This Earth Is A Bit Fearsome

The man before his eyes was just too young.

 That man was so young; it seemed ridiculous.

 Lu Xuan, who was very young, to begin with, had gotten one or two years younger after making a breakthrough to Level Seven—the National Guardian level—making him look as if he was 17 or 18.

 1Such an age would have meant that he would have been little more than a student of his student, among the followers of Master Ying, like a novice who had just joined not long ago.

 However, Master Ying was unable to see through that young man all the same, so much so that the young man did not even seem to be a cultivator to him.

 A warrior who had cultivation training and one who did not would have been very different, even though not every one of them would look tall and imposing, like Yin Tianming the Iron-armed Arhat, who was standing right beside him.

 Nonetheless, warriors with cultivation training would have sported a bearing that made them markedly different from the common folk. It was just like how that female police officer had been able to look naturally intimidating even without meaning to.

 There were many people who were too reluctant to place their trust in others and had reservations about doing businesses involving large sums of money, especially the ones under the table.

 Those people would have eventually sought Master Ying out.

 Precisely put, there was indeed one such industry, and Master Ying was one of the top dogs in this industry.

 The Chen Clan, as one of the major forces, had to deal with such people, without a doubt. As an elite member of their clan, Chen Nian definitely knew a lot of things that few others would have known.

 He had heard of Master Ying before, but he had never seen the elder in person, only in photographs. It would not have taken him so long to recall who that elder was otherwise.

 He sensed a shiver running down his spine as the fact came to light.

 Shady middle persons like Master Ying had to deal with all sorts of unsavory people, which meant that he would not have been able to keep his foothold if he were anything less than formidable.

 Furthermore, being one of the top people in the business spoke volumes of his immense prowess.

 Chen Nian unintentionally heard his father talking about Master Ying before, and it seemed that Master Ying had long been a known Baodan Grandmaster. As the world changed, all his training throughout the years enabled him to make a breakthrough, becoming a Martial Arts Legend.

 All of that happened several years ago. That was the time when the world began to see drastic changes. Only those who were truly steeped in cultivation began to change.

With a Martial Arts Legend from the Flying Dragon Sect being present as well, there were then two Martial Arts Legends around at the moment.

 Regardless of how highly he thought of Lu Xuan, he was unable to believe that Lu Xuan would be capable of taking out two Martial Arts Legends. Furthermore, none of the two had gotten where they were after ingesting peculiar fruits, like how it had been with Chen Jiashang.

 Lu Xuan might have still been able to escape intact due to his formidable training, but the same could not have been said for Chen Nian, who might have actually ended up dead there.

 A subordinate of Yin Tianming, who looked big and fierce, pounced at Lu Xuan like a blitzing cheetah while Chen Nian was still reeling from the shock.