"B-Brother Qin!"
Xia Qun was stunned.
Watching him casually subdue a great power-level fierce beast, he thought he must have mistaken him for someone else.
Xia Qun was not the only one shocked.
The Golden Peng King and the others were shocked as well.
Of course they recognized Qin Shujian.
During the battle when fierce beasts had attacked the island, it was his intervention that had resolved the crisis.
Otherwise...
Heavenly Pattern Island would have suffered considerable losses in that battle.
But...
Although Qin Shujian had been strong back then, he had been on an entirely different level compared to now.
A great power-level fierce beast...
Had been subdued so effortlessly.
Then just what...
Realm had he reached?
"The Qin Emperor!?"
Hearing what the cultivators on the shore said, the Golden Peng King froze again.
Emperor!
That was not a title one could use lightly.
Only the sovereign of a race could be called an emperor.
In other words...
The Qin Shujian before them was already a Human Emperor?
Too much had happened at once, leaving the Golden Peng King and the others reeling.
Qin Shujian descended steadily and landed aboard the boat.
"Brother Xia, we meet again."
"B-Brother Qin!" Xia Qun stammered, unsure what to say.
Qin Shujian smiled faintly.
Then he looked at the Golden Peng King and the Azure Tide King and cupped his hands in greeting to them as well.
Although the human race and the Demon Race were locked in fierce conflict, the Golden Peng King belonged to the demons of Heavenly Pattern Island, not those of the Western Continent. The two could not be treated as one and the same.
Of course...
If the demons of Heavenly Pattern Island joined those of the Western Continent someday, that would be another matter entirely.
This time...