"Five Elements Palace's new Imperial Seed, Zhao Yan, had returned in force. He had already entered the Black Nether Forbidden Land, seeking to ascend the Nine Heavens True Dragon Ranking with the body of a Near Dao Earth Immortal!"
"What kind of joke is this? Zhao Yan? Who is that? I've never even heard of him!"
"You haven't heard of him? Brother, you must have only just emerged from a death-seclusion. Zhao Yan's reputation first began to spread three years ago. Five Elements Palace announced his status as an Imperial Seed back then. It is said that he is refining the Five Elements Earth Net, a Transcendent Realm imperial weapon."
"What? A Near Dao Earth Immortal refining a Transcendent Realm imperial weapon? Are you joking?"
"Hehe... Five Elements Palace has been loudly publicizing it; everyone already knows. Brother, did you really just emerge from death-seclusion?"
"I did indeed just finish secluded cultivation. I never expected that, after those few, another ruthless figure would emerge?"
"The Black Nether Forbidden Land... if I remember correctly, the Dark Nether Clan has two prodigies on the ranking. His target should be Ming Su Bai, ranked thirtieth."
"It can't possibly be Ming Xing Kong, the Young Patriarch ranked seventeenth, right? Hahaha..."
"Don't joke around. He is only a Near Dao Earth Immortal. Though an imperial weapon on his person makes him stronger than a Heavenly Immortal, who knows what his true combat strength is? It is only regrettable that Lin Xuan fell. Otherwise, his target should have been Lin Xuan, that prodigy outside the ranking. Hehe..."
When the topic turned to Lin Xuan, countless living beings throughout the Upper Realm were filled with malicious amusement.
"What a pity. If Lin Xuan had not fallen, he would probably have made the ranking by now, right?"
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