In an instant, countless possibilities flashed through the Thunder Ancestor's mind.
There were the Dao methods common to this Source World: curses of destruction and karmic assassination.
There were also foreign cultivation systems from beyond this Source World-the Ancestral Shaman Lineage's hexes, the Yin Spirit Lineage's soul erosion, and the Shadow Killing Lineage's soul threads that bound lives. Each could take a life without a sound.
Yet the Secret Patterns Hu Yanbo displayed were unlike any of these.
Even if they were one of them, they should never have been able to disregard the Origin Continent's limit on power, bypass Thunder Mountain's defenses, and erase three Monarchs from a distance!
Silence fell over the scene.
Hu Yanbo stood calmly outside Thunder Mountain, his robes fluttering lightly. Heaven and Earth Qi flowed faintly around him as he quietly waited for the Thunder Ancestor's response.
Inside Thunder Mountain, the Thunder Ancestor kept Hu Yanbo firmly locked in his sights. His divine sense surged like a tide, frantically probing every inch of space and every wisp of aura around Hu Yanbo, yet he still found no clues.
Those pale golden Effect-Cause Secret Patterns still carried a profound rhythm he had never seen before.
The two remained in a silent standoff, probing each other.
But across the entire Origin Continent, the circles of experts at the Emperor level and above had already erupted.
Qing Du, Yanfeng Ancient Kingdom.
Of the capitals belonging to the Yanfeng Ancient Kingdom's thirteen Emperors, this was the most transcendent, with deep foundations and overwhelming might.
Never mind the Origin Continent's native experts-even the three great Alien Race experts would never dare act with the slightest impudence here!
At that moment, eleven Emperors, including Di Fu and Di Chu, had gathered outside Di Qing's palace. Their expressions varied, but all