Ding Yan

"A Martial Grandmaster!?"

Jiang Chen's eyes shone as he gazed at the figure standing in midair, his face full of excitement and longing.

The "flying" part of "flying through the heavens and burrowing through the earth" had appeared before his very eyes. How could he not be thrilled?

He had seen it with his own eyes, not read about it in some ancient text!

At that moment, his conviction in the martial path burned more fiercely than ever before.

He would reach the summit of this path!

Nothing and no one would stop him!

"Is that... Junior Brother Ning?!"

At the bow, Chu Wenxuan focused his gaze until the man's features came into view.

He was an unremarkable young man in a plain white robe, holding a Gilded War Halberd. Nothing about him looked special.

But the force of his presence sent chills through everyone who felt it.

That was the terrifying pressure of a Martial Grandmaster!

Chu Wenxuan recognized him.

Ning Jiu, the sect master's final disciple.

Not yet twenty-seven, he had already made the Mystic Province Grandmaster List and become Mystic Province's youngest Grandmaster. He was a martial talent seen only once in a century!

Before the Council of Elders announced the Hidden Dragon Plan, everyone in the sect had agreed that Ning Jiu would be its next leader.

"Junior Brother Ning has taken action... Is there a Great Demon in this stretch of river?!"

Once he recognized Ning Jiu, Chu Wenxuan's expression changed drastically. He immediately turned the ship around and fled at full speed.

If it took Ning Jiu, a Grandmaster, to subdue it, the Great Demon had to be at the same level.

If they were caught in a battle between Grandmasters, they might die without even knowing how.

But this area lay within the