76: Chapter 76 Winning the Championship, The Emperor's Legacy

As the words fell, Saintess Bing Xin struck immediately!

Her Bloodline Power erupted, and intense cold surged from all directions, rapidly sweeping across the arena!

Ice spread beneath Gu Chen's feet, attempting to freeze him in place!

Gu Chen unleashed a sword strike!

A flash of sword light passed, and the ice beneath his feet shattered instantly!

Saintess Bing Xin's attack was not over yet.

With a wave of the long whip in her hand, an ice dragon surged forth from it, pouncing toward Gu Chen!

Wherever the ice dragon passed, cracks were frozen into the ground!

Gu Chen raised his sword to block.

Clang!

The sword collided with the ice dragon, and terrifying spiritual energy fluctuations exploded, shattering a large area of ice on the arena!

Gu Chen was forced back several steps before the ice dragon dissipated!

Saintess Bing Xin did not give him a chance to catch his breath; she swung her long whip repeatedly, and over a dozen ice dragons pounced toward Gu Chen simultaneously!

"Draw Sword Slash!"

The dozen ice dragons were shattered by this single strike simultaneously, and the sword light continued to strike toward Saintess Bing Xin!

Saintess Bing Xin raised her whip to block, but she was still sent flying, landing at the edge of the arena. She managed to steady herself, barely avoiding being knocked off!

She looked down at the long whip in her hand and saw a shallow mark on its surface!

Saintess Bing Xin's expression was one of shock, but she quickly recovered!

Both sides struck again!

Boom!!!

The sound of the sword light and the ice dragon's spiritual energy exploding was deafening!

Move after move!

The two were locked in an evenly matched battle.

Gu Chen's sword grew faster, and his Sword Intent grew stronger!

The Hidden Abyss Emperor Dragon Sword roared like a dragon, and the sword light soared into the sky.

Saintess Bing Xin's Ice Phoenix Bloodline became increasingly violent, and the cold grew heavier!

The entire audience was in an uproar; this was no longer a battle of the Sovereign Realm!

"This! What kind of sword technique is this?"

Han Zixuan sat in the spectator stands, watching the scene before him in disbelief!

Zhuge Qingyun pushed up his glasses and began calculating frantically!

Kang Shen put down the savory chicken in his hand, looking serious for once!

In the spectator stands, everyone held their breath!

"So strong! Both of them are so strong!"

"Saintess Bing Xin's Ice Phoenix Bloodline has erupted with full force, yet Gu Chen can still withstand it?"

"He's not just withstanding it; his Sword Intent is still growing stronger!"

"Just how many hidden cards does this person have?"

The battle on the stage had already exceeded everyone's expectations.

Hundreds of moves had been exchanged without a winner!

Neither could do anything to the other!

"That's enough."

Saintess Bing Xin spoke suddenly.

She stepped back a few paces, holding her long whip horizontally in front of her.

"Let's decide the outcome in one move."

Gu Chen nodded, "Very well."

Both of them gathered their strength simultaneously!

Inside Saintess Bing Xin, her Ice Phoenix Bloodline boiled to the extreme, and the cold solidified, manifesting as a massive Ice Phoenix phantom behind her.

"Ice Phoenix Extinguishes the World!"

The Ice Phoenix phantom behind Saintess Bing Xin lunged toward Gu Chen!

"Draw Sword Slash!"

A flash of Sword Intent, pure to the extreme.

The Sword Intent collided with the Ice Phoenix!

The Ice Phoenix phantom split down the middle, divided into two halves, and dissipated into the air!

The Sword Intent did not stop, continuing forward and landing on the ground in front of Saintess Bing Xin!

The arena cracked, revealing a bottomless fissure.

Saintess Bing Xin stood in place, the long whip in her hand dropping to the ground with a crisp sound.

She looked down at the crack in the ground, then looked at Gu Chen.

She remained silent for a long time.

"I lost."

The entire audience was deathly silent.

"Saintess Bing Xin lost?! How is this possible!"

"Gu Chen won? That Gu Chen from the Eastern Region won against the Saintess of the Ice Phoenix Clan?!"

