In early August, the Wulin Heroes Rankings were updated.
Yang Erlang, the "Manifest Sage Lord," rose to the top of the Heroes Ranking under the title "Han Hero." As a Quasi-Peerless Grandmaster, he surpassed Li Qing, the "Qin Hero," whose fame had resounded across the world for over a decade, becoming the foremost martial artist in the Divine Land beneath the Four Elders, and the foremost of the Xiping reign. His name was celebrated everywhere, his renown unmatched!
Compared with the beginning of the year, when Yang Erlang had entered the Heroes Ranking as a "Saber Hero," Tower Beyond Towers provided far more detailed commentary on him in this update. Not only did it assemble a precise timeline of the major deeds he had accomplished under aliases such as "Zhang Mazi," "Ding Xiu," and "Zhang Muzhi," it even committed to black and white the conjecture that he possessed some extraordinary innate constitution.
Tower Beyond Towers was equally unequivocal about that climactic battle on the Bian River in Huai'an. It explained in detail why the Court had wanted Yang Erlang arrested and why he had slaughtered the Eastern Factory's men, and clearly annotated the background, identity, and martial cultivation of Tong Ying, fifth among the Imperial Stables Directorate's Five Elders.
With his cultivation at the pinnacle of Return to the True, he had unleashed forty meters of Blade Qi and slain a Peerless Grandmaster of the Court. Yang Erlang's ascent to the top of the Heroes Ranking left the heroes of the world without a word of objection, convinced in both heart and mind!
Only the question of whether Yang Erlang was stronger than Li Qing remained fiercely disputed throughout the Divine Land's martial world, even provoking mutual hostility between its northern and southern factions...
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