"I-I… I'm a scourge?"
"Me, Wang Qiang, being called a scourge by a scourge?"
"Hell… I've seen shameless and I've seen despicable, but b-but… I've never seen anyone as shameless and despicable as you."
"Doesn't matter. I, Wang Qiang, couldn't care less what the world thinks of me. Today… I-I… I'm going to kill you and avenge my brother."
Unwilling to back down, Wang Qiang gripped his kitchen knife and clashed with the Soul Infant Sect Master.
When two Second Grade True Immortals went head to head, even without employing any special martial techniques, their confrontation immediately unleashed overwhelming pressure that shook heaven and earth.
"So he's Wang Qiang — Chu Feng's friend, the one hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the Hundred Refinements Ordinary Realm?"
"No wonder he's already a Second Grade True Immortals at such a young age. That kind of talent is truly astounding."
"Sure, his strength is overwhelming, but his character is terrible. He actually tried to kill us earlier. If Chu Feng has friends like this, you can tell he's no good person either."
"Hmph, that Chu Feng was never a good person. Back when the Soul Infant Sect announced to the world that the Soul Infant Grand Formation could help us boost our cultivation, Chu Feng insisted it was all a scam. He said we'd all been blinded by greed and called us fools."
"Hmph. We all saw with our own eyes when the Soul Infant Grand Formation helped the Heavenly Clan Chen family's patriarch raise his cultivation. That was the truth — it was no scam at all."
"That Chu Feng, just because he had a grudge against the Soul Infant Sect, twisted the facts and slandered them. He's no good person."
"Exactly. There were all those rumors before that Chu Feng was a man who valued loyalty and righteousness. Now it's clear that was all fake."
"Right. Actions speak louder than words. All those heroic deeds of Chu Feng's were fabricated, and even the real ones were just an act."
"Ah, you really can't judge a book by its cover. The depths of the human heart are truly unfathomable."
Once Wang Qiang made his move, the crowd became even more convinced that Wang Qiang, Ying Ming Chao, and the others were a pack of hypocrites — and even Chu Feng had become a target of their attacks.
"It doesn't matter. We have the Soul Infant Sect Master on our side. Today… these wolves in sheep's clothing are all going to die."
Even more infuriatingly, those people had genuinely taken the Soul Infant Sect Master as their savior, hoping from the bottom of their hearts that he would defeat Wang Qiang.
"Oh my… wait, something doesn't look right. It seems like Wang Qiang has the upper hand."
But there were also those with superior cultivation who noticed that when the two fought using their Ancestral Weapons, it was actually Wang Qiang who held the advantage.
"What? Wang Qiang has the upper hand? That's impossible… No matter how powerful he is, he can't possibly surpass the Soul Infant Sect Master. The Sect Master is someone who even defeated Ying Ming Chao!"
Because the crowd's cultivation was limited, they could only watch the spectacle and couldn't clearly make out the situation in the sky. All they could see were ripples of energy surging and overwhelming pressure as the two battled in a maelstrom of darkness and light, their figures completely obscured.
But based on the Soul Infant Sect Master's track record of having defeated Ying Ming Chao, they simply assumed that the Sect Master must be winning — and that he was the one with the advantage.
"How is this fellow so powerful?"
The ordinary onlookers couldn't see the situation clearly, but the Abbot of the Buddha Light Heavenly Temple and the Sect Master of the Sword-Bearing Immortal Sect could see everything with perfect clarity.
They watched as Wang Qiang, shirtless and wearing straw sandals, waved what looked like a vegetable cleaver wildly through the air.
Yet this seemingly chaotic assault had actually managed to completely suppress the Soul Infant Sect Master.
The Sect Master could only defend relentlessly, with no opportunity to counterattack whatsoever, utterly pinned down by Wang Qiang's onslaught.
In fact, the Soul Infant Sect Master was so overwhelmed that when he let his guard down for a split second, Wang Qiang's blade slashed across his left arm, sending blood spraying into the air.
"Brother Wang Qiang's combat strength is truly beyond anything we can hope to match."
Seeing that Wang Qiang had the advantage, Ying Ming Chao, Zi Xunyi, and the others were overjoyed.
At this moment, neither Wang Qiang nor the Soul Infant Sect Master was using any supplementary techniques — they were fighting purely on the strength of their Second Grade True Immortal cultivation and their respective Ancestral Weapons.