At Xiao Yan's exclamation, the lively gathering fell briefly quiet, and everyone's gaze involuntarily turned toward Lin Dong opposite him.
It was one thing for ordinary Heavenly Sovereigns to fail to notice, but when the Saint Grade Heavenly Supremes looked at Lin Dong, their pupils all contracted.
They could clearly sense that Martial Ancestor Lin Dong had indeed stepped into the ranks of the Saint Grade.
Although he was only at the Saint Grade early stage, the many Saint Grade experts present still began to regard the Martial Ancestor with greater importance.
Counting the years, the Martial Ancestor had entered the Great Thousand World only a little over a decade ago, yet in that brief span, he had already reached the Saint Grade.
To rise from a Plane Lord who had ascended from a lower plane to the Saint Grade in little over a decade-such a terrifying pace was unmatched in the past ten thousand years, save for Xiao Yan, who had ascended more than a decade before him.
At that moment, every Heavenly Sovereign looked at Martial Ancestor Lin Dong with a trace of wariness and awe. Even the Saint Grade Heavenly Supremes regarded him with considerable respect.
Back then, after ten years of arduous cultivation in the Great Thousand World, Lin Dong had reached the Immortal Grade in one stroke and beaten the Ice Spirit Clan's three Heavenly Sovereigns, along with the Western Heaven War Emperor, until they were scrambling across the ground for their teeth. That feat could rival Xiao Yan's crushing defeat of Maha Tian.
However, Xiao Yan had been slaughtering his way through the heartland of the Extraterrestrial Evil Race at the time. His limelight had been so dazzling that Lin Dong's glorious achievement had barely stirred a ripple.
Yet in the few years since