"Then you have my thanks, Venerable Yao!"
Hearing this, Chen Xuan nodded slightly in thanks.
"Not at all. I should be the one thanking you. Your Majesty has done so much for me and my disciple that I have no idea how to repay you!"
A bitter smile appeared on Venerable Yao's face. For so many years, as a man renowned throughout the continent, he had always been the one others owed favors to. He had never imagined that one day he would owe someone such an enormous debt-one that even his status and abilities could not repay.
A Half-Saint!
This was the realm he had longed to touch back when he stood at the Peak Nine-Revolutions Dou Zun. Yet fulfilling that wish had been harder than ascending to heaven. Even at the very pinnacle of the Dou Zun Realm, only a single step from the Half-Saint Realm, that step had seemed impossibly distant.
After Han Feng's betrayal, becoming a soul body, and being captured by the Soul Hall, he had thought he would never have another chance to touch that realm. Yet heaven had unexpectedly granted him this opportunity. The Half-Saint realm now seemed right before his eyes, within arm's reach.
At the thought, even Yao Chen could not suppress the excitement surging through his heart.
After declining the welcoming banquet offered by Yao Chen and the others, Chen Xuan went straight into seclusion. His trip to the Dou Saint Ruins had yielded a rich harvest, including several treasures that were precious even among priceless treasures.
Especially the Heaven-Rank Dou Technique the Creation Saint had inscribed within three ribs-the Great Heaven Creation Palm!
As a Heaven-Rank Dou Technique, the Great Heaven Creation Palm was more than enough to serve as the foundation on which the Sovereign King Hall established