Blazing Fury Great Emperor's eyes widened, golden flames burning within them. His face was filled with extreme shock, bewilderment, and disbelief.
His strongest strike, "Emperor's Wrath Burning World," containing a trace of the true meaning of the Immortal Rule, had actually been broken so effortlessly by his opponent?!
What enraged him even more was the entirely new aura now emanating from his opponent. It was the aura of the Immortal Heavenly Ladder, proof that he had climbed onto its first step—the Courage Step.
He had actually broken through in the midst of battle, under the life-and-death pressure of enduring his strongest attack, and stepped onto the first step of the Immortal Heavenly Ladder?
How was that possible?!!
Stepping onto the Immortal Heavenly Ladder, even if it was merely the first-level Courage Step, meant that a cultivator had officially entered the realm of Half-step Immortal.
Their essential life nature, level of power, and mastery over Great Dao rules would all undergo a qualitative leap.
Though it seemed only one step beyond the peak of the Hongshen Realm, the difference was truly as vast as heaven and earth.
How many exceptionally gifted peak Hongshen cultivators had struggled for hundreds of millions of years without ever touching that threshold? Yet he had actually broken through against the odds during battle, while being suppressed by him?
Blazing Fury Great Emperor felt that the understanding and pride he had built over hundreds of millions of years had been utterly shattered at this moment.
Absurdity, jealousy, fury, and deep apprehension mingled together, burning fiercely in his heart like poisonous fire.
"No! Impossible! This Emperor refuses to believe it!"
Blazing Fury Great Emperor threw back his head and let out a roar filled with unwillingness and savagery. The Imperial Flame around him surged wildly, nearly spiraling out