At Xu Huaiyan's words, everyone present shuddered again!
Then, as if by tacit agreement, they all looked toward Yaoli once more, their eyes filled with disbelief.
"C-could it really be as Xu Tianzun said? This woman... is an immortal who ascended to immortality in the 'Human World'?" Someone swallowed with difficulty and asked in a trembling voice.
The people around them fell silent.
They had no idea what to say. To them, Xu Huaiyan's guess was no less than a tale from the Arabian Nights. But Yaoli had already admitted it herself: her cultivation had indeed surpassed the peak of Mahayana.
And Song Muyang and Xu Huaiyan, two Earth Immortal Giants in the Late Stage of Mahayana, had both declared that Yaoli's power was beyond what anyone at the peak of Mahayana could possess.
If Yaoli wasn't an immortal, then what was she?
"Perhaps... she really is a true immortal who ascended in the 'Human World'! But if that's the case, then what kind of existence must her master be?"
After a long while, someone finally spoke again.
But his words only left everyone else even more at a loss.
By all rights, if even her disciple had become an immortal in the "Human World," then her master's cultivation couldn't possibly be lower. Yet the thought that Ning Wangshu and Yaoli might both be immortals made their scalps prickle!
Even the unrelated cultivators were shaken, to say nothing of Yan Ciyun and the people of the Qianyuan Dao Sect.
Yaoli took in everyone's reaction. She glanced at Song Muyang and Xu Huaiyan, then at Ning Wangshu beside her, before saying coolly, "Although I would very much like to have become an immortal in the 'Human World,' unfortunately, I'm still half a step short of true immortality."
"Still, even though I