The disciples' faces turned solemn, and startled cries rang out one after another.
That might came without warning, yet it was fiercely overwhelming, like the towering presence unleashed when a primordial ferocious beast awakened. It swept down upon them, blanketing the entire square.
Some disciples at the golden immortal realm, and those with even lower cultivation, felt their bodies stiffen and struggled to breathe. It was as though an invisible mountain weighed upon their shoulders, preventing them from even straightening their backs.
Their eyes widened as they stared fixedly at the figure flickering within the sky full of immortal light, their gazes filled with horror and disbelief.
"Hiss... what powerful might!"
"This... this is already the aura of a daluo golden immortal!"
"Heavens, this being born from stone has only just emerged. How can its cultivation already be so formidable?"
"A great luo from birth?! This... how is that possible? Even the Bodhisattvas of our Buddhist School had to cultivate bitterly through countless epochs before attaining the great luo dao fruit!"
"Can't you feel it? There's even a trace of Chaos within that aura! This is an innately born being. The depth of its roots and its astonishing talent are beyond anything acquired cultivators like us can compare with!"
"An aura of Chaos? Could this being within the stone actually be connected to a chaos deity?"
At those words, the disciples erupted into an uproar again, sharp intakes of breath rising one after another.
Only Jieyin and Zhunti had known about that trace of an aura from the age of Chaos within the stone.
The ordinary disciples had known nothing of it.
Yet today, they sensed it clearly, with undeniable certainty.
For a moment, everyone felt even more shaken, even more incredulous!
A chaos deity!
What kind of existence was