Bai Ye's true body gave a slight nod, a faint, indifferent smile curling at the corners of his lips. His eyes held the clarity and depth that came after his breakthrough.
"It was merely one milestone completed along the path of cultivation."
"Your Dao rhythm has also grown increasingly condensed lately. You're only one step away from the Immortal Emperor Realm."
At his words, the light in the doppelganger's eyes brightened.
He could clearly sense the terrifying aura surrounding the true body after his breakthrough, an aura that had merged with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
Just drawing near to him had made the doppelganger's comprehension of the Great Dao several degrees clearer!
After a brief pause, Bai Ye's true body's expression turned solemn. He told the doppelganger, one by one, about the strange upheaval he had encountered after breaking through to the Immortal Emperor Realm.
"Just after I successfully attained the Immortal Emperor Realm, a mysterious force forcibly dragged me into a Gray-White Space. There was a Gray-White Transparent Gate reaching from heaven to earth, along with over a hundred Immortal Emperor Grade Mysterious Creatures that controlled all kinds of Great Daos. Their forms varied, yet all carried the aura of life-and-death Reincarnation and transcendence beyond the Six Realms."
"They tried to force me through that gate. I fought them for three hundred years and slew them all. After those creatures died, they transformed into streams of light that merged into the gate, and a will of liberation came from within."
His tone was calm, but the doppelganger listened with his heart pounding.
More than a hundred Immortal Emperor Grade existences had surrounded him?
Such danger was so immense that even a newly ascended Immortal Emperor might not have emerged unscathed.
"When you break through, there's a