On the First Layer, the hundred-plus Peak Half-Step Kings undergoing tribulation all temporarily halted.
Everyone's gaze was drawn to the eighteen Peerless Immortal King Tribulations on the Second Layer!
Everyone's minds were shaken by those eighteen incomparably terrifying tribulation clouds.
As they watched those eighteen tribulation clouds and felt the pressure emanating from within them, what arose in their hearts was—
Not envy, not resentment, but deep reverence, deep shock, and deep... relief!
Relief that they had not been born in the same era as those eighteen monstrous geniuses to contend against them!
Relief that they had not encountered opponents like those eighteen monstrous geniuses!
If they had lived in the same era, they likely would have been casually kicked to death by those peerless monsters before their own brilliance could ever bloom!
"They're... too powerful..."
A Peak Half-Step King stood within his own tribulation cloud, staring toward the Second Layer as he muttered to himself.
His voice was filled with reverence, shock, and yearning.
"A tribulation like that, such might, such monstrous geniuses... those are the true... chosen prodigies..."
"Compared to them... what are we... what are we even worth..."
Another Peak Half-Step King looked toward the Second Layer, his eyes filled with fervor.
"This is the bearing cultivators like us should possess! This is the tribulation cultivators like us should undergo!"
"Eighteen... eighteen heaven-defying monsters like them... to witness even one would leave no regrets in death! To witness all eighteen would make this life worthwhile!"
On the First Layer, the Immortal Kings of Heaven Gate's headquarters were also stunned.
With their cultivation, they could naturally see those eighteen Immortal King Tribulations clearly!
With their knowledge, they could naturally tell what those eighteen Immortal King Tribulations signified!
Silence. Deathly silence!
More than a hundred Immortal Kings all fell