Chapter 327: Defeating the Enemy in a Single Move — The Dominant Jiang Chen

The mocking voices from below kept coming, and they were clearly laced with vicious intent. Using the sound-streaming technique, they were directed straight at Jiang Chen's arena.

Obviously, this was meant specifically for Jiang Chen to hear. The goal was to crush his confidence, to shatter the martial belief of so-called preliminary champion.

It had to be said — most of these sect disciples were not good people.

And Jiang Chen, as the preliminary champion, cut an eye-catching figure. Naturally, he became the primary target for the sect disciples' attacks.

When the Flowing Cloud Sect disciple saw Jiang Chen using the Azure Nether Life and Death Seal, he actually laughed.

He knew that secular martial artists were pitiful — starved for resources, starved for techniques. But he hadn't imagined they could be this destitute.

The Azure Nether Life and Death Seal — to sect disciples, it was like a toddler's introductory martial art, something everyone was required to learn.

Using such a crude technique against him, a sect disciple?

This Flowing Cloud Sect disciple had already started scheming about how to send this secular champion flying off the arena in the most miserable way possible.

But his thoughts hadn't turned far before his expression changed in the next instant.

That blazing fire seal, swirling and pulsing, had actually formed an entire sea of flames that surged toward him.

When he tried to block, he found that the void in every direction around him had seemingly ignited, all swallowed up by a wall of fire.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

No matter how he retreated, he found himself completely unable to escape the grasp of this sea of flames.

One technique, mastered, conquers all.

Boom!

The colossal hand seal, like a charging bull, slammed straight into the Flowing Cloud Sect disciple's chest!

In the next moment, an arc traced through the air from the arena straight to the ground below, accompanied by a miserable scream. With a thud, he crashed onto the earth.

One move. A dignified sect disciple, defeated in a single strike by a secular youth, using a crude technique that sect disciples wouldn't even spare a glance at.

The…

Those sect disciples who had been mocking Jiang Chen hadn't even finished their sentences. But the battle unfolding before them was like a giant steamed bun stuffed into their mouths, leaving them gaping and unable to utter a single word.

A slap to the face — a genuine slap to the face.

While their jeers were still unfinished, the iron-clad reality had delivered the most direct and cruel slap of all.

These guys felt their faces burning.

Beyond the burning in their faces, they were equally thunderstruck.

Was this a secular martial artist? He had used a single move — the seemingly ordinary "Azure Nether Life and Death Seal" — to defeat a sect disciple outright.

Defeating a sect disciple wasn't remarkable in itself. What was remarkable was doing it in one move. Such absolute superiority sent shockwaves through the sect disciples watching below.

That unlucky fellow had only been a Class-C disciple. But anyone who could participate in this selection — even a Class-C — couldn't possibly be weak, could they?

The four great sects had countless disciples, and only a few thousand had been selected. Every single one of them had fought their way through countless rivals within their own sect to earn the right to enter these ancient ruins.

And yet he had lost. Lost in the most humiliating way possible.

There were many ways to lose. This was undoubtedly the most shameful.

Before the fight, there had been all manner of contempt and ridicule, only to be taken out in a single move. That kind of gap was absolutely the most humiliating way to lose.

Consort Dan, watching from below, felt her heart surge with emotion. This scene — she had rehearsed it in her mind countless times.

And now, this scene was no longer just a projection in her mind. It had become real.

"Jiang Chen, you truly haven't disappointed the old master's judgment. He once told me that in this selection, you would soar into the sky and bring every sect genius to their knees. I always thought perhaps he was exaggerating. Now it seems my vision was short-sighted after all, nothing compared to the old master's foresight. An ordinary Azure Nether Life and Death Seal — and you transformed something mundane into something miraculous, manifesting such magnificent grandeur. What monstrous comprehension is this?"

Consort Dan's martial talent was actually quite strong. Though not on Jiang Chen's level, with the old master's personal guidance, her understanding of the martial path was far from lacking.

She knew that anyone who could take an ordinary technique and manifest such extraordinary phenomena was a genius. A monster-level comprehension.

In the hierarchy of martial technique mastery, this was the highest level — the legendary tier.

Consort Dan understood this, and so did every other martial artist present. Even the examiner was deeply shaken.

Through Jiang Chen's single move, the examiner vaguely sensed the shadow of a genius flickering before his eyes.

This kind of comprehension of martial techniques was absolutely legendary.

"The secular world really isn't as hopeless as the legends claim. First there was Long Juxue with her Innate Constitution, and now this preliminary champion — clearly no pretender. His comprehension of the Azure Nether Life and Death Seal alone far surpasses that of ordinary sect disciples. This preliminary champion is worth looking forward to."

A preliminary conclusion had already formed in the examiner's mind.

"Will you continue to accept challenges?" the examiner asked Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen nodded. He had waited a long time for this opportunity, and naturally intended to keep going.

"Very well. Your second opponent is a Class-B martial artist, Tie Chuanfeng of the Treasure Tree Sect."

Tie Chuanfeng? A Treasure Tree Sect disciple?