Chen Zidian’s imposing voice resounded once more, “The fourth round of the individual competition begins.”

Two beams of selection light “whooshed” down from the sky, transforming in the air. One of them landed directly in the Knights’ Temple resting area. This was not surprising, as the Knights’ Temple had five participants and the Dawn of Light had seven in the fourth round, accounting for half of all third-round contestants.

The light solidified, settling on a knight from the Knights’ Temple, while the other beam of selection light also made its choice, selecting a powerhouse from the Mage Temple.

Thus, the fierce clashes of the fourth round began.

After yesterday’s battle between Long Haochen and Yang Haoyu, Li Zhengzhi seemed particularly calm today, sitting in the front row of the Mage Temple’s contestant area, with a faint smile on his face, as if the excellent performance of the Dawn of Light had nothing to do with him.

Entering the fourth round, almost all the remaining competitors were ninth-tier powerhouses, and the best among them. The competition became even more intense.

An hour later, more than half of the twelve matches in the fourth round had been completed. Among the members of the Dawn of Light Demon Hunt Squad who had competed, Wang Yuanyuan and Lin Xin advanced, while Zhang Fangfang lost to Li Zhengzhi.

In the seventh match, when the light of selection shone on Long Haochen again, the entire arena fell silent.

Long Haochen seemed no different from yesterday, still smiling and exuding a gentle aura. But now, no one would underestimate the leader of the Dawn of Light Demon Hunt Squad.

Before his battle with Long Haochen, not many people knew Yang Haoyu. But after their domain battle, Yang Haoyu’s identity quickly spread: the strongest knight in the Knights’ Temple!

Only a few people truly understood that battle; most people only knew that Long Haochen was the ultimate victor.

This young titled Demon Hunt Squad leader had successively defeated the Temple Master of the Warrior Temple and the strongest knight of the Knights’ Temple. It could be said that Long Haochen and the Dawn of Light Demon Hunt Squad had become the focus of attention in this Temple Competition. The glory of the Six Great Temples had been overshadowed by their strong performance.

In the fourth round, Long Haochen fought again. Surprisingly, whether it was fate or Long Haochen’s bad luck, this time, he would face another domain powerhouse, and one of the most famous powerhouses in the Temple Alliance: Chen Hongyu, the Temple Master of the Soul Temple, who possessed the Beast Emperor Domain.

Chen Hongyu was also slightly stunned when he saw that his opponent was Long Haochen. To be honest, the one person he least wanted to face was Long Haochen.

Through yesterday’s battle between Long Haochen and Yang Haoyu, he understood that his cultivation base was far inferior to Yang Haoyu’s. Although Long Haochen had only won because Yang Haoyu had deliberately conceded, being able to withstand to that extent fully demonstrated the young man’s strength.

In less than five years, he had already grown into a domain powerhouse. Losing to him would definitely be a huge loss of face. Even if he won, winning against such a young man would not be glorious.

Therefore, when Chen Hongyu walked out from the Soul Temple side, his expression was truly not very good. Long Haochen was not Chen Ying’er, and as the Temple Master of the Soul Temple, he certainly couldn’t admit defeat, let alone throw the match.

Long Haochen was the first to enter the arena, showing respect to Chen Hongyu. Seeing him enter, he gave Chen Hongyu a standard knight’s salute. “Temple Master Chen, hello.”

“Mm,” Chen Hongyu nodded. “Let’s begin.” He didn’t want to say anything more. He could only try his best to win this match. After all, Long Haochen couldn’t use weapons and equipment in this match like he did in the previous one. With his insight, he could naturally see that without the Sword of Life and Creation formed by the pair of divine swords, Long Haochen would not have been able to make his domain undergo a second transformation. He did not lack the possibility of defeating Long Haochen. After all, he was already a ninth-tier, third-level cultivator. Long Haochen probably hadn’t reached the third level yet.

However, Chen Hongyu did have lingering fears when facing Long Haochen. Back then, in his battle against Dawn of Light, he had been completely dominant. But who knew that when Long Haochen’s six-headed summoned beast appeared, his four Chimeras were immediately frightened and lost their fighting power. Even now, Chen Hongyu couldn’t figure out what kind of magical beast Long Haochen’s mount partner was. The thought that his summoned beasts would definitely be suppressed made him feel uneasy.

But this time, Chen Ying’er’s Beast God Domain was not assisting Long Haochen, so his Beast Emperor Domain could exert its greatest effect. Whether the suppression would work was still hard to say. In the past few years, Chen Hongyu’s cultivation had also improved significantly, and he had made great progress in both domain control, control of summoned beasts, and the quality of summons.

With a raise of both hands, clusters of milky white light were released from Chen Hongyu’s palms, instantly transforming into six milky white light spheres that floated in front of him. Unable to use equipment, he could only use spirit energy to simulate it.

