Dawn.

Qin Xian and Li Nanting, among others, were already packed and ready to depart.

However, at this moment, Li Nanting furrowed his brows and scanned the crowd below, speaking in a deep voice.

“Where’s Li Guanqi?”

Ye Feng turned to search around, only to find no trace of the other party.

Frowning, he muttered, “Could Old Li have drunk too much last night?”

Just then, Qin Xian suddenly produced a jade slip.

After infusing a thread of Primordial Energy, Ge Qing’s voice abruptly rang in his ear.

“Old Qin, hurry to Tianyu Mountain! That kid from your Sect has shown up…”

Qin Xian put down the jade slip and said firmly, “Let’s go, to Tianyu Mountain! Li Guanqi is there.”

Everyone was confused, not understanding why Li Guanqi would go to Tianyu Mountain at a time when everyone was about to leave.

Could it be he wanted to watch the battle…

All of them took to Sword flight, soaring into the sky, while Li Nanting, pulling Yu Sui’an along, transformed into a streak of light flying towards Tianyu Mountain.

Tianyu Mountain.

When Li Guanqi appeared here on his sword, all the onlookers were slightly taken aback.

Standing atop his accompanying sword, Li Guanqi stared blankly at the towering stele before him.

The stele still emitted a faint glow.

The names of each Sect were glaringly bright.

Especially the one ranked forty-seventh, which boldly displayed the Great Xia Sword Sect!

Despite everyone’s desperate efforts yesterday, after two rounds, the Great Xia Sword Sect had only a meager twenty points.

“Forty-seven…”

Li Guanqi stood above the sky, murmuring softly.

The young lad in white appeared so powerless, his expression forlorn.

The smell of alcohol on the young lad was hard to conceal, causing many to sigh softly.

“It seems another youth is unwilling to accept his fate…”

Someone beside him sighed as well, “This young man is truly strong, I even think he could be compared with those three monsters.”

“What a pity… the foundation of the Great Xia Sword Sect is too weak to secure a good ranking and resources.”

As these words were spoken, many around nodded in agreement.

Guan Qingyun glanced at the youth and couldn’t help but let out a snicker.

“Losers are always like this, reminiscing over nothing, utterly useless.”

The disciples of Xuanmen Hall were used to such scenes.

A tall and thin young man beside Guan Qingyun curled his lips into a cold smirk.

“It’s nothing but pointless groaning.”

Others unceremoniously mocked, “It’s like a dog that can’t part with its own excrement. If it were me, I would have been too ashamed to stay here.”

Even Ji Linglan from Lingxiao Pavilion looked puzzledly at the youth in the sky.

In her eyes, this blind youth was very strong, even instilling an inexplicable fear in her!

But she still didn’t understand, with the Great Xia Sword Sect already eliminated, why he was here.

“Is he just here to remember today’s failure, to motivate himself?”

Ji Linglan’s usually cold face wavered slightly.

She didn’t know what kind of person Li Guanqi really was.

Despite being surrounded by incomprehension and curses, he seemed completely unaffected, as if deaf to it all.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Dozens of streaks of light arrived in succession!

Qin Xian and the others, looking at the youth standing in the air on his sword, then at the dimming name of their Sect, opened their mouths but couldn’t utter a sound.

Li Nanting’s aged face showed a hint of pity, his eyes slightly red.

His voice was a bit hoarse as he gently said.

“Guanqi, that’s enough…”

“Let’s… go back.”

However, the limping man behind the crowd slightly shrugged his shoulders.

He understood very well what the youth was thinking at this moment.

Li Guanqi turned around, his face filled with unwillingness, and looked directly at Li Nanting as he spoke softly.

“Master… I am not content…”

Li Nanting opened his mouth, feeling as if something was stuck in his throat!

A tense atmosphere spread among the disciples, their desire for strength more intense than ever before!

It was all because they were too weak!

Even Ye Feng unconsciously clenched his fists, his eyes reddening as he bowed his head.

Zhong Lin and Lin Dong, both seriously injured, felt regret in their hearts, lamenting their own incompetence.

Yu Ye clenched his fists tightly, his gaze burning as he stared at the youth’s silhouette.

Gu Ran’s eyes showed a trace of heartache as she looked at the youth bowing his head.

The onlookers at the top of Tianyu Mountain fell into a slight silence, watching this scene unfold.

A strange feeling spread among the crowd.

Everyone felt that although the Great Xia Sword Sect had not achieved a good ranking this time, they had a peculiar sense that the Sect would flourish in the future through these present disciples.

At the Purple Sun Hall, Zhao Beichen looked on with disdain, his eyes cold.

In his world, the strong were always revered, and the weakness of others always seemed to him like pointless whining.

From the beginning to the end, he never took the people of the Great Xia Sword Sect seriously.

A Sect that was two whole levels below their Purple Sun Hall, why should he pay them any attention?

Was it because of a blind youth who had awakened the Sword Spirit Ruin?

Zhao Beichen’s eyes lifted slightly as he looked at the youth in the sky, scoffing, “Ridiculous.”

Suddenly!

The youth, who had been silent and bowing his head, suddenly looked up!

Li Guanqi had made his decision!

The youth’s eyes were firmly fixed on the Old Man above, and he suddenly shouted.

“Li Guanqi of the Great Xia Sword Sect requests to initiate the Inferno Challenge!”

Boom!!!

A wave of astonishment swept through the crowd, and those who realized what was happening went wild with excitement!

‘Li Guanqi of the Great Xia Sword Sect requests to initiate the Inferno Challenge!’

The youth’s impassioned voice, amplified by Primordial Energy, carried far and wide!

As his words fell, Li Nanting and the others’ eyes widened in shock.

The Old Man quickly appeared before the youth, sternly reprimanding him.

“Guanqi… you! You’re being reckless!!”

“Do you even realize what you’re doing?”

Li Guanqi looked up at the Old Man, speaking very seriously.

“Master, I know exactly what I’m doing.”

“If not for this… I cannot be at peace!!”

Gao Qiwen’s knuckles turned white as he clenched his fists, his eyes bright as he watched the youth not far away.

“You… have done what I once did…”

All the competing Sect disciples were startled, and many didn’t even know what the so-called Inferno Challenge was.

Guan Qingyun was momentarily stunned, then sneered, “Truly a fool seeking death.”

Ji Linglan’s eyes revealed shock, her brows furrowed slightly, and she shook her head in disappointment.

“Heh, I thought he was one to bide his time, but I didn’t expect…”

“He’s too arrogant.”

In the camp of the Purple Sun Hall disciples, it was only at this moment that Zhao Beichen truly acknowledged the blind youth for the first time!

A smile appeared on Zhao Beichen’s lips as he murmured softly.

“The Inferno Challenge, huh? Quite the character!”