NOVPUBWaves of demonic Qi enveloped Xu Zimei.
With the demonic Qi rising into the air, black and purple demon seals slowly appeared on Xu Zimei’s face.
His eyes surged with demonic Qi, eerie and domineering.
The demonic Qi soared into the sky, dispersing the entire firmament, turning the originally dim sky into pitch black.
The swath of pitch-black demonic Qi even enveloped the stellar force that was sprinkling down from the firmament.
Gong Yuner gazed at the sky with slightly narrowed eyes.
The demonic Qi roiled and roared.
"The first Battle Body, the Prison Suppressor Demon Body," she said coldly.
"Although you are still somewhat weak to me now," Xu Zimei said indifferently.
"But to show you the gap, I will still fight you with Battle Body against Battle Body."
Gong Yuner’s gaze flickered, and she remained silent for a long while.
But the crowd below erupted in noise.
"The, the first Battle Body?"
"I heard rumors at the Six Sects Grand Competition that the first Battle Body had appeared.
I didn’t expect it to be true."
"Saint Heir Xu is too strong, isn’t he? How is he so unknown in our Eastern Continent?"
"Who knows, maybe Saint Heir Xu keeps a low profile and rarely stays in our Eastern Continent, so we don’t know much about him."
Ignoring the discussions below, Xu Zimei slightly raised his hand and made a provocative gesture at Gong Yuner.
"So what if it is the first Battle Body," Gong Yuner said calmly.
"My Starry War Body, coupled with my True Fate, can contend against any stronger Battle Body."
As the words fell, stars around her erupted, and she charged directly towards Xu Zimei.
"Old Ancestor, should we stop it?" someone at the Extraterritorial Extreme Palace asked with concern.
"No hurry, letting Yuner suffer a defeat might not be a bad thing," the old ancestor of the Extraterritorial Extreme Palace replied.
"Fortunately, it’s not a battle for Destiny; there’s still a chance to remedy."
"Is he really that strong? What if the Young Palace Master wins?" another person said discontentedly.
"Didn’t you notice? That young man opposite hasn’t even summoned his True Fate," the old ancestor said with a smile.
Hearing this, the people around him finally realized.
Throughout, their Young Palace Master had unfolded the Star Map, plucked the Eight Starlights, and summoned the Starry War Body. 𝔫𝖔𝔳𝖕𝖚𝔟.𝔠𝔬𝖒
Yet the opponent didn’t even bother to summon his True Fate, indicating that the fight was effortless for him.
Gong Yuner appeared before him, her fists shattering the void, attacking him.
Xu Zimei smiled, "How do you want to die?"
He raised his right hand and directly grabbed the collar of her purple robe.
He slammed her heavily to the ground.
Alternating left and right, he smashed her with "bang, bang, bang" sounds nearby.
The ground cracked open, revealing countless large and small pits.
The three starlights above his head shone, and Xu Zimei extended his right fist, directly bursting the three starlights with a punch.
Gong Yuner’s figure was thrown away.
Everyone’s eyes were fixed on her flying backward helplessly, unable to even resist.
Her purple hair fluttered in midair; with a "bang", Gong Yuner collapsed on the ground.
"If you have any trump cards left, use them now," Xu Zimei said indifferently.
"I don’t seem to be interested in playing these childish games anymore."
Gong Yuner struggled to stand up from the ground.
She wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and looked blankly ahead.
"Defeated," she murmured to herself.
She couldn’t imagine how devastating this defeat would be to herself.
She understood the environment in which she had grown up and the amount of resources she had enjoyed.
The expectations of those from Heaven Beyond Heavens, the Destiny of this life, she had always considered herself undoubtedly victorious.
But now it was not just a defeat, but an utterly unresisted one.
She could bear defeat; she could always start over from scratch.
But this kind of defeat, a gap as vast as a moat, made her see no hope of return.
It seemed even if she tried her entire life, she would never be a match for her opponent.
"How about it? Ready to admit defeat?" Xu Zimei asked calmly.
"Admit defeat?" Gong Yuner’s pupils sharply constricted.
"No, no, I won’t admit defeat, I cannot fail."
She seemed possessed, her Stellar Force swelling multiple times over, and she attacked Xu Zimei again.
"Heavenly Star Burst," accompanied by a deep-throated scream.
Amidst the surging Demonic Qi, her Starry Force was still stubbornly resisting.
Suddenly, when she reached Xu Zimei, she saw him directly grab her by the neck.
He suppressed her Stellar Force, slowly lifting her up.
Her feet off the ground, Gong Yuner only felt a burning sensation in her throat, as if it was being crushed.
She struggled, staring at the man in front of her.
This was her most careful, earnest, and closest observation of the man before her.
A head of black hair, his eyes swirling with Demonic Qi.
His face was like it was chiseled from stone, resolute and arrogant.
From him, one could only sense an aura - "dominance."
An unparalleled dominance, arrogant and confident.
It wasn’t arrogance, but true confidence.
This man had the right to be so.
Gong Yuner, in her life, had seen many people.
Her origins were equally extraordinary, even stronger than the Imperial Rule Immortal Sect; the worlds she had been exposed to since childhood were not limited to Yuan Central Continent.
Thus, her aspirations were high, no man caught her eye.
She wanted to become a woman like Empress Hongtian.
But for the first time, she felt fear emanating from a peer.
He was like a moat that laid before everyone, Destiny within reach yet also unattainable.
"Do you want to kill me?" Gong Yuner asked with difficulty.
"Being a person, one should keep their word.
I helped you bury the Crystal Stone in this Heavenly Primordial minor world, allowing you to constrain the void," Xu Zimei said.
"You said you’d kill the Baili Family, how can you go back on your word?"
"What exactly do you want?" Gong Yuner looked at Xu Zimei, puzzled.
Killing the Baili Family, what good would that do him?
Xu Zimei pulled Gong Yuner close to him, his mouth lightly approaching her ear.
Being so close, Gong Yuner for the first time in her life felt her cheeks burning hot.
She had never considered love and affection; she thought of herself as a block of ice, aside from being powerful, unswayed by the Seven Emotions and Six Desires.
But at this moment, her heartbeat unexpectedly quickened a bit.
"Killing the Baili Family, one must keep their word," Xu Zimei said.
"But leave Baili Xiao to me."
After saying this, Xu Zimei’s right hand slowly released Gong Yuner’s neck, and he turned and walked down from the arena.
Only Gong Yuner’s figure remained frozen in place, blankly watching Xu Zimei’s departing figure.
"Yuner, come over here," the elder of the Extraterritorial Extreme Palace shouted from the side.
Gong Yuner turned her head, took another deep look at Xu Zimei, and then departed.
