"Tsk, tsk. How had I never noticed before that Ao Donglai was actually quite capable?"
Watching Ao Donglai fuse blade and staff, bringing Ascend to Da Qian to its fullest potential, Zhou You could not help but praise him.
He used the Da Qian Seal to link the three thousand worlds into one, encompassing the great thousand, middle thousand, and small thousand worlds. Its power was extraordinary. At the same time, it cast the enemy into Yin's sinking abyss and propelled Da Qian's ascension, wiping out everything at the scene.
Without the Da Qian Seal as a pivot, the limit an ordinary person could reach was Sleeping Bamboo Empress's mastery of the Yin Return Blade.
Ao Donglai was the same. He leaned more toward the essence of the rising sun, so he combined blade and staff and studied the move Ascend to Da Qian.
It was also because his realm was still low and he had not yet forged his own path that he could comprehend and absorb the essence of this move, opening a road of his own.
Take Lai Hantian, who was also present. He had long since become a Heavenly Heavenly Sect and possessed his own path, so he had no affinity with the essence of this move.
Zhou You was also surprised. The might of Ao Donglai's blade might not have matched the profundity of his own, but its power had already touched the threshold of what Zhou You possessed before becoming the Heavenly Pillar. It was clear that Ao Donglai had advanced at a tremendous pace over the years. Then Zhou You saw the countless scars covering him and fell silent. Over these years, the Heavenly Pillar had shaken hundreds of times—each time, enemies had already struck at the pillar itself. As for the other