Li Yun appeared in an instant, his easy smile dispelling the immense pressure left by the strange phenomena that had filled heaven and earth.
But Saint Emperor Guangling's heart still trembled. He could not calm himself for a long time. Staring at Li Yun, who looked far too young, he spoke in utter disbelief.
"Fellow Daoist Li, your breakthrough... it's truly earth-shattering!"
"A three-hundred-and-ninety-nine-zhang Emperor Nature! Since time immemorial, when has the Saint Emperor Realm ever seen anything so terrifying?"
"For an ordinary Saint Emperor, ninety-nine zhang is the ceiling, the limit of all ages. You didn't just break that limit as easily as drinking water—you refined your Emperor Nature as though you were cultivating an ordinary Sage's Cultivation Technique..."
He drew a deep breath and suppressed his surging emotions, his eyes full of curiosity and bewilderment.
"I truly can't help asking: how exactly did you cultivate?"
"Could there be some secret trick to cultivating Emperor Nature that no one knows about?"
Truthfully, he should not have asked that question.
He knew it himself.
It came dangerously close to prying into another person's cultivation secrets.
But he could not help himself.
No Saint Emperor in the world could witness a three-hundred-and-ninety-nine-zhang Emperor Nature with his own eyes and remain unmoved.
As a Saint Emperor himself, he knew how difficult refining Emperor Nature was.
Every zhang of growth came from tempering one's Dao Foundation ten thousand times and enduring the passage of countless years. Worse, there was a limit—a limit almost impossible to break.
Li Yun smiled at his words.
"That's where you're wrong. The belief that ninety-nine zhang has been the limit for Saint Emperors since time immemorial is a misconception."
"Otherwise, why would there be Saint Emperors in the Hengwu Domain today who've surpassed ninety-nine zhang?"
"If it can