"If I told you I'd comprehended every Immortal Path Technique, would you believe me?"
The corners of Lu Ren's mouth lifted. Chaos light swirled in his eyes, as though ancient stars were being born and extinguished within them.
"What?"
The Seventeenth Ancestor shook from head to toe, his pupils contracting to pinpoints. Chaos Qi boiled around him, and the entire void hummed beneath the force of his aura.
Gu Chunxiao, Xing Canglan, and the others looked as though lightning had struck them. They stared at Lu Ren, the blood draining from their faces, as if they had witnessed a forbidden scene from the dawn of creation.
"Did you truly comprehend every Chaos Immortal Path Technique? How is that possible?"
The Seventeenth Ancestor's voice trembled. Every word rang out like thunder.
These ancestors had needed more than a dozen attempts just to barely comprehend one Chaos Immortal Path Technique. Yet Lu Ren had comprehended them all in a single attempt.
No one would have believed it.
Lu Ren said slowly, "My Chaos Eyes seem able to see through the Seventy-Two Chaos Pillars. That made it easy for me to comprehend the techniques sealed within them."
"Oh, right. I only comprehended seventy-one Chaos Immortal Path Techniques, though."
Xing Canglan was naturally the hardest hit by his words.
She had just been congratulating herself on comprehending the Chaos Myriad Butterfly Art. Now Lu Ren claimed he had comprehended seventy-one techniques. How could she bear it?
The other ancestors took several deep breaths, trying to absorb the news.
"Seventeenth Ancestor, every one of the Seventy-Two Chaos Pillars is unfathomably profound. How could Lu Ren have comprehended them so easily?" Gu Chunxiao asked.
The Seventeenth Ancestor speculated, "His Chaos Eyes may well be the Eighteenth Ancestor's. The techniques sealed in the Seventy-Two Chaos Pillars were