There was quite an uproar in the city. Firemoon cultivators who had previously challenged Xu Qing looked on with glittering eyes. None of them did a thing. For most of them, issuing challenges was a way to earn some reputation. Nothing more. When you coupled the fact that Xu Qing hadn’t accepted any challenges with the reality that someone was trying to stir things up from behind the scenes, it meant that... none of them had actually considered doing any fighting.3

They had mostly been wanting to watch sparks fly. That said, there were some Firemoon cultivators who really did want to fight Xu Qing. They just couldn’t accept having a human cultivator be superior to their species. It was a humiliation that became pure rage.0

Cultivators like that always had various trump cards to call on, as well as a lot of self-confidence. They had heard about Xu Qing’s achievements on the road to God Mountain, and even the story about him killing Crown Prince Brightsouth. But… to them, the purpose of life wasn’t necessarily to live a long time, but rather, to shine brightly. They would rather go out...11