Yu Ci's words were hard to understand, but to the person involved, they stabbed straight to the bottom of the heart, giving his entire being a severe jolt.
"Insolent brat!"
Huai Chen squeezed the words from his throat, his gaze sharp. Across the vast expanse of the sea, his imposing aura surged; he had clearly grown angry. Where his intent reached, the wind over the ocean howled, sounding like spell incantations, intermittent and lingering. It was as if formless, evil ghosts truly hid behind the void, chanting incantations that gradually coalesced into a nether prison.
Yu Ci remained unbothered, but the factions of the Golden Banner Sect, the Lingchen Sect, and the Hundred Refinements Gate were already facing a formidable enemy.
Although Chen Qiaoran and Star Mover True Monarch's side could also be considered a sizable crowd, facing one of the notorious "Four Ghosts," everyone truly felt short on confidence, and quite a few people could not help grumbling inwardly:
When immortals fight, little ghosts suffer; it is never anything else.
It had to be said that when Di Tianluo underwent her heavenly tribulation, the thunder tribulation cleared the field so thoroughly that anyone with even the slightest realm was frightened into not daring to show their face. Consequently, they failed to "contemplate" the wretched sight of Huai Chen capsizing in the gutter at that time.
Even if they had seen it, so what? The Fundamental Empowerment was a special event that might not be seen even once across dozens of tribulations. Wretched though Huai Chen was, the foundations he had laid down over several tribulations were all the more convincing.
A person's reputation is like the shadow of a tree.
Regardless of how terribly Yu Ci portrayed Huai Chen, as founding veterans of the Eastern Branch of the Demonic