A month later, at the border between Shrek City and the Star Dou Great Forest.
The once-desolate buffer zone now brimmed with countless different auras.
Representatives from powers across the continent had gathered here.
All four great empires had dispatched heavyweight delegations.
Even the Sun Moon Empire was personally led by Ye Yulin, the highly respected Starry Sky Douluo of the Soul Tool field.
Among the sects, aside from the elusive Clear Sky Sect and the Holy Spirit Cult, which had become the continent's public enemy and remained shrouded in secrecy...
The Body Sect, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Sky Dragon Sect, Earth Dragon Sect, Mysterious Underworld Sect...
Numerous top sects with ancient legacies and deep foundations had sent either their sect masters or influential elders in person.
Such a gathering had assembled more than seventy percent of the continent's publicly known peak forces.
Naturally, this was partly out of respect for Shrek Academy and the Sea God Pavilion.
But anyone with eyes could see that at least half of them had come because of Xia Ming's name.
The details of the battle in Ming Capital several months ago had already spread like wildfire among the continent's upper echelons.
He had slain the Holy Spirit Cult's leader, Zhongli Wu, in battle.
And he had endured the frontal bombardment of a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell, suffering only minor injuries.
Either of those feats alone was enough to leave everyone dumbfounded.
But when both were accomplished by the same boy barely over eight years old...
What they inspired was no longer shock, but an almost terrifying realization.
At first, almost no one had believed intelligence that sounded so fantastical.
Yet there had been no shortage of witnesses to that battle, and the reports were undeniable.
After repeatedly verifying the information,