Everyone was dumbstruck, struggling to digest the reality unfolding before them. Yet the shock did not last long. Reason quickly caught up, forcing them to accept the truth whether they wished to or not. Denial was meaningless. The evidence stood plainly in front of them.0

All of a sudden, any doubts about whether Chen Fan had emerged from the Demon Realm Passageway battlefield without completing his mission vanished. With his current strength, top-level Immortal Kings were weaklings in front of him.0

Back then, in the eyes of those in the know of this matter, it was the sect leader trying to protect Chen Fan. To most outsiders, however, the mission assigned to him had seemed outright impossible.0

Given Chen Fan’s cultivation at the time, killing an early-stage Immortal King alone was already a feat, not...0