Kong Jiao stared unblinkingly at Bai Cangzhu's towering figure above Earth-Spirit Mountain and murmured, "The path Rebirth True Person walks is this overbearing!"
Having received True Lord Ruiyun's explanation, he had roughly understood what determined a Zao Xuan True Person's strength.
It was the paths each Zao Xuan True Person chose, and the Dao resonance they controlled.
The Great Dao Bai Cangzhu walked had to be extraordinary.
He and Parting Fire True Person were both at the late Zao Xuan stage, yet from the very beginning, he had faced two opponents alone without losing against the combined assault of Parting Fire and Congealed Heaven.
Now that it was one against one, he had won with crushing force.
True Lord Ruiyun saw what Kong Jiao was thinking and spoke before he could ask, "The Yin-Ghost Path—a road meant only for the dead."
"One must disperse one's true soul at the Zao Xuan realm and seek life through death before setting foot upon it."
"The Yin-Ghost Path!" Kong Jiao repeated True Lord Ruiyun's words, his brow furrowing at the information revealed within them.
"A Zao Xuan cultivator has to disperse their true soul and seek life through death. What enormous risk that must be."
"Bai Cangzhu possesses great courage. He truly deserves to be called the White Emperor's son."
Dispersing one's true soul was practically a nine-deaths-one-life ordeal.
Bai Cangzhu had been willing to risk death and the dissipation of his Dao to step onto that Yin-Ghost Path, which was enough to prove its power.
And indeed, that was the case.
Bai Cangzhu, who cultivated the Yin-Ghost Path, had faced two top Zao Xuan cultivators of the Azure Abyss Realm alone without falling behind.
Kong Jiao stood atop the high platform. Thanks to True Lord Ruiyun's methods, no one could see him.