The beautiful woman gazed at the treetops in the direction where True Lord Qianzhong had vanished, murmuring under her breath.
"Why could the power he unleashed completely disregard the laws of heaven and earth in the lower realm? Why..."
She seemed dazed. This diverged drastically from everything she knew.
Beside her, confusion also appeared in the white-haired young man's eyes. The laws of heaven and earth imposed extremely strict restrictions in the Mortal Realm. Once cultivators reached the Nascent Soul Realm, they needed to ascend to the upper realm.
Otherwise, breaking through to the Spirit Transformation Realm required greater opportunities and a long stretch of time. Spirit Transformation cultivators could remain hidden here, but they could not unleash their true strength.
As far as the two of them knew, cultivators above the Spirit Transformation Realm could not enter the Mortal Realm in their true bodies. At most, they could send avatars down, and even those would have their strength severely suppressed. The Spirit Transformation Realm was the absolute limit.
Otherwise, cultivators from the upper realm could freely appear throughout the three realms, and evil cultivators would have destroyed the Mortal Realm countless times already.
They had heard that some people from the upper realm came to establish sects in the Mortal Realm, but most merely sent Nascent Soul Cultivators down.
There had indeed been accounts of this mighty Human Race cultivator frightening Xiahou Shangxie and a group of Spirit Transformation cultivators into withdrawing outright.
It was very difficult for the strongest cultivator of a given realm to suppress others at the same level, but that did not mean it was impossible.
They had imagined that the mighty Human Race cultivator from those old rumors must have been the avatar of some powerful figure in the upper realm. Naturally, his grasp