"It's that barrier!"
Countless brilliant gleams seemed to flash in Xiao Yan's eyes. It was that very barrier that had plagued countless Heavenly Sovereign Experts of the Great Thousand World for endless ages. Throughout those years, only experts who reached the pinnacle of Saint Grade could sense it.
But sensing that barrier was one thing; touching it, or even breaking through it, was another matter entirely.
At least, even the True Flame Emperor of old had only sensed that barrier. He had never touched it.
Perhaps some supreme experts in the history of the Great Thousand World had touched that barrier, but in the end, only the Immortal Emperor had truly taken a step beyond it.
It was said that even the Immortal Emperor had merely taken one step, without truly crossing that barrier completely.
Even so, the Immortal Emperor had been a truly invincible existence. His invincibility was not like Xiao Yan's, where no one could defeat him in single combat.
Rather, no one could pose the slightest threat to him at all. Just as everyone beneath a Dou Di was an ant on the Dou Qi Continent, that same invincibility held true in the Great Thousand World.
Had the Extraterrestrial Evil Race not invaded, forcing the Immortal Emperor to burn away his life to seal their strongest expert, the Heavenly Evil God, the title of the Great Thousand World's strongest expert would never have fallen to Xiao Yan.
"My current realm already places me near the very forefront of those at the pinnacle of Saint Grade, but I'm still a hair's breadth away from the great perfection of Heavenly Sovereign.
Still, that gap isn't impossible to bridge!"
Radiant firelight flickered in Xiao Yan's eyes. He took a step, and his figure slowly appeared in the space tens of