
Qin Chen’s voice was cold, his eyes flashing with extreme sharpness.
Especially toward Hu Yanxuan.
This woman’s actions left Qin Chen with no reason to forgive her.
The injuries Mon Tianran suffered, and the near disfiguration or even death of Ruoran—these were the reasons for Qin Chen’s anger.
All of which, Qin Chen intended to reclaim from Hu Yanxuan and Huo Gang!
The people on the plains trembled under his gaze.
Hua Run, due to his repeated provocations, had ultimately met a sorrowfully fatal end.
What about Hu Yanxuan and Huo Gang?
They injured Qin Chen’s senior brother and nearly disfigured Hua Ruoran.
The latter seemed to outweigh the former in severity.
What would become of them?
People couldn’t help but shudder at the thought.
The gazes of Huo Gang and Hu Yanxuan, as they watched Qin Chen standing proudly on the ring, flickered.
Just now, Qin Chen had shattered Hua Run’s right arm, ruined his lifeline and cultivation, and doomed him to fall—all of these events, they saw very clearly.
Thus, they all knew that Qin Chen was far stronger than they had initially imagined.
Especially Hu Yanxuan.
Recalling her previous actions and thinking about Hua Run’s fate, she couldn’t help but start to feel afraid.
"Don’t worry as long as I’m here."
Huo Gang’s voice seemed to have sensed the emotions within Hu Yanxuan’s heart.
Her panic immediately vanished completely.
Indeed, what was there to fear?
As the old saying goes, two hands can’t fend off four—could two people not defeat one?
Despite Qin Chen’s demonstrated strength,
Huo Gang also had great confidence in his own strength.
Then, Huo Gang and Hu Yanxuan stepped up to the ring together.
The second fight was about to begin.
"Huo Gang and Hu Yanxuan are both strong."
"If that man fought alongside his woman, perhaps there might be a chance for victory, but alone, it’s very risky."
People on the plains had begun discussing.
By choosing to fight two against one, they felt Qin Chen was being overly arrogant.
After climbing onto the ring, Huo Gang immediately took out an Upper Grade Earth Element golden longsword from his Qiankun Bag, surrounded by golden light, quite extraordinary.
Without hesitation, Huo Gang roared and rushed towards Qin Chen with a fierce Sword Intent.
Huo Gang’s combat power was at the Heavenly Origin Third Layer, so his eruption now was much more powerful than Hua Run’s earlier, making many onlookers’ pupils contract.
Yet, facing Huo Gang’s incoming strike, Qin Chen seemed unfazed, just as before.
Just like before, he threw a punch straight out.
He was actually going to meet Huo Gang’s strike with his bare fist.
The crowd below the ring tightened their gazes.
A bare fist against a sword that could cut through refined iron?
Wasn’t that a bit too careless?
They could almost see the scene of Qin Chen’s fist being pierced through by Huo Gang’s sword.
As Huo Gang’s sword was about to strike Qin Chen’s fist, Qin Chen coldly spat out one word.
A single word turned into a rolling sound wave, laden with a murderous intent.
His fist surged with immense power.
The fist and Huo Gang’s longsword collided abruptly.
At that moment, Huo Gang felt an unbelievable force strike him, causing his arm holding the sword to go numb instantly, loosening his grip and letting the sword fall to the ground.
His face instantly turned pale, and his body slammed into the Defense Wall, making a loud noise.
Below the ring, everyone stared in stunned silence.
With bare fists against that sword, could Huo Gang be the loser?
Just how strong was Qin Chen?
Those were no mere fists of flesh; they were clearly fists akin to those of a steel giant...
At this moment, everyone’s gaze toward Qin Chen was as if they were looking at a monster.
But then, Qin Chen suddenly moved again.