Mo Tuo's eyes brimmed with endless resentment, his body trembling violently as he roared. He suddenly charged onto the martial arts field, bellowing, "You killed my Zhan'er, shattering the future hope of the Mo family! Now, I'll make you pay with your life!"

Mo Zhan's death deeply struck him. He cared nothing for the subsequent martial arts tournament and instead went straight for a fight to the death.

As Mo Tuo moved, the grief-stricken Mo family members also rose to their feet, flooding the martial arts field and surging toward the Shi family's side.

"Mo Tuo! My two grandsons are still lying on the ground!" Shi Jian erupted in fury, rising abruptly himself. He stared coldly at the charging Mo Tuo and sneered, "You weren't excited when you were winning, but now you turn hostile the moment you lose? Hmph! If you can't handle defeat, don't bother participating in the tournament!"

"Everyone, calm down!"

Bei Ming Shang stood up, his face icy. A chilling aura suddenly radiated from him, causing the temperature in the arena to plummet.

Though the sun blazed high overhead, every martial artist surrounding the arena felt an bone-deep cold slowly spreading throughout the venue.

"You all stand down!" Mo Tuo suddenly turned back and roared at the grieving Mo family members.

The Mo family's retainers and experts looked on with resentment, yet under Mo Tuo's harsh command, they retreated step-by-step back to their positions.

"Shi Jian, do you dare fight me one-on-one!" Once the Mo family members dispersed, Mo Tuo, standing in the center of the arena, suddenly bellowed.

"Wow! No way?"

"Now we're in for a treat! It's a duel between the two family heads!"

"Not a wasted trip coming a thousand miles for this; this martial arts field is truly spectacular!"

The surrounding martial artists exclaimed in awe, looking toward Shi Jian with eager anticipation.

"Why would I dare not?" Shi Jian snorted coldly and stepped into the center of the field. He cupped his hands toward Bei Ming Shang, "Patriarch Bei Ming, Mo Tuo and I will fight fairly; this doesn't violate the rules, does it?"

Chilling energy flowed around Bei Ming Shang. He frowned, pondered for a moment, then slowly sat back down, shaking his head with a sigh. "Why must it come to this? But since you insist on a fight, I won't stop you. I only hope you can control yourselves and not harm others."

Shi Yan, seated with the Shi family, maintained an indifferent expression. Seeing Shi Jian enter the arena, his own brow furrowed deeply, realizing that this confrontation between the two was likely heading toward a fight to the finish.

However.

Just as the two were preparing for a deadly struggle, a world-shaking explosion suddenly echoed from the direction of the distant Misty Pavilion.

The roar was immensely powerful, making the entire Skyfall City seem to tremble. A stone tower dozens of meters high at the Misty Pavilion in the distance instantly collapsed into ruins.

Thousands of meters away, the crowd stared intently and saw, hovering above the ruined stone tower, a perfectly formed figure clad in black gauze and wearing a bamboo hat.

—This was clearly an incredibly captivating woman.

The woman floated in the void like a deity, both hands raised high above her head, as if enduring something immense.

In that patch of sky, space and time seemed distorted, with surging, bizarre currents churning in the clouds. Within the clouds, some mysterious power from the River of Time manifested as pillars of light, suddenly pouring down from the heavens and shooting directly into the woman's upraised hands.

An earth-shattering, mighty aura abruptly spread from this woman!

Even from thousands of meters away, all the martial artists in the arena felt the terrifying presence emanating from her!

Streams of kaleidoscopic, strange light suddenly burst forth from her body, winding around her like countless rainbows.

"A Celestial rank expert!"

"Who is this woman? So powerful!"

"What's going on? How is there a Celestial rank expert inside the city?"

The martial artists in the arena could no longer focus on Mo Tuo and Shi Jian, all turning their gaze toward that direction.

Beneath the scorching sun, the woman of perfect form pressed down on the empty air with a delicate hand.

In that part of the sky, a giant, multicolored hand suddenly took shape, plunging downward like a massive mountain.

