"So this is Chu Jiang, who's been making the biggest waves lately. He really is handsome and heroic—I feel like I'm facing a true dragon!"
"Can he surpass those top prodigies before him?"
"The gap between Chu Jiang and them is rather large. They're not on the same level, but I'd say he's still at the pinnacle of the second tier."
The crowd discussed among themselves, staring unblinkingly at Chu Jiang, hoping he would deliver an entirely new performance.
"What can someone from some backwater place possibly do?" Wang Mang said disdainfully. Anyone not from a sacred land or great clan was just a mud-legged peasant.
Jin Shengtian had already set the bar so high that no matter how the others struggled, it would be difficult for them to surpass him.
Many people looked with great interest at the Black Robe Youth. As the saying went, beneath a great reputation, there was no hollow name. They wanted to see whether this man could break the record.
Chu Jiang's expression remained calm as he stepped into the light curtain of the Heart-Questioning Path.
Everyone's hearts rose into their throats as they stared fixedly at the light curtain.
Even the top prodigies—Heavenly Phoenix Girl, Wu Yue, Jin Shengtian, Wang Mang, Yi Deng, and the others—fell silent and turned their gazes toward it.
Outside the light curtain, everything was silent. Only the bewildering demon voices drifting from within could faintly be heard.
Just as the second breath passed!
"Buzz—!"
The entire light curtain of the Heart-Questioning Path shook violently! An indescribable golden divine radiance, as though condensed from the sun itself, suddenly erupted from within!
Wherever the light reached, the entangling illusions and bewitching Dao voices were like ice and snow exposed beneath a blazing sun. They let out shrill hissing cries as