The words had barely left his mouth before someone wanted to object.
Yet...
The rebuttal brewed on his tongue for a long time, but he could not bring himself to say it.
True, Master Chenghua had stood unrivaled under heaven in his day. But the problem was...
Almost everyone had overlooked one thing: the Heaven-Piercing Sword was barely twenty. Only a little over a decade had passed since he entered the Five Aggregates Temple...
Had Master Chenghua achieved this much at his age?
He had defeated Chen Luo, killed Wanzhang, won the Eight-Treasure Arhat's wholehearted respect, earned the reverence of the Rosy Clouds Temple, and now single-handedly overwhelmed the Bone Profound Sect's vaunted prodigy, Young Master You—the foremost disciple of his generation across the sects...
And even the people of the Immortal Palace stood behind him.
Could it be...
Would there be another Master Chenghua after this? No, someone who might even surpass him?
In an instant, countless gazes converged on Zhou You again.
Before, despite Zhou You's many victories, these people had seen him as little more than an upstart. At most, they had treated him with the courtesy the Immortal Palace had shown, out of respect for Master Chenghua. But now...
Quite a few were already making plans to approach him after the fight, regardless of the outcome...
Neither combatant paid any attention to what was happening outside.
After cutting down three formidable opponents, even Zhou You needed a moment to catch his breath despite his half-dragon physique. Young Master You, meanwhile, summoned no more corpses after unleashing the Rakshasa Twin Demons. He simply sustained the deathly energy and waited in silence.
The silence lasted a while. Then Young Master You made the first move.
The River-Bearing Dragon swung its chain again. This time, though, the instant the