A Luo clan disciple recognized Luo Lingtian and couldn't help bursting into loud laughter, drawing sidelong glances from the people around.
"What nonsense are you spouting? This is the Holy Lord's personal disciple! He bears a Sacred Body! Even with an inferior cultivation realm, he is not to be underestimated!"
That Luo clan disciple swept a disdainful glance over the surrounding Taihuang disciples and said arrogantly,
"Hmph! My cousin Lingtian bears the bloodline of our ancestor—what mere Sacred Body amounts to that? Do you even know whose bloodline he inherited?!"
"Hahaha! It is the founding Holy Lord of the Taihuang Sacred Land—also the first ancestor of my Luo clan! How could ignorant people like you possibly understand how terrifying Lingtian's strength is with such a bloodline flowing in his veins?!"
Upon hearing this, all the surrounding Taihuang disciples fell silent.
They might not know how strong Luo Lingtian truly was, but how could they not know the first-generation Holy Lord of Taihuang?
With the bloodline of such a terrifying existence in his body, Lingtian's strength was self-evident.
What's more, his cultivation realm was already higher!
"Let me tell you something else—when Cousin Lingtian first stepped into the Fourth Heaven, he could already fight Fifth Heaven cultivators without losing. Now, why don't you guess how many rounds your Senior Brother Chu, your Personal Disciple Chu, can last?! Hahahaha!"
The Luo clan disciple grew more and more animated as he spoke, his face filled with pride as if it were his own glory.
And the Taihuang disciples grew even more silent.
Luo Lingtian's aura was completely undisguised—it was easy to see that his cultivation had already reached the peak of the Fourth Heaven!
If he could battle Fifth Heaven cultivators without defeat when he had just entered the Fourth Heaven, then now, at the peak of the Fourth Heaven, his strength was likely unrivaled even within the Fifth Heaven!
Such a figure, such a monster—how was Chu Ge, still at the Third Heaven, supposed to deal with this?!
The Luo clan disciple's words caused many Taihuang disciples to show expressions of worry.
Yet among the crowd, there was one person whose face instead lit up with wild delight, a flash of vicious pleasure in his eyes!
"Hahaha! Chu Ge, so this is your day at last?!"
This person was none other than Ye Chen. He had originally been heading out to begin his training for the day. Passing by this place, he just happened to see Chu Ge on the martial arena and decided to watch what was going on.
He never expected such joyous news.
Now, his hatred for Chu Ge ran bone-deep—he desperately wished for Chu Ge to lose all face and be crushed beneath another's feet.
"If Chu Ge is defeated today, he will surely suffer a devastating blow, falling from the heavens into the abyss. Then, in the grand competition a few days from now, my chances of victory will be even higher!"
A sharp glint flashed through Ye Chen's eyes.
"You underestimate him."
The existence within his mind spoke at this moment, causing Ye Chen's expression to stiffen slightly, and displeasure to rise in his heart.
Ever since encountering Chu Ge, this presence in his mind seemed to hold an unusually high opinion of him, which made Ye Chen extremely unhappy.
"Senior, Chu Ge is only at the Third Heaven. Facing someone like Luo Lingtian, who has already reached the peak of the Fourth Heaven and possesses such a powerful bloodline—what chance does he possibly have to win?"
He replied with clear disdain.
The voice in his mind fell silent.
Ye Chen thought his words had left it unable to refute him, and his mood grew even more exhilarated.
Yet he did not know that this existence was not at a loss for words—it merely felt that further explanation to him was utterly meaningless.
In truth, many people present shared thoughts similar to Ye Chen's.
Especially after that Luo clan disciple revealed some of Luo Lingtian's background, the crowd's judgment subtly tilted in Lingtian's favor.
Only this mysterious existence—whose cultivation realm had once been towering and whose vision was razor-sharp—could see what others could not.
"Truly ignorant. This Chu Ge… how could he ever be measured by surface cultivation alone?"
"His spiritual power is overwhelming and compressed to a terrifying degree—ordinary Fourth Heaven cultivators are not even one-tenth his equal!"
"And within his body lies an incomparably dreadful stellar aura, even more fearsome than his spiritual power. Add to that the absurdly dense origin power he possesses…"
"Ridiculous—these people can only see the surface. They have no idea just how terrifying the power hidden within Chu Ge truly is…"
"If the one who awakened me had not been Ye Chen but this Chu Ge instead, he would have already found the spiritual materials needed to reconstruct my body for me…"
In a hidden place beyond Ye Chen's perception, the mysterious existence thought thus.