When that inhuman scream burst from Guangchengzi's mouth, the entire Yuxu Palace seemed to have its throat seized by an invisible hand, falling into a deathly silence.
All the Clarify Teachings Disciples, including Cihang Daoren, who had just been the first to kneel and declare his loyalty, instinctively took half a step back, their faces written all over with terror.
They watched helplessly as Guangchengzi—their Senior Disciple Brother, the First Disciple of the Clarify Teachings, who had once been high-spirited and looked down on all immortals with the Heaven-Turning Seal in hand—now convulsed and thrashed wildly on the cold floor like a fish out of water.
Golden divine light, like the fiercest Solar True Fire, gushed from his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, wrapping his entire body in a warped, swelling cocoon of radiance.
Through that blinding golden light, they could faintly see Guangchengzi's face twisted to the extreme, covered in blue-black blood vessels like countless hideous centipedes crawling beneath his skin, a sight horrifying to the utmost.
"Ah... it hurts! It hurts so much!"
Guangchengzi's Primordial Spirit was roaring. Every inch of his flesh, every bone, every cell was being forcibly torn apart by that unimaginably violent power of Hunyuan Origin, then reshaped, then torn apart again!
This was not a fortuitous encounter!
This was not some supreme chance to ascend to the heavens in a single step at all!
This was the most savage, most brutal, most unreasonable infusion of power!
What was the Dragon Emperor's Hunyuan Origin? It was the crystallization of a Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin's lifelong cultivation and Great Dao. The immensity and violence of its energy was enough to burst ten—no, a hundred Quasi-Saints!
And Guangchengzi's body was nothing more than a tiny pond.
Now, someone had forcibly poured an entire vast