“Best in this world? Who else could that be but me?!”

Along with that arrogant statement, a beautiful ancient sword thrust itself onto the ground. Immediately, sword qi poured out in all directions like gus.h.i.+ng torrents and sent all the empyrean walkers flying over a hundred meters back!

The countless people in the crowd looked toward Chu Kuangren, their eyes glistening with reverence and excitement. To them, Chu Kuangren's prestige was far more superior than those empyrean walkers who had recently risen to fame.

“He's here. He's here. Chu Kuangren is here!”

“Good lord, I knew he would show up at a grand occasion like this one. These empyrean walkers are so ignorant. Don't they know whose era this is?”

“Back when Chu Kuangren was slaying Sages, these empyrean walkers were still n.o.bodies. They would never match up to him.”

“That's not exactly true. Chu Kuangren may be very powerful, but these empyrean walkers aren't weaklings either.”

“Tsk tsk, don't forget that among this group of empyrean walkers, a few of them had been defeated by Chu Kuangren before.”

The crowd was plunged into a heated debate.

Meanwhile, at the very top of the Empyrean Peak, the group of empyrean walkers was staring at Chu Kuangren with fear-filled eyes.

“I can't believe he's here too.”

“I thought he wouldn't be here since Ling Xiao is only challenging empyrean walkers. But I didn't expect that he'd come anyway.”

Ye Xin, Zhan Long, and the few other empyrean walkers who had been defeated by Chu Kuangren could not help but smile bitterly. Unlike the rest of the empyrean walkers, they had battled Chu Kuangren themselves and they knew exactly what he was capable of.

“Such an entrance and reception, it seems like he's not just anybody.” Ling Xiao held on to his long pike as he glanced at Chu Kuangren who was over a hundred meters away. There was a fiery battle intent on his face. “I believe you must be Chu Kuangren.”

“Yes, I am.”

Chu Kuangren activated his Eye of Revelation and swept a glance across all the empyrean walkers at the scene, quickly a.n.a.lyzing their respective cultivation strengths.

Very soon, his gaze landed on the empyrean walker from Ethereal Rapture, Xue Zheng. A look of surprise flashed across his eyes.

“Mister Predictor was right. The empyrean walker from the Ethereal Rapture has come as well,” Chu Kuangren thought to himself.

Finding Xue Zheng and getting the Celestial Chalcedony from the Ethereal Rapture was the real aim of his journey here today. This battle was merely a side quest.

After hearing about the acts of burning books and hiding emperors, he no longer had a good impression of the unknown lands. If what these unknown lands wanted was to make a name for themselves and fight for fortunes, he would stop them from having any of it!

As long as he won, most of the opportunity of becoming an Emperor would still be in his hands.

“Very well, Chu Kuangren. Who else other than you is the best in this world? Well, I'm letting you know today that aside from you, I, Jin Bujue of the Golden Family Sect, is also the best in the world!!” Jin Bujue stepped forward and said loudly.

A majestic Daoist Rhyme surged out from his body and made its way towards Chu Kuangren.

However, Chu Kuangren remained where he was, seemingly unfazed by that Daoist Rhyme that was gus.h.i.+ng toward him. He simply lifted his head and glanced at Jin Bujue, who was so s.h.i.+ny that it made him squint a little.

“Sigh, whose gold has turned into a human?”

His words made everyone at the scene grin amusedly.

Jin Bujue's s.h.i.+ny golden appearance did look like a pile of gold that had come to life. No one dared to say it out loud because he was an empyrean walker from the Golden Family Sect.

However, they did not expect that Chu Kuangren would say the first thing on their minds as directly as that.

Jin Bujue scoffed lightly at what Chu Kuangren said. “Gold is the most beautiful thing in this world. People like you would never know how to appreciate its beauty.”

Then, the golden longsword at his waist was unsheathed with a loud clang. Jin Bujue did not say another word before he charged at Chu Kuangren with his sword held high!

“Chu Kuangren, take this!!”

As soon as he struck out his sword, a surge of golden sword qi emanated with a surge of incredibly dense and sharp energy.

