But strictly speaking, these two possibilities could be reduced to one.
If the other person's cultivation was far weaker than yours, you would easily detect and see through the art they used to conceal it.
With his cultivation at the golden core pinnacle, Lin Mo could not see through the young man's cultivation without using the Divine Wood Eye. That meant the other party was at least a Nascent Soul Great Cultivator.
But if even Xue Qingcheng, at the spirit transformation pinnacle, could not discern it, something was very wrong.
"Could that young master's cultivation be above yours? Is he a Tribulation Transcendence True Person?"
Lin Mo said in horror, "But as far as I know, there is only one Tribulation Transcendence True Person on the entire Dry Jade Continent."
"Could... he be the Saint King?!"
For a moment, both Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng wore complicated expressions, feeling waves of chilling dread pierce their backs.
Lin Mo took a deep breath and said with a faint smile, "Forget it."
"If fortune comes, it is no calamity; if calamity comes, there is no escaping it."
"If he really is the Saint King, then at least so far, he seems to bear us no ill will."
"We've already made it onto the Heaven-Ascending Platform. Wouldn't it be a shame to beat the retreat now?"
"With our abilities, even if we're no match for the Saint King, we can still slip away and flee whenever we need to."
After roughly another incense stick's worth of time, over a thousand more soul slaves and evil beasts arrived on the Heaven-Ascending Platform, joining the ranks participating in the Heaven-Worship Ceremony.
Under the eager, expectant gazes of the gathered soul slaves and evil beasts, the Ascension Ceremony formally drew to a close.
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