Chapter 323: Chapter 300: Challenge! East Profound Shocked!
"Using oneself as bait?"
Sikong Xuanji couldn’t help but stroke his beard in thought, his eyes constantly flickering.
After a dozen or so breaths, Sikong Xuanji’s eyes brightened, and he heavily clasped his hands together and said:
"Using oneself as bait to lure the snake out of the hole!"
"Fellow Taoist, you are truly noble!"
Li Changsheng heard Sikong Xuanji’s hypocritical flattery and merely gave a lukewarm smile.
In his heart, he understood that the Sikong family would naturally be more than willing to use him as a blade to kill Chen Zhixing.
However, at this moment, he was already too tired to scheme about these things.
"I wonder how Fellow Taoist Li plans to use himself as bait?"
Sikong Xuanji asked with burning eyes.
"Very simple."
Li Changsheng’s eyes surged with a fierce battle intent, and he spoke word by word:
"I would like the Sikong family to announce to the world that I, Li Changsheng, wish to challenge Third Young Master Ziwei at the shores of the East Sea in seven days!"
"This battle will determine both superiority and life and death!"
"Only the winner can tread the sea and return!"
Upon hearing this.
Sikong Xuanji’s eyes became even more fiery as he said, "I understand, as long as Chen Zhixing is willing to accept the challenge, our Sikong family will prepare a net of heaven and earth and ambushes at the East Sea in advance. As soon as he appears, I will immediately..."
A flash of killing intent passed across Sikong Xuanji’s face.
"Do you take Chen Zhixing for a fool?"
Li Changsheng glanced at Sikong Xuanji and shook his head lightly, saying, "What we can think of, Chen Zhixing can naturally think of as well. Such clever tricks, in the end, will only entrap oneself."
After a pause.
Li Changsheng’s lips showed a trace of disdain:
"He, Chen Zhixing, might be someone who will stop at nothing, but I, Li Changsheng, am not, nor do I stoop to such lows!"
"If there is to be a battle, it shall be a fair and square one, indeed!
"The outcome of this battle, be it Chen Zhixing’s death or mine."
"I only wish to make a break with the past."
At this point.
A trace of sadness flashed deep in Li Changsheng’s eyes.
He was someone who valued emotion extremely and was also exceedingly sentimental.
Setting aside this vast cultivation he had achieved.
In truth, he self-admitted that at his core, he had never changed.
He was not some renowned Nirvana great power shaking the heavens, nor a famous, romantic patriarch of the Li family.
He was merely a solitary old man, who had lost both wife and child, now with no kin to look to in this world.
In the more than a year since Lvu Zhinu’s death, he had been tormented by nightmares every single day and night, like being wrapped in a relentless nightmare.
This time.
He only wanted to make a conclusion.
If in this battle Chen Zhixing dies.
Then his future would be the ruthless Great Tao, from then on disconnected from everything in this world.
If in this battle it is he, Li Changsheng, who dies.
Then...
Zhinu, Biggie, Secondy, Sanbao... should also be missing him a lot, right?
Taking a deep breath.
Li Changsheng gathered his thoughts, looked at the frowning Sikong Xuanji, and said calmly:
"Patriarch Sikong, in this battle I hope you do not meddle in any way, if I discover any tampering, I will immediately cancel the duel."
Upon hearing this.
Sikong Xuanji’s gaze flickered, after a moment, he gave a slight smile and said:
"Rest assured, Fellow Taoist Li, our Sikong family always conducts affairs justly, with honored commitments, and will absolutely not interfere with your battle."
Upon hearing this, Li Changsheng simply emitted a low laugh, akin to a sneer.
Justly and honorably?
Whether it was the Sikong family or that Ziwei Chen Zhixing.
In his view.
They were merely birds of a feather.
...
...
The next day.
The matter of Li Family Patriarch Li Changsheng’s duel with Third Young Master Ziwei Chen Zhixing at the shores of the East Sea in seven days, with the Sikong family’s help in spreading, instantly swept through the entire East Profound Domain Thirteen States like a hurricane!
