Wu Zhongchao walked along, presenting awards to one student after another. Several of them were ecstatic. After all, Wu Zhongchao was a Spirit Saint, a legend among Spiritualists. His life story was just as legendary, making him seem like the protagonist of an era.

"Wu Zhongchao, go to hell!"

Just as Wu Zhongchao reached the fifteenth student, the student’s face suddenly twisted into a vicious grin. Nine Desecration Demon Patterns appeared on his body, which then exploded. Countless fragments of flesh and blood converged into the Desecration Demon Patterns, coalescing into a black Desecration Demon Spear that shot viciously toward Wu Zhongchao.

With a mere thought, Wu Zhongchao summoned a Spirit Mirror inscribed with countless esoteric Spirit Patterns, which appeared to block the black Desecration Demon Spear.

The black Desecration Demon Spear struck the Spirit Mirror, and its layers shattered one after another.

When the Water Mirror Spirit Shield Technique was cultivated to a certain level, one could stack layer upon layer of mirror surfaces. The more layers, the stronger the technique’s Defense.

Shu Feng’s Water Mirror Spirit Shield Technique could only stack two Spirit Shields, but the Spirit Saint Wu Zhongchao’s Spirit Mirror was stacked with two hundred layers. The Defense of each layer was comparable to an ordinary Spirit Saint Level Spiritual Membrane. This was the difference between a Top Level Spirit Shield Technique and a common one.

The Desecration Demon Spear pierced through more than one hundred layers of the Spirit Mirror before its momentum was finally halted.

At that moment, a cold glint flashed in the eyes of a middle-aged man who was always half a step behind Wu Zhongchao. He erupted with the terrifying Spiritual Pressure of a Spirit Venerable Peak. Wielding a black dagger engraved with an Evil Ghost Skull, he lunged at Wu Zhongchao’s back with lightning speed.

CLANG!!

The black dagger with the Evil Ghost Skull struck Wu Zhongchao’s back, producing the sound of striking metal.

A terrifying rebound force erupted, knocking the dagger from the middle-aged man’s hand and causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood.

A spot of bright red welled up where the dagger had struck. Wu Zhongchao, the peerless Spirit Saint who shook the world and dominated several others, was finally injured.

"Jiang Changming, you’ve been with me for thirty years. I can’t believe you would actually betray me!"

Wu Zhongchao let out a sorrowful sigh. He reached out and pointed a finger at the middle-aged man behind him.

The gesture was as effortless as the Buddha holding a flower and smiling, devoid of any worldly aura. Yet, wherever the finger passed, the void collapsed and twisted as the attack moved toward the Spirit Venerable Peak expert.

"I’m sorry, Grand Marshal!"

Jiang Changming gave a bitter smile. He didn’t resist. Instead, he dispersed his Spiritual Power and allowed the finger to strike him. The next moment, his body exploded, and his life force was extinguished.

"Wu Zhongchao, how does it feel to be betrayed by your most trusted subordinate?"

In the audience stands, a handsome, middle-aged man with short hair and an extraordinary air smiled faintly. He took a step forward, and waves of crimson, distorted Power of Void Demon surged from his body, spreading in all directions.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

The ordinary people in the audience were caught by the distorted Power of Void Demon, their bodies exploding one by one. They turned into clouds of blood mist that flowed into the middle-aged man.

The faces of the Spiritualists all changed drastically. They activated their Spirit Shield Techniques to form Spiritual Membranes and fled in all directions.

Surrounded by the waves of the Power of Void Demon, the middle-aged man transformed. He became a man with short hair and unparalleled looks, appearing to be only twenty-three or twenty-four years old, and advanced toward Wu Zhongchao like a Divine Demon.

The moment that man appeared, Shu Feng’s expression changed, and with a flicker of his body, he fled to the side.

Mu Tianlong, Jiang Chao, and the other talented students also looked horrified and quickly fled to the side.

If small fries like Shu Feng were to get caught in a battle between such top-tier powerhouses, death would be the only outcome.

"Duke Balao Na! This is Azure Dragon Spirit City! How dare you come here?! Are you looking to die?"

Wu Zhongchao watched the handsome man walking through the air toward him. With a single slap, he shattered the Desecration Demon Spear and said icily.

Behind Wu Zhongchao, ten terrifying auras of Spiritual Pressure at the Spirit Venerable Level erupted. Their owners stared at the approaching Duke Balao Na as if facing a formidable enemy.

The crimson, distorted Power of Void Demon and the terrifying ability to easily devour the blood of ordinary people revealed that this Duke Balao Na was a Grand Duke of the Blood Demon Clan, a branch of the Void Demon Clan.

A Grand Duke of the Blood Demon Clan was a terrifying existence capable of fighting a Demigod. On the Void Demon Battlefield, these Blood Demon Clan Grand Dukes had hunted and killed more than one Spirit Saint from Blue Star.

Here on Blue Star, even suppressed by the Heart of the World, Duke Balao Na’s combat power was still incomparably ferocious, on par with a Spirit Saint.

"I came today for the sole purpose of killing you! The Qianyuan Republic has Five Great Spirit Saints in total! You; Ji Yuanshi of the Primordial Daoist Cult; Luo Tiangang of the Royal Luo Family; Fang Yichen of the Guardian Flame; and Shangguan Tianhe of the Heart of Steel."

"The other four have already gone to the Void Demon Battlefield! Today is the perfect opportunity to kill you. By killing you and then destroying Azure Dragon Spirit City, I’ll cripple a portion of your Qianyuan Republic’s Vitality. And if I can drain your Essence Blood, I might even be able to advance a step further and become even more powerful!"

Duke Balao Na smiled faintly, a cold glint in his eyes. He spread his fingers, and a sky full of Blood Flame surged upward, carrying the terrifying power to incinerate mountains and boil seas as it swept toward Wu Zhongchao.

Back in the audience stands, terrifying streams of Void Demonic Qi erupted as formidable Blood Demon Marquises, Blood Demon Counts, and Blood Demon Viscounts flew out, pouncing on the people around them.

The Spirit Sect Level experts from the various Extraordinary Academies also drew their Spiritual Spears and began to fight the Blood Demon Clan powerhouses.

"You’re courting death!"

A cold light flashed in Wu Zhongchao’s eyes. He took out a blue Magic Staff with one hand and pointed it at Duke Balao Na. A blue Water Dragon immediately appeared, baring its fangs and claws as it lunged toward the sky-filling Blood Flame.

The blue Water Dragon clashed with the vast Blood Flame. It was continuously incinerated, turning into plumes of smoke that rose into the air as it disintegrated inch by inch.

Wu Zhongchao quickly took out a Bronze Jade Token and forcefully poured his Spiritual Power into it.

A beam of azure light shot into the sky. The entirety of Azure Dragon Spirit City flashed, and light surged from one Spiritual Power Node after another, converging as if a great Azure Dragon were slowly awakening.

Azure Dragon Spirit City was the capital of the Qianyuan Republic, and experts were as common as clouds. But besides that, beneath the city lay a terrifying Spirit Array that had taken a hundred years and countless resources to build. Once someone activated it and it was fully deployed, it could even contend with a Spirit Saint Level powerhouse.