Two streaks of rainbow light.
One before the other, they left Qinglie Star Domain at speeds far surpassing the level of Half-Step World Lords.
All that remained were the hundreds of billions of bewildered, conflicted cultivators.
Though their realms were low.
None of them were fools.
A World Lord was one of the universe's strongest supreme beings, one who commanded the Dao.
A pill refined by such a being would possess astonishing value to any World Lord!
Silence.
Still silence.
Yet beneath that silence, countless cultivators trembled. Some had flushed cheeks and reddened eyes!
Some even wept!
It was like riding a roller coaster!
First, Zeng Tianyao had sought to burn away their souls to stop Su Ye.
But Su Ye had given them another choice.
He had allowed them to live!
Afterward, the moment their souls entered the Illusion Mirror, the moment the Formation Array activated, their souls had been destined to suffer damage!
In truth.
Even though Su Ye had immediately undone the Illusion Mirror and released them.
Some wounds were irreversible!
After all, the soul concerned the foundation of every person and was intimately linked to one's Dao foundation!
They had all accepted it, or fallen into despair.
Yet when those specks of starlight descended, everything reversed!
They had even advanced further!
"Zeng Tianyao? A native World Lord? A Dao Protector?"
"How laughable..."
The Half-Step World Lord from the He Family wore a complicated, self-mocking expression.
"Utterly laughable!!!"
The guardian god they had regarded as the protector of their own Star Domain had instead treated them as consumable ants!
Yet that World Lord senior named Su Ye had not only saved them, but had even been willing to shatter a Semi-Dao Pill...
What made their hearts tremble the most.
Was that single address: "Dao friend"!
It made