Qu Binli's voice was not loud.
But he seemed to have deliberately controlled how far it carried, so his words reached the other cultivators in the goods yard with perfect clarity.
For a moment, the scene fell abruptly silent.
Almost everyone turned to look their way.
And when they saw that Lin Ke was at the center of it all, quite a few faces took on colorful expressions.
Some looked amused, as though waiting for Lin Ke to make a fool of himself.
Some were puzzled, unable to understand why Qu Binli was doing this.
Others remained indifferent, keeping themselves well above affairs that did not concern them as they quietly watched the show.
The people around them reacted so differently entirely because the person involved was Lin Ke.
After all, Lin Ke's standing was no longer what it had once been.
After defeating True Person Dan Yan, he had shot from eighty-third on the Genius Ranking straight to eighth.
He could be called the fastest-rising "dark horse" among this batch of Golden Wing Sect disciples.
On top of that, the sect had shown him "special attention," devoting seven or eight whole paragraphs on the ranking list to his deeds.
A tall tree caught the wind.
Now, every word and action of his drew attention.
Some wanted to befriend him, some took it calmly, but others doubted his strength and wanted to knock him down.
After all, only someone who truly demonstrated their strength deserved to be called a genius.
If their strength did not match their standing, that so-called genius would only become a stepping stone on someone else's road to fame.
The onlookers were paying such close attention to Lin Ke because they also wanted to use Qu Binli to test his true strength.
"If you ask me,