Especially in these final moments before the list closed, killing Wang Hu would provide enough nourishment to produce a new Immortal List contender.
It was an irresistible temptation.
"Of everyone on the Immortal List, he's probably the ripest persimmon for the squeezing." Yun Jinglei licked his lips, a trace of amusement flashing through his eyes.
Yun Poxiao scratched his head and asked in his guileless voice, "So are we going to snatch it or not?"
"Wait and see. Some people already can't hold back," Yun Li said mildly, his gaze sweeping their surroundings.
Sure enough, several figures shifted their feet with apparent nonchalance, yet subtly formed an encirclement. They exchanged glances, then quickly looked away, pretending not to know one another.
Murderous intent hung on a hair trigger.
Yet at that critical instant-
Boom!!
A golden-red radiance, grander and vaster than any of the pillars of fortune, shot skyward from the First-Stage Platform without warning!
That light pierced the Nine Heavens and tore through the clouds, bathing the entire Azure Cloud Road in a magnificent golden-red glow.
Heaven and earth fell silent.
Everyone instinctively looked up.
There on the first stage, the crimson-robed figure was enveloped in boundless golden-red divine radiance.
Upon Yun Qing's brow, immortal light faded completely, and divine radiance was born.
Interwoven golden and red divine markings spread from the center of his brow. His once ethereal immortal aura transformed entirely into profound, majestic divinity, erupting into a skyful of divine splendor that filled the heavens.
His transformation from immortal to god had, at this moment, reached perfect completion!
Yun Qing's lips curved slightly. His crimson robes snapped in the divine radiance as he stood like a god towering between heaven and earth. Tilting his head slightly, he seemed to address a certain patch of empty space,