Breaking Through to the Demigod Realm!

At that very moment.

Outside the Yin Yang Eyes Formation, Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu stood guard in silence, waiting for Cao Kun to emerge from seclusion.

At first, they sensed only restless spiritual energy within the secret realm. Nothing else seemed amiss.

But as Cao Kun's cultivation deepened, an unseen, intangible pressure of terrifying intensity quietly descended.

It was not the crushing force of Soul Power!

It was not an intimidating aura!

It was absolute suppression from a higher dimension... a higher order of life.

Like mortal creatures coming face-to-face with an Ancient Divine Beast.

Like ants gazing up at the heavens.

It was an absolute gulf in the very essence of life.

It struck directly at the depths of their souls.

Awe rose unbidden. Their minds trembled, and even their breathing slowed without them realizing it.

Dugu Bo, a level ninety-six Super Douluo, felt his poison arts stir instinctively. Yet his vast Soul Power drew itself in and lay dormant, not daring to show the slightest trace of defiance.

Grave-faced, he stared toward the heart of the secret realm, shock and horror filling his eyes.

"The young master's transformation... is this terrifying?!"

As one of the continent's foremost Super Douluo, he had seen countless experts break through and countless prodigies transform. Never had he witnessed a phenomenon of cultivation that overturned everything he knew so completely.

When an ordinary Titled Douluo broke through, there were storms of Soul Power and disturbances in heaven and earth. Cao Kun's breakthrough, however, was a leap to a higher order of life!

Beside him, Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu were taut with tension. Their bodies trembled faintly, and an instinctive urge to submit rose from the depths of their souls.

Though that figure stood nearby at