"Holy Son?!"
"Holy Son, what are you doing here?"
At the sight of the man who stepped out before them, Lin Yan and his two companions were utterly stunned.
Disbelief covered their faces.
"Holy Son?!"
"You're calling him the Holy Son?"
Yet Lei Jue and the others from Burning Heaven Valley were even more shocked.
They stared at Ning Que, their eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.
For an instant, they even wondered whether they had misheard.
Wasn't this the unaffiliated cultivator they had encountered earlier?
How had he suddenly transformed into the Holy Son of the Purple Sky Holy Land?
Besides, hadn't the Purple Firmament Holy Son perished three years ago?
Where had this man come from?
"Senior Brother Lei, could he be the newly selected Holy Son of the Purple Sky Holy Land?"
One of them asked Lei Jue, his expression shifting between doubt and alarm.
Lei Jue shook his head and said with certainty, "Impossible. I've never heard anything about the Purple Sky Holy Land selecting a new Holy Son."
"Something as important as selecting a Holy Son would definitely get out. But in these past three years, there hasn't been a single word about the Purple Sky Holy Land appointing another one!"
"Even if the Purple Firmament Holy Son is dead, he's still their Holy Son!"
"Who is this man?"
The unknown was what frightened people most. The more they thought about it, the more afraid they became, until the young disciples of Burning Heaven Valley, Lei Jue included, were looking at Ning Que in horror.
Their hair stood on end.
Unlike the stunned Lei Jue and his companions, Lin Yan and his two companions were overwhelmed with excitement.
Hope of survival flared anew.
But after that brief surge of excitement, Lin Yan seemed to