"Crack—"
Hua Yunfei's Dao Heart shattered, sending the Great Dao of the Heavenly Vault into mourning. The sky darkened, not a ray of light in sight.
Looking at Hua Yunfei, blood trickling from the space between his brows and his breath faint as a thread, everyone felt a pang of regret. Even Emperor Xuan War Emperor, War Emperor Tian Ye, and Ming Huang Heavenly Venerate wore somber expressions.
The three of them had once been young, too, and had once swept across the world with boundless ambition. Looking at Hua Yunfei, they seemed to see their former selves.
A Dao Heart was truly crucial to a young person still "growing by leaps and bounds." With his Dao Heart shattered, Hua Yunfei's state of mind would never again be whole. It would also be difficult for him to enter deep states of enlightenment, and all manner of cultivation would be hindered.
In the worst case, he would never recover from this. Unable to rebuild his Dao Heart, he would spend the rest of his life achieving nothing.
On the eve of the great battle, Hua Yunfei had shown the extraordinary power of an unparalleled Heavenly Prodigy, forcing a host of veteran powerhouses to bow their heads. To possess such strength at so young an age was truly beyond imagination. He deserved the title of Young Hegemon Grade.
How many Heavenly Prodigies like him had there been in all of ancient history?
"His achievements today could contend with Dao Wushuang for the title of greatest of all time," Leo murmured.
He had been the first to suffer a grievous wound at Hua Yunfei's hands, so he knew firsthand. If not for the Ancient Ancestor's Edict, and if not for the arrival of three Peak Quasi-Hegemon Level powerhouses, they would all have been