Heavenly Tribulation

To be honest, Gao Xian felt that old man Xuanyang was a bit of a trap. Saving such vital news for the very end was just too absurd!

A Nascent Soul capable of slaying a Spirit Transformation cultivator in defiance of their realm—damn it, that sounded considerably stronger than him.

Though Gao Xian was confident, he did not dare claim he could slay a Spirit Transformation powerhouse. He had killed plenty of Spirit Transformation evil creatures, but those and actual Spirit Transformation experts were two entirely different concepts.

If the old man had told him earlier, he would definitely have saved his Humanity Aura to upgrade the Five Qi Wheel. A Five Qi Wheel that had reached the Grandmaster level would not fear a Spirit Transformation opponent in the slightest.

But saying it now was too late. To destroy the Six-Armed Heavenly Ghost, he had upgraded the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Flying Lightning Scripture first. Bringing that lightning art to the perfected realm was, of course, a tremendous boon.

It simply was not such a wise choice for the coming Nine Provinces Assembly.

Naturally, Gao Xian did not dare complain to Daoist Lord Xuanyang. The old man probably had no idea that he possessed the ability to rapidly upgrade secret arts on the spot.

Taichu, Taining, and Qingle were all wearing looks of shock. Golden Cores slaying Nascent Souls across realms were rare, but there were ultimately some precedents.

In their eyes, the gap between a top-tier Golden Core and an ordinary Nascent Soul was not all that vast. Gao Xian himself, for instance, had performed such a glorious feat.

But the distance between a Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation was simply too great. A Nascent Soul slaying a Spirit Transformation cultivator in defiance of their realm struck even these