Chapter 45 (1/2)

She was filled with intense regret by then. She lamented how bad her judgment had been. He thought that Senior Li had been quite a stunning figure, and Lu Xuan looked very unassuming in comparison. His appearance had not suggested otherwise at all.

No one knew before that that Lu Xuan was actually the real deal. There was no surprise why he had never bothered with her sarcastic jabs and ridicule on him before. That was not to say that he was dense or that he was thick-skinned; he simply did not care about the two of them.

Dragons in the sky would not concern themselves with what ants on the ground thought of them, after all.

It was just that. Nothing more, nothing less.

However, it was unknown why Lu Xuan became a guide. It had been a chance of a lifetime for them, and it was quite a pity that they did not reach out and grasp it.

Guo Yuanyuan was not the only one filled with immense regret at the moment, as Lu Lingyu shared most of her thoughts as well. While she never spoke ill of him like Guo Yuanyuan did, she had never been very cold toward Lu Xuan nonetheless.

They had just missed an opportunity of a lifetime.

She truly realized what being a snob had been like and how she became a villain of the story instead.

Everyone else, on the other hand, was steeped in utter astonishment from what just happened. Yet another martial arts legend. Such figures were so rare that it was hard to meet just one in a hundred years, yet they seemed to pop up one after another at the moment.

It was especially astounding, given just how young those two before them were.

Chen Jiashang looked to be in his twenties and was definitely not yet 30. Lu Xuan looked even younger, so much so that one could have claimed he was in his late teens, and no one would have disagreed. He looked to be in his early twenties at most.

Reaching even Attainment at such an age would have made them geniuses in the past, yet both men were already martial arts legends.

It was truly legendary seeing them like that.

There had been rumors circulating among many warriors that the cosmos around them was about to be awakened yet again. To warriors, it was the coming of a great age never before seen.

From the looks of how those two performed, that rumor seemed to be more than just a rumor.

Lin Sheng continued to wear a bitter smirk among the crowd. He knew far more than what the others around him knew. He recalled Lu Xuan’s training and how much the young man achieved with just a single night of dedicated training. He was at a loss for words at the moment.

However, he did not continue to wallow in dejection. Be it Lu Xuan or Chen Jiashang, both pointed the way forward for him.

He, too, had a chance to become martial arts legends in the coming age that was never before seen, surpassing even the past great masters of the Seven Invincible Sect.

Li Xun, who was in a corner, saw how Lu Xuan rendered Chen Jiashang almost a cripple with just a single kick. He was utterly terrified. If he were to have any lingering thoughts of exacting revenge against Lu Xuan, then all those thoughts would have dissipated right there and then. A martial arts legend was no joke, after all.

Planning revenge against a martial arts legend would be akin to digging his own grave.

His martial arts prowess was lacking, yet he, too, knew what it meant to be a martial arts legend. If it had been ancient times, such figures would have been gods or at least overlords of the martial community. Their words would have held more weight than that of the emperor’s.

While he was indeed from a rather well-to-do family, if he were to get on the bad side of a martial artist, getting his family all killed within a single night was a very real possibility.

Squared-faced Fatso, who was at the other corner of the village, felt rather relieved. He said, “It’s a good thing that I didn’t volunteer to take on Chen Jiashang just because I know a thing or two about the arts. Hell, one kick from that kid would have definitely killed me!”

The fatso pressed against his chest, feeling he was very lucky.

He was actually feeling even more lucky that Lu Xuan happened to be present. If Chen Jiashang were to simply decide to kill everyone around indiscriminately, no one else would have been able to stop him otherwise.

The power of a martial arts legend was such that they could simply leave nonchalantly after going on a killing spree, and no one would have been able to stop them.

That kid was not a warrior who grew up in a sheltered environment like the countryside. He had been touring all over the world with all manner of mercenaries from a young age, making him a true, effective killing machine on the battlefield.

To overseas warriors, killing people was never much of a big deal, and it was a common occurrence.

Everyone harbored different thoughts about what was going on at the moment, and Lu Xuan took big steps as he walked up to Chen Jiashang.