Luo Tian's attempt to invoke his backer stirred no concern in Zhou Ming.
He looked at the three sprawled on the ground, their bodies trembling violently with fear. His expression remained calm, as though he were listening to something that had nothing to do with him.
"What is the cultivation level of that person in the Divine Luo Domain?"
Luo Tian dared neither hesitate nor conceal anything.
Before someone like Zhou Ming, any lie would be laughable and foolish. It would only hasten his death.
"True Lord, that lord... that lord has been in seclusion for a very long time."
"I've only heard the Domain Lord mention it in passing, but before that lord entered seclusion, his cultivation... had already reached the peak of the Extreme Dao Stage."
Luo Tian buried his head even deeper. Cold sweat had soaked the ground beneath him.
This was the highest-level secret he knew.
The peak of the Extreme Dao Stage...
Zhou Ming considered it briefly, and some of his apprehension quietly eased.
That cultivation level was neither particularly high nor low.
At his full strength, he would not have spared a glance for a cultivator who had not even reached the threshold of the Dao Fusion Stage.
But the Rule Shackles within him had only loosened a fraction. He was still far from being able to act without restraint.
Even so, it was enough.
The power he had recovered might not let him easily defeat someone at the peak of the Extreme Dao Stage, but his opponent had no chance of defeating him, either.
The nature of the Great Luo True Realm remained unchanged. If he wanted to leave, someone at the peak of the Extreme Dao Stage could not stop him.
Besides, that True Lord of the Divine Luo Domain had been