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For a moment, the onlookers felt worse than if they had swallowed flies. Come to think of it, that exploding water ball might have been some kind of sleight of hand! How low could Yonglu Mountain stoop? Would the Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect really let them cheat?

Everyone had already decided how to curse Yonglu Mountain and denounce the rigged match. Then the conversation inside the secret realm rang out again, and their entire understanding of the world was shaken once more.

"Right, we're not at the Foundation Establishment Early Stage. What's the problem?" With friends beside him, Chen Zui rarely bothered to think too hard. The accusation baffled him. Besides, was reaching the Foundation Establishment Early Stage really so difficult? He would advance to Foundation Establishment soon enough.

There must be something wrong with this guy's head.

"You falsified your cultivation to enter the secret realm, and you're asking me what the problem is?" These three were shameless.

"What do you mean, falsified our cultivation?" Chen Zui didn't understand. "Oh, you mean I'm only at the Qi Refining Peak, but I show up as Foundation Establishment Early Stage now? I don't know about that. Ask someone else."

He was so frank, so painfully direct, that Sect Master Tang Ji silently clutched his chest outside the secret realm.

And Tang Ji was hardly alone. Every cultivator outside who heard those words wanted to clutch their chest too.

"Qi Refining! He said Qi Refining. Did I hear that right?"

"...You did. He said he was at the Qi Refining Peak."

"Are Qi Refining cultivators this terrifying now? That explosion just now would have been terrifying even from a Golden Core cultivator, and he's saying they're at Qi Refining! Has the world gone mad, or have I?"

"That can't be true. Maybe he's