The other races were stunned. It was one thing for the Human Race to produce Heaven-Defying Powerhouses like Fang Chen and Quasi-Emperor Huo Li, but now they had superlative fighters like Ye Qingci and Yue Canglan too.
Millions of years ago, the Human Race's overall strength had ranked second only to the Demon Race among the pinnacle races. Of all the continents the Human Race had claimed, the Barbaric Continent was the smallest. Worse, Forbidden Zones littered it. To ordinary mortals, the whole continent was a vast burial ground. Before they could plant crops or build homes, they first had to clear away the graves.
Over those millions of years, one Great Emperor powerhouse after another had worked to wipe out the Forbidden Zones on the Barbaric Continent. That task alone had drained much of their strength.
The Ancient Emperors sleeping within those Forbidden Zones were weaker than Great Emperors, but before entering their slumber, they had used the Heaven and Earth Origin to set up powerful Formations. To wipe out a Forbidden Zone, a Great Emperor powerhouse had to break its Formation by force, often at a heavy cost to his Lifespan.
Fang Chen had been able to clear more than a hundred Forbidden Zones on Immortal Forget Island with ease because his mastery of Formations let him find their weak points. He could slip inside, then use Twilight Power to slay the Ancient Emperors and Demon Emperors within.
Fang Chen was a freak of nature, the likes of which had not been seen since Primordial Antiquity. Of course, the Floating Immortal Sword had played an enormous part in bringing him to his current strength.
But winning the Floating Immortal Sword's recognition was itself proof of his ability. Fang Chen had not been the first to obtain the sword.