Cultivation Online

Chapter 2681: The Impersonator(3)

"Your physique?! What kind of nonsense is that? If you’re going to make things up, at least make it believable!" the Ember City representative shouted, his face full of doubt.

"I have the Perfected Heavenly Refinement physique," Yuan revealed without hesitation.

Although General Mei had warned him to keep this matter a secret to avoid unnecessary complications, that was before he became suspected of being a Void Specter. At this point, there was hardly anything he could say that would make the situation any worse.

"Perfected Heavenly Refinement?! Did you just say you possess the Perfected Heavenly Refinement Physique?!" the representative from Jade City exclaimed as he shot to his feet, disbelief written all over his face.

Yuan calmly nodded.

"I can prove it if you want."

"There’s no need," Supreme General Tian said. "It would take too much time to bring an evaluation machine here, and besides, it isn’t necessary. I can personally vouch for it."

The other representatives immediately began murmuring among themselves, clearly taken aback by the unexpected revelation.

"If that’s true, then this would be the first known appearance of someone possessing the Perfected Heavenly Refinement physique."

"Supreme General Tian wouldn’t lie about something that can easily be verified, so it must be true."

"Does this mean that in order to even have a chance of defeating the Void Hunter, one must possess the Perfected Heavenly Refinement physique?"

"If that is the case, that means he might be the only person in this world who can defeat it..."

When the representative from Ember City heard the others talking and realized the discussion was beginning to drift away from the purpose of the assembly, he quickly raised his voice.

"W-Wait! The recording isn’t finished yet! I saved the most important part for last!"

"What? You said yourself just a few minutes ago that the rest of the recording was irrelevant!" Supreme General Tian remarked with a frown.

However, the Ember City representative ignored him and said, "If this doesn’t prove he’s not human, then I don’t know what will!"

He resumed the recording, revealing the rest of Yuan’s battle with the Void Hunter. Naturally, the footage had been sped up, as watching the entire fight in real time would have taken several weeks.

The footage showed Yuan being brutally beaten by the Void Hunter, suffering countless fatal injuries that would have killed anyone else. At various points, he was decapitated, torn into several pieces, and even blown to smithereens.

"Are you all seeing what I’m seeing?! Even if he truly possesses the Perfected Heavenly Refinement physique, there’s no way it should be capable of something like this! Hell, even Tian Yuchen—the strongest cultivator in history and someone who possessed the Invincible Heavenly Refinement—never demonstrated regenerative abilities anywhere near this level!" the representative from Ember City exclaimed.

After taking a deep breath, he quickly continued, "The reason his body can regenerate like that is because he doesn’t possess a true physical body at all—just like a Void Specter!"

Yuan responded to the accusation, "If I don’t have a physical body, then how am I bleeding at all? Void Specters don’t bleed."

"How the hell am I supposed to know? For all I know, that could simply be another one of your abilities!"

"Then..." Yuan paused for a brief second before asking, "Are Void Specters also capable of using Gaia’s System?"

"W-What...?" the representative from Ember City muttered, a dumbfounded expression on his face.

The rest of the chamber also fell silent as everyone came to the same realization. Gaia’s System had become such an ingrained part of their lives that none of them had even thought to use it to verify whether Yuan was truly human or a Void Specter.

After racking his brain for something to say, the representative from Ember City finally spoke. "W-We can’t say for certain that a Void Specter is incapable of using Gaia’s System, since we’ve never actually tested—"

"Cut the bullshit already," the representative from Heavenly Furnace interrupted. "Do you even hear yourself right now?"

"You—!" The representative from Ember City tried to respond, but another representative swiftly interrupted him.

"Enough is enough. I don’t know why you’re so obsessed with insisting that he’s a Void Specter, but he’s clearly human."

"Let’s just end this with a vote," said Jade City’s representative. "If you think that man is human, raise your hand."

"..."

Everyone but the Ember City representative raised their hand.

"If you think he’s a Void Specter, raise your hand."

Since not everyone had voted, the vote continued.

However, the representative from Ember City still did not raise his hand, merely standing there with a bitter expression as though he were the one who had been wronged.

"It seems Ember City can’t make up its mind, so let’s just end it here," Supreme General Tian said.

The others nodded in agreement.

"But let’s not end the assembly just yet," Jade City’s representative said with a faint smile. "Since we’re already here, we might as well discuss the Perfected Heavenly Refinement physique. Surely you weren’t expecting us to leave without addressing such an important matter, were you, Supreme General Tian?"

Supreme General Tian did not respond, merely letting out an annoyed snort.

"How long were you planning to keep this information from us, Supreme General Tian?" asked Eastern Dawn’s representative.

"I understand that we’re all rivals here, but some information should be shared with everyone—especially if it could help us defeat the Void Hunter. In fact, I’d even argue that you had a moral obligation to disclose it."

Supreme General Tian shrugged and said, "You probably won’t believe me, but I already planned on sharing it. It’s just that I didn’t learn about it until shortly after the assembly was announced, so I figured I would reveal it at the assembly."

"..."

Although many of the representatives didn’t believe him, none voiced their doubts and instead remained silent.

"So, what is there to discuss?" Supreme General Tian asked a moment later.

"For starters, how he managed to achieve that physique," said Jade City’s representative. "If we can replicate his success, we can build an army to fight the Void Hunter."