Ye Tian departed with his followers, and the Chaos Dao Resonance and the oppressive might of his god-and-devil imperial manifestation that had enveloped heaven and earth dissipated with him.
The Dao Enlightenment Grove seemed to awaken from a vast, stifling dream, returning to its former boundless tranquility.
Yet the shock and invisible pressure brought about by Ye Tian merging myriad laws and condensing his imperial manifestation remained deeply branded in the hearts of everyone who had witnessed it.
Rather than fading with his departure, they became a weighty catalyst.
They spurred on every prodigy who remained in the Dense Forest.
After a brief, deathly silence came an even more frenzied, fervent wave of enlightenment!
No one was willing to fall behind, especially after witnessing such an unattainable miracle firsthand.
Urgency and resentment spread through the prodigies' hearts like wildfire.
"If Ye Tian can do it, how can we, who bear Imperial Blood and royal lineages and inherit the blessings of the ancients, fall so far behind?!"
An Imperial Clan heir with purple-Metal dragon horns on his head and nearly tangible imperial dragon qi surrounding his body let out a low roar.
He abruptly sat cross-legged before an ancient stone stele shaped like a coiled ancestral dragon, abandoning his earlier caution.
Instead, he directly stirred the most fundamental Imperial Blood within him, forcibly assaulting the most obscure runes of the Dragon Clan's ancestral techniques deep within the stele!
"Humm! Roar!"
The stele shook violently. A hazy phantom of a Primordial Ancestral Dragon soared out of it, releasing a dragon's cry that shook the cosmos!
The Imperial Clan heir's skin cracked all over, leaking purple-Metal blood, but he paid it no heed, his eyes bloodshot!
He devoured the ancestral dragon's Dao resonance like a madman, his aura climbing at a visibly frenzied