"Who stood foremost among Heavenly Prides? Mystic Heaven had Kuangren."
On a mountain peak outside the Mystic Heaven Sect's Cloud Sea Wonder Formation, a young man murmured those words. Then disdain flashed in his eyes. "What a joke. A man who was crippled three years ago, and people are still telling his legendary stories. Is there something wrong with their heads?"
The young man snorted coldly, deep displeasure spreading across his face.
Had anyone who followed the situation on Firmament Star been there, they would certainly have recognized him as the exceptional Heavenly Pride ranked twenty-fifth on the Hidden Dragon List.
He was also Liu Yiqing, the Daoist Seed of the Desolate Origin Palace, one of Firmament Star's foremost Daoist Traditions today.
Three years ago, the Desolate Origin Palace had also been one of the world's Unknowable Places. However, Liu Yiqing had not been one of the World Walkers, not because his strength was insufficient, but because he had still been in closed-door cultivation then.
He had only emerged after the battle at the Mystic Heaven Sect three years ago, and the Desolate Origin Palace had revealed itself to the world like the other Unknowable Places.
Liu Yiqing had also formally entered the public eye, stepping onto this stage where Heavenly Prides rose together, ready to show his mettle.
His strength was indeed extraordinary. Over those three years, he had defeated Heavenly Prides from all quarters and been ranked twenty-fifth on the Hidden Dragon List.
It could be said that, apart from those top Heavenly Prides from the Nine Heavens, he was absolutely among the strongest of the younger generation.
Yet he had not felt happy.
Because of one man.
A man who had been crippled three years ago and vanished without a trace.
That man was Chu Kuangren!
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