"I finally completed the first seal!"
Lu Ren slowly opened his eyes, a trace of joy on his face. "The first seal alone took me a year and over ten thousand Great Dao Pills!"
"If I hadn't had enough resources, I'm afraid I couldn't even have completed the first seal!"
Lu Ren sensed the glowing sphere within him and was secretly shaken.
A vast amount of Void-Sealing Power was sealed inside it.
It represented one layer of sealing: one seal.
If he could condense ten glowing spheres, he would have completed all ten seals.
Once he released all ten seals, the Void-Sealing Power would erupt in an instant. Its might would be terrifying enough to propel him straight toward the Forbidden Extreme Realm.
During that year, word that Lu Ren had surrendered outright when Ba Jinque challenged him had spread throughout the Great Dao Sect.
At first, many disciples could hardly believe it.
After all, Lu Ren had ranked first among this year's new disciples.
He had just defeated Ji Litian and was riding high.
Who could have imagined that, as soon as he returned to the Great Dao Sect, he would surrender outright when challenged by Ba Jinque, who had ranked first among the previous year's new disciples?
"Looks like Lu Ren knows he's no match for Ba Jinque!"
"Ba Jinque has undergone three Dao-Shedding Transformations and is a prodigy of the Tyrant Armor Mountain-Sealing Clan. It's only natural that Lu Ren refused to fight!"
"An Ordinary Battle Body is still an Ordinary Battle Body. Beating this year's new disciples doesn't mean he can surpass last year's prodigies!"
The disciples talked among themselves.
Of course, some spoke up for Lu Ren.
"How long has Lu Ren even been in the sect? Ba Jinque ranked first among last year's