“This sword technique already has the standard of a Sage.”

Not far away from Chu Kuangren, Feng Yaorao said with a grim look on her face.

Just a casual swing of the sword and Jin Bujue could unleash such power. His strength was definitely one of the best among the group of empyrean walkers.

A Sage's standard?

'Sigh, now that any random sky-pride has the combat strength of the Sage, these once high-regarded Sages are now merely a measuring standard for everyone else.'

Chu Kuangren could not resist a jab back at Feng Yaorao.

Facing Jin Bujue's attack, Chu Kuangren lifted his arm in a composed manner and an enormous amount of earth qi ama.s.sed at the very heart of his palm.

With a bang, the power of the Human Mountain erupted!

When the two energies collided, the majestic golden sword ray instantly shattered and Jin Bujue was blasted several hundred meters backward!

“What an incredible power!”

Jin Bujue could not help but exclaim in amazement.

Meanwhile, Chu Kuangren watched as his opponent left unscathed from the sheer power of his Human Mountain.

This feat was incredibly hard to achieve even for most of the Sages.

“Is it because of that golden robe?”

Only then did Chu Kuangren realize that the golden robe that his opponent was wearing had a mysterious Daoist Rhyme circulating it, which blocked off all of his palm qi.

That was clearly a high-leveled Sage Armor.

“It seems that this s.h.i.+ny gold appearance of yours is not entirely useless, huh?” Chu Kuangren chuckled and said.

At those words, Jin Bujue's poise elevated and his golden longsword once again radiated with golden light. “Take another one!”

A much more powerful sword qi was cast out like a golden torrent. Wherever the sword qi went, the void rumbled and the ground cracked.

“Raging G.o.ds Fist!”

Without pulling out his sword still, Chu Kuangren lifted his hand and punched outward.

An incredibly violent black fist sign that burned with flames of fury was unleashed. In an instant, the golden sword qi was smashed to smithereens before it landed onto Jin Bujie's body, sending him flying a hundred meters backward. Even with the protection of his golden robe, his face still turned pale as he spat out a mouthful of blood.

“This is an Emperor Technique!”

“You b*stard. I can't believe you have an Emperor Technique!”

Jin Bujue yowled in disbelief.

However, the other empyrean walkers were not too surprised by that.

Rumor had it that Chu Kuangren possessed combat strength that was beyond anyone's imagination. If he did not have one or two Emperor Techniques up his sleeve, they would not have believed those rumors.

“Very well then, show me more! Let's see which one is better, your Emperor Technique or my Golden Family Sect's Emperor Technique!” Jin Bujue yelled at him.

A blinding golden light once again erupted from his body. Amidst all that light, a golden mountain appeared in the void!

“This is going to be tricky,” Chu Kuangren expressed.

Jin Bujue broke into a sly grin. “Do you finally admit your inferiority in the face of my Golden Family Sect's Emperor Technique? Are you afraid?”

“I'm afraid you misunderstood me.”

Chu Kuangren shook his head and then scanned his surroundings. He looked at Feng Yaorao, Ling Xiao, Ye Xin, and the rest of the empyrean walkers and said to them nonchalantly, “Aren't all of you here for the challenge? Why haven't you joined yet?”

The crowd was stunned.

“What? Us? Your battle with Jin Bujue is not even over yet.”

Ling Xiao said, confused.

Chu Kuangren let out a sigh. “That's why I said it's going to be tricky. If I battle you guys one by one, it would be such a waste of my time.”

Everyone finally understood what he meant.

However, it made Ling Xiao and the other empyrean walkers very angry!

They did not intervene because they wanted to give Chu Kuangren and Jin Bujue a fair challenge.

Should a challenge not be one on one?

Yet Chu Kuangren wanted to beat them all at once!

He was clearly belittling all the empyrean walkers here!

“Chu Kuangren, enough is enough. You don't even know if you can defeat me alone, and now you want to challenge all of us all by yourself?!”

Jin Bujue shouted in fury.