At that moment, the entire battlefield at Bingzhu Academy's Chaotian Altar was silent.
Before this, everyone had speculated about the outcome of the conflict between the Dongyuan and Xuanyuan Sects.
With a Nascent Soul presiding over them, the Xuanyuan Sect would win a sweeping victory. The Dongyuan Sect would decline thereafter, the Sheyang Sect would be implicated, and the Nangong Aristocratic Clan would not escape destruction.
This was the outcome most people had envisioned.
Or perhaps Daoist Li Jun would suddenly appear again and fight Lü Ketai, with both sects suffering casualties before the affair ended inconclusively.
That was not impossible, either.
Yet no one could have imagined that this battle would end in the manner before their eyes.
At first, everyone had thought Song Yan's reappearance in the Chu Kingdom's cultivation world was merely an insignificant coincidence.
But Lü Ketai, currently the only publicly known Nascent Soul Realm cultivator in the Chu Lands, had died just like that at the hands of someone in the Golden Core Realm.
"I... I'm not dreaming, am I...?"
"This... this..."
"Even his Nascent Soul failed to escape..."
The Xuanyuan Sect's Golden Core cultivators were even more horrified, their eyes filled with disbelief.
Lou Zhengze's mind was in utter turmoil as he murmured, "Patriarch..."
This wasn't real. It had to be false!
Yes...
It was Song Yan's illusion technique!
The patriarch had said that the brat cultivated a Divine Ability of illusion and reality. He must have used it to deceive everyone!
But...
Even if this truly was an illusion, when would he and all the Xuanyuan Sect's disciples finally awaken?
Although Xu Ziqing's expression remained calm, he could not conceal the astonishment in his eyes.
He still remembered the conversation he and Song Yan had shared in the Dongyuan Sect's Memorial Spirit Hall