There were many kinds of dragons.

Some were kind, others evil; some barely cared about those below them while others cared too much.

But there was one thing that united all dragons: their arrogance and ego.

Even the gentlest of dragons had the arrogance to defy the heavens and the ego to think themselves above them.

How could Qingyi's words not affect Tianyu? A man with a draconic bloodline, overcome with jealousy and with an ego as fragile as butterfly wings?

"You..." Tianyu growled, his voice more like the grunt of a beast.

Above him, the figure of the white dragon grew even larger, its serpentine body flying over the arena, stretching for more than two hundred meters, a golden light bathing everything below it.

One of the transcendents watching acted quickly, moving his Qi around the arena and protecting the weaker spectators.

"You'll pay for those words!" Tianyu pointed his sword at Qingyi. The Qi surrounding him fell to the ground like molten gold, spreading out around his feet.

'No weaker than Biyue before I helped her evolve her bloodline and constitution to mortal grade...' Qingyi thought, readying his blade and watching Tianyu.

Whatever he was planning, it was powerful, but Qingyi didn't bother to stop it.

After almost ten seconds, an eternity for cultivators of that level, the golden Qi finally stopped falling to the ground, forming a lake of gold that stretched for twenty meters around Tianyu.

"This is the secret technique I inherited from my master. I'll give you one last chance, take this battle seriously! Die with some honor!" Tianyu declared.

"I'm treating this battle as seriously as it deserves."

The moment Qingyi's voice fell silent, the world around Tianyu changed.

The golden lake beneath his feet shuddered, moving gently before turning into a violent whirlpool, swirling around Tianyu and swallowing him up completely.

The golden Qi surrounding him shone more brightly than ever, blinding many of the spectators as the whirlpool expanded further and further.

It wasn't long before the formations protecting the arena began to fail, the ground beneath Tianyu's feet sinking as everything within a radius of hundreds of meters around him collapsed.

Only the part where the audience stood remained intact, protected by the power of the transcendents.

"DIE!" Tianyu's roar echoed as he advanced towards Qingyi.

The handsome young man reacted immediately. Sixteen blades of lightning appeared around him, flying towards Tianyu and breaking the sound barrier, accompanied by the heaven-defying sword of thunder.

The golden whirlpool covered Tianyu completely, but with his draconic eyes, Qingyi had little difficulty in perceiving Tianyu's movements, even with the absurd density of Qi in front of him.

Covering himself with black scales, Qingyi broke through the golden whirlpool, his sword hitting Tianyu's, the other sixteen swords stopping a few centimeters before they were able to pierce his body from all sides.

With the exception of the power of his lineage projection, Qingyi didn't hold back, putting all his strength into that clash.

The thunderous rays of his lightning sword Qi joined with the golden Qi, destroying everything around.

With both the sides and the top of the arena completely blocked by the transcendents' Qi, there was only one place where all that power could go: down.

The stone beneath both their feet turned to dust, their bodies sinking into an ever-deeper crater.

"You've got a good sword there. I think it'll be a good test." Qingyi flashed a big smile, his calm, serene eyes focused on Tianyu's, terribly distorted in hatred and frustration.

Without hesitation, Qingyi moved his sword Qi, forming an even sharper edge in front of the heaven-defying thunder sword, tenuously using his fire Qi with his lightning Qi to raise the temperature as much as possible.

It was time to finally test the heaven-defying thunder sword's new power after its breakthrough to mortal grade.

"Impossible!" The leader of the ancestral dragon sect suddenly stood up, his eyes wide open.

The sword Tianyu was using was a personal gift from him, a mortal grade item and one of his sect's most powerful treasures.

How great was the horror that gripped his face as Qingyi's sword sank into Tianyu's?

Suddenly, the Qi of both of them stopped, the thunderous clashes of their auras being replaced by a strange silence.

A metallic clang echoed as the melted tip of Tianyu's sword fell to the stone floor below them, who now found themselves in a crater more than two hundred meters deep.

Tianyu looked at his own sword, or at least what was left of it in his hand.

Tears of hatred streamed down his cheeks and he fell to his knees, a terrible gash tearing through his chest.

"Ah..." Qingyi sighed, gently turning his face.

Among so many shocked looks was Biyue, her rosy lips curved into a suppressed smile, her pale cheeks blushing softly.

"B-bastard - Blergh!" Tianyu vomited a large gulp of blood, being forced to move his hands to the ground, trying not to collapse.

"Was it worth it?" Qingyi asked, pressing his blade against Tianyu's neck, a little disappointed.

"Truly a waste of talent on such a disgusting, insignificant insect..." Qingyi retracted the heaven-defying thunder sword before swinging it with full force.

An explosion of blood stained the ground behind Tianyu, his head being thrown into the air.

Qingyi closed his eyes briefly, calming his breathing.

Fighting Tianyu without using his lineage projection was difficult.

If Tianyu had been just a little less arrogant, he would probably have managed to at least injure Qingyi.

Unfortunately for him, he was too blind.

Qingyi's body floated above the crater, his victory finally being announced, with tens of thousands of spectators shouting his name.

Almost all of them except those from the dragon battalion, of course.

Their battalion leader had just died, defeated in a miserable fight in which his opponent of lesser cultivation didn't even take him seriously.

How could they be happy about that?

It was impossible, their heads were down and their eyes were shaking.

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