Those who fell silent were not only Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long, but every court official within Qiankun Hall.
Even Prime Minister Wen Gang, who had long known of Ye Zhen's achievements, was still deeply shaken upon seeing the head of this Creation Realm Divine Being with his own eyes.
Across the entire Primordial Continent, Creation Realm Divine Beings were, to a certain extent, deterrent forces possessed by the various powers.
Yet Ye Zhen now possessed the power to kill such a deterrent force. How could the civil and military officials not be shocked?
Everyone had to reassess their relationship with Ye Zhen, and their distance from him!
Just like Dongyang Lige, the current Grand Priest of the Ancestral God Hall: after obtaining the strength of a Creation Realm Divine Being, he could easily become the Grand Priest of the Ancestral God Hall, becoming an existence detached from the worldly realm.
When everyone's martial strength was roughly equal, no one cared much about anyone else. But once one person possessed martial strength far surpassing all others, everything immediately became different.
At this moment, the bitterness at the corner of First Prince Ji Ao's lips deepened as well.
Now that Ye Zhen possessed the power to kill a Creation Realm Divine Being, First Prince Ji Ao knew very clearly that, under the present circumstances, making an enemy of Ye Zhen was an exceedingly foolish thing to do.
Tragically, he had already become Ye Zhen's mortal enemy!
Of course, the power to kill a Creation Realm Divine Being was not actually all that terrifying.
The imperial family controlled quite a few Creation Realm Divine Beings, not to mention the many Sacred Priests slumbering within the Great Zhou Ancestral God Hall. Which one of them was not a Creation Realm existence?
But a blade