Xiang Mantang stood on the high platform with a light stance, making no violent movements.
Completely different from the entrance of others.
To the assassins who did not understand, his demeanor seemed quite ordinary, not comparable to those top-tier assassins whose presence shook heaven and earth.
However, the top-tier assassins who had entered the realm of Grandmaster couldn't help but narrow their pupils.
"This is, the realm of making the difficult look easy."
"Are the newcomers so strong nowadays?"
"It seems Sanmi will find it difficult to seek revenge, he might get swallowed up if he's not careful."
At the sight of Xiang Mantang's move, the dwarf named "Sanmi" couldn't help but change his expression, then sneered, "Quite a move, no wonder you're so bold, but you should know, there are heavens beyond this one, and people beyond you, some people are not so easily humiliated!"
"We can begin now," Xiang Mantang didn't respond to "Sanmi," and instead immediately turned to the Vice Alliance Hierarch.
In his view, from the moment the dwarf showed killing intent towards them, he was destined to become a corpse.
Upon hearing Xiang Mantang's words, the Vice Alliance Hierarch didn't announce the start immediately but turned to "Sanmi" to ask, "Mr. 'Sanmi', are you ready?"
"Ready." "Sanmi," the dwarf, stood with his hands behind his back, quietly gripping a dagger.
"Alright then," the Vice Alliance Hierarch nodded and then declared, "'Desolation' Guild's president 'Sanmi' issues a life-and-death challenge to 'Six Disasters Canglong's' member 'Invincible'—begin now!"
The Vice Alliance Hierarch's words fell.
"Sanmi" didn't immediately take action, but hesitated slightly.
Then he couldn't resist scoffing, "'Invincible'? Quite a bold codename you've chosen!"
As soon as the words left his mouth.
His face suddenly changed drastically.
Because, without a word, Xiang Mantang moved incredibly swiftly, closing the gap instantly, and threw a punch straight at his face!
Feeling the force of Xiang Mantang's punch, "Sanmi" the dwarf realized that if he actually took this punch head-on, he might have his head blown up on the spot!
"Heh!"
"Sanmi" the dwarf could no longer underestimate Xiang Mantang, rapidly formed Hand Seals with his hands and chanted an incantation. Then, he opened his mouth and expelled a large mass of intense flames.
The temperature was so high that it instantly turned the red cloth covering the platform's surface to ashes.
And, as the first to face it, Xiang Mantang immediately leapt into the midst of the sea of fire.
He became a man of fire!
San Liu, watching from below, initially thought Xiang Mantang would easily handle "Sanmi" the dwarf. Seeing Xiang Mantang caught off guard and turned into a fireman, he couldn't help but look anxious.
Mu Jinyu, witnessing this scene, showed no change in expression, seemingly unconcerned about Xiang Mantang's safety.
He murmured, "Is this a Fire-type Psychic Power? Looks pretty severe."
"Dragon Master, aren't you worried about 'Invincible' at all?" San Liu, hearing Mu Jinyu's murmur, couldn't help but bitterly smile.
"Worried about what, a bit of fire, you don't think it will burn him to death, do you?" Mu Jinyu said lightly.
The many assassins watching, hearing the conversation between Mu Jinyu and San Liu, couldn't help but cast disdainful and mocking glances at them.
They were truly naive, thinking it was just a small fire?
Sanmi is a 3s-level Psychic, and the temperature of that flame could easily incinerate a person to ashes and, if the strength was slightly lower, might not even leave the ashes behind.
However, it was strange, why did the humanoid figure still exist amid the flames on the platform?
"Boom!!!"
At that moment, a loud booming sound suddenly erupted from the platform.
Immediately afterward, the fireman in the midst of the sea of fire had the flames clinging to him explosively scatter in all directions!
In an instant, a three-meter-wide space of bare metal was left on the high platform, not a single flame clinging to it.
The onlookers showed expressions of shock, turning their gaze towards Xiang Mantang only to discover that not only had he not perished in the flames, his clothes were completely unscathed as well.
How could this be?
The crowd found it somewhat incredible.
Although Sanmi's fire-type psychic power indeed had an extremely high temperature, easily capable of reducing a person to ashes, when faced with martial arts grandmasters, they could attach their True Qi to their skin, isolating the flames and thus emerging completely unharmed.
However, even so, their clothes would generally be burnt, becoming quite ragged.
All the top-tier assassins who had confronted Sanmi before had uniformly met this fate.
That's why people generally did not want to get hit by Sanmi's flames when they fought him.
Why then was Xiang Mantang the exception?
Could it be…
His clothes were made of some special material?
"What's going on here?"
San Liu also felt it strange and couldn't help but ask Mu Jinyu.
With his strength, he could easily deal with Sanmi, but if he were to be hit by Sanmi's flames, although he certainly wouldn't die, he would end up quite disheveled, so he was very curious about how Xiang Mantang managed this.
Mu Jinyu said nonchalantly, "Simple, clothes woven from five kinds of Divine Silkworm Silk are impervious to water and fire."
"Bang!"
While they were talking.
On the platform, Xiang Mantang, dispersing Qi throughout his body, managed to drive the flames off his body. Then, enduring the intense heat from the metal platform, he swiftly advanced toward Sanmi, pressing the attack!
Sanmi was still caught in a state of disbelief, unable to accept that his overwhelming sea of fire could not even harm Xiang Mantang. Seeing Xiang Mantang running towards him, he hurriedly raised his fists for a head-to-head strike!
"Boom!"
When he threw his punch, it was not only a terrifying grandmaster-level punch capable of tearing apart tigers and killing elephants, but it also ignited with fierce, blazing fire, like a small burning sun, colliding directly with Xiang Mantang's fist.
"Crack!"
Along with the booming sound, a crack of breaking bones was heard, followed by a sound of spitting blood.
"Splurt!"
"Ah!"
Sanmi took Xiang Mantang's punch hard, but the moment he took the hit, his face drastically changed, swelling to the color of a liver, and his entire body was sent flying backwards like a kite.
Midflight, he spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, mixed with fragments of internal organs.
"Bang!"
Sanmi crashed heavily onto the platform, dragging a long trail of blood behind him before tumbling off the edge and falling down, then lying on the Persian carpet below, twitching a few times before going still.
Sanmi had died just like that!
The entire venue fell completely silent.
Witnessing this scene, everyone couldn't help but feel a profound wariness and fear towards Xiang Mantang, who stood on the platform like a war god.
Originally, they had found Xiang Mantang's nickname "Invincible" somewhat laughable.
But now, seeing Xiang Mantang kill Sanmi in just three moves, the title "Invincible" might not be an exaggeration, and certainly not just self-aggrandizement.
"Next, who's coming?!"
At this moment, Xiang Mantang spoke in a deep voice.