The instant the three spiritual projections manifested, an invisible pressure spread, and Nine Nether and the other two nearly dropped to their knees. It was a reverence born of the very level of their existence and the instincts of their souls.
After the spiritual projections of the three Beast Sovereigns manifested, they first looked toward the land where the demonic energy had been cleansed away, then turned their gazes in unison upon Mu Chen.
Their three gazes held scrutiny, astonishment, and even a trace of scarcely believable shock!
Their lingering spiritual projections had been left within the stone statues as a contingency. The instant they manifested, they had already begun considering how to resolve this immense threat left behind in the Divine Beast Origin...
Yet they had never imagined that, just as their spiritual projections took shape, they would see not the anticipated scene of demonic energy surging to the heavens, but that demonic face being gently wiped away like dust!
And the one who had accomplished all this was not some later Heavenly Sovereign, as they had expected, nor even an Earthly Sovereign...
He was actually just a human youth whose spiritual energy fluctuations seemed to be only at... Second Grade Supreme?!
For a moment, even with temperaments tempered over countless ages, the faces of the three Beast Sovereigns' spiritual projections visibly froze in astonishment.
"A Second Grade Supreme? Just now... was it thou who struck and slew that face?"
At last, the bare-chested burly man, the spiritual projection of the Ancient Desolate Beast, let out a low rumble like muffled thunder from his throat. His enormous, bell-like eyes stared fixedly at Mu Chen, his voice filled with disbelief.
He simply could not connect the youth before him, with his meager cultivation, to that chaotic radiance which had purified