Defeated...
The legend of the Golden Age, the patriarch of Baguazhang who had once stood shoulder to shoulder with Yang Luchan...
Defeated.
As they watched the scene before them, everyone around them felt an indescribable shock, as though their entire understanding of the world had been overturned.
For all these years, the Grandmasters of the Golden Age had been legends! They had been the most dazzling radiance of martial arts in the present age!
Even though their era had passed decades ago, they still weighed so heavily upon countless later prodigies that they could scarcely breathe.
Take Shen Haoran. While the Golden Age still endured, he had merely been an unremarkable genius, dim and unnoticed. Only after the Golden Age's figures had either departed or gone into seclusion did he finally soar into the heavens, eventually ascending to the rank of Supreme Expert.
Yet even after reaching that height and becoming one of the era's only Supreme Experts, he had still lived beneath the shadow of the Golden Age.
While the Golden Generation remained, what talent under heaven would dare show its head?
But now...
Dong Haichuan, one of the Golden Generation's foremost representatives, had been defeated.
Defeated by a martial person of a later generation.
To Master Wang Wu, Shen Haoran, and the other patriarchs, something so unprecedented was utterly world-shattering!
Dong Haichuan stood motionless where he was, staring blankly at the stance before him. The Heaven-Supporting Form Huo Yuanhong had used earlier replayed through his mind again and again like a revolving lantern.
How many years had it been...
Ever since he had developed Baguazhang to Divine Force and derived the Bagua Heaven-Supporting Form from it, he had completely widened the gulf between himself and men such as Wang Wu, who had once been his equals. There had