Hoax

Ming Ze and Xia Qinghe immediately left the tower and returned to the surface.

Although the woman had already obtained the inheritance map, she naturally couldn't explore right away.

First she needed to study it first.

And it seemed that she was in very low spirits.

Ming Ze was the only one who could remain relaxed, continuing to enjoy the scenery of this world.

Unbeknownst to him, his name had already begun to spread in the West Gate Region, even beginning to make its way into other regions.

In this world, news spread even faster than on earth as long as it was truly shocking.

What made him surprise people was the rumor that he was stronger than Xia Qinghe.

In the Human Immortal World, although there were many brilliant geniuses, everyone who had seen Xia Qinghe felt that she was the one with the highest possibility of becoming an Immortal in this era.

Her high talent coupled with an extremely strong background, even other geniuses who were full of arrogance found it difficult to think of a way to defeat her.

How could there suddenly be rumors of a foreign youth appearing in the Holy Light Sect and allegedly being stronger than Xia Qinghe.

This was considered an unbelievable hoax.

However, there were still quite a few people who came to the Holy Light Sect to see the youth.

Splash!

The glass ship finally came out of the river, returning to the mainland.

Surprisingly, the river was now in a deserted state. There was almost no one there.

Even Xia Qinghe knitted her eyebrows as she looked at the condition because usually this river was never deserted.

"Fellow Daoist, there might be something big going on," she said after a while.

"Oh..." Ming Ze was interested to hear that.

To make the sect disciples stop cultivating, what was going on was.

He was intrigued.

"Let's go see," he said.

Xia Qinghe didn't refuse, she nodded.

Once they got out of the Ship of Light, it again sank into the river.

After which they flew towards the west where they sensed many sect disciple auras were gathering.

It was at the border of the sect territory, just behind the gate.

This entire sect territory itself was surrounded by an extremely high parapet, filled with defense mechanisms.

When arriving there, Ming Ze didn't just see the disciples of the Holy Light Sect. He also saw many outsiders, most of whom were still standing outside the gate.

From the looks of it, the disciples had gathered because of the arrival of those people.

His and Xia Qinghe's existence quickly attracted attention due to the latter's striking figure.

All eyes automatically looked towards her even as they didn't know that she was around yet.

"Is he that guy?" They then wondered as they looked towards Ming Ze who came with Xia Qinghe.

"It seems that way," the others replied as they looked at the Holy Light Sect disciples, asking for confirmation.

Those disciples nodded in response.

"So he's the one who claims to be stronger than Miss Xia?" Those people wondered again.

From a rumor, facts always changed.

It was in fact Xia Qinghe who called Ming Ze stronger than her, but now it seemed that people thought that it was Ming Ze's own claim.

Ming Ze who was confused by this situation became even more confused because those people were talking about him.

"Fellow Daoist, it seems that they came because they were interested in you," Xia Qinghe said with a strange smile.

Although initially confused, Ming Ze began to understand the situation.

'It seems that I have to adapt to the stupid culture of the cultivation world,' he thought.

Of course, he knew that the cultivation world tended to always be excited about geniuses, but this was beyond his expectations that they'd come straight to him just to see him.

Hearing their conversation, he felt like coughing.

They turned out to be doubting him right away, saying only that he had a good appearance but his aura was not so outstanding.

At first glance, his aura did look ordinary when he was hiding his strength. It was too calm. However, eyes with high analyzing ability like Xia Qinghe's naturally detected how terrifying his aura was.

With so many fools in this world, Ming Ze wondered how difficult the life of someone who came to the cultivation world without strength would be.

Fortunately, he was already very strong when he came.

He could ignore people's doubts.

"Son!" Suddenly something flew into the air, coming towards Ming Ze and Xia Qinghe.

He was a rather thin, bald old man wearing a gray robe.

His appearance gave the impression of a commoner, yet he had a pair of black, beautiful feathers. They kept flapping, as if the old man was very proud of his wings.

From Ming Ze's observation, they were real wings.

'Fellow Daoist, he is Sovereign Crow, an Infinite Sovereign who is quite old. He managed to fuse with the Bloodline of the Sky Crow, then obtained its wings. That's what allowed him to reach his current level.' Xia Qinghe explained his identity to Ming Ze through inner communication.

His origins weren't something Ming Ze considered important. He just wanted to know why he had approached him, instead of watching from below like the others.

"Is there something, old man?" asked Ming Ze, blatantly showing a curious expression.

After he asked, the old man took out a crystal ball the size of a basketball, which emitted a crystalline light constantly.

It hovered above the old man's palm.

"Son, this is the most accurate aptitude test tool right now, I'm the only one who has it in the Immortal Human World. Touch it so we can all see your talent. Are you really talented enough to make the claim that you are stronger than Miss Xia." The man replied, explaining what his purpose was.

Ming Ze was stunned to hear that.

If he wanted to join a sect, it might be natural for his talent to be examined. However, he and the old man had only met today. How could he want to check his aptitude.

This was ridiculous and absurd.

"Sovereign Crow, you are overreacting." Xia Qinghe instantly gave him a reprimand.

She was indebted to Ming Ze, she naturally couldn't let others behave as they pleased in front of her when she was beside him.

"Miss Xia, this is what everyone wants. We can't let people claim things as they please, and this is also to restore your reputation," Sovereign Crow replied.

He foolishly believed that Ming Ze had actually claimed that thing.

Xia Qinghe's expression became rather bad so for a moment her breathing became rapid.

These changes in the news were probably caused by the disciples of the Holy Light Sect. They were the ones who created the hoax so Ming Ze was to blame.

"I'm the one who said he was stronger than me. And I'm just telling the truth. He is indeed stronger than me," Xia Qinghe said.

She had no other choice but to refute the rumors, defending Ming Ze in front of everyone.

This naturally made the Holy Light Sect disciples become even more jealous of her.

Until now they couldn't believe she was that strong. They kept wondering why Xia Qinghe cared about him so much.