Saint Emperor Devourer of Heaven

In recent days, Jun Wuxie hadn't been cultivating, spending his days in the courtyard, enjoying a rare moment of leisure.

The day of the showdown arrived quickly.

Following the Hengqi Inn's manager visit him the day before, several others challenged him.

Those individuals had rushed back from the later Heng Passages, likely delayed by certain matters in previous days, preventing their early arrival at the Fourth Heng Passage.

They felt fortunate to have arrived on the final day.

On this day, as dawn barely broke, the Fourth Heng Passage City was filled with clamor and excitement.

Today was the day of the showdown, an unprecedentedly spectacular event in the history of Heng Passage.

Never before had so many stunning talents emerged, and never had there been a legend like Jun Shen.

Today was the day Jun Shen would answer the call, facing dozens of seed-level prodigies who had issued life-and-death challenges, all possessing the potential to enter the God Realm in this era.

Jun Wuxie remained unhurried, only leaving the inn with Yue Yao when the sky was completely bright.

As for Long Xi and Shu Yuan, Jun Wuxie didn't want people to know Long Xi had followed him to the Fourth Heng Passage and was with him, so they didn't travel together.

They chose to change their appearances and leave the inn some time after he departed, heading towards the life-and-death arena.

Long Xi's strength was already known to the people of this Eternal Road.

Although they didn't know Long Xi was a God Realm expert, they had witnessed her battle in the rift space-time.

Jun Wuxie naturally couldn't let people know Long Xi was by his side, otherwise, it would surely make those who wanted to kill him wary and不敢出手.

What he wanted now was to lure out as many people who wanted his life as possible.

Of course, not everyone who wanted to kill him would choose to act at this time.

After all, some people are inherently suspicious and wouldn't come personally even if they wanted to test him, instead using others.

Therefore, some people would definitely be hiding in the shadows, observing.

To lure out more people, he needed to continue creating illusions, giving those people hope and fantasy, ultimately luring out as many as possible.

When he came out, there were hardly any people on the streets, and even many shops were tightly closed.

Most of the people in this city had gone to the life-and-death arena.

When he arrived at the life-and-death arena, he saw a sea of people.

The life-and-death arena contained a spatial array, making it very spacious inside, even larger than the previous Heng Passages.

At this time, countless billions of people had come here to watch the battle.

The originally noisy and chaotic environment fell silent the moment he arrived, so quiet that there wasn't a sound.

Countless gazes focused on him.

Looking at Jun Wuxie's pale face, his eyes revealing weakness, and his entire being radiating a sickly frailty, many people felt heavy-hearted.

This young man, a legend of an era, and even a legend of ancient times, his radiance and brilliance unmatched throughout history.

Such an existence, the height of his future was unimaginable.

Having cultivated to this realm, in principle, he should be able to smoothly walk towards the peak, and then become invincible in the world.

However, his existence, perhaps, suppressed the prodigies of his generation, making it difficult for them to breathe, causing intense killing intent to grow deep within the hearts of some of the outstanding talents of his generation.

Originally, even if the prodigies of the same generation had strong killing intent in their hearts, they could only lower their heads in the face of the legendary Jun Shen, not daring to be presumptuous in the slightest, not daring to reveal any hostility.

However, in the Third Heng Passage City, Jun Shen went deep into the rift space-time to save an old friend, fighting against those mysterious talents, causing his body to suffer tremendous trauma!

Jun Shen's origin was damaged, with cracks appearing, giving rise to Dao injuries!

Origin Dao injuries were already extremely terrifying, very difficult to repair, unless there was a great opportunity to obtain special, peerless resources.

With an Origin Dao injury, Jun Shen was besieged again, attacked outside the city.

In the end, Jun Shen arrived at this Fourth Heng Passage City, indicating that he must have killed all the besieging enemies, but he himself suffered from the backlash, making the Dao injury even more serious.

