At the sight of such brutality, the other cultivators quietly moved even farther away from him...
"He just threw him in? How ruthless!"
"Hiss... Granted, the other fellow struck first, but this boy retaliated with lethal force, leaving no room for mercy. That alone shows how vicious he is. He's certainly no benevolent soul. We'd best not provoke him..."
To them, falling into the Eternal Cauldron to participate in the "Bronze Trial" was no different from going to their deaths.
Thus, in their eyes, Meng Chuan throwing the three-eyed alien beyond the boundary of the protective barrier was outright murder!
Meanwhile, after imagining all manner of terrifying scenarios, the Fire Sprite Lanfei hurriedly backed away, afraid "Meng" would notice her and toss her into the cauldron to be refined.
After a moment's hesitation, she turned and rushed into the teleportation formation, abandoning her opportunity to contemplate and gain enlightenment.
Meng Chuan sensed a fluctuation by the teleportation formation and glanced back just in time to see her leave. Unaware of her thoughts, he wondered, She just gave up an opportunity for enlightenment like that? She must be loaded...
Time slowly passed. An eerie atmosphere hung over the place, and many cultivators whispered among themselves, occasionally glancing at the starlight version of the Michelin Man...
The Fire Sprite's departure attracted no attention from anyone, Meng Chuan included. They treated it as a minor interruption in their cultivation.
As for the blond three-eyed alien...
Disputes over the Dao were commonplace. If someone provoked an opponent despite being weaker, he had only himself to blame for the outcome.
Beyond that, the cultivators all found it faintly unbelievable. Both had been at the peak of the fifth tier of life, so why had the gap between them been so immense?
Even the few sixth-tier