"Youngster..."
Yan Che's low voice echoed through the heavens. He slowly rose to his feet, hands clasped behind his back, and stared long at the figure who had acted. "The Five-Elements Immortal Path? State your name."
The Qilin beneath him threw back its head and howled, fury flashing in its eyes. How could the majesty of a Heavenly Venerable Realm cultivator be offended by a Spirit Transformation cultivator?!
Yet the Immortal Hall cultivators who had followed him here were shaken to the core. The Heavenly Venerable had actually stood up... Even when facing Heavenly Venerable Yin earlier, he had not risen!
"Under the Dao Ancestor, steward of Immaculate Immortal Ridge, Mo Fuyang!"
Mo Fuyang stepped forward. Though his voice was quiet, it rang with iron resolve as it answered across the distance, echoing in the hearts of cultivators in every direction. One could even hear the difficult grinding of teeth.
The atmosphere between heaven and earth was simply too oppressive and silent. This scene had already overturned the understanding of far too many cultivators.
Facing a Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Venerable directly, how could a Spirit Transformation cultivator withstand that flood-like pressure of Heavenly Laws and still speak?!
This had nothing to do with whether one's Dao Heart was strong. It was a different kind of display of Immortal Path supremacy.
"Ha ha ha..."
Yan Che suddenly burst into laughter. Even the winds and clouds around him surged with that laughter, spreading in all directions and making the scalps of countless cultivators on the sea go numb.
That terrifying pressure struck directly at Mo Fuyang. His face reddened abnormally; even under Heavenly Venerable Yin's protection, his bones still trembled. Yet his body remained upright.
As the laughter gradually faded, Yan Che's gaze slowly sharpened. He said in a deep voice, "A