Everyone had thought the auction's star lot would be the big surprise. No one had expected the greatest surprise to be Chen Changan.
No!
Calling it a surprise was wrong. It was a shock!
His speed of advancement left everyone feeling, for a moment, that none of this could be real.
Over the long years of the Eternal Land, many geniuses had emerged. Prodigies, too, had appeared in different eras.
But no genius or prodigy of any generation could compare to Chen Changan.
In just over twenty years—barely twenty years—he had reached the Fifth Rank Emperor Realm?
And it wasn't just his cultivation. In that same span, he had become an alchemist capable of refining so many supreme-grade pills?
At that moment, the same thought took hold in everyone's heart.
Perhaps Chen Changan truly wasn't from the Eternal Land.
He... was an outsider!
He hadn't honed his alchemy in the Eternal Land, where heavenly treasures were so scarce. He must have possessed that formidable skill before he arrived.
That seemed to explain how Chen Changan had become such an outstanding—even terrifying—alchemist in so short a time.
But much remained unexplained. Where had Chen Changan obtained his materials? And how could they account for his terrifying talent?
Was it simply that he had always been exceptional?
An outsider whose talent and potential surpassed everyone in the Eternal Land... could that really be true?
They didn't want to believe it. They would rather believe Chen Changan was a terrifying prodigy, one who defied everything they thought possible.
If Chen Changan was an outsider, it would shatter all the pride they had once held.
Their lofty, untouchable sense of superiority as natives of the Eternal Land would vanish in an instant.
"Young Master Chen, may I... ask you a question?"
Someone suddenly stood.