The effect of No Light faded.
The square before the Imperial Ancestral Temple was once again bathed in sunlight.
Everyone once more saw two suns at the same time.
One hung in the distant Celestial Vault, radiating endless light and heat.
The other floated before Bao Bozhao, who lay flat on his back.
Farther away, Chao Yu, the Winter Silence Army's commanding general, was bracing himself against the ground with both hands, struggling to get back up.
A little farther still, Xie Baoshu, who had once been so full of life, remained sprawled on the ground, his fate unknown.
Not a sound could be heard.
Even before Bao Bozhao's No Light faded, many had already expected Chongxuan Zun to claim the final victory. After all, in their earlier exchanges, Xie Baoshu had been defeated so cleanly, and the peerlessly powerful General Ghost had been smashed apart... Chongxuan Zun had held the upper hand throughout.
But now that the moment had truly arrived...
There was nothing but shock!
The three Outer Tower experts who had been battered and scattered across the square were no mere Outer Tower cultivators brought in to make up the numbers. They were prodigies selected by the Great Qi Administration Hall, meant to represent their country at the Yellow River Assembly and contend with the prodigies of the various nations!
Of course, they were all still young, far from reaching the peak of their cultivation in the Outer Tower realm. They might not measure up to some older Outer Tower cultivators.
As a great power, Qi State would hardly be so shameless as to send older Outer Tower cultivators to a gathering of prodigies. Take Zheng Shi, Commander of the Northern Office, an Outer Tower cultivator who could enter Divine Presence at any moment but deliberately suppressed