Auras swept across the firmament, surging with torrential, formidable power.
Lu Yuan stood high above, his robes fluttering in the wind, looking extraordinary. The mysterious, suffocating pressure radiating from his body was felt by everyone present, stirring profound shock within their hearts.
Almost everyone had realized it: Lu Yuan had become an immortal.
Such a development was simply too staggering. After all, just moments before, he had merely been at the peak of the Great Saint realm.
Now, in the span of a mere blink, he had attained such heights. That was the Immortal Realm! How could anyone break through so effortlessly?
It defied all reason. More crucially, the extraterrestrial beings saw that the two Divine Sons—who had previously held the upper hand—now radiated auras that were remarkably erratic, as if utterly suppressed. In just a fleeting instant, had the situation between both sides completely reversed?
"He really did it." Sensing this shift, Jiang Ningxian breathed a silent sigh of relief. Even though she had believed in Lu Yuan, her worry had never fully dissipated.
Now that he had succeeded, it was tremendous news for her, allowing her to finally set her mind at ease.
Jiang Ningxian knew full well that with Lu Yuan's peerless natural talent and terrifying combat prowess, dealing with two mere projections would pose no challenge at all, even if he had only just entered the Immortal Realm and had not yet fully digested or adapted to its power.
Thus, today's crisis was bound to come to an absolute end.
Beside her, Jiang Haokong's eyes went wide. He had harbored suspicions before, guessing that Lu Yuan might want to seize this opportunity to break through into a higher realm, yet he hadn't been able to confirm it. Seeing it with his own eyes and having it thoroughly proven left him deeply shaken once more.
He knew Lu Yuan was formidable and that ascending to immortality was only a matter of time. But he had never imagined it would happen so swiftly. How long had it even been since that man had broken into the Great Saint Realm?
Naturally, it was not just Jiang Haokong who thought this way; virtually all the extraterrestrial beings shared the same disbelief. Hadn't the two Divine Sons been holding the upper hand? Hadn't Lu Yuan already been driven to the end of his rope?
How could this be? How could he have abruptly breached the Immortal Realm out of nowhere?
If that was the case, even with the two Divine Sons joining forces, could they still slay him? Instinctively, those extraterrestrial beings who had harbored various opportunistic schemes immediately suppressed every last one of their stray thoughts.
After all, no one could say for certain who would claim the ultimate victory now.
"An immortal... He actually became an immortal," the Eternal Divine Son muttered, staring at Lu Yuan with immense incredulity in his eyes.
All of their plans had been meticulously laid out, and nearly every variable had been accounted for.
Yet in the end, why had their opponent been able to step straight into the Immortal Realm? One had to understand that even when he himself had made the breakthrough back then, it had never been so effortless.
The Ji Clan Divine Son was equally baffled. He had known there would be variables, but he had never expected one of this magnitude. He could not fathom how Lu Yuan could possibly break into the Immortal Realm in the midst of a fierce battle.
"Attack! Strike before he fully acclimates to this power!" the Ji Clan Divine Son shouted immediately. If they did not seize this opportunity now, they might never get another.
He understood all too well that the leap from the peak of the Great Saint realm to the Immortal Realm was immense, typically demanding a period of adjustment.
And this might very well be their final chance.
The Eternal Divine Son understood this just as clearly, so he nodded without hesitation.
Together, the two stepped forward without a second thought. Boom! Powerful auras erupted from their bodies as they unleashed the might of the Immortal Realm once more.
They knew that only by doing so would they have any chance of slaying Lu Yuan. If they failed here, achieving it in the future would be all but impossible. But what choice did they have? Who could have foreseen that events would unfold to this point?
At this moment, neither Divine Son was willing to waste another second. They pushed their utmost strength to its limits. Even though these were merely projections, their power remained terrifying, and the two pinned all their hopes upon this strike.
"Nothing more than this." Sensing the strength and techniques unleashed by the two Divine Sons, Lu Yuan shook his head faintly.
Without lingering hesitation, he simply took a step forward, simultaneously releasing his own aura.
Golden vital blood surged. Yet unlike before, this vitality seemed infused with an incomparable, peerless might.
Then, Lu Yuan stepped slowly forward and threw a direct punch.
Indeed, he had not yet fully acclimated to the strength of the Immortal Realm and could not wield its full potential. But to him, that mattered little. He was already an immortal, fundamentally different from before. As his fist drove forward, a majestic, towering power swept forth.
However, it did not shatter the surroundings as his strikes previously had. On the surface, it did not look like the destructive display of an immortal at all—yet that was precisely what made it all the more terrifying.
Boom!
A dull, heavy thud soon reverberated. Everyone present felt as though an archaic divine mountain had come crashing down to suppress them from overhead.
In the next instant, they saw high in the firmament that the combined forces of the two Divine Sons were driven back step by step beneath that single punch, completely powerless to resist.
It was almost identical to the disadvantage Lu Yuan had suffered before becoming an immortal. Only now, the tables had completely turned.
"So this is the power one wields after becoming an immortal?" Lu Yuan murmured, sensing the changes within himself before glancing at the two Divine Sons he had repelled.
The feeling was indeed wonderful. If entering the Saint Realm was merely a qualitative transformation, then achieving the Immortal Realm was a true sublimation—a transcendence of both soul and flesh.
Nearly every facet of his being had reaped tremendous benefits. A casually thrown punch now carried supreme might.
If he so desired, he could directly shatter the surrounding void or obliterate the stars beyond the realm.
Immortal... It truly was something extraordinary.
Across from him, the two Divine Sons were thoroughly shaken. He had only just entered the Immortal Realm, yet he already possessed such terrifying power. Once he fully adapted, to what heights would he soar? Could they still stop him? It was impossible.
Both the Ji Clan Divine Son and the Eternal Divine Son found it unbelievable. Wherever they went, they were peerless chosen prides who practically had no rivals among their peers.
Yet today, right here, someone who was originally weaker than them, who stood an entire realm below them, had reached their same cultivation level in a matter of moments.
And having only just broken through, he was already someone they could not match. Even though what had descended were only projections, what did that matter?
Their very wills had descended alongside these projections. They knew that the strength of these projections was virtually identical to when they themselves had first stepped into the Immortal Realm.
And that meant one thing: if they were truly in the same realm, neither of them would be Lu Yuan's match at all. They might even be crushed completely.
Chapter 352