Jing Zhonghui chuckled and glanced at Jiang Chen, his eyes brimming with reverence. "I'm old and my eyes aren't what they used to be, so I wouldn't dare make any rash conclusions. However, Young Lord Jiang Chen's cultivation has surely long surpassed this old man's. To reach such a level at such a young age — do you all think it would be something unreachable for Young Lord Jiang Chen to assault the God Realm?"
Everyone was stunned. Young Lord Jiang Chen's cultivation — just how terrifyingly high had it reached?
When they truly tried to think it through, they suddenly realized that nobody actually knew exactly what stage Jiang Chen's cultivation had reached.
But judging by his aura and pressure, it was clearly at a terrifyingly high level. Even the top cultivators of the human territories present could feel a strange sense of oppression — it was the bearing of a superior being, something that absolutely could not be fabricated.
Jiang Chen's cultivation had been the subject of rumors among Elder He and the others for some time. But these people, up to this point, still only had a vague sense of it.
Mo Wuangshuang chuckled. "Chen Shao, your cultivation is forever a mystery. Perhaps whoever figures out your realm this month will find that a few months later your power has surged again and they'll have to start guessing all over. Everyone's here today and quite curious. Why don't you put our minds at ease, Chen Shao?"
Jiang Chen hadn't intended to hide his strength. He smiled faintly. "Right now, I'm only one step away from assaulting the sixth level of the Heavenly Position."
Assaulting the sixth level of the Heavenly Position?
Back when Elder He and the others had heard that news, they had been stunned for a long time before recovering. And they were experienced people — Heavenly Position powerhouses at that.
Most of the people present, with only a few exceptions, were still Emperor Realm cultivators. In their frame of reference, the Heavenly Position was utterly out of reach.
Mo Wuangshuang and Jing Zhonghui breaking through to the second level of the Heavenly Position was already an existence beyond reach in their eyes — the goal of a lifetime's effort.
Yet Jiang Chen, after only a few years apart, was already at the fifth level of the Heavenly Position and just one step from assaulting the sixth. Hearing this, it almost felt like listening to a storyteller spin a tall tale.
Panlong the Great Emperor was also beaming with excitement. "Sixth level of the Heavenly Position? Heavens, Young Lord — if I remember correctly, you had only just entered the Emperor Realm not long before you left? This speed of cultivation is simply unbelievable. For cultivators of our generation to compare their progress with yours is nothing short of mortifying."
"Truly, this is... this is too exaggerated. They've always said Young Lord Jiang Chen was a genius beyond compare, but today we finally understand that his talent is truly earth-shattering. I'm afraid all the geniuses in the world combined wouldn't add up to even half of Young Lord Jiang Chen's talent."
"The human territories are truly fortunate to have Young Lord Jiang Chen."
"With talent like Young Lord Jiang Chen's, he will surely break through to the God Realm one day and become another deity for mankind — another totemic figure for the human race."
Everyone felt their spirits surge. For as long as anyone could remember, the human race had survived with such tenacity — and what was it that enabled them? It was that in every era, there would always be astonishing geniuses who burst onto the scene. In times of crisis, they would turn the tide. In almost every dangerous age, prodigies and heroes would emerge among the human race to save the era and rescue the fate of mankind.
And this era now — it was surely Jiang Chen's era.
Jiang Chen was undoubtedly the genius that the human race had awaited for hundreds of thousands of years.
In that moment, everyone's hearts surged with passion. The pessimism they had held before found immense consolation. If they had previously felt there was no hope at all for the human race to turn the tables, then now, at the very least, they could see a glimmer of hope.
And that glimmer of hope was what Jiang Chen had left behind for the human race.