Several months later.
On the surface, the storm of "Spirit Venerables knocking at the gates" outside Yanmen Pass had long since subsided, but the ripples it had stirred in Great Jin's cultivation world had not faded with time.
Instead, through repeated messages, deductions, and corroboration among the various powers, they continued to swell.
Three months earlier, a new edition of the Heavenly Gang True Lord Ranking had spread from the Divine Capital.
Dugu Yifang, head of the Dugu Household, had leaped from thirty-sixth place to officially rank eleventh on the Heavenly Gang Ranking!
The ranking's account of the battle outside Yanmen Pass was not particularly long, but for the first time, it explicitly mentioned that after refining a quarter of a Divine Ability Realm ancient bloodline, Dugu Yifang's Nascent Soul had reached the limits of its realm. The nine killing methods of the Dugu Nine-Kill Scripture had become interconnected, allowing him to manifest the embryonic form of a first-tribulation Killing Path Domain Prototype.
When he unleashed his full power, he already had some capacity to withstand the spells of ordinary Spirit Transformation Venerables!
Across all Nascent Soul cultivators in Great Jin, or even the Nanhua Realm, such a figure stood almost at the very pinnacle.
One step further ahead lay those peerless prodigies who weighed so heavily upon the cultivators of their generation that they could not lift their heads for a thousand years.
Yet this very man, ranked eleventh on the Heavenly Gang Ranking, had his Nine-Kill Domain shattered head-on by Qing Chen outside Yanmen Pass. Had Carefree Spirit Venerable not intervened in time, he might even have suffered worse injuries!
At first, some refused to accept it, arguing that Qing Chen had merely borrowed the power of the Northwestern Circuit-Surveying Seal and a million Dao Soldiers, which