The entire venue instantly fell into a deathly silence!
The five Beast Emperors stood frozen in place as if struck by lightning, their minds completely blank!
How was this possible?! Ye Lingyun was also Tenth Tier?! And at the Fifth Level of the Tenth Tier?! He... he had been hiding his strength all along too?!
"You... you're also Tenth Tier?!"
The Scarlet Flame Lion Emperor's voice trembled with near-collapse. He and the other four Beast Emperors looked at one another, each seeing the same shock and absurdity in the others' eyes.
They suddenly felt like a bunch of clowns. All these years, they had thought themselves superior, believing humanity to be nothing more than ants barely clinging to life. Yet the Ye Lingyun they had always assumed was merely at the Ninth-Tier Peak had been acting all along!
"No wonder... no wonder he always looked so calm whenever he fought Ye Lingyun..."
"So he never took us seriously at all..."
"He had been hiding his strength all this time! What exactly was he planning?!"
The five Beast Emperors looked worse than if they had swallowed flies. They felt as though they had been thoroughly played.
Lin Ming looked at Ye Lingyun's upright back and finally understood. No wonder Ye Lingyun had always given him such an unfathomable feeling whenever they met.
That feeling was even stronger than the one he felt facing any Beast Emperor. So Ye Lingyun had long since broken through the shackles of the Ninth Tier and entered the legendary realm of the Tenth-Tier Martial Saint!
Those so-called Beast Emperors might also have been Ninth Tier, but the pressure they exerted on Lin Ming was nowhere near Ye Lingyun's. So that was where the gap lay.
"How could a barren place like Blue Star possibly produce a