In a moment, the world was shaken!
Li Family Patriarch Li Changsheng, once famed throughout the world for his romance, later truly rose to fame when he fought Elder Nether at Outer Heaven with a Nirvana Third Layer cultivation, holding his own without falling behind in the slightest!
Then later.
Li Changsheng reappeared at Immortal Suspended Mountain, in just a short year, his cultivation astonishingly went from Nirvana Third Layer to Nirvana Sixth Layer, and he cultivated to the invincible Celestial Demon Body at the same realm!
His appearance, though brief, instantly pierced through the defensive circle of the Ziwei Chen family, forcing back the top two Nirvana Netherworld Elders!
In the end, he left calmly, no one dared to stop him!
Therefore, in the evaluation throughout the entire East Profound Domain, Li Changsheng had already become a first-tier existence in the Nirvana Realm!
On an equal footing with the Master of the Holy Land and the Patriarchs of noble families!
Of course.
Except for Chen Daoyan.
If the battle at Immortal Suspended Mountain was Chen Zhixing’s moment of renown, it was also Chen Daoyan’s triumphant return.
Chen Daoyan, with a record of facing nine opponents at once, once again astounded the world.
The name Raptor Tiger shook the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, truly creating a unique division in the Nirvana Realm!
And at this moment.
This Nirvana great power, Li Changsheng, who was only one tier behind Chen Daoyan, openly challenged Chen Zhixing.
This caused the entire cultivation realm to be shocked, followed by incredulity and laughter.
"Hahaha, what age and realm is Li Changsheng, and what age and realm is Third Young Master Chen Zhixing, isn’t this intentionally bullying the young?"
"If Li Changsheng were to challenge Chen Daoyan, I’d still respect him as a bold man, but to challenge Chen Zhixing, isn’t that just picking on someone?"
"Haha, who in this world doesn’t know, that Third Young Master Chen Zhixing is currently undergoing the Nirvana Great Tribulation? This Li Changsheng challenging Chen Zhixing now, is clearly knowing Chen Zhixing can’t respond, and is deliberately vexing him?"
"Not to mention the Third Young Master is still crossing the tribulation, even if Chen Zhixing has successfully crossed it and just entered the Nirvana Realm, how could he possibly be Li Changsheng’s opponent?"
"Do you really think Chen Zhixing is a fool?"
"Haha, give it another hundred years, no, even ten years, and I’d wager Chen Zhixing would certainly accept the challenge! But right now...unless he’s lost his mind, otherwise there’s no way he’d accept!"
Numerous cultivators shook their heads and laughed.
Nearly the entire cultivation realm’s attitude was unanimously certain this battle wouldn’t happen.
Because they asked themselves.
If they put themselves in Chen Zhixing’s shoes, they definitely wouldn’t accept the challenge!
That Third Young Master’s future was already boundless, and proving the Great Longevity in the future was only a matter of time.
Why would he bet his life against Li Changsheng at this time?
However.
At this moment.
"For this battle, Chen accepts."
The news of Chen Zhixing accepting the challenge spread instantly to the four seas and eight directions through the Celestial Secret Tower!
In a moment.
The entire East Profound Domain truly boiled in astonishment!
"What?! Third Young Master accepted the challenge?"
"Hiss—! Doesn’t that mean Third Young Master has already successfully crossed the Nirvana Great Tribulation and entered the Nirvana Realm?"
"A sixteen-year-old in the Nirvana Realm? Terrifying, truly terrifying!"
Countless were shocked by it.
Chen Zhixing had once again broken an ancient mythical record!
However, more people shook their heads and sighed, believing this decision by Chen Zhixing to be unwise, or thinking he was too inflated after his recent breakthrough.
No matter the differing opinions.
In a short time.
The vast majority of cultivators across the East Profound Domain were heading in droves to the East Sea, eager to witness Chen Zhixing’s first battle after breaking into the Nirvana Realm!