Shock filled both Mu Yunshu and Mu Chen's eyes. They realized that although they had known Lin Chuan for quite some time and had read countless reports about him, he still seemed unfathomable to them.
Lin Chuan was only at the Integration Stage now. If he one day reached the Mahayana Stage, or even the Tribulation Stage, then perhaps no one in the entire cultivation world would be his match.
That single illusion technique capable of controlling others was enough to make cultivators throughout the cultivation world tremble at his name.
That was a cultivator at the Great Perfection Mahayana Stage. So long as no Tribulation Stage cultivator appeared, Shadow was invincible. One had to know that there were not many Great Perfection Mahayana Stage cultivators in the entire cultivation world. Just having one was enough to make a force a solid second-tier cultivation power.
And now, [Akatsuki] not only had Shadow, a Great Perfection Mahayana Stage cultivator, but also a Great Perfection Thunder Breathing Beast and a statue puppet. It was fully qualified to be called a second-tier cultivation power, and even among second-tier cultivation powers, it stood at the very peak.
"The Central River Imperial Family still underestimated [Akatsuki]," Mu Yunshu said softly.
"If the Central River Imperial Family wants to wipe out [Akatsuki] in the Southern Bright Continent, they will have to pay a price far beyond what they imagined—and they may not even succeed," Mu Chen said.
After subduing Shadow, Lin Chuan was in an excellent mood. This assault by the major Central River forces had practically been a delivery of heads. First, they had sent him three people to practice on, then they had sent him a Shadow they had painstakingly cultivated. Naturally, Lin Chuan gladly accepted them all. He just wondered what the Central