“Ye Qing… is that Ye Qing?!”0

Ye Qing and Chen Cang hadn’t tried to keep their conversation private, so everyone could hear it as clear as day.0

Most people looked confused due to the lack of details, but not Chu Nianjiu. He was the only one who knew exactly what the duo were talking about. He was having trouble equating this Ye Qing to the goodie-two-shoes he encountered back at August Hill Village though.0

When he met Ye Qing at August Hill Village, he was still a no-name Qi Invoker. Not even a year had passed, and the young man was now a famous hero in Luo Shui. Who would believe him even if he told them the truth?0

This was the reason Chu Nianjiu thought that Ye Qing looked a bit familiar, but never put two and two together. It made him feel really stupid, so stupid that he didn’t recover even though the duo were already clashing against one another.0

In the arena, Chen Cang was thrusting his sword toward Ye Qing. It was neither fast, urgent, unpredictable nor treacherous like the sword style the disciples of Blood Shadow Palace normally practiced. That wasn’t to say that Chen Cang’s attack was lacking, however. Quite the contrary, his sword qi was washing out of his body like an inferno, and they carved through the tough stone of the arena as easily as tofu.0

Chen Cang’s astral qi was one of the thirty six superior grade astral qis, the Taibai Gengjin Sword Qi. It fell under Metal of the Five Elements, and it was sharp enough to cut through an...0