At the sight, everyone was stunned and shaken.
The entire venue had been a boiling cauldron of voices, with people from every quarter discussing the match and offering their opinions.
They all had their own views on this duel, and their own guesses about its outcome.
The general belief was that this would be a true clash of dragon and tiger. Both Fang Qianyuan and Liu Zongming were supreme experts among those of human rank, and their battle would represent the highest standard human-rank Spirit Tamers could achieve.
This battle promised to surpass even the previous gathering at Dragon Tooth Mountain. It was well worth anticipating.
But when Fang Qianyuan appeared, walking through empty air and descending from the sky, realization struck the crowd.
A clash of dragon and tiger, their asses!
"You... you've already advanced to earth rank?"
As someone who had reached the tenth transformation long ago, regularly interacted with Earth Rank Experts, and had even cultivated to half-step earth rank himself, how could Liu Zongming fail to understand what that sight meant?
No human-rank Spirit Tamer could walk through empty air without drawing on a spirit creature's power or some other outside aid.
Yet Fang Qianyuan clearly had not used the Borrowing Art or drawn on a spirit creature's power.
Moreover, his aura was as vast and deep as an abyss. It was no longer something an ordinary human-rank practitioner could fathom, and its very nature was different from that of a human-rank Spirit Tamer.
That was precisely the hallmark of an Earth Rank Expert!
Liu Zongming's face turned deathly pale. In an instant, he understood the Azure Cloud Sect's earlier arrangements.
The crowd remained silent, their eyes fixed expectantly on Fang Qianyuan.
Even the Earth Rank Experts and sect leaders who had come to watch upon