"How could I possibly..."
The Profound Venerable's legs went weak. To him, even someone at the Nascent Soul late stage was an existence he could only look up to.
A Heavenly Monarch of the Spirit Transformation period? Was he even worthy of meeting one?
Never mind the Eastern Wilderness-even across the vast Human Realm, Heavenly Monarchs of the Spirit Transformation period were legends. At least, the Profound Venerable had never heard of any specific Heavenly Monarch who actually existed.
The only thing connected to a Heavenly Monarch that the Profound Venerable had ever encountered was the Grotto-Heaven Fragment beside him.
And that fragment had been left behind by a Heavenly Monarch countless tens of thousands of years ago. The Profound Venerable had studied it for a thousand or two thousand years without finding any leads. He could only pin his hopes on nurturing or finding a sufficiently trustworthy True Lord of the Human Race to explore it with him.
Even a Grotto-Heaven Fragment was that formidable.
Let alone a real Heavenly Monarch, one of the strongest existences in the Human Realm.
Cold sweat poured from the Profound Venerable. As a Fourth-Tier Beast King, he had never even known what cold sweat was before this. Now, with a Heavenly Monarch before him, he wanted to fall to his knees and bow, yet dared not. Some Heavenly Monarchs supposedly had eccentric tempers. If he truly knelt and kowtowed, he might offend this Heavenly Monarch and get slapped to death.
Zhou Qing naturally noticed that the Profound Venerable had followed him out. He also knew that this Fourth-Tier Beast King had probably realized something.
Another Beast King might not even know what sort of existence a Heavenly Monarch was. After all, they had never seen one and knew little even of the