"Holy shit!!"
"That was fucking insane!"
"A palm strike using thirty percent of his power nearly killed Gu Jianhun? A mighty expert who had glimpsed a sliver of the threshold to the Half-step Great Heavenly God Venerable realm was actually so utterly unable to withstand a single blow before Shen Tianxing?"
"My god, did it have to be this terrifying?"
"How could this Divine Sword Sect, which had only just emerged, be this powerful?"
"..."
For a time, every expert present could not help but feel an intense curiosity toward the Divine Sword Sect.
A terrifying speculation even arose in their minds:
"The Divine Sword Sect isn't a group of mad fools who don't know the height of heaven or the depth of earth. They clearly possess truly terrifying strength, yet they're playing the pig to eat the tiger here. Perhaps they might even crush every other force and forcefully seize first place in this Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Prefectures Grand Competition!"
"Now that the Holy Lord of the Ancient Immortal Holy Land, one of the ten strongest hidden ancient powers, has been defeated, it will depend on whether the people from the other nine hidden ancient powers have what it takes to suppress Shen Tianxing of the Divine Sword Sect."
"If... even the people from the other nine hidden ancient powers cannot defeat Shen Tianxing, then first place in this Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Prefectures Grand Competition will undoubtedly fall to the Divine Sword Sect."
"As for us, the risk of being eliminated has grown even greater. At the very least, the first eleven spots are gone. Since the Ancient Immortal Holy Land has come, the other nine hidden ancient powers will naturally come as well."
*"And even if we were lucky enough to rank among the top one