With the token granted by the
The safest place available was, naturally,
At the very least, among the four great powers, none could surpass Ying Mingchao.
To be precise, only three great powers remained now. One was the Sword-Bearing Immortal Sect, another was the Buddha Light Heavenly Temple, and the last was the
However, ever since Ying Mingchao had reappeared in the Hundred Refinements Ordinary World and rebuilt Hero City, everyone had come to believe that Hero City would become one of the most powerful forces in the Hundred Refinements Ordinary World.
Not for any other reason — Ying Mingchao alone was enough for Hero City to stand above all others.
There was nothing of note along the way.
By the time Chu Feng arrived back at Hero City, its splendor had grown even more vibrant than when he had left. Not only had more and more powers come to Hero City to forge alliances, but nearly all the surviving former members of Hero City had returned as well.
Hero City now boasted more than just Ying Mingchao as a True Immortal. Chu Feng could sense three additional True Immortal-level experts besides Ying Mingchao — presences he had never encountered before.
Three True Immortals he had never met had come to Hero City.
After settling Wang Qiang in, Chu Feng was summoned to Hero City's main hall by Ying Mingchao.
Inside that hall, Chu Feng saw Hero City's former members as well as those three True Immortals.
One of them wore a pure white robe. Though he appeared only as a middle-aged man, having lived for over a thousand years lent him a mature aura that gave him a unique and distinguished bearing — the kind that only experience and hardship could produce.
This man was not a former member of Hero City. He was a prodigy of the Hundred Refinements Ordinary World who had idolized Ying Mingchao since his youth and dreamed of joining Hero City.
But just as his cultivation had begun to flourish, Ying Mingchao had met with catastrophe and Hero City had been destroyed. After that, he retreated into seclusion in the mountains to cultivate in isolation. For a thousand years, no one knew of his existence, yet his cultivation had advanced to the True Immortal realm, making him one of the very top experts in the Hundred Refinements Ordinary World.
He had originally intended to remain hidden until the end of his days, but the moment he heard that Ying Mingchao was still alive, he emerged from seclusion and came to Hero City.
Because he had spent so long in isolation, almost no one in the entire Hundred Refinements Ordinary World knew of him. But he would soon become famous throughout the Hundred Refinements Ordinary World — simply for being a True Immortal.
Through Ying Mingchao's introduction, Chu Feng learned that this man's name was
Besides Li Haoyang, the other two True Immortals present were both old subordinates of Hero City.
Both of them, like Li Haoyang, were first-rate True Immortals, though far older than he was — beings who had lived for several thousand years. One of them appeared as an elderly man with snow-white hair and a distinguished bearing. In particular, his snow-white robe paired with a white jade staff gave him the very image of an immortal sage. The title of True Immortal could not have suited anyone better.
Compared to this elder, however, the other looked utterly unlike what the name "True Immortal" suggested.
Despite being an old monster who had lived for several thousand years, this one appeared as a youth — less than five feet tall, with a face still full of childish innocence, bearing none of the weariness or maturity that the passage of time might have wrought.
And this person seemed to take an immediate dislike to Chu Feng.
Everyone else present — whether old members of Hero City or newcomers — had greeted Chu Feng with warm and friendly expressions.