Gray entered the crowded and loud arena, his enhanced eyes scanning all around the arena. All around, he could sense demonic Qi in the air.

There were clearly a lot of spies in the arena to find the talents of this generation and mark them for assassination. He was very familiar with the process.

But he didn’t care and walked straight into the challengers area and set his challenge.

A few fights later, it was his turn to go up, and he specifically made it so that anyone in the arena could challenge him, challengers or audience it mattered not.

The only stipulation on his matches was that the opponent wasn’t allowed to kill him, and if they released killing intent or tried to kill him, he would kill them in return.

Most people would fight with these rules but with the additional rule that you couldn’t cause any lasting damage.

However, the rules could accommodate anyone, and as long as you accepted the other party’s rules, you would fight with the same rules applying to you. It was quite an easy and entertaining system.

So when Gray went up, there wasn’t any shortage of those willing to challenge him. However, most of them were only at the seventh stage of the Martial Realm like he was. These people weren’t even remotely strong enough to cause him any issues.

As such, for his very first opponent, he chose someone at the peak of the Martial Realm, or in other words, someone at the peak of the ninth stage.

Everyone was shocked at such a decision, but when the opponent, a man in his forties, went up, they shut their mouths to just watch the show.

It was an understatement to say that they fully expected this man to beat this boy black and blue.

However, the moment the judge announced the start of the fight, they were shocked as they saw the man fly into the arena wall over fifty feet away like a broken ragdoll, clearly having at least a few of his bones broken in the process.

Nobody had expected much out of this fight, so nobody had been paying proper attention, especially since they knew that the man was planning to gloat about how badly this boy would lose.

In the end, only a few select people had witnessed Gray’s move, which was just a simple punch and nothing more.

However, despite it being a simple punch, not a single person present, even those above the fifth stage of the Spirit Realm, were capable of seeing just how intricately put together it was and how all the weight in his body went into the fist so perfectly that it literally could not be made better.

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Nobody noticed that his feet had sunk about an inch into the dirt ground. Seeing that this had happened, he couldn’t help but look down and think of an idea. However, this was for later.

For now, he picked his next opponent, which was someone who had just broken through to the first stage of the Spirit Realm, a girl about thirty years in age.

It was clear that she was a genius of this generation, because when she went up to fight, he could clearly sense a slight surge of the demonic Qi in the air, a symbol of the agitation.

Sensing this, he merely let a smile paint across his face. On the face of a ten year old like him, it looked like the innocent smile of a child, but to the girl facing him, it seemed like the grin of the devil, and she felt as if her mind was sinking into a pool of blood.

However, she quickly shook her head and forcefully broke out of the illusion, sweat covering her body.

‘Another second and I might not have been able to break the illusion! What kind of monster is this kid?!’ The girl couldn’t hold back her thoughts, nearly panicking from his immense danger.

Without giving him a chance to further attack, she instantly cast a barrier of watery inner breath over her skin.

The next second, she fell backwards and her feet stomped into the ground, her body forced to bend into a hunched over position from the pure force of the collision.

Her feet slid along the ground for nearly a foot before she managed to stabilize herself, looking at the boy in front of her in shock.

The barrier of watery inner breath all over her body was fiercely trembling and shaking as if it would break at any moment.

In front of her, she saw the still smiling and calm Gray, whose body had seemingly moved closer to her like a ghost. Yet he seemed to have no intentions of making a move.

“You… what are you?” She couldn’t restrain herself from asking. In the face of Gray, she felt utterly helpless, like a tiny little girl in front of a bulldozer, despite technically being stronger than him.

“I… I think I’m meant to be a monster, but I don’t really know.” His tone was filled with confusion, but the next moment his eyes focused on the girl, and she put up as much defense as she possibly could.

However, the next moment, she felt her arm jam into its socket as she was thrown off balance, her barrier of inner breath shattering entirely as a dense coldness flowed into her arm, causing it to stiffen, her body being thrown backwards and towards the wall of the arena.

All over her body, a cold frost spread and caused her to shiver intensely, even her internal body shifting in temperature.

She was forced to circulate her inner breath through her body because of the level of coldness that she was experiencing.

Her body went pale, then blush, and then pale again as her temperature constantly fought to maintain itself with the cold inner energy in her body.

She had already waved and announced her loss in this fight.

She was taken off the stage, and some nearby people started to help her heal and recover from the fight.

And while everyone was recovering from Gray’s shocking and overwhelming victory, he picked his next opponent, someone at the second stage of the Spirit Realm.