"It's time I met them..."
Li Yun smiled faintly and rose to his feet.
Clouds churned over the summit of Crouching Dragon Mountain, and the mountain wind tugged at his plain robes. Just as he was about to step into the air and head toward Imperial Court Mountain, he sensed a piercing light streaking toward him through the clouds.
Li Yun looked up.
It was a golden gaze, shooting through the air from above Imperial Court Mountain thousands of miles away!
That gaze looked down on all things, bearing the absolute arrogance of a god regarding ants.
Li Yun smiled calmly. Unafraid, he focused his gaze and looked back.
His eyes met it without the slightest hint of retreat.
You call yourself a god looking down on ants? My gaze is a blade that can cut down gods!
In an instant.
The two gazes met across the distance...
There was no earth-shattering crash, yet it was as though two mighty torrents had collided.
Where their gazes met, tiny ripples formed in the void. The surrounding world spiritual energy was compressed, whipping up waves of force like raging seas that rolled toward both ends of the Purple Moon Continent.
At that moment.
Countless martial artists across the Purple Moon Continent were struck with profound horror.
Every last one of them.
Each felt as though they had fallen into an icy cavern. A chill seeped into their bones from every direction, making them tremble uncontrollably.
On Imperial Court Mountain, the Martial God in the Gilded Imperial Robe raised his brows slightly, surprise flickering in his eyes.
"Well now!"
"He does have something up his sleeve. To dare meet my gaze like that—his courage alone puts him far above those four ant-like Martial Deities from before!"
Gu Hengtong froze at those words, then