A gate of light appeared almost instantly behind Chen Hongyu. His figure flashed, and he merged directly into the gate of light and disappeared.

The Holy Unicorn appeared in front of Long Haochen once again. It wasn’t that he was arrogant, but because Haoyue’s abilities were too overbearing and could easily harm people. This was the Temple Competition, not a battle against the demons. Therefore, he would not easily let Haoyue assist in battle unless absolutely necessary. With the improvement of his cultivation base, Haoyue’s domineering nature and destructive power were rapidly increasing. In some cases, Long Haochen couldn’t control its emotions when Haoyue erupted.

The Holy Unicorn was different. Xing Wang had followed Long Haochen since he was a Star Unicorn. It could be said that without Long Haochen, there would have been no evolution. Therefore, although there was no strong contractual restraint between it and Long Haochen, its feelings for Long Haochen were extremely deep. Moreover, following Long Haochen, who possessed a light god physique, was of great benefit to its cultivation. Unicorns were born close to light. In this world, who else could be worthy of its closeness other than Long Haochen?

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However, Xing Wang also had its own problems. It had only recently evolved into a Holy Unicorn and was still in the process of adapting. It couldn’t use many of the Holy Unicorn’s abilities yet. Otherwise, his augmentation of Long Haochen in yesterday’s battle would not have been so simple. Long Haochen also hoped to stimulate Xing Wang’s potential through continuous combat and make it a true Holy Unicorn.

Amidst a terrifying roar that shook the entire arena, a huge figure emerged from the summon gate on the opposite side.

This huge figure was fifteen meters tall, with a sturdy body like a mountain. It was covered in white fur that shimmered with metallic luster. It stood upright, pounding its massive fists on its chest, emitting a “boom, boom, boom” sound.

Long Haochen had never seen such a huge ape demon beast before. Apes had always been strong among demon beasts. They not only had the abilities of tigers and leopards but also possessed much higher intelligence than ordinary demon beasts. Powerful physical strength, agile speed, and stormy attacks made apes the favorite of summoners.

When Long Haochen and his companions challenged Chen Hongyu five years ago, they had not seen this demon beast. It was unknown whether Chen Hongyu had deliberately conceded at the time or had not yet obtained this demon beast. From the aura of this demon beast, it could be judged that it must be one of Chen Hongyu’s nine contracted demon beasts, definitely not an ordinary summon.

What surprised Long Haochen was that after Chen Hongyu escaped into that gate of light, his aura completely disappeared. Even with his mental power probing abilities, he couldn’t find any trace of Chen Hongyu. What ability of the summoner was this?

After the giant ape roared, it rushed towards Long Haochen at a rapid speed. Almost with two accelerations and another forward leap, it was already in front of Long Haochen.

Its huge right palm suddenly raised, heading straight for Long Haochen’s head.

Before the palm arrived, the terrifying wind had already roared down like a hurricane. Even more terrifying was that at the same time the ape’s giant palm was struck out, a strong cold current had enveloped Long Haochen and the Holy Unicorn.

A tenth-level ice-type demon beast was equivalent to a ninth-tier powerhouse in the human race. With just one palm, Long Haochen fully felt its power. To fight against a summoner, you must not let him summon all the summoned beasts.

The bone-chilling cold not only had a strong aggressive nature but also caused Long Haochen and the Holy Unicorn to slow down.

Faced with such an attack, Long Haochen did not dodge. He raised his palms, making a gesture of supporting the sky.

“Boom–” In the violent roar, many people subconsciously thought that Long Haochen would definitely be slapped down from the air by this palm. However, the situation in the field was completely the opposite.

The palm that had been so aggressive was momentarily frozen when it came into contact with Long Haochen’s disproportionately small palms. In the next instant, its body was thrown into the air, smashing directly towards the gate of light from which it had come.

The Holy Unicorn flapped its wings and chased after it with Long Haochen. A huge golden light sword appeared out of thin air in mid-air, somewhat similar to Qiu Yonghao’s Sword Intent Domain that day. This huge light sword locked onto the ape with a fierce sword intent and slashed down.

Not to mention that Long Haochen’s inner spiritual power was as high as 290,000 with the Eternal Heart, even if his cultivation base was weaker, he was still riding the Holy Unicorn!

The Holy Unicorn’s spiritual power bonus to him was at least 100,000. If the Holy Light was added, it would exceed 150,000. Otherwise, how could Long Haochen have competed with Yang Haoyu’s domain yesterday?

Although this Ice Domain Ape was a powerful tenth-level demon beast, it was only equivalent to an early-stage ninth-tier powerhouse. In a direct collision, its ice attribute couldn’t break Long Haochen’s light, and its spiritual power was far inferior. Naturally, it was blasted away without mercy by Long Haochen’s attack.

(To be continued)

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