"It's him! He's back!!"
Tai Yunzi, Yue Wufang, and the others looked at the white-clad figure atop the statue, unspeakable terror showing in their eyes.
They were all too familiar with that figure.
Back when this man had led the Human Race in resisting divine authority and fought bloody battles in the Outer Domain, they had beheld his splendor.
But back then, in his eyes, they had been nothing more than insignificant nobodies.
"How is this possible? You clearly died! How could you come back? How is this possible!!"
Tai Yunzi's face was filled with disbelief.
Yue Wufang, Daoist Qingji, and the others also wore grave expressions.
"Is he that King of the Human Race?"
Daoist Qingji spoke warily. He had come to Firmament Star from the Outer Domain in recent years and had never met Chu Kuangren, but he knew a great deal about the rumors surrounding him.
In particular, that power just now, which had seemingly frozen time and space, struck him as utterly inconceivable.
Was that truly power a person could wield?
"It seems the news of my death drew out quite a few demons and monsters."
Chu Kuangren's figure vanished once more.
The next instant, he appeared atop the iron sword embedded in the ground-the Nation-Protecting Divine Weapon that everyone had deemed a failed forging.
But once Chu Kuangren arrived, the rusty iron sword began humming on its own, as though thrilled and leaping for joy!
Everyone found this strange phenomenon inconceivable.
"What's going on?"
"What did he do? Isn't that a rusty sword?"
Chu Kuangren glanced at the iron sword and grasped it. In an instant, boundless sword pressure spread outward, and streams of immortal radiance burst from the rusty sword.
Within the immortal radiance, the rust gradually cracked apart.
A stretch of snow-white blade