"We won! Hahaha, we won! Chu Jingming is dead—that beast is finally dead, and not even a corpse remains!"
"Now that feels good. At the very least, there won't be any more pesky flies in the future. Now I can prepare for my breakthrough to Quasi-Saint in peace."
"Not bad. I can finally break through to Quasi-Saint. I've been stuck at the peak of Daluo Golden Immortal for a thousand years, and now I can finally enter the Quasi-Saint realm as a matter of course."
"Whew. Once I enter the Quasi-Saint realm, I'll be like a fish returning to the sea, a bird soaring into the heavens—where could I not go?"
"Freedom, true freedom. I can smell the scent of freedom."
"If it is for freedom, even life and death may be cast aside."
"No, no, no. Life and death can't be cast aside."
As Chu Jingming was slain by Ye Lin in a single sword strike, some of the surrounding onlookers burst into uproarious laughter, looking as though they themselves had been the ones to kill him.
Their laughter echoed all around, leaving Ye Lin thoroughly baffled.
"A thousand years ago, Chu Jingming gathered all the notable Daluo Golden Immortals of Cloud Province and taught them a lesson."
"He made them swear before everyone that unless they defeated him, they would never become Quasi-Saints in this lifetime."
"And so, those fellows had been trapped in the Daluo Golden Immortal realm for over a thousand years."
"If they wanted to break through to Quasi-Saint, they had to defeat Chu Jingming on the spot and shatter their previous oath."
"If they did not challenge Chu Jingming, they would be unable to enter the Quasi-Saint realm."
"But now that Chu Jingming is dead, they can naturally step into the Quasi-Saint realm as