Everyone craned their heads, watching the figure enveloped in the golden pillar of light atop the Heaven-Worshipping Platform.
National Fortune still flowed slowly around Si Chen, making him look like a divine statue that had just stepped out of a myth.
What had just happened was too staggering.
A Nascent Soul had kicked a Mahayana Stage cultivator flying.
And something even more outrageous followed...
They watched with their own eyes as a Nascent Soul Cultivator reached Spirit Transformation Great Perfection within three breaths!
Someone rubbed their eyes hard, wondering whether they had fallen under some illusion.
Spirit Transformation in three breaths?
This was a tale from the Arabian Nights!
Soon, someone realized something... where was the Lightning Tribulation?!
Breaking through from Nascent Soul to Spirit Transformation meant crossing a major Cultivation Realm. Normally, the Heavenly Tribulation should have struck long ago!
But now...
Everyone looked up at the sky in unison.
The sky was azure, without a cloud for ten thousand miles.
Forget a Lightning Tribulation-there was not even a wisp of dark cloud.
The sun shone as brightly as on any ordinary afternoon, lighting up everyone's dumbstruck faces.
"Could it be... he, he was hiding his cultivation before?"
Those words seemed to snap everyone awake at once.
Hiding his cultivation!
Yes!
That was the only explanation!
How could a Nascent Soul Cultivator reach Spirit Transformation in three breaths? How could there be no Lightning Tribulation?
Then he must have reached Spirit Transformation long ago! He might even be at a higher Cultivation Realm!
Otherwise, how could he have kicked a Mahayana flying?!
With that thought, the absurd, suffocating feeling in everyone's hearts finally eased a little.
Though... on closer consideration, it was still absurd.
But at least... this explanation was somewhat easier to accept.
People were always willing to