The entire starry sky fell silent.
The human Sovereigns and the lone wanderers watching from afar were equally stunned.
The sight was too shocking. In mere dozens of breaths, everything had changed. The alien coalition that had been so fierce and murderous moments ago was annihilated in the blink of an eye. Not a single body remained—not even a scrap of flesh or bone!
"Four Transcendents and dozens of Sovereigns, dead just like that?!" murmured a Sovereign from the Origin Enlightenment True Martial Academy, his expression dazed.
His whisper jolted everyone awake, and the crowd erupted!
"Ji Mang, the strongest in the universe, was killed so easily!"
"Was Taiyi Sovereign really only a Sovereign? That strength was absurd—"
"The key was that five-element secret art. It felt beyond even the Ninth Stage. Could it have reached the legendary realm of transcendence?"
"But does transcendence truly exist? Is there a Tenth Stage above the Ninth?"
"That five-element secret art was certainly far stronger than an ordinary Ninth Stage art, but it's hard to say whether it reached the Tenth Stage. After all, we don't even know if the Tenth Stage exists—"
As the Sovereigns debated in low voices, Huang Tian stood high above them and looked into the distance. More than a dozen Sovereigns and one Transcendent stood there, all lone wanderers of the starsea.
"Taiyi Sovereign!" His gaze swept over them, and the wanderers, who had intended to watch the tigers fight from the safety of the mountain, felt their hearts skip. They hurriedly bowed to him from afar.
Even the strongest among them, Black Sea Transcendent, was deeply respectful. In fact, he showed more deference than the Sovereigns present.
The reason was simple. Four of the five peak races had fallen, leaving humanity alone at the top. But that