"Haha, look, someone else is imitating Chen Fan!" Just then, a teasing laugh came from behind Chen Fan and the masked woman.
It was a group of five cultivators, all in the Golden Core Realm and Nascent Soul Realm—three men and two women. The one laughing at Chen Fan was a young man in the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, his face brimming with mockery and ridicule.
Yet within their group, another youth at the Late Golden Core Realm had flushed red, clearly unwilling to accept it.
Chen Fan turned back and froze. The youth at the Late Golden Core Realm also wore a White Bone Sword at his waist. Its shape and many of its details were identical to his own sword; the only difference was that this youth's White Bone Sword had been made from the bones of a Nascent Soul Monster Beast, making it slightly better even than Chen Fan's genuine sword.
"Hmph, Chen Fan is the strongest among sword cultivators of our generation. I wear this White Bone Sword only to remind myself that I must keep moving forward at all times. Why do you have to mock me like this?" The youth swept Chen Fan a glance before angrily addressing his companions.
One of the women immediately covered her mouth and laughed. She, too, glanced at the White Bone Sword at Chen Fan's waist before saying to the youth, "Actually, Chen Fan's strength does not lie in his sword, but in his sword Dao!"
"No, no, you're all wrong. In my view, Chen Fan merely relied on the War Clan's Immortal Sword Scabbard. That means all of you who imitate him have it wrong. You may have copied the White Bone Sword, but what about the Immortal Sword Scabbard? Can you imitate that?" Another man in