When Yue Yang flipped his palm again, what appeared before everyone was a shattered wasteland resembling ruins.
Stones covered the ground, without a single drop of water, let alone a sea.
In the distance lay a valley riddled with collapses.
Silent King discovered that where Yue Titan stood was a blood-colored altar, upon which stood a headless goddess statue concealing boundless might. If everything they had seen before could still be called an illusion, then upon seeing this goddess statue, Silent King knew that everyone, himself included, had truly left the Storm Sea and arrived at the fifth level of the Celestial Ladder Yue Titan had mentioned.
Silent King could not understand how Yue Yang and Yue Titan had done it.
Yet he did not doubt it.
The reason was simple: Yue Titan could never have fabricated the power of that goddess statue! That power possessed no offensiveness, yet it was terrifyingly mighty. Even the Sun King, the Eastern Hall Master, or even the Supreme of the Divine Temple would have to bow their heads beneath the statue's might.
This was absolutely a statue of an ancient great god. Though he did not understand how a statue could conceal power akin to a deity's, that was the truth.
Before reaching that realm,
no one could create such an illusion.
"This place? I smell a terrifying aura!" The dwarf among his Eight Generals suddenly cried out.
"That's the aura of death. Sorry, the Heavenly Empress died here, so perhaps some death energy hasn't dispersed yet!" Yue Yang explained lightly, as though the one he had killed here had not been the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Empress but a hen. Lion King, Golden Crown King, and the others heard this, and their hearts sank once more. With the Sun King absent, could Silent