"This is your punishment. If you dare show this old man disrespect again, I will cut you down without mercy."
As the calm words rang out, the area beyond the mountain gate immediately fell silent. Even the mountain wind abruptly ceased, and one could hear a pin drop.
Several Soul Que Sect cultivators felt their breathing grow labored, their chests constricted, as if an incomparably vast pressure had wrapped around their entire bodies. They could not move, as though they had lost control of their own bodies.
With that single move, the several Soul Que Sect cultivators already understood that, apart from a Mahayana cultivator, it was impossible for the middle-aged cultivator before them to be an existence of the same tier.
Although the Profound Tier peak and Mahayana stage were separated by only a thin layer of paper, it seemed that one could advance to the Mahayana stage with just one more breakthrough. However, the two realms were worlds apart, with a qualitative difference between them. Whether in the energy within the body or in comprehension of the artistic conception of the Heaven and Earth laws, the gap between them was simply beyond imagination.
To contend against a Mahayana cultivator with the strength of the Profound Tier peak was nothing but a fool's dream.
Even Qin Fengming, before undergoing the Mahayana Heavenly Tribulation, could only passively endure a Mahayana cultivator's attacks despite possessing twin Profound Soul spiritual bodies. He simply could not truly engage one in a sustained battle. Although he had once genuinely slain a Mahayana cultivator, that had been under special circumstances, when the two sides had fought solely with their physical bodies and could not use their own magical powers or divine abilities.
If they had truly fought with divine abilities, Qin Fengming at the Profound