"What is that?"
A Ye Family disciple's startled cry immediately drew everyone's attention, and the elders and disciples raised their heads toward the sky.
The elders leading delegations from the other Immortal Forces, who had come to watch the ceremony, also looked up.
Thunder exploded across the heavens, lightning roaring as though a great gash had been torn through the world.
A pitch-black abyss appeared, yet from within it emerged a sacred light more brilliant than the stars.
Its radiance illuminated the world, laws spilling forth as it exuded boundless might.
It was as though heaven and earth were about to press down upon them, terrifying beyond measure. The more advanced a mighty cultivator's cultivation was, the more clearly they could feel that divine might capable of crushing everything.
The younger disciples fared somewhat better, but their situation was hardly reassuring either.
The elders stared dumbfounded, their pupils trembling as something seemed to occur to them.
The Great Elder and Second Elder exchanged a glance, each seeing the disbelief in the other's eyes.
"Th-this... the God Emperor's son actually summoned the Eternal Physical Body Ranking during his flesh awakening through his extraordinarily powerful physical talent!"
At that moment, even the esteemed Great Elder of the Eternal Ye Family could not remain calm.
Much less anyone else.
Especially those from the Ancestral Dragon Nest, North Pole Holy Land, Shaking Light Holy Land, and Azure Wolf Clan.
The elder from the Ancestral Dragon Nest rose to his feet, staring at the endlessly flickering light in the heavens, shaken beyond measure.
If this had been a Heaven-and-Earth Phenomenon triggered by absorbing Chaos Divine Blood, that would have been understandable.
But... what was the Eternal Flesh Ranking?
Legend had it that when heaven and earth first opened and the Great Dao was still a