Everyone at the scene was a core character of their family, manager-level characters at the very least. They possessed great experience and knowledge beyond the scope of many ordinary people. The moment they saw Qianye’s divine champion power, especially the ability to stack with other secret arts, even those who weren’t proficient in cultivation realized how powerful it was.

News of Qianye’s ascension had spread across the upper echelons of the Empire like wildfire. People began digging up whatever they could about him. It could even be said that they were examining him through a magnifying glass.

Although he did possess Venus Dawn, cultivating the Combatant Formula should’ve exhausted his potential much earlier. Hence, everyone found it difficult to believe that it was Qianye who had broken through among the younger generation. His traceable history only involved major factional conflicts, beginning from the war on the Evernight Continent, the Iron Curtain, Giant’s Repose, the Great Maelstrom, etc.

This seemed to support the “nurturing strength in battle” school of thought, represented by Zhang Boqian. Then again, which clan descendant apart from the Song clan had not walked through fire and blood? Which family had not experienced the pain of losing a genius?

Among the younger...