For someone outside the list to challenge a chosen genius on the list was not some major affair in the Cold Mountain Domain. Challenges like this happened often. Unless it was a challenge near the front ranks of Heaven's Chosen List, the battles toward the back of the list did not draw that many cultivators' attention.
But this challenge spread at an extremely fast speed, and quite a few Earth God Realm experts noticed it.
The reason was simple. The two sides involved were Secluded Shadow Valley and the Nurturing Spirit Sect. Recently, Secluded Shadow Valley's provocative attitude toward the Nurturing Spirit Sect had almost been laid bare on its face.
Although Secluded Shadow Valley could still be considered restrained, that attitude was indeed already there. It was only because the current situation was rather special; otherwise, if it had been any other time, the two sides might already have come to blows.
At a time like this, for a disciple of the Nurturing Spirit Sect to challenge a chosen genius of Secluded Shadow Valley naturally piqued the interest of the cultivators of the Cold Mountain Domain at once. When they saw that the challenger from the Nurturing Spirit Sect had only a Realm Lord Late Stage cultivation, that emotion exploded immediately.
Everyone on Heaven's Chosen List was at Realm Lord Peak, because this list had been established precisely to contend for Status Rank Spirit Materials. The closer one was to the front ranks, the greater the chance of obtaining a Status Rank Spirit Material to break through to the Earth God Realm.
It was not that there were no exceptionally talented figures among Realm Lord Late Stage cultivators, but no matter how strong one's talent was, if one's cultivation was a minor level below Realm Lord Peak, that gap