"How on earth did he do it? Saintess Bing Xin's strongest killing move, Ice Phoenix Extinguishes the World, is something no one in the same rank can withstand!"

"He actually split it open with one sword strike!"

"No! My one million! Saintess Bing Xin, I hate you! I hate you! I hate you! How could you lose so miserably!"

"Then go ask her for it!"

"I don't dare!"

In the spectator stands, the representatives of the various Great Emperor Clans and Eternal Families could no longer sit still!

No one from the Eastern Region had entered the finals in hundreds of thousands of years, and now, not only had Gu Chen entered, but he had also won the championship!

"What exactly is this Gu Chen's background?"

"The Gu Family of the Eastern Region? I've never heard of them before."

"A first-level Sovereign Realm cultivator defeating Saintess Bing Xin, who is at the Peak of the fifth-level Sovereign Realm? This defies logic!"

On the arena, Saintess Bing Xin picked up the whip from the ground and gave a bitter smile.

She looked up at Gu Chen, "What is the name of your sword?"

Gu Chen raised his sword, "Hidden Abyss Emperor Dragon Sword!"

"A good name."

Saintess Bing Xin put away her long whip and turned to walk off the arena.

After walking two steps, she stopped and looked back at Gu Chen.

"Next time, I will win!"

"Very well!"

Gu Chen was looking forward to sparring with her again!

After all, she was the only opponent who could go toe-to-toe with him!

Saintess Bing Xin turned around and walked off the arena.

In the spectator stands, the Elders of the Ice Phoenix Clan had grim expressions, but no one spoke!

A loss is a loss; there was nothing to say.

The Saintess had tried her best; it was just that Gu Chen was too strong.

They had also witnessed the match just now; he was an existence that their stage simply could not contend with!

This Young Lord of the Gu Family was too strong!

Gu Qingshan jumped up in excitement.

"He won! He won! I knew you could do it!"

Li Shuangxu was also incredibly excited, "Champion! The Young Lord is the champion!"

Ru Shuang stood to the side, watching the performance on the arena, her face full of shock!

This person had actually won!

A dark horse from the Eastern Region, sweeping through everything, fighting his way into the finals, and taking the championship.

From today on, the entire Central Plains would remember his name!

"Genius Tournament, Champion, Gu Chen!"

The whole arena cheered!

"Gu Chen! Gu Chen! Gu Chen!"

The shouting was deafening, sweeping across the entire martial arts arena like a tsunami.

The white-haired Elder raised his hand, signaling for the audience to be quiet.

"Next, we will present the championship reward."

The arena quieted down once again.

Everyone stared at the center of the arena.

The championship reward of the Genius Tournament was always something earth-shattering every year!

What would it be this year?

The Elder took a wooden box from his Storage Pouch, held it with both hands, and walked in front of Gu Chen.

The wooden box was not large, but it was quite extraordinary!

"This year's championship reward is a relic of a Great Emperor."

The Elder's voice was calm, but the entire arena exploded instantly!

"A relic of a Great Emperor? What is that?"

"I don't know! But the name alone sounds terrifying! A relic of a Great Emperor!"

"Anything left behind by a Great Emperor cannot be ordinary! It must be a treasure!"

The white-haired Elder opened the wooden box.

Inside lay a jade pendant, emitting a faint glow.

That aura was not of a quasi-emperor, nor of a Peak quasi-emperor. It was of a Great Emperor!

"This jade pendant is a relic left behind by a Great Emperor from hundreds of thousands of years ago!"

The Elder continued to explain, "It also contains a portion of that Great Emperor's Legacy!"

"A portion of the Legacy? A portion of a Great Emperor's Legacy?"

"If a Peak quasi-emperor obtained it, they might have a chance to enter the Great Sovereign Realm!"

"My God! This reward is too crazy!"

In the spectator stands, the representatives of the various Great Emperor Clans could no longer sit still.

A Great Emperor's Legacy?!

Even if it was only a portion, it was enough to drive the entire Central Plains crazy!

If a Peak quasi-emperor obtained it, they might truly be able to step into the Great Sovereign Realm!

That was a Great Emperor, a Great Emperor who hadn't appeared in hundreds of thousands of years!