"Ha ha ha! Good! Well done, lad! You really did it!"
Chang Xiwen's bronze-bell eyes went round as he clapped Chen Fei hard on the shoulder, his face flushed with excitement and his voice booming like a great bell.
Le Boyang stood beside them without speaking, but his deep eyes likewise brimmed with irrepressible excitement, relief, and pride. Even his body trembled slightly with emotion.
The Illusionary Gate finally had its third Sovereign Realm cultivator. Words could not express what they felt.
At the same time, throughout the Tianxuan Domain, every cultivator and primordial demon watching the Earth Ranking Sky Curtain erupted in excitement.
At the very top of the Earth Ranking Sky Curtain, the aura that had hung high in first place, radiating majestic divine might, was slowly changing from solid to ethereal.
It was neither dimming nor simply dissipating.
Rather, it seemed to have transcended the Earth Ranking's constraints and was about to ascend and depart.
"This is a breakthrough! Elder Chen has broken through to the Sovereign Realm!"
"Our Xuan Yu Realm has gained another Sovereign Realm powerhouse!"
"So fast! How long has it even been? Elder Chen has already broken through!"
Cries of astonishment and heated discussions swept through every city, every market, and every sect's cultivation abodes like mountains roaring and seas surging.
Several months ago, everyone had still been worried that, because of the Annihilation Venerable, Chen Fei would struggle to leave the Tianxuan Sect. Even if a fifteenth-order secret realm appeared, he likely would not be able to enter, since every heavenly demon would target him. His prospects had seemed bleak.
Yet in this brief span of time, Chen Fei had shattered the heavenly threshold in one stroke at an inconceivable speed and become a Sovereign.
The word "miracle" no longer sufficed to