At that time, he needed to be helped to enter the city, his condition was so bad.

Several days passed, the Origin Dao injury couldn't be repaired, at most only some energy and spirit could be restored.

The current Jun Shen, compared to his peak, was vastly different.

Now, he probably didn't dare to easily use sublimation-type forbidden techniques, once used, it would cause the injury to continue to worsen, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Those talents saw this, so they chose to issue life-and-death challenges to him at this time.

It must be said that such behavior was quite shameless.

However, issuing challenges was in accordance with the rules, and no one could stop them from doing so.

"Jun Shen is too proud, but there's no way around it, standing at Jun Shen's height, facing these people's provocations, how could he retreat and avoid battle!

Jun Shen is always domineering, impossible to allow himself to avoid battle!

Therefore, even though his current situation is very bad, he still has to accept all the challenges, telling the world that even when he is weak, he still has invincible power!"

"What you said is correct, but in this way, Jun Shen's situation will only get worse, and he will slowly be forced into a desperate situation with no chance of survival.

Even if Jun Shen's physical body is strong beyond our imagination, and his vitality is tenacious and incomparably resilient, he can't withstand such torment!

Those damned bastards are really shameless!

Is there anyone who will help Jun Shen take on the challenges and deal with those shameless people?"

"I'm afraid that even if there is such a person, Jun Shen would refuse.

His pride is not something you and I can understand.

Jun Shen, his current height is no longer just a contemporary cultivator, but a benchmark, the highest benchmark in the long river of history, ancient and modern, an unprecedented record, a legend!

Therefore, even if he dies, I'm afraid he will not compromise!

Not for anything else, only because he is Jun Shen!"

… …

Countless voices on the scene were discussing, most of them were full of praise for him, their words full of awe, almost all of them were his admirers.

A person, powerful and excellent to a height that the world has never reached, there will always be people in the world who regard him as a belief.

Jun Wuxie is such a person now.

These discussions made the challengers' faces increasingly gloomy, and their hearts were greatly stimulated.

They are also brilliant, also outstanding figures of this era, and should also be radiant.

However, as long as there is Jun Wuxie, or even as long as someone talks about this person, then they will immediately be ignored, as if they have become air, without any sense of existence.

This made them difficult to accept, and they felt very uncomfortable.

Why?

Why should all the glory and brilliance of this era be taken away by one person, and they are only worthy of becoming green leaves to set off the other, not even green leaves!

"Jun Shen, you've arrived."

Experts from the Youyu Clan, the Lanqin Clan, and the Hengqi Inn stepped forward to greet him.

The respectful attitude they showed in front of Jun Wuxie made the challengers feel extremely uncomfortable and angry.

The higher-ups of these guardian clans of Heng Passage actually showed such a humble attitude.

Although Jun Wuxie was amazing enough, these people were, after all, high-level members of the guardian clans, the managers of Heng Passage!

They had never seen these people show such an attitude in front of them.

Not to mention such an attitude, when facing them, they had never even had a polite expression, and had always acted in an equal manner, handling things according to the rules!

"Hehe, Liming Jun Shen, you've finally come. We've been waiting for you for quite some time. You're late, could it be that you have some hesitation, and are you afraid of fighting at the last minute?"

Nan Han's expression was a bit annoying, his tone was also sarcastic, slightly raising his head, with an arrogant look.

When the crowd heard this, they cursed him for being shameless.

If Jun Shen didn't have an Origin Dao injury, would Nan Han dare to say such a thing?

He wouldn't dare even if he had ten guts, he would probably be trembling like a turtle.

Now, because Jun Shen's Origin injury was serious, Nan Han felt that he could suppress Jun Shen, put on such a posture, and even made provocations and taunts, his face made everyone feel very disgusted.

"Liming Jun Shen, I, Nan Han, am upright and speak with integrity.

