The battle lasted no more than a quarter of an hour before the dust had settled. It ended so quickly that many of the watching cultivators had not even reacted. Some who had been farther away had not yet arrived when it was already over.
"With the strength of the [Akatsuki] organization, how many forces in the entire Ancient Immortal Realm can still contend with them?" someone remarked grimly.
Many people deeply agreed, nodding one after another. Those thunderous methods had long surpassed the limits of what a mere organization could possess.
Although the Ancient Immortal Realm was completely isolated from the Central River Continent, the major powers of the Central River Continent were basically major powers here as well, holding absolute authority. When judging the force behind someone, people still looked at the foundation they possessed in the Central River Continent. It was the easiest way to judge.
Take the Three Purities Dao Sect, for example. Though their strongest members could not enter the Ancient Immortal Realm, their strength here was still that of a first-rate cultivation power. No one dared underestimate them.
Yet the existence of [Akatsuki] had shattered that conventional understanding.
In the Central River Continent, [Akatsuki] had some reputation, but compared with the foundations accumulated by the major powers over countless years, as well as their reserves of powerful high-level cultivators, [Akatsuki] did not even rank among them.
But in the world of the Ancient Immortal Realm, [Akatsuki] possessed strength fully comparable to any first-rate cultivation power.
They might not have any Body Fusion cultivators, but together they had been able to kill Body Fusion cultivators. They might not possess deep and powerful inheritances, yet the number of immortal artifacts under their control was enough to leave people dumbfounded. If anyone still regarded such an organization