[Farther away, ordinary late-stage Grand Cultivators who had concealed their identities were also watching the spectacle.]
[Battles between top Grand Cultivators were exceedingly rare. Had the Void Spirit Blessed Land not been opening, and had True Lord Purple-Eyes not brought them together, True Lord Phantom Leaf and True Lord Wu Qian would never have acted so readily.]
[The Body Refinement resources of the Void Spirit Blessed Land were immensely useful to Grand Cultivators of every path.]
[Yet what happened next left every ordinary Grand Cultivator dumbstruck.]
[Huan Ye, Wu Gan, and the third top Grand Cultivator had joined forces, only to be beaten into a panicked retreat by that Golden-Mask True Lord.]
[True Lord Phantom Leaf's final, agonized scream in particular had reverberated through their divine souls, making the scalps of the many Grand Cultivators present prickle.]
["Wh... what happened?"]
["Three top Grand Cultivators were defeated? And they suffered serious injuries? How is that possible?"]
["These are top Grand Cultivators... not ordinary early- or middle-stage Nascent Soul True Lords..."]
[The ordinary Grand Cultivators watching the spectacle stared wide-eyed, horror and disbelief churning in their hearts.]
[They had imagined many possible outcomes: you emerging unscathed against the three top Grand Cultivators, escaping at some cost, fleeing with severe injuries, and so on...]
[The one outcome they had never imagined was you fighting three opponents alone, with those three top Grand Cultivators being the ones injured and driven into retreat.]
[It was simply inconceivable.]
["The Golden-Mask True Lord... just what level has the Golden-Mask True Lord's strength reached...?"]
[One ordinary Grand Cultivator could not help speaking. As a fellow Grand Cultivator, he knew perfectly well how difficult even the slightest improvement in strength was at this level.]
[At the Nascent Soul early stage, mastering a secret art or obtaining a weapon might