Muzi Li was just as astonished. Hanyu's transformation seemed to have caught him by surprise.
Or perhaps it wasn't the first time Hanyu had surprised him.
The last time, the Fire Phoenix Dharma Idol had withstood three full-force attacks from Meng Yun. That alone had been astonishing enough.
A cultivator overcoming an opponent despite the odds was understandable, but for it to happen between people in the Divine Way Realm was absolutely impossible.
The gap between cultivators in the Divine Way Realm could already be like heaven and earth, let alone the gap between someone in that realm and someone outside it.
Even if Hanyu might be infinitely close to the Divine Way Realm, he was still just a little short.
So the real oddity lay with his Dharma Idol. It was capable of infinitely narrowing the gap between them.
The only explanation was that Hanyu's Dharma Idol was extremely powerful. In their terms, Hanyu's Dao Seed was superior.
Wasn't Muzi Li himself able to make up the difference between him and Hun Bugui because his five-colored radiance could hold its own against his opponent?
At that very moment, as Muzi Li thought back on Su Xiaoxiao's words, he even found himself wondering whether Hanyu might be the Heavenly Dao Sect's hidden trump card.
He wasn't the only one with such suspicions. Hun Bugui felt the same way.
He couldn't make sense of Hanyu's Dharma Idol, but he sensed the presence of more than one divine ability within it.
A multielemental divine ability!
This was a problem with cultivators that the Holy Cult had always sought to overcome. Could the Heavenly Dao Sect have actually succeeded?
Under ordinary circumstances, he would have wanted to take Hanyu back and study him thoroughly.
But in the present situation, Muzi Li probably wouldn't