It was precisely the endorsement of these three grandmaster-level powerhouses that made many people hope some supreme human expert would emerge and give those barbarians from the Arctic Ice Plains a vicious lesson. Yet no one had ever considered asking Southern Shen or Northern Meng to duel him.
What a joke. They were already Great Grandmasters, while Meng Zhao and Shen Tianci were, on the surface, merely at the grandmaster level. At most, their combat strength was outstanding, but they could not possibly fight across a realm. Naturally, no one held out any hope.
Moreover, because this young man suspected to be a Barbarian had been active solely across Liang Prefecture, the Jianghu Martial Arts World of Ji Prefecture and Yanzhou had not yet reacted much.
But it was foreseeable that if this young man, suspected to be one of the Savage Tribes, broke out of Liang Prefecture in the future and swept this tide of challenges across the Northern Lands, even the entire Divine Continent, it would certainly trigger even greater turmoil and reaction.
Liang Prefecture, Hedu Commandery, Huaiyuan County, outside the Ye Family estate.
On the broad avenue wide enough for three carriages to pass abreast, travelers hurried along, each with a different appearance and bearing. Most ordinary people looked sallow and underfed; the effects of the Great Snow Disaster still lingered.
Yet anyone carrying a weapon, wearing a fierce expression, or possessing some martial skill and making their living in the Jianghu, could not help but reveal longing in their eyes, tinged with respect, when they passed the main gate of the Ye Family estate and saw the two characters "Cheng Jun" hanging above it.
This was because, although the Ye Family was utterly unremarkable in the Jianghu of the Divine Continent today, far inferior to the