Chapter 531 Shocked to the Core

• Everyone knew Jiang Mie was famous for learning from many masters and using targeted counters to shut his opponents down. Yet now he was being pinned the same way—locked down hard—and that stifling humiliation burned in his chest with no words for it.
• This man, long renowned across the Southeast, who had crushed so-called prodigies and even veterans, found a thought flickering in his mind for the first time: he might actually lose.
• Without anyone noticing, the whole arena went eerily quiet—so quiet it felt wrong.