Following the trajectory of the descending giant hand, the crowd clearly saw another black dot slowly enlarging...

Beneath the massive hand, the black dot rapidly transformed into a person, also suspended in the void.

The god-like giant hand descended with the force of ten thousand jun, engulfing hundreds of meters of space before slamming down fiercely. However, the figure formed from the black dot suddenly twisted, and its body abruptly erupted in a burst of black light, eerily vanishing into thin air.

"Boom!"

The giant hand struck down violently. In that spot, three twenty-meter-high pavilions of the Misty Pavilion instantly crumbled to dust, the incredibly hard Azure Iron Stone turning into fine grit that scattered everywhere.

The woman in black gauze and a bamboo hat hovered in the void above the Misty Pavilion for a moment, then suddenly flew over.

In mere seconds, she appeared proudly in the mid-air above the martial arts field, looking down upon the masses below. Her voice, as melodious as the sound of nature, rang out, "Half of the treasure map is in my possession. Mo Family Head, if you want it, you can try to snatch it openly. No need for tricks."

"It wasn't my Mo family!" Mo Tuo looked up and roared loudly, but a flicker of astonishment crossed his eyes.

Mo Tuo was only at the third level of Nirvana Heaven. This woman could walk in the void—the hallmark of a Celestial rank expert! How could Mo Tuo not be fearful?

"Miss!"

Two colossal giants crashed through, sweeping aside the observing martial artists like debris, and finally appeared outside the martial arts field.

The woman floating in the void, like a goddess, pointed at Mo Tuo and commanded, "Give him a little lesson."

"Yes!"

The two giants roared their assent. The muscles in their bodies suddenly swelled. Their already towering height of over two meters increased by several more centimeters in an instant. Coarse, black body hair also rapidly sprouted from their forms.

In the blink of an eye, these two giants resembled primeval beasts, their eyes filled with bloodthirsty killing intent.

The two giants suddenly charged forward. Wherever they passed, the hard Azure Iron Stone shattered completely!

"Who are you? The Merchant Alliance's martial arts field does not permit you to cause trouble!" Bei Ming Shang suddenly let out a fierce cry toward the sky, his whole body emanating cold air.

With his cry, Bei Ming Shang also flew into the mid-air.

Strange, ghostly blue flames suddenly erupted from his body. In a short time, these flames condensed into a ghostly blue fire cloud—an icy cloud carrying the power to freeze heaven and earth, sweeping directly toward the woman.

"Bei Ming Shang, is it?" The woman's voice was still pleasant. She spoke faintly, "It's not your place to meddle in the affairs of the Misty Pavilion! Your Bei Ming family might rule the roost in the Merchant Alliance, but in the Endless Sea, you wouldn't even rank among the third-rate families! You best behave yourself!"

"Arrogant!" Bei Ming Shang stood opposite the woman in the air, his face like an eternal glacier, and sneered, "I'd like to see what power you possess to speak such nonsense!"

The cloud-like "Extreme Cold Ice Flames" surged toward the woman like ocean tides.

The woman scoffed. Her perfect form suddenly elongated, and she vanished abruptly within a cloud layer. Her captivating voice was heard a moment later: "Come up and fight. Don't harm the innocents."

"Good!" Bei Ming Shang shouted, and his body also shot into the clouds, disappearing within the misty layers.

Deafening roars, like world-ending thunder, suddenly echoed from beyond the sky.

Everyone in the arena knew that Bei Ming Shang and the mysterious woman had certainly clashed, but alas, no one could witness the battle.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The two tower-like giants had now surrounded Mo Tuo and began attacking him without a word. These two giants were like steel behemoths, their physiques incredibly fierce; they didn't even flinch from the lightning bolts as thick as arms, attacking Mo Tuo while engulfed by the electrical discharge.

Lightning bolts, like electric dragons, traversed the sky. The lightning originated from Mo Tuo's body—there were fifteen of them, forming a dense electric net that blasted toward the two iron-tower giants.

"Mo Tuo! Hand over that portion of the treasure map, or don't blame me for taking action against your Mo family!"

