The gathered guests stared blankly at the black-clad youth in the center.
All their previous contempt and disdain vanished like smoke.
In their place came bone-deep shock and awe.
Peak Hua Jin had gone head-to-head with Bone Forging Late Stage, crushing Tingyu Tower's top True Disciple with pure physical strength.
Such inconceivable combat power had long surpassed everything they knew of martial artists of the same generation in Cloud Province.
Scattered whispers gradually rose from the crowd.
Some frowned deeply, repeatedly muttering Wang Yuan's name. The more they thought about it, the more alarmed they became.
"Wang Yuan... I've definitely heard that name before. It sounds so familiar."
"Wait! Kaoshan Sect! Transformation Force cultivation, skilled in poison arts..."
"Could he be Poison Fiend Wang Yuan, one of Kaoshan Sect's Three Fiends?"
The moment those words were spoken.
Several veteran martial artists who had traveled far and wide suddenly came to their senses, crying out in low voices.
"That's right, it's him!"
"It has long spread throughout Cloud Province—the most feared of Kaoshan Sect's Three Fiends, Poison Fiend."
"Rumor has it that he is withered and deathly pale, his cheeks sunken like a skeleton's, poisonous miasma lingering around him all year round."
"Any living person who comes within three steps will be poisoned by some strange toxin. Whenever he acts, corpses carpet the ground. He is sinister to the extreme..."
Everyone instinctively compared the rumored image of Poison Fiend with Wang Yuan before them, tall and upright, with sharp brows and eyes.
Even dressed in black, he could not conceal his heroic air. Their faces were all filled with bewilderment.
The man before them possessed a powerful physique and a composed bearing.
Apart from the faint trace of Killing Intent he had revealed when he knocked Su Wanmei back, where was