Chapter 1663 - Everyone Stunned
Everyone was dumbstruck, struggling to digest the reality unfolding before them. Yet the shock did not last long. Reason quickly caught up, forcing them to accept the truth whether they wished to or not. Denial was meaningless. The evidence stood plainly in front of them.
All of a sudden, any doubts about whether Chen Fan had emerged from the Demon Realm Passageway battlefield without completing his mission vanished. With his current strength, top-level Immortal Kings were weaklings in front of him.
Back then, in the eyes of those in the know of this matter, it was the sect leader trying to protect Chen Fan. To most outsiders, however, the mission assigned to him had seemed outright impossible.
Given Chen Fan’s cultivation at the time, killing an early-stage Immortal King alone was already a feat, not to mention surviving while countless experts hunted him down. It was widely believed such a task would require at least a thousand years.
Yet here he was. In just a little over a century, he had returned alive and fulfilled his promise.
The atmosphere turned heavy. The experts of the Demon Suppression lineage looked especially grim, their expressions dark and unsightly. Only the Heavenly Punishment Elder was full of smiles right now.
Chen Fan was his personal disciple. Such a dazzling performance naturally brought him immense pride. His face practically glowed.
Still, beneath the joy lingered a trace of disbelief. Even he had not expected Chen Fan to reach such heights in merely a hundred years. It was simply absurd.
The further one progressed along the path of cultivation, the harder each breakthrough became. Strength had to be accumulated over long periods. The only way to avoid spending excessive time accumulating strength was to have miraculous encounters or repeated brushes with death, forcing one’s potential to erupt under pressure.
From this alone, one could imagine the price Chen Fan had paid over the past century.
Finally, the Featherlight Sect leader said, “Chen Fan, you’ve exited the Demon Realm Passageway battlefield. Have you completed the mission I assigned you?”
He hadn’t said a single word earlier during Chen Fan and Deng Ao’s battle, maintaining a neutral stance. After all, Deng Ao had only lost a primordial spirit incarnation. In truth, that alone did not constitute a major incident.