"D-Dou Zun?!"
Hearing Hun Changqing's response, which offered no denial, everyone momentarily forgot even the fierce clash between Hai Bodong and Yun Shan. They stared at Hun Changqing, utterly dumbstruck. In the stands, Ya Fei and Princess Yao Ye wore expressions of shock, while even Yun Yun covered her cherry-red lips with a delicate hand, her face filled with disbelief.
Hun Changqing had never told his women in the Jia Ma Empire about his strength. Everything they believed had come from their own imaginings. To them, even Dou Zong was a realm they could gaze at but never reach. As for Dou Zun? The Jia Ma Empire had never produced a Dou Zun expert, nor did it possess so much as a scrap of information about one.
To them, Dou Zun experts were figures from myths and legends, beyond anything they could imagine. They had never placed Hun Changqing among such experts. Never had they imagined that their man was such an overwhelmingly terrifying expert, a being who belonged almost to legend!
"Y-you may be a Dou Zun, but you must have heard of our Soul Palace! You should know that if you kill me, the Soul Palace's wrath isn't something a single Dou Zun expert can withstand!"
Vulture Venerable's eyes were filled with terror. He had never dreamed that he would actually encounter a Dou Zun Realm expert in this remote backwater. He knew he might truly meet his end here today, and fear of his impending fate filled his heart.
But as a member of the Soul Palace, he had seen Dou Zun experts before. In the end, he forcibly steadied the towering waves raging in his heart and spoke to Hun Changqing in a trembling voice, hoping to make him wary of the Soul Palace and thereby