“This is… the power of the Great Power realm!”

“He actually broke through to the Great Power realm!”

Outside the mirror, countless cultivators showed shock on their faces, staring at the youth in the mirror as if he were a monstrous prodigy.

“The Heavenly Emperor’s cultivation talent is simply terrifying — even without the means to ascend, he still managed to reach the Great Power realm!”

“An eight-year-old Great Power realm expert — this must be the first in the long history of Beixuan Continent!”

Countless cultivators were stunned, and inexplicably a little relieved in their hearts.

Thankfully the Heavenly Emperor’s dao foundation was destroyed. At this rate of cultivation, he would have long ago reached the Immortal Realm.

And if that happened, how would there be this present moment, with everyone gathered here to watch the Heavenly Emperor’s past?

In the mirror, a loud shout suddenly rang out.

Countless white-robed cultivators rode divine rainbows and converged in the sky, forming an exceedingly mysterious formation that encompassed Gu Changqing.

But before an enraged Great Power, this abstruse formation was like paper.

A firewood cleaver was thrown up to the heavens.

This most common mortal tool could never have imagined in its life that one day it would receive such an honor.

Infinite laws of heaven and earth gathered upon the cleaver’s body.

At that moment, the cleaver seemed like an unsurpassed divine weapon leaping out of the long river of spacetime, severing a stretch of the temporal stream and suppressing all in the world!

Just seconds before, the cultivators whom the young Heavenly Emperor held in contempt stood high above him.

In the next moment, under the cold edge of the cleaver, they fell one after another, blood staining the sky.

“How dare you be so presumptuous!!”

At the peak of the holy land, an old white-haired, white-robed elder suddenly tore open the void and sat cross-legged between the heavens.

With that vast roar, an enormous palm that could crush the heavenly gate descended from the sky, covering Gu Changqing.

The terrifying pressure burst the firmament, mountains and rivers shattered, and heaven and earth fell silent!

“Saint King!!”

Outside the mirror, every cultivator’s pupils contracted sharply.

They truly hadn’t expected that an earthly sect’s foundation could be terrifying to this extent.

Its sect master turned out to be a Saint King–level existence!

“No wonder the Heavenly Emperor broke through to the Great Power realm and yet had his dao foundation destroyed — before a Saint King, a Great Power is like an ant!”

After all, this is an existence that crushes two realms above Great Power.

Transcending the extraordinary, entering sainthood!

Below Half-Saint, no matter how strong, one is still mortal. Only upon reaching Half-Saint can one taste the wonder of being a Saint!

“Could it be that this is the one who dug out the Heavenly Emperor’s Immortal Root?”

“But how could the Heavenly Emperor still survive?”

These words made everyone pause in astonishment.

Indeed.

How could a Great Power possibly live through an encounter with a Saint King?

Did this one hold back, deliberately sparing the Heavenly Emperor’s life and failing to eradicate him completely? That reasoning clearly didn’t hold.

“It must have been because Miss Youwei’s master appeared at his moment of near death,” someone said.

Everyone nodded slightly.

Now, that seemed the only plausible explanation.

……

……

“Break!”

Facing the Saint King’s suppression, Gu Changqing not only did not dodge, he even stared straight at it and met it head-on.

From his body, the Immortal Root burst forth blinding divine radiance, endless divine patterns, spewing boundless power of law, connecting heaven and earth.

He drew in the grand trends of heaven and earth, converging them into a single punch.

Boom!

As the punch struck, the heavens and earth resounded with a deafening blast, the shockwave swept in all directions, and in that instant the entire holy area belonging to Jade Void Palace turned to scorched earth.

The palm that had been suppressing heaven and earth was shattered inch by inch.

Until it dissolved into smoke.

“Hmm?”

The white-robed Saint King in the sky couldn’t help but make a soft exclamation.

His aged face was both surprised and astonished.

Outside the mirror, the many powerful ones shared nearly the same expression as the white-robed Saint King.

No one had expected that the young Heavenly Emperor at Great Power could actually shake a Saint King!

“This is a bit too absurd, isn’t it? Too downright fucking absurd!!”

Many people began cursing.

Even if the white-robed Saint King had not used his full strength, how could a Great Power block a Saint King’s secret technique?

That guy was a Saint King! Not a mere cabbage!

“Immortal Root? That is an Immortal Root??”

After a brief moment of bewilderment, the white-robed Saint King’s face broke into boundless joy.

“When I was young I heard that those with an Immortal Root are born supreme, so I spent half my life searching for one. I thought such a divine thing existed only in ancient books, but never imagined in my dying years I would be fortunate enough to see one.”

“Truly heaven’s favor!”

“With this, even in my old age I can surely attain Supreme level and break the lifespan limit.”

“Hahaha…”

The white-robed Saint King laughed heartily and looked at Gu Changqing with amiability, “Give it to me.”

He suddenly reached out his hand.

The colossal palm plunged into the void and in an instant appeared before Gu Changqing.

Outside the mirror, everyone’s emotions tightened at this moment.

They could roughly guess that it was at this moment the young Heavenly Emperor’s dao foundation was destroyed and his Immortal Root was dug out.

“Master, how I wish you had appeared a bit earlier,” Gu Youwei murmured, unable to bear watching further.

Gu Youwei seemed unable to look on and couldn’t help whispering.

However, no one expected what happened next.

As Gu Changqing’s punch landed, the white-robed Saint King’s arm shattered inch by inch.