In an immortal residence steeped in a grim, killing air, its sharp aura piercing the rainbow, Star Lord Jinde sat cross-legged on a plain white cushion. Wearing a jade crown, he cultivated in silence.
Suddenly, a mysterious presence swept past and vanished. It jolted him out of his cultivation.
"Someone has attained Heavenly Immortality?! Who?"
He was astonished. The Heavenly Court had hundreds of True Immortals, and almost every one of them had been stuck at the threshold of Heavenly Immortality for thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years!
Now someone had finally broken through!
"Rare! How rare!" he exclaimed.
The longer one remained stuck, the less likely a breakthrough became. Their insight and talent had already reached their limits. Without some heaven-sent opportunity, remaining stuck for hundreds of thousands of years was perfectly normal.
"Let's see who broke through—"
With a shift of thought, he followed the lingering trace of that mysterious presence. He looked up, his gaze piercing layer upon layer of cloud, and settled on—
"The Southern Demon-Slaying True Lord Manor?!"
Steady as he usually was, certain he would not flinch even if the sky fell, he could not help crying out.
"Huang Tian? How could it be him?"
He sprang to his feet. "Impossible! Only a few months ago, when he led an army against the Scorpion True Lord, I saw his cultivation. His power was only about ninety percent refined, nowhere near complete. Just three months have passed, and not only has he accumulated enough power, he's broken through?!"
He drew a quiet breath as a thought rose in his mind. "Could he have understood the threshold of Heavenly Immortality long ago, needing only to finish accumulating power before he could break through? But it's only been three or four years!"
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