Mu Xun's voice also came from a corner of the martial arts field. Mu Xun, leading a contingent of Medicine King Valley experts, advanced step-by-step toward Mo Tuo, his expression sinister.

"Mu Xun! The treasure map is not with my Mo family! Release Chao Ge immediately, or you won't leave Skyfall City alive!" Mo Tuo snarled fiercely, even daring to issue threats while being jointly attacked by the two giants.

"Good! You forced my hand!" Mu Xun's voice turned icy. He ordered the experts from the Medicine King Valley beside him, "Kill all the Mo family members!"

With that, Mu Xun also charged out, his body like a streak of rainbow light, joining the two giants in besieging Mo Tuo.

"Crack! Crack! Crack! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Electric dragons roamed. The two iron-tower giants resembled primeval savages. One grabbed two Azure Iron Stones the size of millstones, swinging them toward Mo Tuo as soon as they neared him.

When Mu Xun arrived, he released streams of strange silver light. As the silver light appeared, a cluster of dark-red flames flew from his palm, also blasting toward Mo Tuo.

In an instant, the martial arts field was filled with roaming electric light, wildly flying rubble, blazing fire, and darting silver beams.

Among the spectators in the arena, those with lower cultivation levels, if touched by an electric dragon, were instantly charred. Those struck by flying debris were immediately reduced to minced meat.

The battle among these few powerful figures had completely thrown the scene into chaos!

Martial artists cursed, screamed, and roared, scrambling to get away.

Those with lower cultivation fled the Divine Stone Plaza in panic, no longer daring to stay and watch the fight.

Several experts from the Medicine King Valley took advantage of the situation, rushing toward the Mo family and attacking their retainers and clansmen.

Several Mo family retainers and clansmen were also fierce fighters; facing the experts from the Medicine King Valley, they showed no fear and actually managed to slightly suppress the incoming group.

Shi Jian, meanwhile, seemed to have become an outsider...

In the martial arts field, he watched the Mo family suffer with a look of utter astonishment, feeling immense satisfaction in his heart.

"Grandfather, let's make our move!" Shi Yan walked up and shouted sternly beside him.

"Make a move?" Shi Jian was momentarily stunned, frowning, "You mean...?"

"Mo Zhan is dead; Mo Tuo will definitely retaliate madly! Instead of waiting for the Mo family to recover and come after us, we should strike while he is weak and take his life! You ally with Mu Xun and those two to kill Mo Tuo. We will hunt down the second and third generations of the Mo family. It's best to cripple the Mo family completely today so they never have a chance to seek revenge again." Shi Yan said coldly.

"Big Brother! Shi Yan is right! Mo Zhan is dead, and Mo Chao Ge probably won't survive either! Mo Tuo certainly won't let this go! Since it's come to this, let's go all out and crush the Mo family first! Forget the tournament!" Shi Tie stepped forward and shouted sternly.

Shi Tianluo and Shi Tianyun were heavily wounded and still lying on the ground. Shi Tie had bottled up a stomach full of anger, and seeing such a perfect opportunity before him, he could no longer restrain himself.

Han Feng also stepped up and gave Shi Jian a slight nod.

"Bei Ming Shang is being held up; the Bei Ming family has no one in charge for the moment. Without his approval, no one from the Bei Ming family will help Mo Tuo. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! If we miss this, there will never be such a good chance again!" Shi Yan urged again, "Grandfather, you kill Mo Tuo. I will eliminate Mo Qi and Mo Yanyu, who severely wounded Brothers Tianluo and Tianyun, completely cutting off their Mo family's lineage!"

"Kid, ruthless!" Shi Tie slapped Shi Yan hard, and without waiting for Shi Jian's consent, he suddenly rushed out, shouting, "Old dog Mo Tuo, your death is certain today!"

Once Shi Tie made his move, Shi Jian no longer hesitated. He turned to Han Feng, "Madman, protect Shi Yan for me!" With that, he also roared and charged out, bellowing, "Mo Tuo! It's time we settled our total account!"

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