Hearing Bei Chen Zhenren's words, Yao Wenyuan couldn't help looking at the man whose cultivation had reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.
Seeing this, the man hurriedly replied, "Elder Yao, it's true. Judging by the power he unleashed at the time, he had already surpassed the Soul Departure Stage."
"His cultivation has most likely reached the Dividing Soul Stage!"
At that, Yao Wenyuan frowned. "The Dividing Soul Stage?"
"How is that possible? The All Heavens Seal suppresses the Outside World far more severely than it does our secret realm. Even now, the limit of power in the Outside World is only the late Soul Departure Stage."
"What's more, when you came out, I sensed that the limit of power in the Outside World was merely the peak of the Nascent Soul stage!"
"Then how could he have cultivated to the Dividing Soul Stage in the Outside World?"
He paused, then continued, "Even if we take it a step further and assume that man wasn't born and raised in the Outside World, but came from some secret realm just like us..."
"Even if he had reached the Dividing Soul Stage, under the suppression of the All Heavens Seal in the Outside World, he could at most have displayed the strength of the late Soul Departure Stage—even now."
"Let alone back then. How could he have wielded the power of the Dividing Soul Stage?"
"This..."
At that, the man hesitated too. He exchanged glances with the others beside him, then said, "I can't make sense of it either."
"But one thing is certain: we were completely helpless before him. And the aura he gave off really did seem to have reached the Dividing Soul Stage!"
Yao Wenyuan frowned in thought for a moment, then gave a soft snort. "Either your