The battlefield fell deathly silent.
Beneath the Nine Heavens Star Dome, above the heads of the Venerables and Deputy Executors, time and space seemed to freeze along with that fingertip that had crushed Black Fiend.
Brilliant starlight congealed, twisted shadows scattered, and even the cosmic background radiation seemed to sink into speechless astonishment.
At the center of the battlefield, which had been filled with the sounds of slaughter just moments ago, there now remained only suffocating vacuum.
In pair after pair of wide-open eyes was reflected the indignant face of the Galaxy Giant, while that deafening declaration echoed in their ears.
"I am clearly only... a Quasi-Ancient One!"
A Quasi-Ancient One?!!!
Those four words crashed into the hearts of everyone present like massive hammers.
Zhihui, Fu Shan, and the other thirty Human Race Venerables stood frozen on the spot, their minds utterly blank.
They knew that Li Qingshan had already condensed a "Natal Great Star," and they knew he had grown stronger, enough to suppress Black Fiend, an Evil God Proxy...
But could what had just happened be called suppression?
It had plainly been annihilation—annihilation with a single finger!
With merely one finger, he had directly ground Black Fiend, who stood on the same level as them, into ashes!
What "Quasi-Ancient One"? Such a title and classification had never existed!
This was genuine Ancient One combat power!
Only power originating from "Eternal" could suppress every existence beneath the Nine Heavens Star Dome. Even those who raised the stars high and sat upon thrones could not escape it!
Li Qingshan had become an Ancient One in merely ten thousand years!!!
The thought exploded in their minds like thunder, leaving the Human Race Venerables present dazed and vacant.
And their original opponents...
The fifty-six savage figures who had been brimming with momentum,