62: Lin Chuan's mentality collapsed!

After a long while, someone in the Profligate chat group finally spoke up—

“What the heck! Duan Zichen took money? Deliberately threw the match?!”

“Please! Don’t you understand the rules of the Arena! Everyone on their side signed contracts, and there’s the power of rules binding them to prevent match-fixing!”

“So! Duan Zichen really lost?! Just like that?! It’s like a damn dream!”

“Are you kidding me?! The Duan family’s proclaimed genius, that’s it?! Why do I feel like he’s even more useless than I am?!”

“Tch! What kind of genius is Duan Zichen?! Isn’t it just awakening a Seven-Star Heavenly Mandate Job Holder? My dad said that Champion, is also a Heavenly Mandate Job Holder! And it’s very likely a Nine-Star one!”

“Oh my god! This Champion has some skills! Duan Zichen’s loss isn’t unjust!”

The profligates’ vision was even inferior to that of the ordinary spectators in the audience.

And in the numerous VIP boxes, there were also young geniuses who, at the invitation of their elders, came to observe this match.

In one of the boxes, the middle-aged man in the main seat narrowed his eyes, looking profound and inscrutable, and said in a calm voice, “How about it? Did you notice anything?”

Next to the man was a young man in white, dressed as an ancient swordsman.

The young man was somewhat serious and said meticulously, “This Champion is very strong.”

“Do I need you to tell me that?” The middle-aged man rolled his eyes at him. “I’m asking if you’ve figured out what makes him strong and how he defeated Duan Zichen.”

The young man, holding a sword that was always by his side, pondered for a moment, then analyzed precisely:

“According to the rules of the Arena, in Training Ground battles, Talents and skills cannot be used. But the attack that just defeated Duan Zichen produced a skill effect!”

Yes, the key to Lin Chuan’s defeat of Duan Zichen was that his attack produced a 3-second stun effect!

If it were in reality, it would be absolutely nothing surprising for him to produce such an effect!

But in the Arena, skills are in a locked state!

He still produced a skill effect without relying on the skill itself!

This can only mean that his proficiency and comprehension of skills have reached an extraordinary level!

But his presence in the Training Ground indicates that his level has not exceeded 10!

So young, yet having a mastery of skill usage as if he had honed his sword for ten years!

This can only mean that either his compatibility with skills is extremely high.

Or, his comprehension is extremely strong!

If it’s the former, that’s fine!

If it’s the latter…

Terrifying!

The young man’s voice was always calm, but when describing Lin Chuan, his tone subtly revealed a hint of surprise and shock.

And the middle-aged man beside him smiled contentedly, “Not bad! I told you to come to the Arena and play a few rounds, but you refused. Actually, this Duan family’s Arena, for training novices, is not inferior to the Trial Tower!”

The young man pondered, then quickly nodded in realization: “Indeed. In battles here, Talents and skills are locked, which instead increasingly stimulates one’s most original potential!”

The middle-aged man also nodded: “Just like this Champion, even with Talents and skills locked, he can still produce skill effects! Xu Wenjian, why don’t you ask yourself, can you do that?”

The young man stood holding his sword, deep in thought for a long time, then said solemnly, word by word: “I cannot do what he does, but I can defeat him.”

His tone was exceptionally calm, without a trace of arrogance, sounding as if he was stating a simple fact.

The middle-aged man smiled slightly, nodding in approval: “Indeed. However, would you like to go down and spar with that guy?”

Xu Wenjian did not answer immediately.

He looked at the screen with calm eyes.

He was clearly a favored son of heaven, standing higher with a stronger background, yet his gaze towards Lin Chuan lacked the contempt and disdain of those profligates.

Instead, it held sufficient respect and awe!

After a long silence, he finally looked at Lin Chuan on the screen and spoke with fighting spirit: “If it’s a battle against such a strong opponent, this Arena is not impossible to fight in.”

The middle-aged man smiled slightly.

Clearly, he was very satisfied with the young man’s attitude.

Possessing the strength to crush his peers, yet never being arrogant, but instead respecting every powerful opponent.

Such a young man deserved to become a strong person!

And since he wanted to fight, the middle-aged man would naturally pave the way for him!

After Duan Zichen’s defeat, Duan Ge was frantic, busy with the slots for the next challengers!

He contacted many favored sons of heaven from the Source Plane!

However, those geniuses disdained participating in Arena battles!

