Inside the Main Hall, a falling needle could have been heard.
Li Yun's words—"I've climbed to the hundredth step of the Martial Dao Ladder. I'm only one step away from becoming a Martial Saint"—struck every Martial Emperor's heart like thunder from the ninth heaven, jolting their thoughts to a standstill.
Everyone stood frozen, eyes wide and faces blank, their minds unable to grasp what he had said.
The hundredth step of the Martial Dao Ladder?
An Ultimate Martial God?
Only one step away from becoming a Martial Saint?
They had spent their lives struggling toward the Martial Deity Realm, the very ceiling of Blue Star's Martial Dao world. Yet Li Yun had already passed beyond it, reached the pinnacle of Martial God, and risen to a height they could not even imagine.
No wonder he could casually guide Xiao Dingtian into breaking through to Martial Deity. No wonder he could calmly plan the earthshaking union of two worlds. No wonder he carried himself with such commanding ease at his age.
They had never been on the same level to begin with.
Only after a long moment did ragged breaths sound around the hall. The dozen or so Martial Emperors looked at Li Yun with more than reverence and fervor now. Their gazes held awe, shock, and even a trace of submission from the depths of their souls.
Shen Qingyun and Shen Qingyi both trembled violently. They exchanged a glance and saw the same boundless shock in each other's eyes.
When they had destroyed the Divine Domain branch together, Li Yun had been powerful, but still within the bounds of what they could understand. After such a short time apart, he had reached the pinnacle of the Martial Dao and become the strongest person on all of Blue Star.
Everything that