The air before the valley of the Lei Clan's Demonic Lightning Pool completely froze at this moment.
All the low discussions and dissatisfied mutters abruptly stopped.
Everyone had no idea what was going on. Following the Grand Elders' gazes, they only saw that outsider youth named Lin Ming standing there quietly, waiting for something.
A deathly silence lasted for several full breaths.
Finally, a white-haired Grand Elder, his aura as deep as an abyss and vast as the sea, slowly rose. His voice carried a faint, almost imperceptible tremor as it broke the suffocating silence.
His eyes, which had weathered countless storms and had long since become as still as an ancient well, were fixed tightly on Lin Ming at this moment. Word by word, he spoke, his voice exploding like thunder beside the ears of every person present.
"Early... Stage... Four... Star... Dou... Saint?!"
When his voice fell, the entire place was deathly still.
The black-robed elder who had been about to speak and lecture him stood frozen with his mouth open, as if struck by a bolt of lightning from the nine heavens. His mind went blank, leaving only those words echoing wildly inside it.
Early Stage Four-Star Dou Saint?!
When he entered, this man had only been at the peak of One-Star Dou Saint!
But now, only eight months had passed in the outside world. Even if time flowed faster inside the Demonic Lightning Pool, at most, it would only add up to two years!
Yet in such a short time, he had actually crossed three stars in a row and reached Early Stage Four-Star Dou Saint?!
This... how was this possible?! This was the Dou Saint stage! Even in Dou Venerate, or even the Dou Ancestor Realm, crossing three stars in two years would be an