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Hearing Wei Yang's laugh, Hun Miesheng's eyelid twitched, and he suddenly felt a strange sense of absurdity rising in his chest.
The atmosphere in the area instantly became a little delicate.
Many people quietly stepped back, and the gazes they cast toward the three people from Hall of Souls grew rather strange. It was rare to see the mighty Hall Master of Hall of Souls actually get completely suppressed in aura in just one exchange.
Xiao Yan and Yao Lao couldn't help wanting to laugh. This "jie jie jie" really was that effective. No wonder Hall of Souls's people loved making such arrogant entrances.
Dominate first. Walk the enemy's path and leave the enemy with no path left.
A moment later, the Hall Master of Hall of Souls's expression returned to its usual calm, like an undisturbed ancient well. He said indifferently, "I am Hun Miesheng. You are Wei Yang?"
"Correct." Wei Yang nodded slightly, then withdrew his gaze. At this moment, he honestly felt a bit of "after seeing the vast ocean, all other waters pale in comparison".
Someone like Hun Miesheng no longer even entered his field of vision. After all, whether in combat strength or realm, he had already surpassed Hun Miesheng.
Everyone present vaguely sensed this attitude Wei Yang had — an attitude close to looking down from above. For a time, no one spoke.
Hun Miesheng's face remained expressionless, but those rough hands of his involuntarily tightened slightly.
"Don't be impulsive. His strength is very high, late-stage Five-Star."
The black-robed man whom the Vice Hall Master had called Young Clan Leader sent him a voice transmission.
He slowly lifted his head, the light revealing a face that looked around twenty to thirty years old. He appeared somewhat young, yet his face carried absolutely no expression — neither joy nor anger — as if all his facial muscles had stiffened completely, even more so than Hun Miesheng's.
Of course, the most striking part was his eyes. Both eyes were pitch black — an extremely pure, absolute black. There was no white visible at all. Only a pair of dark orbs like black gemstones forcibly embedded into his eye sockets.
Being stared at by those pitch-black eyes made a cold chill rise uncontrollably from the bottom of one's heart.
"Late-stage Five-Star?! How is that even possible?!"
The Vice Hall Master almost screamed, his eyes widening, "Not long ago, when the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree revealed itself, he was only a Ban Sheng! And after the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree, he just stepped into Dou Sheng! It hasn't even been three years!"
Not even three years, and he went from entering One-Star Dou Sheng all the way to late-stage Five-Star? Heavens, what kind of nonsense was this?!
Hun Miesheng didn't speak, but his heart was already filled with raging waves. But he at least had some mental preparation, so he didn't lose composure too badly.
If he hadn't vaguely sensed beforehand that Wei Yang wasn't someone easy to provoke, he probably would have attacked outright just now. He was the Hall Master of Hall of Souls, yet someone had publicly ignored and looked down on him — and that "someone" was a junior.
How could he not feel enraged? Thankfully, he held himself back.
Late-stage Five-Star. Damn. No wonder he dared "jie jie jie" at him.
"Ridiculous as it sounds, it's the truth."
The Hun Clan's Young Clan Leader tilted his head slightly, staring at Wei Yang from afar. His eyes narrowed a little, as if gazing at a blazing black sun.
His slow voice carried a hint of weight: "And the flame inside him is terrifying as well. It's called the Black Sun Burning Heaven Flame?"
"Mm. Back at the Pill Gathering, when he first revealed this Heavenly Flame to the world, he personally named it and announced it publicly. That's its name."
The Vice Hall Master gulped, trying hard to suppress the turmoil in his heart: "It's said to be a completely new Heavenly Flame. At the time it was temporarily ranked twenty-fourth, but many people believed its actual power could place it within the top ten. Why?"
"Top ten? Heh."
The Hun Clan's Young Clan Leader's stiff face twitched slightly. His tone carried an indescribable meaning. "A Heavenly Flame with Dou Sheng-level power, ranked only top ten? He hid it well. You were all fooled."
"What? That flame is actually Dou Sheng-level?!"
Hearing this, both the Hall Master and Vice Hall Master of Hall of Souls were visibly shaken. They were nearly scared to death. There were extremely few Heavenly Flames in the world that could reach Dou Sheng-level power. As far as they knew, there were only three.
One was Lord Nihility Devouring Flame.
