[Amid the roiling, heavy thunderclouds, a powerful dragon claw tore through the clouds and descended with a thunderous crash!]
[The gulf between the eighth and seventh tiers was laid bare at that moment.]
[Even a mere phantom dragon claw radiated an incomparable, overwhelming pressure.]
[Gu Changqing had not attacked the other demons, yet the aura pouring toward you alone left the demons all around trembling with fear, barely able to control themselves.]
[For many years, the two marquises of Azure Sea Lake, Gu Changze and Gu Changqing, had rarely revealed their eighth-tier power.]
[Only now did everyone truly experience the difference between the eighth and seventh tiers-a chasm as vast as heaven itself.]
[A mere wisp of escaping aura pressed down upon all beings, instinctively compelling them to submit.]
[Such was the immense difference between possessing a fruit status and lacking one. From the first through the seventh tier, cultivators relied on cultivation methods, talent, and arduous training to establish their foundations, without yet needing to comprehend or anchor themselves to a fruit status.]
[But to reach the eighth tier, they had to use a fruit status spiritual object to complete their transformation and break free of their former realm's shackles.]
[Once they touched the great Dao of fruit status, they transcended the heavenly limit imposed on mortal cultivators and ascended to a higher level of cultivation, as though anchoring their Dao bodies to heaven and earth.]
[A single stirring thought, a single wisp of aura, could shake mountains and rivers and overturn heaven and earth!]
[No matter how invincible Gu Xing had appeared with his seventh-tier cultivation, he seemed utterly fragile beneath the eighth-tier dragon claw.]
[Gu Rui finally rallied his spirits and recovered from his earlier shock. "Gu Xing, so what if you've revealed such talent? In the