In a corner of the Big Dipper Star Region, amid the starry cosmos, Gai Jiuyou's aura rose and rose after he consumed the Divine Phoenix Undying Elixir, before gradually subsiding.
When he opened his eyes, the divine light flashing within them annihilated the void before him. Gai Jiuyou shifted his gaze toward Adam.
"What? Although the Azure Emperor's Dao has yet to disperse and you are still a ninth-level Quasi-Emperor, you have returned to your peak. Want to see whether you can wash away your past humiliation?"
Adam raised an eyebrow.
"...Ahem. How could this old man repay kindness with enmity?"
To be honest, Gai Jiuyou had indeed entertained such thoughts just now, but after considering it carefully, he decided against it.
Huiming might have seemed to rely on an Emperor Weapon to defeat him, but in truth, it was that abnormally vast Magical Power, that abnormally powerful body, those abnormally strange divine arts... that were the true keys.
He simply could not be judged by ordinary standards.
For an ordinary cultivator, even a Great Saint wielding an Emperor Weapon would have had to obediently endure a beating when facing him with a Quasi-Emperor Weapon in hand.
Even if a Quasi-Emperor was not a Great Emperor, the word "Emperor" was still in the title. A single wisp of killing intent was enough to crush an ordinary Great Saint to death. Even a fully awakened Emperor Weapon was no match for a Quasi-Emperor.
Yet although he had not intended to kill before, he had still used a Quasi-Emperor Weapon and the Immortal Song of Tribulation. In the end, under such circumstances, he was still the one who got beaten...
And he had a feeling that the kid had yet to reveal his true trump card!
To prevent himself from suffering a