Everyone from the Taichu Sect who witnessed this felt a chill rise from the soles of their feet and instantly spread through their bodies, as though they had fallen into an ice cavern.
Naturally, they recognized the man before them.
Or rather, among cultivators who had achieved the Dao in the Exquisite Realm Domain, how many did not know what Gu Yuanqing looked like, unless they were utterly ignorant?
After all, the one enshrined in the Qian Yuan Divine Hall was Gu Yuanqing!
Even if a clay statue looked very different from the man himself, it still captured a trace of his essence.
Especially during the years when the Primordial Divine Sect and the Qian Yuan Sect had clashed, countless sects had possessed portraits of Gu Yuanqing.
As members of the Taichu Holy Church, they were naturally no strangers to him either.
But... how had he found them so easily beneath the Holy Church's formation?
Only when they truly faced him did they realize that they really were no different from ants. Despite their countless methods and hidden trump cards, they could not use a single one. Their divine souls, true essence, physical bodies—even their very consciousness—seemed to have frozen.
Having entered the underground cave, Gu Yuanqing first glanced at the dozen or so Qian Yuan Sect disciples, then turned his gaze to the statue ahead.
The Demon Lord Statue, with a human torso and a serpent's tail!
According to ancient records, this was a Dao body, one that accorded with the Heaven and Earth Great Dao.
The Demon Lord himself was the origin of the demonic path, a true demon, and one of the primordial gods and devils.
His physical body was suppressed in an underground cave in the Demon Realm, his divine soul in the Ancient Realm, while