Otherwise, among those of a similar age, it was no exaggeration to say that no one in the prefecture could outshine him.
Perhaps if one looked across all of Beicang, to Cangdu—the capital of the vassal state governing several prefectures—one might find a match.
But in Jiangyin Prefecture... it would be difficult.
The news that Duan Chenzhou had become a Grandmaster sent ripples of panic through Jiangyin Prefecture. Some were already on edge, terrified that with his Superior Qi Sea and a Secret Inheritance, in ten or twenty years he would cultivate another "Wang Xuanyang."
But now, things were even more unbelievable. Not only had he achieved a Superior Qi Sea, but he had also found an even more outrageously talented disciple in some forgotten corner of the world!
Jiangyin Prefecture's hundred years of Water Fortune had produced but one Duan Chenzhou, a Fisherman's Son.
And yet, from the poor, remote backwater of Anning County...
