Ren Tingfeng, standing beside Ren Yanqi, fixed Ning Wangshu with a look of suspicion.
Just like the middle-aged man Ning Wangshu had beheaded earlier, he'd found Ning Wangshu strangely familiar at first glance, but couldn't immediately remember who he was.
After all, the news of Ning Wangshu's death had spread throughout the Cultivation World long ago. As far as Ren Tingfeng knew, Ning Wangshu had died several months earlier.
Naturally, he never imagined that the man in front of him was the supposedly "dead" Ning Wangshu.
News of Ning Wangshu's triumphant return and his killing spree in Kyoto had gradually begun spreading throughout the Cultivation World, but it hadn't traveled very far yet.
The Ren Clan in the northwest had not heard about it.
As Ren Tingfeng furrowed his brow and pondered, the people behind him recovered from their earlier commotion and began buzzing with discussion.
"Looks like this must be the legendary Golden Core Great Grandmaster patriarch of the Northwest Ren Clan! But who's that young man opposite him? From what the Ren Clan patriarch said, he's a Golden Core Great Grandmaster too?"
"If even the Ren Clan patriarch says so, it must be true. It's just that the young man looks barely twenty. How could he be a Golden Core Great Grandmaster too? That's unbelievable!"
"Exactly! Since when did Golden Core Great Grandmasters become so 'common'? We've just run into two of them here! But that said, if the young man really is a Golden Core Great Grandmaster, then it's no wonder he dared to disregard the Northwest Ren Clan and kill one of their people without hesitation!"
"Whatever the case, judging by the looks of things, we might get to witness a battle between Golden Core Great Grandmasters today."
"I'd heard of cultivators before, and I'd heard