Yuanshi and Zhun Ti froze mid-tug-of-war.
The Sages watching the show were all stunned, too.
They looked up, utterly baffled.
"Hmm? This aura..."
Yuanshi Tianzun sensed it briefly.
The furious look on his face
bloomed into an intensely fervent, excited smile, like spring had arrived!
"Hahahaha!"
"It's Gongming! My Martial Nephew has broken through to the Quasi-Saint realm!"
Yuanshi Tianzun was so excited that he let go.
Clack!
He shoved the top-grade Houtian Spirit Treasure straight into Zhun Ti's arms.
With a grand sweep of his hand, he declared magnanimously,
"It's yours!"
"Take it. I'm in a good mood today, so consider it a reward!"
Zhun Ti held the treasure he'd just been shamelessly fighting to take.
Suddenly, he felt that... the treasure in his hands wasn't so appealing anymore.
He looked at Yuanshi, whose face was beaming,
then at Tongtian, who was grinning just as broadly beside him.
A bitter taste welled up in his heart.
"Honestly..."
Zhun Ti muttered glumly, full of resentment.
"Why are your Eastern disciples so lucky?"
"How do they break through just like that?"
"When will the Western Teachings ever produce a genius like this?!"
Just then,
Sect Master Tongtian suddenly sprang to his feet.
He stared fixedly at the sky above Shouyang Mountain.
Amid the vast pressure of a Quasi-Saint,
the fleeting phantom of an azure lotus, radiating endless chaos energy and bearing thirty-six petals, appeared and vanished.
Tongtian's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
Ignoring all dignity befitting a Sage, he let out a loud curse.
"Holy crap?!"
Laozi and Yuanshi jumped.
"Third Brother, what's with the sudden outburst?"
Sect Master Tongtian pointed at the sky.
His finger trembled violently.
His voice went shrill with sheer shock.
"C-Chaos Supreme Treasure, the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus!"
"That reckless fool!"
"He used