When Shen Haizhou saw Xu Yan looking at him, he hurriedly forced a smile and said, "That bastard Dai Jun actually dared to threaten you with my family's Spirit Refining Old Ancestor. How outrageous.
"I couldn't just stand by and watch. I had to teach him a lesson."
The corner of Xu Yan's mouth twitched. He turned away and continued comprehending the martial way.
After this disturbance, all the prodigies in Black Cloud Marsh secretly began paying attention to Xu Yan, this mysterious youth.
His strength was beyond doubt—astonishingly powerful.
They wondered whether he was a prodigy from a powerful Spirit Sect, or truly just a Rogue Cultivator.
It wasn't as if Rogue Cultivators had no prodigies.
It was just that Jade Province had never heard of such a young prodigy.
Could he be a prodigy from another province who had come as a Rogue Cultivator?
Ordinarily, a Rogue Cultivator of such talent would be recruited by a major power.
Aside from a very small number of exceptionally arrogant Rogue Cultivators, most would join a major power based on their talent. After all, it was cooler beneath a big tree.
Moreover, they could cast off their status as bottom-rung martial artists in one stroke and complete a leap in status.
The prodigies present began to suspect that Xu Yan was one of these kinds of prodigies, recruited by a major power because of his outstanding talent.
However, he still carried some pride in his bones. Thus, even at such a grand event, he had not worn the distinctive robes of his affiliated power.
Otherwise, no matter how arrogant a Rogue Cultivator was, he would never dare disregard the might of a first-rate family's Spirit Refining Heavenly Human.
Shen Haizhou sat on the ground, looking at Xu Yan atop the huge