Accompanying that Dao shout was a divine general clad in silver armor, a Heavenly Halberd in hand. Handsome and distinguished, he too surged with incomparable might. Though he still fell short of the Spirit Emperor, he had reached the Extreme Dao level, enough to barely contend with him.
Seeing his path blocked, the Spirit Emperor frowned slightly, seemingly displeased. Then he spoke, his divine voice of the Great Dao likewise shaking heaven and earth and making the void tremble incessantly.
"Who are you? A mere practitioner of alternative Dao attainment dares bar my path?"
By the end, although the Spirit Emperor's tone had not changed at all, all of heaven and earth seemed to rage. In an instant, fierce winds howled, thunder roared, and the myriad Daos of the universe trembled, faintly rejecting the silver-armored divine general before him, as though the universe itself despised him.
This was the strength of the Saint Spirit Lineage. As the darlings of heaven and earth, they naturally enjoyed Heaven's unseen protection, with the myriad Daos faintly lending them strength. The powerful among them could even directly influence the workings of heaven and earth through their will alone, often far surpassing beings of the same level.
Now, the Spirit Emperor, an emperor of Saint Spirits who had united with the Heavenly Heart and attained the Dao in this age, displayed a terrifying mastery of this ability. Merely revealing his displeasure could make heaven and earth faintly reject a practitioner of alternative Dao attainment, fully demonstrating his power and Heaven's favor.
However, as a practitioner of alternative Dao attainment, the silver-armored divine general counted among the strongest beings between heaven and earth. Mere rejection by heaven and earth actually had little effect on him and could be ignored entirely.
He cupped his hands slightly and