Thud!
With a soft sound, the entire Dragon Gate Stone Platform, along with the Ten Thousand Zhang Dragon Palace below it, shook violently as his step fell.
Under the dead-silent gaze of the entire crowd, Chen Changqing walked beneath the high platform.
He raised his head, his calm gaze meeting that of Clan Chief Long Gan.
Then, he slowly opened his palm, revealing a Jade Pendant gleaming with flowing light, entwined by dragon and phoenix.
The Immortal Artifact, the "Dragon-Phoenix Auspicious Pendant," lay quietly in his palm.
"Clan Chief Long Gan!" Chen Changqing spoke. His voice was not loud, yet it reached every ear with perfect clarity.
"I wonder whether this work of mine meets the requirements?"
"Does this junior count as having passed?"
As his words fell—
It was as though someone had pressed pause on the entire world.
Every expression froze completely at that moment.
On the high platform, a Dragon Clan elder subconsciously stroked his beard. He used too much force and tore out a small tuft, making the corners of his mouth twitch in pain—yet he did not notice it at all.
In Area No. 8, the young man surnamed Chu had only just regained a trace of color in his face when it instantly turned deathly pale again. His mouth hung open, and rasping sounds came from his throat, like a fish tossed onto shore.
At the edge of the Stone Platform, countless gifted prodigies and monstrous talents stood petrified where they were.
Passed?
You were asking whether this counted as passing?
Before all of us, you used ordinary iron as a foundation and forged an Immortal Artifact on the spot!
You summoned the legendary nine-colored Immortal Artifact tribulation, something that was said to exist only in tales!
You treated heavenly tribulation like iron to