Especially when they heard that the opponent was a country bumpkin from a lower Plane, their attitude became even more contemptuous.

They even questioned Duan Zichen’s strength because of this!

Duan Ge was gritting his teeth in anger!

Just as he was overwhelmed, he suddenly received a communication on his jade tablet.

A line of text left Duan Ge stunned!

Xu Xu Xu, Xu Wenjian!

He’s going to fight?!!!

On the stage, after Lin Chuan defeated Duan Zichen, his fighting became increasingly weak and fatigued, but he still managed to defeat the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth challengers!

The twentieth, and final, one!

Once he secured it, he would achieve twenty consecutive victories on the stage!

But if he failed, the consequences were not something he could bear!

First, after dying on the stage, he would return to the Secret Realm and be unable to log into Paradise for 24 hours.

As a result, his trip to Paradise this time would be completely fruitless!

Not only that, the Death Grip pledged to the drunkard would also be irredeemable!

And the 100 carefree points he advanced from the Arena, betting on his twenty consecutive victories, would be a complete loss!

Therefore, in this battle, he was going all out, he could only win, not lose!

Before taking all these actions, Lin Chuan had considered it carefully in his heart.

He knew that many geniuses in the higher Plane were arrogant and looked down on places like the Arena that made money through fighting.

So, the opponents he would face would most likely not be ridiculously strong.

In his prediction, the strongest opponent he could encounter was Duan Zichen!

But he had dealt with Duan Zichen in his previous life and knew his fighting style inside and out!

So the sixteenth match, the battle with Duan Zichen, was surprisingly easy!

And after winning against Duan Zichen, Lin Chuan originally thought his twenty consecutive victories were secure.

Until the twentieth match!

When he saw the young man in white, holding a sword, appear on the stage!

Lin Chuan, who had been calm and composed since his rebirth, unflinching even when Mount Tai collapsed before him, finally showed a crack in his demeanor!

His face instantly became extremely ugly, and he couldn’t help but blurt out a curse on the spot:

“F***!!!”

Xu Wenjian did not immediately start fighting, but stood at the other end of the stage, nearly twenty meters from Lin Chuan, bowed with his sword, and then said with some surprise, “You know me?”

In the audience, no one recognized Xu Wenjian yet.

However, in the VIP boxes, one by one, the audience members from higher Planes, seeing Xu Wenjian appear on the stage, were utterly dumbfounded!

Among the younger generation, whether profligates or geniuses, their expressions upon seeing Xu Wenjian take the stage were even more exaggerated than when they saw Duan Zichen get instantly defeated!

Some even rubbed their eyes to make sure they weren’t mistaken!

Even among the older generation, they all looked as if they had seen a ghost, completely unable to believe it—

“Although the Duan family keeps a low profile and hides its strength, does it have the ability to invite Xu Wenjian??? Is this a fake?”

“Nonsense! Try impersonating Xu Wenjian for me? Do you have a death wish?!”

“But this! This is too unscientific?!”

Everyone found Xu Wenjian’s appearance on stage unbelievable.

Only one person revealed the truth—

“This guy, he probably wasn’t invited by Duan Ge! Rather, he himself wanted to spar with that Champion!”

Before, even when Lin Chuan demonstrated his strength of twenty consecutive victories on the stage, many big shots from higher Planes still looked at him with the disdain of a superior looking at an inferior.

But at this moment, simply because of Xu Wenjian’s appearance on stage, all eyes on him changed!

After all, this was a man who could interest Xu Wenjian in a fight!

Even if he was instantly defeated, it would be enough to brag about for a lifetime!

Compared to the shock of the audience in the VIP boxes.

Lin Chuan’s heart was almost filled with despair!

Xu Wenjian!

He knew this big shot!

His innate SSS grade talent, Sword Heart, made the power of his sword-type weapons and skills multiply by an unknown factor!

Coupled with his Nine-Star Heavenly Mandate Job Holder, his extraordinary comprehension and tenacity, and his excellent temperament!

This guy, even in a place like the Source Plane, which was full of hidden Talents, was a genius who suppressed an era!

Such a figure, in his previous life, Lin Chuan could only look up to!

He didn’t even have the qualifications to fight him!

But he knew, without even fighting, that he was no match for Xu Wenjian!

And in this life!

Damn it!

He was just fighting a stage match!

How could he attract such a powerful figure???

Is he not giving people a way to live?!

Lin Chuan really wanted to curse out loud, because his mentality was truly on the verge of collapsing!