Yama City was utterly silent.
Beneath that white chess piece, the entire Yama City had been reduced to ruins by that incomparably terrifying force.
Even the physical body of Yama Gate's sect master had been directly annihilated.
Not even ashes remained.
The army of over a hundred thousand had suddenly fallen utterly silent.
One had to know that with over a hundred thousand people, there should at least have been some faint noise. Yet beneath that white chess piece, they had been forcibly rendered utterly silent.
Even Wang Hu, a late-stage Seventh Stage Immortal expert, could not help swallowing hard.
"Is this the power of the Human Emperor Sect?!"
Wang Hu was certain that within several thousand miles, only Gu Wuji had come. No one else was there at all.
In other words, that heaven-reaching method just now had clearly been unleashed by an expert of the Human Emperor Sect, who had killed Yama Gate's sect master—already promoted to Eighth Stage Immortal—from thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands of miles away.
Such terrifying strength...
Several words surfaced in Wang Hu's mind.
Ninth Stage Supreme!
Though Wang Hu had never seen a Ninth Stage Supreme expert, he was certain that an Eighth Stage Immortal venerable was nothing more than an ant in the eyes of a Ninth Stage Supreme expert.
Wang Hu's heart began to stir.
"His Highness truly is a man blessed with immense fortune!"
Back then, Xia Yun's Holy Emperor fortune had been stolen, and Xia Yun himself had become crippled. Not only was he unable to cultivate, he also had to endure the corrosion of the Holy Emperor Poison every day.
Had it not been for the Great Xia Emperor—Xia Yun's father, a peak Seventh Stage Immortal expert—personally tending to Xia Yun's body, Xia Yun might already have