Silence.
Throughout the Supreme Academy, everywhere the countless beings of the universe's Five Great World Seas could see, a falling pin would have been heard.
Scalps prickled.
Breaths stopped.
That was a Dao Venerable.
One of the seven mightiest and most exalted beings in the entire universe.
A being who stood at the pinnacle of cultivation.
Each was a true legend, spanning the river of time and looking down upon countless cultivators.
On paper, their cultivation realm was still the same as that of ordinary World Lords and Extreme Dao Dao-Merging World Lords.
But everyone knew they no longer existed on the same level!
Killing Zeng Tianyao had already shattered their understanding of what was possible.
Clashing head-on with Qin Batian, a Dao-Merging World Lord who had fused with the Seven Law Powers, had gone beyond imagination, like dropping a ten-thousand-pound boulder into a lake.
But now?!
"On an occasion like this..."
"Even if a Dao Venerable goes a little too far—or truly goes too far..."
"How... how does he dare?"
Even the more than thirty thousand Cosmic Level Heavenly Chosen on the Supreme Stage were trembling.
Especially those from the Seven Core Star Domains.
It was precisely because they had been born in the Seven Core Star Domains that they trembled!
For Dao Venerables were far too transcendent, far too powerful!
They stood above all else!
The tides of creation could surge, and prodigies of endless brilliance could rise, yet the seven still looked down upon them all!
"He dared to brush off a Dao Venerable to his face, here and now."
"He's courting death!!"
This was no longer about how monstrous Su Ye's talent was!
The dread filling their hearts, and their reverence for Dao Venerables themselves, threatened to overwhelm everything.
Even their shock and disbelief at Su