The name echoed through the Coliseum like a stone thrown into a calm lake.
"Kyrian, from the Blood Court, against Rank 85, Li Shen!"
For a brief second, there was silence. Then, as if a spark had fallen onto dry gunpowder, the entire Coliseum reacted.
Many rose from their seats. Nobles leaned over the railings. Young cultivators pointed to the sky, where the names and cultivation levels shone in golden characters.
6° stage of the Qi Liberation realm. Against someone at the 1° stage of Core Formation.
The difference was brutal.
If it were any other name, the bets would be overwhelmingly one-sided. But it was not just any other name.
It was Kyrian.
The boy who, with a single glance, had defeated, no, gravely injured a cultivator at the peak of the Qi Liberation realm.
