Countless prodigies of astonishing talent had exhausted their entire lives, yet could only stare helplessly from outside that threshold.
Wang Xuan's talent, however, defied all reason.
With the Heaven-Stele Profound Art in his body, he had reached the destination in a single step, forcibly pushing the Supreme Ancestral God to Perfection.
And now, he had long since crossed that step. With one final push, he stood at the Half-Step Emperor realm—a realm that even the Kings would go mad for.
He could not be bothered to explain himself to Langya.
Myriad Divine Laws surged from between his brows like a tide, pouring into that divine soul and refining it inch by inch, erasing the consciousness within.
At almost the same moment, on the Eighty-First Step, that pool of Crystal-Clear and Brilliant Stone King Blood rapidly dimmed.
"Buzz..."
Streams of divine power refined to the extreme rose from the blood pool and shattered stone, then rolled back into Wang Xuan's body.
The Sage Thief silently began circulating.
Glittering white light flowed, refining the entire essence of a Stone King of Perfection's lifelong cultivation and turning it into the purest potential, which trickled into the three hundred and sixty-five Divine Acupoints, filling that vast Potential Ocean.
"I refuse to accept this!!"
Langya went completely berserk, erupting with a heaven-shaking roar of Divine Sense that carried the final fury of a King and swept across the entire Otherworld.
In an instant, the mountains and rivers, the earth, the lakes, and the seas of the Otherworld all resonated with that roar of divine consciousness, trembling in response.
Billions of living beings clutched their heads and fell to their knees, wearing the same grief and despair on their faces.
But what could his refusal to accept it change?
Under the cleansing of the Myriad Divine