Countless cries of astonishment and sharp gasps rose one after another, ringing through the skies.
Everyone's understanding of the world suffered an unprecedented, violent shock at that moment!
Elsewhere.
Before the Jade Void Palace.
The majesty on Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi's face had long since given way to boundless horror and disbelief.
He stared fixedly at Ji Ren in the distance, scarcely able to believe what he had seen.
Taiqing Laozi, meanwhile, shuddered and froze on the spot.
He knew better than anyone that although he had not put his full strength into that palm strike, it was absolutely not something a Quasi-Saint could withstand!
Yet the truth lay right before his eyes.
That young junior, no different from an ant in his eyes, had not only withstood it.
He had done so with effortless ease!
Without question, this was enough to prove that what all living beings had sensed earlier was no mistake!
Even if Ji Ren had yet to achieve proving the Dao of Primordial Unity.
He had already set foot in a realm unknown to others.
A realm just below that of Sages, yet with combat strength far beyond the Quasi-Saint and Sub-Saint realms.
Shaken to his core, Laozi remained silent!
And amid that deathly silence.
Ji Ren spoke again.
"Taiqing Saint."
"Is this the extent of your strength?"
"If these are all the tricks you have..."
Ji Ren paused. At his fingertips, another wisp of azure sword light condensed, even more dazzling and sharper than before.
"Then I fear your Human Sect truly will be finished today."
Slaying the body and crushing the spirit!
An utterly blatant attempt to slay the body and crush the spirit!
If Ji Ren meeting a Sage's strike head-on and emerging unscathed had merely shocked the world.
Then his words now had