Heavenly Wing Emperor Lord's blood sprayed out. Every drop that fell into the Primal Chaos Space made the entire space tremble. An Emperor Lord's blood contained world-destroying energy in every drop; falling without restraint like this, its power was unimaginable, utterly astonishing.
"Had he broken through in the midst of battle? No, that wasn't a breakthrough in battle. He had clearly broken through long ago!"
Blood was still spraying from his body, yet Heavenly Wing Emperor Lord paid it no heed. Or rather, there was no need for him to care, nor any necessity to do so.
Though the wound looked frightening, it had not injured his vital organs. It rapidly healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
What concerned him more was Ye Xiwen's sudden burst of strength.
At first, he had thought Ye Xiwen had been driven to the brink and broken through in battle. Such things were exceedingly rare for Emperor Lords, but he had witnessed quite a few. He himself had done it many times in his life. Yet that had been before he entered the realm of Emperor Lords, when breakthroughs in battle were normal enough. For an Emperor Lord to break through in battle, however, was almost impossible.
The gap in strength between each realm of Emperor Lords was enormous precisely because breaking through each realm required far too many conditions—not merely advancement in cultivation, but comprehension of the Great Dao, breadth of vision, experience, and more.
For that very reason, the odds of a so-called breakthrough in battle were simply too low.
He had never imagined such a day would come. Yet he quickly discerned that this was not a breakthrough in battle. On the contrary, Ye Xiwen had clearly broken through long ago; he had merely never revealed it.
"What