Yuan Tong and others lost interest in mocking Ling Fan, their attention now focused on Hong Tao, who approached riding a Cloud-Patterned Leopard.
Shock and doubt flashed across Cheng Chao's eyes. Hong Tao was the twenty-fifth top expert on the Star Plucking List, at the Late Stages of Fourth Grade Cultivation, while he was merely at the Early Stage of the same grade. Even Jin Penghai, the strongest in their team, was only at the Middle Stage.
Although they were all at the same Realm, the difference of a Minor Realm between them was vast. Moreover, with his Cloud-Patterned Leopard, which was at least of Third Grade strength, Hong Tao could easily crush most of the expert guards in their team.
Even He Feiman, who had been sitting still, stood up, casting a wary glance at the Cloud-Patterned Leopard. Such mounts, raised by the Duan Family of the Ten Thousand Beasts Manor, the third prominent family of the Heavenly Vein, were exceptionally rare and invaluable.
