Mu Gu stood frozen in place, the clothes on his back already soaked through with cold sweat.
He stared at the young man before him, unimaginable terror churning in the depths of his eyes. As a Three-Star Dou Zun who had roamed the Central Plains for decades, his perception of auras was exceptionally keen. The power Lin Yao had displayed with that single finger had already frightened him out of his wits, but when he tried to probe the level of Lin Yao's Soul Force, all he sensed was a bottomless ocean.
Heavenly Realm Soul... It was absolutely a Heavenly Realm Soul!
How was that possible? A twenty-year-old reaching the High-Rank Dou Zun realm was already shocking enough, yet his Soul Force had also entered the Heavenly Realm? Looking across the entire Central Plains, which of those grandmasters and titans of the alchemy world had not spent centuries cultivating before pushing their Soul Force into the Heavenly Realm? Yet this young man before him... he was probably not even as old as Mu Gu's grand-disciple generation!
Mu Gu's gaze shifted again, landing on the faint five-colored halo flickering over Lin Yao's body. That was the aura of Heavenly Flames, and the fluctuation could only be produced by several Heavenly Flames interweaving together.
Green Lotus Core Flame, Sea Heart Flame, Fallen Heart Flame, Bone Chilling Flame... and a faint, almost imperceptible dark-purple aura. If he was not mistaken, that had to be Netherworld Poison Flame!
Five Heavenly Flames! A twenty-year-old actually contained five different Heavenly Flames within his body at once! What did that mean? It meant he not only possessed heaven-defying fortune, but also heaven-defying control. An ordinary person would exhaust all their strength merely containing one Heavenly Flame, while two would bring the danger of exploding apart. Yet five