Inside the main hall, whether it was Xiao, Lie Yu, Yu Wuming, and the other three Hall Masters, or Gu Yue, whom Ye Zhen had knocked to the ground and held motionless beneath the Great Force Hammer suspended above his head, all were deeply shocked by the strength Ye Zhen had displayed today.
Even First Hall Master Su Chilun, seated across from Ye Zhen with a cup in hand, could not hide the astonishment in his eyes.
The strength Ye Zhen had shown today was simply too formidable!
It was not that these five Hall Masters were fools, or that they knew nothing of the outside world.
On the contrary, because they had all sent disciples to the battlefield, Su Chilun and the others understood Ye Zhen's strength.
Some among them had even carefully watched the Imprint Jade Slip recording Ye Zhen's battle against Ao Qin, Gu Yue among them.
They had a rough estimate of Ye Zhen's strength.
In a suitable environment, Ye Zhen, who had cultivated the killing art known as the Sunset Divine Shot, possessed combat power close to that of a peak Creation Realm Divine Being—perhaps even slightly greater.
But that was all!
Without the Sunset Divine Shot, Ye Zhen was merely a powerful Dao Realm cultivator. If he could unleash the combat power of an Early-stage Creation Realm Divine Being, that would already be the limit.
That was precisely why Gu Yue had dared to provoke Ye Zhen today.
Though Gu Yue's cultivation was only at the Late-stage Creation Realm Divine Being level, he came from the Mystic Gate Sect and possessed countless Divine Abilities and Secret Arts. Out in the open wilderness, he might have needed to deal with Ye Zhen cautiously.
But within this hundred-meter main hall of the North Sea Prefecture Duke's