The Seventh-Realm sword cultivators looked horrified and murmured under their breath. Only now did they realize that, from beginning to end, they had underestimated the delicate-featured youth before them!
"Instantly killing someone in the Seventh Realm with a Fifth-Realm body. I never imagined the wilderness of the Mortal World could produce a peerless True Dragon as astonishingly gifted as you!"
As the leading figure among the Demon Heaven Sect's Dust Rank disciples here, Long Qing possessed extraordinary combat strength. Proud by nature, he rarely admired anyone, yet faced with Xiao Chen, he could only marvel.
"The wilderness of the Mortal World?" a relatively ill-informed Second-Pattern Veteran Disciple exclaimed in shock.
Although Xiao Chen's origins were rather mysterious, few besides Ma Yi knew his background.
Yet no wall in this world could keep out every breeze.
Xiao Yuntian commanded vast influence. Many things could be uncovered with a little investigation.
"You didn't know?" Long Qing glanced sideways at him, finding his surprise excessive.
"The Mortal World?" Ling Taixu fell into a daze, scarcely able to believe it. The wilderness of the Mortal World had always been polluted. Spirit Seedlings and Immortal Seeds were not unheard of there, but they appeared exceedingly rarely. Someone like the youth before him, who could cross two entire realms and instantly kill a Demon Heaven Sect prodigy while still in the Fifth Realm, was rarer than one in ten thousand.
He had assumed the youth came from some ancient clan or noble family, a Nether Abyss Hibernating Dragon nurtured with all his clan's resources. Who would have imagined he came from the distant Mortal World?
"Young brother, do ancient legends of our Sword God Lineage exist in the Mortal World as well?" Ling Taixu asked.
Xiao Chen was not a native of the Nether Realm, yet