At the sight of this, everyone present changed expression.
That old man had been a cultivator at the great perfection of the Mahayana stage, yet Lin Chuan had killed him in an instant. This was completely beyond everyone's expectations.
After all, the last time anyone had seen Lin Chuan make a move was during his battle with Lin An. But the two had not truly fought that time; every method they used had merely been meant to deceive the heavens and deal with the Lin Clan. Before that had been [Akatsuki]'s retaliatory strike against the imperial family—the Underworld Operation.
During that operation, Lin Chuan and the others had not yet possessed high cultivation. When facing Mahayana cultivators, they had needed to take detours. The forces they attacked either had few Mahayana cultivators, or those cultivators were away or absent from the city, allowing Lin Chuan and the others to exploit openings with spatial techniques.
But that also proved one thing: at that time, [Akatsuki] had still been quite wary of Mahayana cultivators and had been unable to inflict effective damage upon them.
Yet how long had it been? Before so many people, Lin Chuan had directly killed a cultivator at the great perfection of the Mahayana stage. Though he had caught his opponent off guard, it undeniably showed that Lin Chuan's strength had increased tremendously.
Thinking of the Mahayana-stage aura Bu Lianshi had released earlier, everyone could not help but speculate that Lin Chuan's cultivation had likely reached the Mahayana stage as well.
The thought alone filled them with dread.
An Azure Dragon Divine Envoy reaching the Mahayana stage was fundamentally different from anyone else reaching the Mahayana stage.
Everyone knew that every member of [Akatsuki] possessed exceptional talent and strength, capable of challenging opponents above their own level. Back