This surge of power!
Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi and Taiqing Laozi felt their minds quake violently as an indescribable sense of familiarity welled up within them.
This feeling, this sublimation of Dao rhythm, this leap in the very essence of life...
They had felt it once before!
Gu Changqing!
That was right!
It was that damned Gu Changqing.
They had previously witnessed Gu Changqing defy heaven and ascend, using the merit of the Three Daos to attain the realm of Hunyuan Limitless Daluo Golden Immortal.
And now, although the aura erupting from Jieyin was far weaker than Gu Changqing's had been, its essence, the direction of its transformation, was actually... astonishingly similar!
In an instant, a thought so utterly absurd that even they found it horrifying rose uncontrollably from the deepest recesses of their hearts.
Could it be...
Their junior brother Jieyin was also about to... attain Hunyuan Wuji?!
Once that thought appeared, there was no suppressing it. It took root and sprouted wildly in their minds, whipping up countless towering waves!
Impossible!
This was absolutely impossible!
Even the two of them had never touched the barrier to the realm of Hunyuan Wuji.
Yet Jieyin... what gave him the right?!
A man whose Dao heart had collapsed, who had been reduced to a cripple, who had always ranked last among the Three Sages-what gave him the right to reach heaven in a single step, surpass them both, and touch that supreme realm?!
Laozi and Yuanshi were plunged into self-doubt and overwhelming shock. Their Dao hearts wavered, and they could barely maintain the dignity of Sages.
But no matter how violently their hearts churned, no matter how little they dared believe it, the reality unfolding before them battered their established understanding without mercy.
Rumble...
Above Jieyin's head, the void warped slightly, and