"You... you broke through... No! You were already a Transcendent?"
Zhe Jing's humanoid body trembled incessantly. Its transparent, smooth surface heaved continuously, making the shock in his heart plain to see.
In his understanding, breaking through to Transcendence in such a short instant was utterly impossible.
As a genius of the Cosmic Cube who had climbed step by step from the Cosmic Realm to his current position, he naturally understood how difficult it was to break through to the Transcendence Realm.
Back then, he had cultivated for less than five hundred million years before breaking through to the Cosmic Realm.
Moreover, he had comprehended the Space Great Dao at the same time as his breakthrough, becoming a special kind of Cosmic Realm existence.
At the time, all the Transcendent Powers had been convinced by his talent.
They believed that his potential was no worse than that of the living beings who had achieved the Cosmic Realm within the River of Time.
He might even have surpassed them.
Yet even he, with such peerless talent, had spent nearly ten quadrillion years cultivating from the Cosmic Realm to the Transcendence Realm.
If the Cosmic God of that era had not thought highly of him and supported him with all his might, finding him a ten-quadrillion-year-old Life-Generating Fruit,
Zhe Jing could never have broken through to the Transcendence Realm relying on his own lifespan alone.
The wondrous methods connected to the higher-dimensional Great Dao were already as difficult as ascending to the heavens to comprehend one.
Not to mention that breaking through to the Transcendence Realm required comprehending five.
How could Shen Lin have accomplished in an instant what had taken him ten quadrillion years?
Then there was only one answer: he had already been a Transcendent, and had been hiding his strength