The crowd went completely crazy upon seeing Ye Jun win the duel.
Rarely did anyone witness a cultivator fighting someone with a full major realm higher cultivation base and actually winning it. They had witnessed his raw powers first hand. They also knew Yuan Chen wasn't a nobody, he was a consolidated genius of a premier noble lineage.
Winning against such an opponent while strictly remaining in the Early-Stage Soul Tempering Realm thoroughly impressed everyone present in the grand plaza.
The hidden eyes watched everything silently from the shadows of the ironstone structures, recording the data and immediately relaying the information to their higher ups.
Nobody knew yet if Ye Jun was destined to be their ally or their enemy, but in the grander scheme of things, it was always better to know more about the other person.
Knowledge was power.
