But Lin Qi, clad in a magnificent robe, simply flew up. He nodded to the noble and public representatives, then soared into the air above a mountain several hundred meters high and lightly seized it.
With a crack, the small mountain shuddered violently, then Lin Qi snapped it off at the waist and uprooted it.
There was no battle aura radiance, no magical fluctuation. Relying entirely on his freakish physical strength, Lin Qi uprooted a mountain before tens of thousands of people! A mountain made entirely of limestone, one capable of crushing every one of the tens of thousands present to death!
Lin Qi smiled faintly. He raised the heavy peak with both hands, then the muscles in his arms suddenly swelled, his sleeves tearing with sharp ripping sounds. He viciously hurled the enormous mountain away. Like a stone projectile flung by a catapult, it whistled over Golden Dragon City, over Egret Bay, and all the way out to the open sea beyond Port Vias.
With a boom, the small mountain fell into the sea, sending up a stretch of frothing white waves.
"Great gods!" the nobles and commoners present cried out at once.
On the Western Continent, Saint-realm great powers were already legendary beings. Very few knew that above the Saint realm, there was another tier of inhuman creatures known as demigods. Yet even when the occasional Saint-realm expert revealed themselves before ordinary nobles and commoners, they displayed no more than conventional feats of power—splitting apart a huge boulder, for example, or striking a Magic Beast dead with lightning.
Uprooting a mountain by brute force, then hurling it dozens of miles away—such a scene had never been imagined even by the most wildly audacious authors of children's novels on the Western Continent!
But that was not all. Amid the