"You're the leader of the Shura Adventurer Party?" Xuan Cang stared at Shi Feng approaching step by step, his expression frozen in disbelief. "How is that possible?"
After arriving in Cold Wind City, he had heard plenty about the Shura Adventurer Party.
Even the president and vice president of the Gaishi Family had been wary of them.
He had originally been looking forward to a good fight.
But the Shura Adventurer Party's recent performance had been thoroughly disappointing. They had quite a few high-level players, but in his eyes, those players were nothing more than amateurs — not worth mentioning.
He had even defeated several of Cold Wind City's top ten ranked experts, and those top ten players were only marginally stronger than ordinary ones — completely out of his league.
He had long since stopped taking the so-called Shura Adventurer Party seriously. The so-called strongest player in Cold Wind City was nothing but a joke to him.
But now, someone suddenly appeared claiming to be the leader of the Shura Adventurer Party, and this person had managed to push him back with a single strike from a distance.
How could he possibly believe that?
"The leader?"
"It's really the leader! The vice leader is here too!"
The members of the Shura Adventurer Party caught sight of Shi Feng and the others, and excitement surged through them. They hadn't expected Shi Feng and the others to actually return — and they were so powerful, pushing back an expert like Xuan Cang with just one strike.
"Him? He's the leader of the Shura Adventurer Party?"
"Weren't they saying the leader took a bunch of experts off to do some exploration?"
"That exploration story was probably just a cover. More likely they fled because our Hei Kadi came to Cold Wind City and they needed an excuse to avoid us."
"Now this is getting interesting! The Shura Adventurer Party kept refusing to join our Hei Kadi, and we were racking our brains trying to find their leader. Now he's gone and shown himself — let's see how Boss Xuan Cang deals with him!"
"But that Shura Adventurer Party leader looks pretty strong. He actually managed to knock off more than a third of Boss Xuan Cang's health in one hit."
"That was just a sneak attack. He probably used some powerful magic scroll. Don't forget — Boss Xuan Cang is a second-class profession. When he gets serious, who in all of Cold Wind City can match him?"
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The crowd murmured among themselves as they watched Shi Feng and the others slowly approach, their curiosity about Shi Feng — the leader of the Shura Adventurer Party — mixed with no small amount of schadenfreude.
The Shura Adventurer Party was already on its last legs, sustained only by the hope that their departed leader and numerous experts would return. If the leader showed up only to be killed in front of everyone, the Shura Adventurer Party would likely collapse on the spot. After all, he was the belief that held every member together.
While the members of Hei Kadi whispered among themselves, Xuan Cang pulled a high-grade healing potion from his inventory and drank it. His health surged back by a large chunk, then continued to regenerate in small increments.
In just a moment, all of Xuan Cang's lost health had been fully restored.
"I genuinely didn't expect the rumors to be true. You really do have some skill, this leader of the Shura Adventurer Party. No wonder they call you the strongest player in Cold Wind City." Xuan Cang steadied himself after the earlier shock and regarded Shi Feng with a calm gaze. "With strength like yours, you certainly qualify to be my opponent. Come — let's have a proper fight. I want to see if your reputation as Cold Wind City's strongest player actually holds up!"
As he spoke, Xuan Cang's eyes blazed with a towering fighting spirit.
From their earlier exchange, he had grasped that Shi Feng's power was formidable. But combat between players was never decided by raw strength alone.
"You want to see our leader's strength?" Mu Xiaoxiao glanced at Xuan Cang and couldn't help but curl her lip. "You don't have that qualification yet. If you want to face our leader, you'll have to get past me first."
With that, Mu Xiaoxiao began walking toward Xuan Cang, step by step.
"Captain Mu, be careful! He's Xuan Cang from Hei Kadi — he single-handedly took down dozens of people from Ba Dao Changkong's group before. You can't face him alone!" Feng Ran was alarmed and quickly shouted a warning.
He knew Mu Xiaoxiao's strength well. He had once been a member of the Langxin Adventurer Party before joining the Shura Adventurer Party alongside Jing Wuming and the others.
Mu Xiaoxiao was certainly powerful, but her edge over Ba Dao Changkong of the Hundred Generations Dynasty was only marginal. Meanwhile, Xuan Cang had previously slaughtered dozens of the Hundred Generations Dynasty's top players single-handedly, and had then killed Ba Dao Changkong right in front of everyone. That level of strength was no joke.
Even Jing Wuming — Cold Wind City's former number one — had never achieved such a feat.