Hearing this, a flicker of loss crossed the thin-robed woman's eyes.
Then her upright figure slowly sagged. She no longer resisted the powerful pull coming from every part of the true body before her.
Through the long years, she had always believed that if she stayed hidden long enough and kept the greater good in mind,
then even if she could not kill the true body deep within the Ten Thousand Demon Lair, she could at least escape Tiannan Continent, sealed by an Array like a prison.
But the facts proved she had been thinking too much.
Before absolute strength, every scheme hatched in the shadows would be mercilessly crushed.
"I submit!"
The thin-robed woman's muffled voice rang through the Tianyan Sect's Scripture Library amid crashing thunder.
Those words seemed to drain every last ounce of spirit from her.
Faced with the terrifying pressure of her true body, as though an immortal had descended, she could not summon the will to resist.
It was not that the thin-robed woman lacked courage, nor was it that she feared death.
It was the instinctive pressure born of a leap to a higher level of life.
Though Lü Shaoqi had not truly entered the Great Vehicle Realm, her flesh and Spiritual Power had long since undergone a qualitative transformation.
She had one foot across the threshold of the Great Vehicle Realm.
Unlike the thin-robed woman, whose strength had reached only Perfection in the Combining Dao Realm, she stood on an entirely different step of existence.
Before a terrifying being like her true body, one at Half-Step Great Vehicle Realm, creatures below the Great Vehicle Realm could scarcely muster the thought of opposing her.
Martial Dao cultivation, after all, meant looking up to heaven and down upon the earth.
Upon finally reaching Dao Integration,