"F-flew?"
"Holy shit, what happened? Did Xu Xiaoshou make a move? How did he just fly off?"
"That's impossible!!"
The crowd of onlookers erupted into a deafening uproar.
Some had imagined how Xu Xiaoshou might act. Coupled with his astonishing feat of single-handedly taking eighteen White Cavern slots from the City Lord's Manor, they had guessed that Xu Xiaoshou ought to be strong.
But no matter how strong he was, he was still merely an Outer Academy disciple! And now they were being told that an Outer Academy disciple from Tiansang Spirit Palace had sent one of the veteran Inner Academy Thirty-Three flying with a single look?
A look!!!
Everyone's eyes practically bulged from their sockets.
"Who the hell can tell me what spirit technique Xu Xiaoshou used just now?"
"Was that really... a killing glance?"
After exchanging looks, not a single person could offer an explanation.
Which one of those present was not a heaven-blessed genius in their own right?
And even if they were not prodigies, any ordinary spirit cultivator could have stated with absolute certainty—
Xu Xiaoshou had not used any spiritual essence in that move.
Then...
Without spiritual essence, and without using his proud physical arts or sword techniques—
How had Xu Xiaoshou sent someone flying with one glance? "P-presence?"
Silence lingered for a while before a timid voice spoke up.
Yet before those two words had even settled, he was drowned out by jeers and curses.
"Presence? Go screw yourself! Show me some presence, then! Can you kill someone with a look?"
"That's incredible. Could you use your brain a little?"
"Presence is an absolute suppression born of cultivation level, something only possible when you surpass someone by an entire major realm—perhaps even two major realms."
"But..."
"It still can't send someone flying!"
As the