A crack like a watermelon being smashed jolted everyone out of their daze.
Dozens of eyes turned as one toward the Buddha Statue's head, now splashed with gore, then shifted to Chen Chong's face in astonishment.
What a fast saber! What incredible speed!
He had actually killed Pan Liguang with a single stroke!
Just one stroke.
Who was Pan Liguang?
He was the second most important figure in the Pan Family, one of Lichuan's three dominant powers, and a Fourth Realm expert who had been famous for years. His position as chief adviser to the Fighter Association symbolized both the Pan Family's standing and his own strength.
Yet this expert, ranked among the strongest in all of Lichuan, had been slain by Chen Chong before he could even react!
Qiao Qinglian stared wide-eyed in disbelief. Xiang Zhigang, the other Fourth Realm expert, the Third Realm leaders of the Green Shirt Society, and the remaining experts all wore much the same expression.
Qiao Qing stopped in her tracks, one hand resting on her sword hilt. Her beautiful eyes flickered, and her rosy lips parted, unable to close for a long moment.
At that instant, the same thought-or rather, the same term-rose in everyone's mind.
Fourth Realm!
Chen Chong had actually broken through to the Fourth Realm too!
When had he done it? He was so young-
On the allied side, everyone's expressions were a colorful mix, similar yet each slightly different.
But the people from South Peak Pharmaceuticals all reacted identically, their faces expressionless.
They turned their heads to precisely the same angle, their eyes as still as stagnant water as they fixed on Chen Chong, no longer looking at the allied force opposite them.
After killing Pan Liguang with one stroke, Chen Chong had charged past him.
Behind him stood