Over the course of the next half day, a similar scene repeated itself without exception. The city was being discovered continuously by those who roamed through the desert, and each arrival always had someone in the group who thought themselves the strongest around.
By now, John's feats had spread quite wide already. Youths who had witnessed John's feats had made their ways to other trials spread across the Jade Dragon Empire lands, and couldn't help but tell what they had seen. However, just as before, the feats were all regarded as fairy tales, something utterly impossible.
Most ignored the tales, but some found issue with such a rumor being spread. Clearly such a thing was impossible, and some found offense with being told such an egregious lie, mostly the geniuses of their own sects and clans. Many of these geniuses found their way to the coliseum city, eager to defeat John and prove the rumor a lie once and for all, all while raising their own status.
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