When Wu Rui felt the formidable force of Xiang Ning's Mountain-Splitting Slash, he understood. Everything up to that point had been fake. Everything he had been proud of was fake. To Xiang Ning, it was all child’s play. He realized that Xiang Ning could have also beaten him before the breakthrough, because there was a true power gap between a person at Peak Mastery and the Awakened level. Though it was just one step in theory, the difference was just too great!

“Heh…hehe.” Wu Rui hung his head as if he had accepted his fate, but he had one last shred of pride keeping him together and his hopes alive. 

“So what if you’ve achieved Peak Mastery. I’m Wu Rui... I am a prodigy! I will never yield!”...