"That was... Shen Lin!!?"
"He took down that Inner Void Realm bug in a single strike?"
"Hahaha, that kid's finally back! I knew that damn Collector couldn't do anything to him!"
Among the crowd, those who recognized Shen Lin marveled at the overwhelming power he had just displayed.
Demon Venerable, meanwhile, had already thrown his head back and burst into laughter.
To be honest, discussions about Shen Lin had never stopped over the years.
At first, everyone had been astonished and full of admiration for his heroic feat of using himself as bait to lure away The Collector and win the Chaos Sea a sliver of hope for survival.
But gradually, some unpleasant voices had emerged as well.
Some believed that The Collector had been lured over by Shen Lin in the first place. Since the disaster had begun because of him and ended because of him, it was nothing worth mentioning.
Some believed that Shen Lin must have encountered some extraordinary opportunities to grow to such heights in such a short time, yet he had hidden them away instead of sharing them with the other races.
If he had brought them out earlier, everyone in the Chaos Sea could have become dragons, and they would never have feared an invasion by foreign enemies.
Such talk had even grown increasingly fierce. Some ill-intentioned individuals had gone so far as to turn their eyes toward the entire Human Race.
They felt that perhaps they could uncover the secret behind Shen Lin's power from the Human Race.
Even when figures representing the Chaos Sea's strongest factions, such as Immortal Venerable and Demon Venerable, had stepped forward to suppress the unrest, they still had been unable to stamp it out completely.
After all, who could completely dispel the greed in people's hearts?
Fortunately,