The black-robed man dissolved into nothingness.
His soul scattered, utterly destroyed.
Chen Lin reached out and swept up all the spoils, then gazed at the figures around him.
Silence.
Everyone stood frozen in place.
Even the Mist Lord's and Hong Tingzhen's eyelids twitched uncontrollably.
The aura the black-robed man had displayed undoubtedly placed him in the eternal realm. Moreover, to survive a strike from the World-Extinguishing Talisman, he had to be at least in the mid-eternal realm.
Yet he had not even had a chance to fight back.
This was no longer a difference in strength. It was complete and utter suppression.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The distant figures vanished one after another. In an instant, more than half were gone.
Some, however, were not frightened off and instead approached.
"You must be Fellow Daoist Chen Lin. Truly, a rising star! You put us old fossils, clinging to our last breaths, to shame!"
A skeletal old woman came before Chen Lin, studied him, and sighed in admiration.
"You flatter me, Senior."
Chen Lin cupped his hands.
He had already achieved his goal of establishing his might. There was no need to keep giving them the cold shoulder. These old fossils possessed all manner of trump cards and were hardly easy to handle.
He had merely taken advantage of his high-dimensional methods earlier. Now that those methods had been exposed, they would no longer produce such overwhelming results.
"It is no flattery."
The old woman shook her head.
"I can see that you are also an eternal expert. You used energy exceeding the limits of this world, yet suffered little suppression. That flame, in particular, seemed entirely unaffected. Could you tell me how you accomplished that?"
Chen Lin did not answer.
He could do this because he had not undergone the convergence