"Boom!"
Just then, Xu Taiping, who sat in the center of the Golden Scale Platform, suddenly erupted with another powerful surge of aura.
Immediately afterward, immortal spiritual energy shimmering with five-colored radiance descended like a torrent from the sky above the Golden Scale Pool, enveloping Xu Taiping entirely.
"Whoooosh..."
At the sight, the previously deathly silent Golden Scale Pool erupted once more in cries of astonishment.
"Xu Taiping has broken through to the Spirit Refining realm!"
In the Guangling Pavilion stands, Mu Yun gazed at Xu Taiping, who had successfully broken through, his face filled with emotion.
As a cultivator of the same generation, he would have been lying if he said he did not envy Xu Taiping for having so many powerful figures willingly guard him.
"From this day forward, the name Xu Taiping will probably resound throughout the Five Heavens."
Mu Yun murmured.
"Haitang, it looks like there's no need for the two of us again this time."
"Yes. I never imagined little Taiping could win this martial fortune through his own efforts."
In the stands beside Guangling Pavilion's, a married couple exchanged smiles.
As she spoke, the beautiful woman kicked the drunken old Daoist beside her. "Old Daoist Huang, we're leaving. Off to the Withered Stone Sea."
"He broke through! Our junior brother successfully broke through!"
"Breaking through on the Golden Scale Platform, with two Martial Gods, seven eminent monks, and a Sword Immortal guarding him-surely no one has ever enjoyed such treatment before!"
"And hardly anyone will ever enjoy it again!"
In the Azure Profound Sect's Five Elders Pool stands, the disciples of the Seven Peaks cheered, losing some of their composure.
Even the usually steady Dugu Qingxiao could not help pumping his fists in delight.
"Boom!"
Just then, a violent surge of aura