"This little fellow really is impressive! Zhu Hong, are you sure Su Ping was really the one leading the development of this skill?"
Imperial City, Dragon City.
Inside that special pavilion poised between reality and a Mystic Realm.
Several figures were still there.
Master Leng, Zhu Hong, and the others among them.
They watched the earlier television broadcast with smiles, and the elderly man with the flowing white beard and an air of immortal grace still spoke with some disbelief.
Zhu Hong smiled.
"Elder Feng, this Heavenly Cycle Five Elements Body was the result of the Paper-Folding Man Su Ping developed and that female Beast Tamer from history. But the former actually played the greater role.
"Although the latter worked out the principles, Su Ping had already thought of that approach and was preparing to start researching it. He just happened to discover Xue Hongluan's sketches then, which sped things up.
"As for the credit for this skill, no matter how you look at it, it belongs to Su Ping. I only helped out."
"Remarkable. Truly remarkable."
They discussed it with smiles, but unfortunately, those words and that laughter came to an abrupt halt at the very next moment in the venue.
On the screen was what had just happened in the live broadcast.
'Mu Hang' rose to his feet. His words, and those slowly burning blood-red flames, turned the atmosphere inside the pavilion utterly frigid.
Then an immense surge of energy erupted, and a pair of scarlet eyes seemed to open out of nothingness.
Everyone instinctively looked toward Master Leng.
That aura had erupted from him.
"Charles!"
The voice seemed squeezed through his teeth, moving everyone present.
Leng Ao was young compared with them, but the rate at which his strength had risen was truly astonishing.
The next instant,