Another was the newly descended Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame in this cracked seal space.The last one was the Gu Clan's Gold Emperor Incinerating Heavenly Flame. Now, was another Dou Sheng-level Heavenly Flame appearing in the world? A completely new one at that.
"Correct. Not only is that flame Dou Sheng-level, but it also gives me an extremely dangerous feeling. I'd estimate it's at least equivalent to a mid-level Dou Sheng."
The Hun Clan's Young Clan Leader nodded firmly.
He had only observed from a distance, yet not only did he immediately see through Wei Yang's actual strength, he even detected the level of the Heavenly Flame inside Wei Yang. Such an ability was undeniably terrifying.
Even Hun Miesheng couldn't do something like that.
".A mid-level Dou Sheng Heavenly Flame."
Hun Miesheng fell silent.
"But, but," the Vice Hall Master stammered, "If that Heavenly Flame really has Dou Sheng -level power, this Wei Yang had just stepped into the Dou Zun realm when he attended the Pill Gathering. How could he possibly subdue it?"
Did that mean Wei Yang possessed and refined a Dou Sheng -level Heavenly Flame before reaching Dou Zun? That was absolutely impossible.
As for the theory that this Heavenly Flame was originally weak and Wei Yang slowly nurtured it to Dou Sheng-level …that was even more impossible. Simple reason. Wei Yang's rise had been far too fast.
There was no way he could rapidly increase his own strength while also nurturing a Heavenly Flame to mid-level Dou Sheng in such a short time. They wouldn't believe it even if they were beaten to death.
Because it didn't make any sense. Cultivating and raising a Heavenly Flame was far more difficult than a human cultivating themselves.
"No matter how he did it, it's still the truth. My eyes aren't wrong," the Hun Clan's Young Clan Leader said.
"This is troublesome. With this unexpected factor, the competition for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame won't be smooth."
Hun Miesheng took a deep breath, shook his head, and said, "Send this information back to the clan."
"Mm."
The Young Clan Leader nodded lightly. Whether the clan chose to send stronger reinforcements or adopt a different response was unknown.
Their job was only to report the information ahead of time. This way, if the clan didn't send reinforcements and they ultimately failed to obtain the demonic flame, the blame wouldn't fall on the three of them.
After calming their emotions slightly…
"Where in the world did that old bastard Yao Chen find such a monster?" the Vice Hall Master muttered with a frown.
From the Jia Ma Empire? Don't joke. He didn't believe that for a second.
Don't forget Xiao Yan was also from the Jia Ma Empire, but at least he was a remnant of the Xiao Clan, born with dormant Dou Di Bloodline. Who knew whether Xiao Xuan had left some hidden preparations for the clan back then?
So while the Hun Clan was surprised by Xiao Yan's rapid rise, they weren't shocked to the point of disbelief. Many of them even found it perfectly reasonable. After all, even a rotten ship still had a few nails left.
Xiao Xuan might have died, but his remnant soul had lingered in the Heavenly Tomb for years. Of course the Hun Clan knew this well. So if Xiao Xuan had secretly left some backup plan, it wouldn't be surprising at all.
Indeed, that was the truth.
Look at Xiao Yan's Dou Di Bloodline, not only reawakened but upgraded to divine-grade — even higher quality than the Gu Clan's Gu Xun'er. As for Wei Yang, information said he came from a poor background in the Jia Ma Empire.
Just a mercenary's child? Orphaned at six, climbing up step by step on his own? Such ridiculous information… really?
The Vice Hall Master had already made up his mind. When he returned, he was going to slice up every one of those useless idiots in charge of intelligence and replace them with people who had functioning brains.
Otherwise, Hall of Souls would eventually get destroyed by these fools feeding them garbage information they dared to call reports.
A bunch of worthless trash who only know how to eat.
"He has a very powerful special bloodline. I just can't tell what it is. This mysterious and overbearing bloodline… I don't know its origins."
The Hun Clan's Young Clan Leader withdrew his gaze and slowly closed his eyes. His eyelids were faintly red, and he had to fight through the intense pain in his eyes to speak.
"As expected."
Hearing this, both the Hall Master and Vice Hall Master nodded slowly. They glanced at the black sun-shaped mark on Wei Yang's forehead.
A special bloodline — that made sense.
"I even suspect that the so-called Black Sun Burning Heaven Flame is actually a Heavenly Flame inherited from that mysterious bloodline."
Hun Miesheng said.
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