At this very moment.
The entire Yuanwu City was so quiet that one could hear a needle drop.
Everyone present felt the absurd sensation that the whole world had fallen silent, an emptiness so terrifying that their hearts could barely take it, on the verge of bursting.
Pair after pair of eyes stared at Li Yun in utter horror.
They were also filled with awe.
Including Old Daoist Wuchen, Fairy Mei, and Zhang Chu.
No one had expected it. They had not even dared to imagine that Li Yun's strength could be this outrageous—that he was actually an Immortal Sovereign!
It was too unbelievable.
Too impossible to believe.
That was an Immortal Sovereign.
Although such beings had ceased to be unfamiliar after arriving in the Sacred Heaven Realm, and one could casually hear all sorts of rumors about Immortal Sovereigns almost anywhere, as though they were everywhere and nothing remarkable.
But those were, after all, merely rumors.
The reality was that many people never had the chance to see an Immortal Sovereign.
For Old Daoist Wuchen, Fairy Mei, and Zhang Chu, let alone an Immortal Sovereign, even catching a distant glimpse of an Immortal King was a luxury.
How could they have imagined that Li Yun, who had come out of the Ancient Celestial Continent with them—a real, flesh-and-blood person—would become an Immortal Sovereign after only a few decades?
They would not even dare dream such a dream.
No sleeping position could produce a dream that absurd.
It was simply outrageous.
And utterly unexpected.
It took Zhang Chu a long, long while to come back to his senses. He looked at Li Yun with excitement written all over his face.
"You... you really became an Immortal Sovereign?"
"Haha, no wonder you kept telling me not to be afraid. Li Yun...