One was a Daoist elder who had briefly returned to the peak.
The other was the Imperial Observatory Duty Officer who had once monitored the Abyss.
Both came from the homeland of countless ages ago, and both had once been prodigies who dazzled an entire era.
But strictly speaking,
Yuan Yu was more ancient than Yang Ling.
And more famous.
When Yang Ling was still an ordinary Awakened, Yuan Yu had already been a lofty Half-God.
The Abyss underwent a mutation.
The homeland fled.
Yang Ling encountered an accident on the road of escape.
In the end, he reincarnated many times.
This directly led to him not ascending to Half-God until after the middle of the Nether Era. By then, Yuan Yu had already fallen. After briefly ascending to Half-God, Yang Ling was contaminated by a god and had no choice but to seal away history and withdraw from that realm.
Who was stronger in the end?
By the logic of ordinary people, Yuan Yu was undoubtedly stronger!
Regardless of accumulation,
experience,
or the great battles she had endured,
Yuan Yu should have far surpassed Yang Ling, who had only just ascended before falling.
Normally speaking,
Yang Ling could not possibly defeat Yuan Yu.
However,
when the great battle erupted, the power Yang Ling displayed was completely different from that.
Even if his ascension was only temporary,
even if he had not remained in this realm for long,
the power he displayed
could actually rival Yuan Yu!
"No wonder."
"He can control a Taboo Weapon by himself."
Jiang Qiao thought to himself.
Even for the Daoist sect, Taboo Weapons could never be as common as cabbages, reduced to something everyone could own. Yang Ling had obtained a Taboo Weapon alone and even gained its recognition.
That alone explained everything.
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