Back then, Mu Chen had been betrayed by Ji Xuan's elders and fallen right under the Pagoda Ancient Clan's nose;
Later, his mother Qing Yanjing personally took action and directly wiped out the Holy Spiritual Academy and Ji Xuan's entire clan.
But to keep the Pagoda Ancient Clan from capturing Mu Chen, she could only cast him into the Void and leave him to fend for himself.
Perhaps because he was the "original protagonist,"
during his time drifting through the Void, Mu Chen instead encountered quite a few opportunities:
Not long after breaking through to the Fusion Heaven Realm, he directly advanced to the Heaven Transformation Realm within the Void,
and it was even a special Heaven Transformation Realm fused with the power of the Void. His true strength was enough to crush ordinary Heavenly Reaching Realm cultivators.
By the time he escaped the Void, he had soared to the heavens in a single step, directly breaking through to the Heavenly Reaching Realm,
a supernormal Heavenly Reaching Realm capable of crushing experts of the Three Lesser Tribulations and contending with true Sovereign Stage cultivators!
One had to know that the Great Thousand World's space was incomparably stable.
Even Sovereign Stage cultivators who stood above heaven and earth could not all tear open space.
At the very least, no one below the Fifth-grade Sovereign could do so.
The distinction between First-grade and Fourth-grade Sovereigns was based solely on the strength of their spiritual energy.
Starting from the Fifth-grade Sovereign, the gaps between them widened greatly. The core difference lay in their varying mastery over spatial abilities:
A Fifth-grade Sovereign could travel through space.
A Sixth-grade Sovereign could pass through Spatial Rifts.
A Seventh-grade Sovereign could initially distort space and create Spatial Rifts.
An Eighth-grade Sovereign could freely control space, such as