Confidence

These past few days, the inner sect, which had only just calmed somewhat after Shen Changchuan displayed his strength before the Immortal Sect's Scripture Pavilion and swept aside a whole crowd of disciples, was once again rocked by a tsunami-like upheaval!

Because

news had spread

that Shen Changchuan, the country bumpkin from some rural backwater, had accepted Xuan Tianxing's challenge!

Several days later, they would fight to determine the victor in the Immortal Sect plaza!

This news

was like a gale sweeping through the land, storming across the entire inner sect overnight!

The Immortal Sect's inner sect, which had been somewhat listless—as though, after weathering immense storms, it had become a stagnant pool—

now once again saw towering tidal waves rise!

As two of the few undisputed figures standing at the very pinnacle of the Jade Clarity Immortal Sect's inner sect, whether Shen Changchuan or Xuan Tianxing, both were existences countless inner sect prodigies looked up to in reverence!

Any movement from either of them was enough to become the center of countless gazes in the inner sect, the focal point of discussion!

What was more, not long ago, Shen Changchuan's public rejection of Xuan Tianxing's challenge had already stirred up a tremendous storm within the inner sect.

Although that storm, whipped up by certain individuals or forces fanning the flames behind the scenes, had swiftly subsided after Shen Changchuan made his move in public, it had only been a few days, after all.

No one had had time to forget!

At a time like this, how could news of Shen Changchuan accepting the challenge not draw attention?!

For a time, countless people discussed it heatedly.

At the same time, those who, even after Shen Changchuan had acted outside the Immortal Sect's Scripture Pavilion, still stubbornly refused to change their