Bright Dawn!

Prying at the Astral Realm Rules!

The thought flashed through the minds of one Epoch Prodigy after another, and everyone present was stirred with excitement!

Prying at the Astral Realm Rules was not uncommon among humanity; it was even merely the benchmark for Ninth Order martial arts.

And they had seen many Ninth Orders, with at least the Four Saints Councilors all being Ninth Order.

Yet this was the first time they had witnessed, so clearly and directly, the Astral Realm Rules being "pried"!

More importantly...

Li Qingshan was not Ninth Order. He was still at Eighth Order Myriad Manifestations!

In other words,

After breaking the limits of the Seventh-Order Divine Aspect with Body Transforms into a Star, Li Qingshan had once again used Ten Thousand Wheels of Great Sun to pry at the Astral Realm Rules. He had truly crossed the chasm of Ninth-Order Combat Power and thoroughly shattered the limits of Eighth Order Myriad Manifestations!

Humanity's limit of Eighth-Order combat power had now taken another great step forward!

And all of this had happened only three short years after his awakening and return!

For a time, gaze after gaze—shocked, admiring, reverent—converged upon the young man's back as he passed through a corner of the golden light fissure and stepped into Canglan...

Canglan Realm, mortal world.

Dazzling golden light spread across the Sky Dome, illuminating Immortal Court Battlefields, mountains and plains, cities and villages alike.

Beneath the Sky Dome, face after face reflected the golden light, filled with confusion.

Suddenly,

Crack—

The sound of ice splitting shook heaven and earth.

Blue-White Flame suddenly appeared, lighting up from one corner of the Sky Dome and bursting open countless spiderweb-like cracks across the golden canopy. They continued spreading outward...

The sky had split!

In an instant, two utterly different expressions