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To be fair, the young martial artists of the Imperial Court present were all quite capable. Pick out a few of them, and they could each claim a place on the Human Ranking.
But what Su Xin and the others wanted were elites—elites who could represent the Imperial Court's honor and contend against the Golden Tent Khanate and the Central Plains Martial Arts World. Naturally, the standards were much stricter.
Thus, more than a dozen people went up in succession, and nearly all of them were stopped before they had exchanged ten moves. It was not until Tie Chen of the Tie Family took the stage that this situation changed.
The Tie Family possessed many secret martial arts, but its most renowned techniques were likely Tie Ao's Eagle Claw Technique and Heavenly Roc Seizing the Dragon Art.
However, the Eagle Claw Technique had originally been an ordinary, low-grade martial art, while Heavenly Roc Seizing the Dragon Art had far too high a threshold—even Xiantian Martial Artists could not cultivate it.
Thus, within the Tie Family, there were truly few with the perseverance to painstakingly train in Eagle Claw Technique from the lower realms, then wait until reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm to learn Heavenly Roc Seizing the Dragon Art and follow Tie Ao's old path. The time and price required were simply too great.
Yet Tie Chen was a man of great perseverance. He had completely cast aside his status as a Tie Family disciple, climbing from an ordinary street-patrolling constable all the way to his current post as Deputy Chief Constable of Liangzhou Circuit. His Eagle Claw Technique had already reached the hall,