When I issued the life-and-death challenge that day in front of Hengqi Inn, I said that if you are afraid, as long as you admit defeat in public, in the life-and-death battle stage, I might consider not killing you.

How about it, Liming Jun Shen, if you really want to live well, maybe you should think about it carefully, holding on will cost you a lot."

"What Fellow Daoist Nan Han said is right, today, any one of us challengers can easily suppress you, Liming Jun Shen.

Don't say we are bullying you because you have an Origin injury.

On this road of the strong, your injury means you are not good enough, why are we not injured?

Therefore, our ability to maintain our peak state is also a manifestation of our strength.

Now, if you're not good enough, you're just not good enough.

However, I admire your courage to accept all challenges."

This was a young man who looked to be in his early twenties, with gloomy eyes, but was actually over a hundred years old.

His name was Run Wu, and he had rushed back from the later Heng Passage yesterday, his strength was very powerful.

"Since ancient times, the victor is king, and timing and location are actually very important. Smart people know how to use them, and reckless men are destined to fail to reach the peak of life, even if they are close to the pinnacle, they will fall before the finish line."

Another prodigy who came yesterday to issue a life-and-death challenge spoke, a woman with delicate features and a captivating appearance. She exuded a powerful aura, and her body seemed to contain vast laws and energies, causing many people who were close to her to feel a suffocating pressure.

The experts from the You Yu Clan and the Lan Qin Clan heard this and their eyes turned cold as they were about to berate these people, but Jun Wuxie stopped them.

He ignored their provocations and sarcastic remarks, and instead released Yue Yao's delicate hand, striding towards the Life and Death Battle Stage in the center of the dueling arena.

Arriving at the base of the Life and Death Battle Stage, he stepped directly into it.

Instantly, a transparent barrier of light appeared along the edges of the Life and Death Battle Stage, and the scene inside underwent an earth-shattering transformation, a vast small world appearing before everyone's eyes.

"Cough cough cough—"

After entering the small world of the Life and Death Battle Stage, Jun Wuxie turned to look at the challengers outside, and just as he was about to speak, he couldn't help but cough repeatedly.

Even though he covered his mouth with his fingers, blood still seeped out from between his fingers as he coughed violently.

Seeing him like this, his admirers all felt incredibly heavy-hearted, and those female cultivators who admired and were infatuated with him had tears in their eyes, their hearts aching as if cut by a knife, tightly covering their mouths, not allowing themselves to cry out.

"I, Jun Wuxie, have been honored by the world with the title of Divine King, and should naturally be invincible in my generation.

Even with the Dao injury at my origin, it is not something that cultivators of the same generation are qualified to take advantage of.

You have initiated Life and Death Duels these past few days, and I have accepted them all, today is the day to determine victory and defeat, life and death.

What are you waiting for, come up all of you.

You can enter first, and then you can choose whether to come at me one by one or all together.

I am invincible in the same realm, you are free to do as you please."

Hua!

In an instant, the entire arena erupted, listening to their revered idol's powerful and domineering declaration, everyone felt the blood in their bodies ignite!

I am invincible in the same realm, you are free to do as you please!

Such confident words, and still spoken under the circumstances of bearing a severe Dao injury at the origin, perhaps only the Divine King is capable of such a thing throughout history!

"Divine King! Divine King! Divine King!"

… …

The entire arena resounded with earth-shattering sounds, people raised their arms and shouted, chanting Divine King, the sound causing the firmament to tremble.

Why does the Divine King make people involuntarily admire and revere him?

Because the Divine King's demeanor and courage are far beyond what other prodigies can compare to.

Those prodigies who initiated the challenges were all taking advantage of his misfortune, being extremely shameless and despicable.

In contrast, the Divine King, even with a Dao injury at his origin, still does not retreat, accepting all challenges, and even allowing them to choose whether or not to come at him all together.

Comparing the two, there is simply a world of difference.

Those prodigies are as unbearable as the mud in a ditch.