Chapter 988 - 938: Who Else Could It Be but Him?

A large-scale massacre of the mutated beasts.

Using the Prison Fire Stick to hard-tank the Ninth Layer Heavenly Punishment Thunder.

Qin Fan settled matters with the Six Paths, shook his sleeves, and left, hiding his achievements and fame deep away.

But for Jinling, and even the cities adjacent to Jinling.

It completely blew up!

Although those thousands of ferocious beasts that broke out of the zoo were still lying in the Wilderness Blood Pond and hadn’t been discovered by ordinary people so the news hadn’t spread yet.

The scene of that figure in the sky above Jinling, holding a Fire Stick and battling the Heavenly Thunder in a tangle, was recorded by countless citizens on their phones, and in a short time it spread across the entire online world like a virus running wild.

All the major famous forums.

All kinds of social apps.

All kinds of forwarding and sharing.

Instantly igniting nationwide heated discussion from north to south.

"Fuck, another idiot PS-ing a video for clout!"

"Haha, this era is never short of all kinds of jokers, I’m telling you, these people are just too idle!"

"Last time it was Crossing Tribulation in Shanghai, now it’s Jinling’s turn huh, folks in the Yangtze River Delta are really damn free!"

"Disperse, disperse, just holding a fire poker and thinking you can fight Heavenly Thunder, fuck, the PS on this video is pure dumbass!"

The above were all the sneering mockery from out-of-towners.

After all, in this era of a developed internet, there are way too many stupid stunts to grab eyeballs.

The masses have gone from ignorant belief at the start to seeing through everything by now.

Crossing Tribulation, Ascension, riding the clouds and mist, dragons flying in the sky, monsters appearing in the river.

Et cetera, et cetera...

These things are everywhere online.

But later they all got debunked, and the answers turned out to be PS pranks that made people laugh and cry.

In this kind of online background, you can imagine what mindset netizens who’ve already seen through everything would have.

Even though most people don’t actually know how to tell if something is PS, they still subconsciously chalk it up to PS.

Amid the wave of ridicule all over the internet.

The netizens of Jinling lost their tempers.

"Fuck, what do you mean PS? I don’t even know how to PS pictures, let alone a video! This is what I saw with my own eyes, shot with my own hands!"

"I swear, if this video is fake, I’ll never get a wife in this lifetime! Damn it, I’ll say it again: it’s real, real, real!"

"Let those who love yelling ’it’s fake’ keep yelling, this time my worldview really got refreshed!"

"Would you believe me if I told you that when this scene happened, Jinling had noticeable tremors? When the Heavenly Thunder blasted down, the whole city shook, several cups at my house got shaken over!"

Following the Jinling citizens holding the line online.

Very soon.

Some big V accounts specializing in video production also came out.

"Based on my seven years of PS experience, there are no PS alterations in this video!"

"Under eighteen rounds of testing and analysis by a ten-person team, the conclusion is that the video is real!"

"The video has no PS traces. If it really were PS, then the person who made it could send the whole world into panic anytime!"

"It’s easy enough to explain one video as PS, but how could such a huge number of videos all be PS? Guys, use your brains, okay? We’ve tested it, it’s real!"

...

Countless video-analysis accounts spoke from professional angles.

Yet as these professional posts came out.

Many Dao friends and citizens who firmly believed in the existence of Crossing Tribulation and Ascension all boiled over.

"Motherfucker, there really are Immortals in this world!"

"Holy crap, who the hell is that bro who dared to fight the heavens!"

"Kneeling and begging professionals to capture a clear image of the God who fought the heavens!"

"Is this the arrival of an era of Spiritual Energy Recovery and national Cultivation?"

"I’ve always said Cultivation and Crossing Tribulation are real, why has no one ever believed me? Let’s see you try to argue now!"

Wave after wave of hype surged up.

Whether online or in reality.

The whole country fell into a state of excitement.

For a topic that’s been talked about for thousands of years but never verified, nobody felt any resistance; everyone chose to accept it and started fantasizing about such scenes.

Schools, construction sites, companies, markets, everywhere with people, they were all heatedly discussing it.

Online.

Weibo crashed.

Tieba crashed.

Various forums collapsed amid posts and replies being made at a rate of tens of millions per second.

You can imagine what kind of frenzy this disturbance created by Qin Fan set off.

In this kind of nationwide heated discussion.

It didn’t take long before those thousands of beast corpses piled in the Jinling wilderness were exposed by passing pedestrians, and then, unsurprisingly, the news got spread.

The chilling sight of their deaths, that pool of blood formed by their corpses.

Instantly pushed the level of hype to a new historical high.

Yet strangely, amid such a topic that could easily disturb people’s hearts.

All kinds of official media displayed a collective silence.

As for those videos and images, the government side didn’t do any deleting or blocking.

As if showing a kind of tacit approval!

Jinling.

Inside the provincial party compound.

Comrade Old Wang, who had not yet left Jinling, and several big shots were gathered in the conference room.

On the wall-mounted display in the conference room, the videos clipped from the internet were playing over and over.

"Professor Hua, you’re the most qualified to speak, aren’t you going to say something?" In the main seat, Old Wang said.

"I don’t find it all that surprising. He’s always been refreshing my understanding of the world. Don’t say he’s fighting Heavenly Thunder— even if he were commanding gods, plucking stars, Breaking River and Destroying City, I wouldn’t be surprised! It’s about time I started seriously thinking about the theory of Immortals. After all, these legends have been passed down for thousands of years and people still talk about them with relish. If you say it’s ’a wind from an empty cave’, then it’s ’a wind from an empty cave’; if you say it’s not, then based on these video clips, I think I’m starting to believe!" Hua Xiaotian said with a bitter smile.

"The figure in the video is too blurry, you can’t tell who it is at all, and you’re that sure?" Comrade Old Wang said with a tense smile.

"Who else could it be but him? Comrade Old Wang, I’ve analyzed and cross-checked it. The incident happened right in the wilderness! When the beasts broke out together, I originally planned to dispatch the Guardian Institute to suppress them, but later on the way I noticed that all those beasts were charging toward the route where he was, so I canceled the operation! Time, place, everything fits. If it’s not him, it can’t be anyone else!" Hua Xiaotian said with certainty.

As Hua Xiaotian’s words fell.

The conference room instantly sank into a soundless silence.

Yeah.

If not him, then who?

Hasn’t that freak always been going against heaven?

Hasn’t that freak been constantly refreshing their understanding?

Back then, the Forbidden City even regarded him as a ticking time bomb that had to be eliminated.

But now, they didn’t even dare entertain the thought.

Just like Comrade Old Wang, he now hoped even more that Ascension Immortal and the like were true.

Because only if Qin Fan Ascends as an Immortal and leaves Earth and this Mortal World far behind, can he live his days in peace.

That’s not just Comrade Old Wang’s thinking; many powerful bigwigs think the same!

While all of Huaxia was fervently discussing these things.

After Qin Fan sent those thousand-odd ferocious beasts to the ingredient storage of the Cangqiong Restaurant, he rushed to the villa manor he had bought for the Jiang Family.

The old lady and his future mother-in-law were already down for their afternoon nap.

In the second-floor bathroom, the sound of running water was whooshing.

After making a hush gesture to the housekeeper and maids.

Amid the maids’ knowing, strange looks.

Qin Fan tiptoed his way up the stairs.