Everyone in the great hall—whether they had only just learned Zhang Tie's identity or were seeing the Illusory Body Divine Bloodline for the first time—was dumbstruck by what had unfolded before their eyes.
Even the three elders of the Giant Bear Tribe, who had long known Zhang Tie's identity, stared agape when they saw him transform into another person before everyone's eyes for the first time. Zhang Tie had told them that he could alter his appearance, but they had never imagined that the disguise he spoke of, displayed openly, would be so utterly shocking.
A divine bloodline was called a divine bloodline because, in the eyes of the Hua Clan, it was the most unfathomable and awe-inspiring bloodline within their ancestral heritage, the one closest to the ancestors of the Hua Clan—and, from a certain perspective, closest to gods.
Beyond Great Xia, in lands untouched by the deep cultivation of Hua Clan culture, the shock brought by a divine bloodline was akin to a miracle.
For one person to transform into another before everyone's eyes was, in the legends of the Western Continent and the Slavs, an ability possessed only by gods—gods descended from the Divine Mountain or Heaven, where they ruled the world, entered the mortal realm in another's form, and bore demigods or heroes with mortal women. Those demigods and heroes possessed extraordinary powers, divine blood flowed through them, and they ruled the world on behalf of the gods, becoming its masters—such were the familiar scenes and plots of the epics and classical myths of the Slavs. Countless such tales had been passed down in Slavic traditional culture.
Yet now, such a scene had unfolded right before their eyes.
The extraordinary traits and omens at birth displayed by Zhang Tie's Illusory Body Divine Bloodline, and by one