"Buzzzz..."
Looking puzzled, Lin Buyu tried probing Xu Taiping's aura with her divine sense, only for a buzzing to fill her mind as though her divine soul had suffered a heavy blow.
Lin Buyu said in astonishment:
"His cultivation clearly hasn't reached the Transformation Realm, yet this aura can block the probing of a Dao Integration Realm expert like me. Shouldn't only Half-Immortal Realm experts possess magic power like this?"
Her amazement deepened.
"Hiss..."
Just then, Xu Taiping, who had long since entered meditation, suddenly opened his mouth again and drew in a deep breath.
Just as before.
The clusters of five-colored spiritual power threads surrounding him were once again sucked into his mouth in great swathes.
Rumble...
In an instant, an even more terrifying, surging pressure spread from Xu Taiping.
This time, Lin Buyu no longer dared rashly probe deeply with her divine sense.
Yet even the mere attempt to touch this pressure spreading from Xu Taiping's own aura still made Lin Buyu's heart tremble.
With her cultivation, this pressure naturally could not hurt her, but across the entire cultivation world, there were probably few pressures capable of making a Heaven-Connecting Realm powerhouse like her tremble inwardly.
At that moment, an inexplicable illusion arose within her.
It seemed that the person sitting before her was not Xu Taiping.
Instead, it was some exceedingly terrifying being from Primordial Antiquity.
For Xu Taiping's aura now clearly carried a sense of primordial origins from that ancient age.
"Awoo..."
Upon sensing this aura, Xiaohei trembled uncontrollably, letting out a soft whine.
Lin Buyu glanced at Xiaohei and said coolly:
"He's your master. What is there to fear?"
Xiaohei immediately stopped whining and nodded obediently over and over.
Rumble...
As Xu Taiping's aura climbed little by little back to the peak of the Transformation