Just as Lord Huang Jian, shaken by Hu Yanbo, resolved that he would win.
Outside, the storm Hu Yanbo had stirred up was also beginning to make waves.
News of Hu Yanbo, the newly risen Invincible King known as the "Soul Annihilation King," was spreading through the upper echelons at an astonishing speed.
But rather than calling him an "Invincible King," people spoke more of how the Soul Annihilation King's combat strength truly rivaled that of an ordinary Universe Venerable!
The Soul Annihilation King had to be treated as a Universe Venerable!
At first, when this assessment began circulating, the response was not entirely shock and wariness. Far more widespread were doubt and disbelief.
The title "Invincible King" had a clearly defined standard: anyone who could survive and escape a Universe Venerable, or even briefly exchange a few blows with one, could already be considered invincible among King-level Immortals!
This was because an ordinary Universe Venerable who had cultivated for a substantial length of time typically possessed a divine body a hundred or even a thousand times stronger than an Immortal's.
Their comprehension and application of the universe origin law far surpassed anything a King-level Immortal could achieve, and they also possessed more powerful secret techniques and supreme treasures.
With all those advantages combined, escaping a Universe Venerable was already no easy feat for a King-level Immortal, and more than enough to be proud of.
But rivaling a Universe Venerable?
That was sheer fantasy!
Throughout the long history of the universe's countless races, the only exceptions had been special lifeforms beloved by the universe, born with absurdly high gene levels, whose overwhelming genetic advantage could make up for their shortcomings in law comprehension and secret techniques.
No Immortal God from an ordinary race had ever truly rivaled a Universe Venerable