The instant his words fell, Chen Qing held nothing back. The thirteenth layer of the Great Void True Scripture roared to life within him!
"Boom—!!"
A vast and surging fluctuation of True Essence soared into the sky from within his body!
True Essence burst through his body as though it were tangible, forming visible rings of Qi Waves around him. His long hair stirred without wind, and his robes snapped loudly.
The entire Seventieth Floor trembled faintly beneath this imposing aura!
"Oh?"
Surprise surfaced in the Ancestor Projection's eyes.
He looked Chen Qing up and down, his gaze like lightning, as if he intended to see straight through him.
"Thirteenth Refinement... True Essence solidifying into a sea..."
He murmured to himself, "At last, someone from the Tianbao Supreme Sect has cultivated this Great Void True Scripture to the Thirteenth Refinement."
The last time Chen Qing had challenged the tower, he had only undergone the Eleventh Refinement. Though his foundation had been robust, there had still been a clear gap between him and this projection at the peak of the Thirteenth Refinement.
But now—
"Bzzzt!"
The Ancestor Projection no longer held back either, similarly circulating his cultivation technique.
An equally vast surge of True Essence poured forth from his body!
Like a tide, the True Essence spread outward, crashing violently into Chen Qing's True Essence at the center of the space!
"Honglong—!!!"
Two forces that had both reached the limits of the True Origin Realm collided, yet instead of producing an earth-shattering blast, they gave rise to an utterly muffled rumble.
At the boundary where the two surges of True Essence met, a vacuum formed.
The two stood thirty yards apart, their gazes meeting in midair.
Time seemed to have frozen at that moment.
Yet the surprise in the Ancestor Projection's