"Xu Jingming won! Xu Jingming actually won!"
"A Ninth-Order at twenty? That's insane!"
"Once he returns, the entire Kindling World and Blue Star will be shaken by him!"
"..."
Outside the Void Shattering Tower in the Kindling World.
Waves of astonished exclamations rose from the crowd.
They had never imagined that Xu Jingming would break through to the Ninth Order and even defeat Allen so easily!
"Jingming is already Ninth-Order?"
Among the crowd, Zhou Ying, Song Qiuyun's aunt, widened her eyes. It took her a long while to recover before she let out a long breath.
"I'd originally been planning to have Director Su deal with Hu Jinyu. Now it's fine. Xu Jingming can handle it all by himself."
After confirming that Xu Jingming was unharmed and that his strength had greatly improved, Zhou Ying visibly relaxed.
All she needed to do next was wait for Xu Jingming to come out and tell him the news.
Xu Jingming's monstrous performance did not have much of an impact on the Metahumans of the Kindling World.
At most, it meant that a prodigy even more talented than Allen had appeared.
But for Flame Divine Venerable Redding, who had personally nurtured Allen, it was an entirely different matter.
In midair, Flame Divine Venerable Redding stared at the scene projected by Aimer's Eye of Destiny, his expression terrifyingly grim.
It would have been one thing if Allen had failed to obtain the civilization's inheritance.
What Redding found hardest to accept was Allen's crushing defeat!
They both possessed SSS-rank metahuman abilities, yet Allen could not even last ten seconds against Xu Jingming.
It made him wonder whether there had been some problem with the way he had trained Allen all these years.
In contrast, High Priest Aimer watched Xu Jingming in the projection, a faint