Within the void, two towering figures manifested, ripples of spatial law swirling around them. They were Kong Tian and Kong Fa, the Void Sacred Spirit Clan's two First-Grade Imperial Lords.
"What is he doing?!" Imperial Lord Kong Fa's voice carried a trace of incredulous fury. "He wants to devour Kong Ming's Dao Fruit and break through to the first grade?"
"He's mad, utterly mad!" Imperial Lord Kong Tian's expression was terrifyingly dark as well. "What does he think a First-Grade Imperial Lord is? A stone by the roadside? Something he can reach with a casual kick?"
They were Imperial Lords, beings who stood at the pinnacle of the Realm Sea and the sacred path. Their knowledge was extraordinarily vast.
Yet the scene before them still exceeded the bounds of their understanding.
A junior who had only just entered the second grade actually intended to devour the remains of a Great Sage who had condensed a first-grade Dao Fruit immediately after a battle, using it to accomplish the feat of ascending to heaven in a single step?
What arrogance! What ignorance!
"He will die."
Imperial Lord Kong Fa delivered his verdict coldly, yet his tone carried a trace of dread that even he failed to notice.
"Forcing a breakthrough to the first grade just after entering the second, with an unstable foundation and insufficient comprehension, can only end one way. His Dao Fruit will shatter, his Divine Soul will be annihilated, and he will dissolve completely into the Dao, without even a chance at reincarnation."
Imperial Lord Kong Tian did not disagree.
Only they themselves truly understood how difficult it was to cross the heavenly chasm between the second and first grades.
Back then, both of them had been Prodigies the Void Sacred Spirit Clan saw only once in ten million