The martial world was just that marvelous — once people's blood was set ablaze, their minds were easily led by the nose.
This wasn't because people had no brains, no conviction.
It was because the martial world had always upheld the principle of "the strong are revered." In the alchemy world, the things Young Master Zhen had accomplished over the years were, without question, already the stuff of legend.
People kept pulling up accounts of his exploits and realized that Young Master Zhen, despite his youth, had already become a monument in the alchemy world.
The Myriad Longevity Pill, the Pine Crane Pill — those two pills alone were enough to make a name that would echo through the ages.
And beyond that, Young Master Zhen had defeated Pill King
Fueled by popular acclaim, Young Master Zhen's legend was being wildly amplified.
Even at the recent Lords' Assembly, his performance had been extraordinary. He participated in five matches, and every single one was against the Shura Great Emperor.
In alchemy, beast taming, and formations, he won complete victories over the Shura Great Emperor.
In talismans and martial combat, he fought the Shura Great Emperor to draws.
Against the awe-inspiring Shura Great Emperor, Young Master Zhen had achieved a crushing record of three wins and two draws.
Some might call that a fluke, especially the final draw, where Young Master Zhen had looked rather rough. But so what?
Keep in mind — Young Master Zhen was not yet thirty years old. From the day he debuted to the present, his fame had spanned less than a decade.
At an age under thirty, going up against a Great Emperor with three thousand years of renown and fighting to a draw in martial combat — no matter how messy that draw might have looked, it was still a spectacular achievement.
If you put anyone else in his place, forget about fighting to a draw within two hours — they probably couldn't even block a single move from the Shura Great Emperor!
Among the young generation of Glazed Royal City, talent was hardly scarce. But who among them dared claim they could withstand the Shura Great Emperor's peak strike?
No one dared boast of such a thing!
Yet Young Master Zhen had done it — and done it without a scratch!
This alone was already the stuff of legend. On the
But to achieve the kind of record Young Master Zhen had, under such an overwhelming disparity in power — that was exceedingly rare, almost unheard of.
Such a record was undoubtedly a topic worth discussing and undeniably a tale worth the label of legend.
Even those who didn't like Young Master Zhen had to admit that given enough time to grow, his future achievements would be truly terrifying.
The Peacock Great Emperor had already displayed perfection over the past three thousand years. But Young Master Zhen's potential was unquestionably above the Peacock Great Emperor's.
When the Peacock Great Emperor was young, he too had been a top-tier genius. But at Young Master Zhen's current age, neither the Peacock Great Emperor nor the Shura Great Emperor had yet distinguished themselves — they couldn't have held their own as independent forces.
Young Master Zhen, however, had done exactly that!
But at the very least, it was a beginning.
He believed that once this academy was up and running, his relationships with the various lords would grow even closer, and it would be a perfect boost to Glazed Royal City's cohesion.
Of this, Jiang Chen was supremely confident.
Jiang Chen had been in Glazed Royal City for quite a few years now. Over that time, he had considered why Glazed Royal City couldn't match Pill Fire City in the field of alchemy.
Heritage and depth of resources were certainly the most important factor. But there was another reason that mattered just as much.
And that other reason lay with the Peacock Great Emperor.
Compared to the
However, the Peacock Great Emperor carried more of a benevolent, paternal air of authority.
The Dan Chi Great Emperor, on the other hand, was more like an overlord — a man of fierce ambition.
As a ruler, the Dan Chi Great Emperor's bearing naturally made it easier to unite a faction and maintain control over it.
The Peacock Great Emperor, by contrast, held all living beings in his heart. Though he governed with diligence and dedication, he could not bring himself to employ unscrupulous means. This was the greatest difference between him and the Dan Chi Great Emperor.
Jiang Chen had visited Pill Fire City himself. He could sense that not only were the various factions within Pill Fire City remarkably united, but even the surrounding domains essentially revolved around Pill Fire City as their center.
Everything seemed perfectly natural.
On one hand, this was because Pill Fire City was genuinely captivating in the realm of pills — people couldn't do without it, and this created a natural, organic attraction.
But on the other hand, this was inseparable from the efforts of the Dan Chi Great Emperor and Pill Fire City itself. Pill Fire City had always been dedicated to expanding its influence.