Fang Qianyuan's words seemed to carry a strange power of command, and his surroundings quickly fell silent.
Everyone stared, tongue-tied and incredulous, at this young man who hid none of his edge.
"What an arrogant brat!"
"But everything he said seems to be true!"
"He's a peerless genius hailed as having the greatest aptitude in a thousand years, and he's defeated renowned experts and slain Renowned Masters! Even a famous Seven Turns expert like Golden Toad True Person died at his hands. He certainly has the right to say that."
"So that's it. We really did think too highly of ourselves, imagining that the title of a senior master alone would be enough to keep him down. We never considered that, to him, it was nothing but a joke!"
"Most of those the world calls experts and Renowned Masters have nothing but empty reputations and amount to no more than this... heh, what a boast! What arrogance! But why... why can't I find a single word to refute him?"
Huang Yunhao looked at Fang Qianyuan with mixed feelings.
Of course he knew Fang Qianyuan was difficult to deal with. If he had been easy to handle, they would have acted long ago instead of wasting their energy arguing and reasoning with him here.
They all came from major sects and were Earth Rank Experts. How could a discussion of important affairs be treated as child's play?
Yet even with Fang Qianyuan's brilliant record of killing Golden Toad True Person, some still regarded it as mere luck. His accomplishments might well have been inflated.
Fang Qianyuan had already earned some renown and was acknowledged as a promising future powerhouse, but whether they should immediately regard him as a Renowned Master of equal standing, or even a top expert, remained open to