Unrivaled Martial Emperor

Chapter 777 - Child of Buddha Wanxin

“Surrender? Too late!”

Chen Fan looked at Zhao Wuji indifferently, making no move.

The crowd outside also looked at Zhao Wuji with pity.

Surrender?

As Chen Fan had said, it was too late.

“Hmm?” Zhao Wuji was confused by Chen Fan’s words, puzzled by his inaction. What did that mean?

He quickly understood. Darkness clouded his vision, and a bloody hole appeared on his glabella.

Chen Fan’s sword had already pierced his glabella, annihilating his divine soul before Zhao Wuji had even shouted his surrender. He had been unaware.

“So...” The light in Zhao Wuji’s eyes faded away, and he plummeted from the sky limply.

Perhaps he hadn’t expected this battle to be his last or that he would be the first peak Heavenly Star realm expert to perish in this True Martial Assembly.

“He’s dead...”

“A dream? An illusion? What just happened? When did Chen Fan strike?”

“I’m not sure. I didn’t see it either.”

“Zhao Wuji is the first peak Heavenly Star realm expert to fall in this assembly.”

“One thing’s certain now—the contest for the Heavenly Star realm champion will be between Chen Fan and Jian Qi.”

“......”

The crowd was shocked and overwhelmed with emotions by Zhao Wuji’s demise. Many had thought Zhao Wuji might lose to Chen Fan but never expected him to die.

Zhao Wuji hadn’t even realized he was dead. He still shouted, “I surrender,” unaware that it was already too late.

Admitting defeat after death no longer had any meaning.

Even so, more people were shocked by the method Chen Fan used to kill Zhao Wuji.

When exactly did he deal the finishing move? Many people did not see it.

“That attack was so fast. It was like a streak of light, maybe even faster than light itself. It deceived Zhao Wuji, making him feel like he had escaped death when he was actually already dead.”

Top-tier experts like Jian Qi, Wanxin, Xia Qingyuan, and the other top-tier Heavenly Star realm experts saw the attack that killed Zhao Wuji, though.

Something like a light streak had pierced Zhao Wuji’s glabella in a flash, destroying his divine nascent without him even feeling it.

This sword was not the Green Lotus Sword Qi, but the Sword of Kassapa.

Crack, crack, crack!

Across the Law Enforcement Hall’s area, furious members shattered the armrests of their thrones, seething as they watched Zhao Wuji’s death.

What a slap in the face this was.

They looked at Chen Fan angrily, feeling the urge to rush in and kill him. However, they also felt powerless. Unless a Manifestation realm expert took action, who in the Law Enforcement Hall could do anything to Chen Fan?

Even their number one figure in the Heavenly Star realm, Zhao Wuji, was dead!

The Suspended Sovereign Palace Hall’s Li Hanxing looked at Chen Fan, light flickering in his eyes.

“Indeed, no one from that peak can be underestimated. Even their newest member is a formidable enemy!”

With this battle, Chen Fan used Zhao Wuji’s life to declare his terrifying strength to the crowd. Even a top-tier peak Heavenly Star realm expert was no match for him.

Many of the top-tier peak Heavenly Star realm experts were extremely shocked.

If they faced Zhao Wuji, even if they were confident of winning, they couldn't kill him.

But Chen Fan had killed Zhao Wuji and in a way that such an expert hadn’t even realized he was dead.

This revelation terrified everyone.

They had all seen the method Chen Fan used to kill Zhao Wuji, so they believed that they could avoid the same fate by preparing for them in the future.

Zhao Wuji’s death had sent a shockwave through the assembly.

After all, he was an expert at the peak of the Heavenly Star realm, with immense talent and great hopes of reaching the Legendary realm.

This was a huge blow to the Law Enforcement Hall.

Ever since Chen Fan joined the True Martial Academy, countless members of their hall had died at the hands of those from Peerless Peak.

It had begun to feel like the Peerless Peak was their fated nemesis, specialized in eliminating them.

More than fifty years ago, Huang Wuji had cut down the Lesser Legendary realm Elder Mingxuan; today, Chen Fan had cut down a Legendary realm seed.

Tallying the score, the Law Enforcement Hall had already lost two or three Legendary realm peak experts to the Peerless Peak.

Inside the microcosm, Tian Xing, the hall master of the Law Enforcement Hall, felt his aura slip in his fury as Zhao Wuji perished. He quickly reined it in, though the intense rage in his eyes was unmistakable.

Even so, what could he say?

When Zhao Wuji had admitted his defeat, Chen Fan didn’t take any further action. Thus, he had not broken any assembly rules. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Therefore, Tian Xing could only swallow this bitter defeat.

The assembly continued.

Ninth-level Heavenly Star realm experts were eliminated one after another. Those that remained were basically all experts at peak-stage, ninth-level Heavenly Star realm, or peak Heavenly Star realm, apart from Chen Fan and Jain Qi.

No one dared to look down on them, however.

They would be the biggest fool if someone treated them as a sixth or seventh-level Heavenly Star realm.

The battles grew more intense as the contest shifted to a test of foundation and skill rather than sheer strength.

A commotion rippled through the crowd.

“Look, it’s another battle between top-tier, peak Heavenly Star realm experts!”

Two figures stood in one of the spatial arenas. The Thousand Autumn Temple’s Wanxin, and the Heavenly Bastion Peak’s Xiao Yi.

Both of them were monsters who had defeated ordinary peak Heavenly Star realm experts before and were candidates to take the championship. Now that they crossed paths, a huge, intense battle was inevitable—just what the crowd wanted.

Chen Fan’s gaze also shifted over, but his gaze fell on Wanxin alone.

The Thousand Autumn Temple, a sacred land of the eastern continent's Buddhist school, was renowned for its selectivity.

Unlike other sects, the temple didn't prioritize talent or power; instead, it valued a unique affinity with Buddha. Without affinity with the Buddha, no matter how monstrous one’s talent was, they would never enter the temple.

If one had a great affinity with the Thousand Autumn Temple, then even if they had no talent at all, they could still join the Thousand Autumn Temple to cultivate.

Wanxin stood as the temple’s most remarkable "child of Buddha" among the younger generation, embodying the highest ideals of Buddhist cultivation.