Murong Yingxue looked at Shi Xuan, shrouded in billions of faint rays that seemed both black and white, cycling through life and death. She felt as though she were in a dream; a sense of illusion, bewilderment, and unreality welled up within her. She muttered, "How did he become a Half-step Golden Immortal? Could we have fallen under some powerful Illusion Technique?"
No sooner had the thought arisen than Murong Yingxue was jolted awake. She hurriedly gathered her thoughts and reflected upon her Primordial Spirit, seeking traces of an Illusion Technique. Yet whether it was the surrounding Void Stars, the Temporal-Spatial Storms, or the ruined continents and Dao-Lost Chaos, everything was real beyond doubt—not to mention Shi Xuan, who was swiftly approaching them.
"Right. If this were an Illusion Technique, I would instead find it perfectly natural and never suspect that I had fallen under one. Could Fellow Daoist Shi... could he truly have gone from a Heavenly Sovereign of the First Tribulation to a lofty Half-step Golden Immortal in barely over five thousand years?" Murong Yingxue was both shocked and frightened. She could only tell herself, "Many records say that certain peerless geniuses prove the Dao of Great Luo in less than ten thousand years. Compared with them, Fellow Daoist Shi's achievement is not impossible to accept. Ah, as expected of a direct descendant of the Five Elements Sect from the Tongtian Great World. He truly is a cultivation prodigy."
Amid her sighs, she heard her own patriarch, Ren Lige, muttering softly as well, "As expected of a Heavenly Sovereign so highly valued under the Five Elements Dao Ancestor."
To possess, while still a Heavenly Sovereign of the First Tribulation, a Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure of at least Three Tribulations capable of unleashing the Five-Colored Divine Light—Ren Lige felt that