Even the three words [Ling Wuyuan] matched perfectly.
Even the force he belonged to—the [Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion]—matched as well.
Even the target's widely circulated basic physical characteristics still matched.
Yet, for quite a long period beforehand,
many people stubbornly refused to believe that the great being who had emerged out of nowhere, who was about to unify the surrounding [Domains] and claim the highest peak, was actually the Ling Wuyuan they knew.
This was both a denial rooted in reason and an intense rejection born from all sorts of inexplicable feelings and thoughts.
People were often unwilling to admit that someone could be so much more outstanding than themselves, and even less willing to admit that all their efforts were, before the other party's achievements, nothing more than something utterly insignificant.
It was a choice rooted in biological nature.
However...
Reality was not something that could truly be treated as nonexistent just because one refused to acknowledge it.
Ironclad facts would not change in any way because of the wails of the incompetent.
After all, faced with the acknowledgment of the [Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion]... no one had the right to deny it to their face.
In the end, once everyone confirmed that Ling Wuyuan—the figure who had appeared like a thunderbolt beneath clear skies and forcibly beaten everyone into submission—really was the Ling Wuyuan who had been active on the [Golden Mist Continent] a few years ago and hailed as the foremost of the younger generation, perhaps because swift victory had turned into swift defeat, or perhaps because the innate binary law of intelligent life was exerting its powerful effect, all doubts transformed into support and praise in an extremely short time.
It was the most direct form of: if you could not beat him,