"'Tang Shan? How are you unharmed? ... Huh, your aura?"
The man who flew into the Heavenly Extreme Temple's innermost office was the Jade-Faced Heavenly God, arriving in haste.
He was the man Tang Shan had previously addressed as "Uncle Kun."
The moment he appeared,
he saw Tang Shan standing atop the stairs.
Not only was Tang Shan unharmed,
but his aura
actually gave him a faint sense of danger.
Worse, a pressure born of their bloodline
made the Jade-Faced Heavenly God's breathing grow ragged.
And
he discovered that Tang Shan's martial aura had changed.
In a single day, Tang Shan had broken through an entire major realm
and reached the peak of the Heavenly God realm... No, he was even stronger.
He had to be... a half-step God King!
That was why the Jade-Faced Heavenly God cried out.
"Impudent! Jade-Faced, you dare address me by name? Do you know your crime?!"
Faced with the Jade-Faced Heavenly God's startled cry,
Tang Shan did not answer. Instead, he barked a cold rebuke!
At once,
the Jade-Faced God King felt his own presence diminish.
In fact,
Tang Shan now made him feel as though he stood before the master of the Limit Divine Court.
That authority
was even more imposing than Eldest Young Master Tang Feng's.
In the past,
although he had respectfully called Tang Shan "Little Grandmaster,"
the Jade-Faced Heavenly God had looked down on him in his heart.
In fact,
this time, he had volunteered to intercept and kill Tang Shan
to protect the eldest young master's reputation
and spare the Blue Silver Clan an embarrassing loss of face.
So
he had long since stopped treating Tang Shan as the court master's son.
To him, Tang Shan was merely a pawn that could be discarded at any time.
That
was