Fierce

Thousand Star City, Yunxiao Tower.

The first-floor hall was packed with cultivators from every side. Tea, wine, pastries, dried fruit, and all manner of snacks covered the tables. Groups of cultivators chatted and laughed, making the place lively indeed.

Some of the Demon Race members, hideous and grotesque in appearance, were especially loud and made the hall particularly noisy.

The other floors were much the same, their halls filled with guests. Even the private rooms by the windows all around were completely occupied.

The many cultivators had gathered at Yunxiao Tower because—

A massive water mirror ran from top to bottom through Yunxiao Tower. So long as one was inside the tower, they could see this water mirror from anywhere.

A huge black stone stele appeared upon the water mirror, its ten names displayed with perfect clarity.

Thousand Star Islands lay far from the Nine Provinces, and most people there knew very little about the Nine Provinces. Almost no one recognized the names of the Nine Provinces cultivators on the stele, and none of the demons knew them.

Yet when they saw the Dragon Scale Association's roster, waves of startled cries rang out through Yunxiao Tower.

"It's Xuan Ba—the Xuan Ba whose strength can uproot mountains and whose blade can split the sea!"

"I heard he tore out all of Cloud Light Island's Sky-Connecting Seven Peaks with one hand, then killed more than ten human Spirit Transformation cultivators. With a single slash, he even cleaved open ten thousand zhang of deep sea and wiped out the countless fiendish ghosts entrenched in Nine-Colored Gorge..."

"Even Xuan Ba is taking the field, and he's only ranked third! They think far too highly of the human race..."

"Liu Sanxiang is the truly formidable one. He suppressed Langya Sacred Land all by himself, beating