The skull gleamed. The lightning spear struck it without producing so much as a spark, as though the spear and the skull existed on entirely different levels. Even a lightning spear manifested from the [Thunder Gate Pivot] conceptual image could not harm the skull in the slightest.
"Those are the Profound Ancestor's Remains?"
When Zhang Yuan saw the bones beneath the giant's flesh and skin, he immediately recognized their origin.
The flesh, skin, and exterior of First God's second Dharma Body were made from Sky Mountain's stone-the "east gate mountain fengshui stone"-while the bones supporting it were the remains of the Profound Ancestor, a Great Immortal Lord of the Primordial Era.
The "east gate mountain fengshui stone" was powerful, but however powerful Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures might be, they could not compare to the remains of a supreme powerhouse. The two were not even of the same status.
By the same reasoning, the lightning spear manifested from the [Thunder Gate Pivot] conceptual image could indeed allow Qin Tianyi to slay any Celestial Person. But because it contained only a wisp of the conceptual image, its power could go no further.
If Qin Tianyi fully controlled [Thunder Gate Pivot] at this moment and borrowed its true golden position power, he would certainly be able to break through the Profound Ancestor's Remains. Conversely, with only a wisp of its conceptual image, failure was the only possible outcome...
"It's... over."
Qin Tianyi's face went deathly pale. He seemed to have aged six hundred years, his former high spirits giving way to the same state as those at celestial person perfection during the last Chaos Calamity. He looked decrepit, all his drive gone.
Seeing Qin Tianyi like this, Zhang Yuan hesitated for a long while before finally sighing and saying:
"Brother Qin, I