Zou Feng had been playing along with the Jade Lake Queen Mother. For one thing, he had lacked the strength to turn against her whenever he pleased.
For another, he had wanted to see whether he could squeeze more benefits out of her.
But now that she had seen through him, he could no longer keep up the act. He saw no reason to try.
Besides, with his current strength, he should be fine as long as the Queen Mother did not descend in person.
Better yet, if all went smoothly, he would advance to the Spirit Transformation Realm before long. Then he would have even less to fear.
Zou Feng now knew that the strongest fighters in this world stood at the peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
That realm was not to be underestimated. Spirit Transformation meant truly becoming a god.
Within a Small Thousand World of their own making, such a person was a god in every sense, with absolute power over the life and death of every being inside it.
As a "god," they could wipe out every living being in their Small Thousand World with a thought. With another thought, they could make a single being ascend on the spot...
As for whether realms higher than Spirit Transformation existed, such as the Mahayana Realm, Zou Feng did not yet know.
But one thing was certain: top Spirit Transformation cultivators like Yan Canglan, the master of the Cauldron Heaven Immortal Sect, and the Jade Lake Queen Mother were trying every means imaginable to climb higher.
Otherwise, such mighty figures should have had no openings that left them trapped so easily.
Of course, the Eastern Lands Immortal Realm and the countless outer realms stretching untold distances across this starry expanse might all belong to just one galaxy.