"You... have been promoted to the Ancient Realm?"
The Heavenly Emperor gazed at the elusive figure standing on the river of time, hesitated, and opened his mouth, his tone unconsciously carrying a bit of unease.
But Qin Zheng did not respond to his question, instead stepping forward, returning from the river of time to the current ’Time Node’.
The illusion turned into reality.
In an instant, a powerful aura tore through the void, the Chaos Sea seemingly unable to bear it, and a unique Qi Mechanism immediately began to permeate the heavens and earth.
At the moment of sensing this Qi Mechanism, both Xuandu and the Heavenly Emperor had a change in expression, as they were all too familiar with this Qi Mechanism!
Especially the Heavenly Emperor!
Because this unique Qi Mechanism was almost identical to the one when the Heavenly God transcended with many other shores to seal the Polluted Land for millions of years!
In other words, Qin Zheng had already touched the power of the Ancient Realm and even been promoted to the Spirit Ancient Realm, about to transcend the Chaos Sea and head to the Nine Provinces!
Such a thing could really happen!
The Heavenly Emperor’s expression became extremely gloomy, his eyes filled with many complex colors, first showing amazement, then confusion, and finally turning into jealousy!
He had cultivated for countless ages, and after leaving the other shore, he had schemed for tens of millions of years, only to now have hope of ascending to the Ancient One Realm.
Yet Qin Zheng, only a human who lived for hundreds of years, cultivated for no more than over a hundred years, had surpassed his countless ages of accumulation, stepping first into the Ancient Realm!
At this moment, despite going through countless ages of tempering, his Tao heart being extremely firm, there was still a bit of wavering.
Although he waited until now to integrate the bloodline of the Ancient Clan, to prevent being eroded by the Power of Curse after transcendence, and being opposed by the strong on the Nine Provinces.
But judging from all of Qin Zheng’s past performances, being able to purify the Pollution Qi surely means he has a way to deal with the Power of Curse, and after transcendence, he wouldn’t have to worry about the erosion of the Power of Curse!
So all he painstakingly planned and thought over was no match for the other’s hundred-year accumulation!
His heart was full of resentment, and malicious thoughts arose.
The Heavenly Emperor’s eyes were quickly filled with ice-cold killing intent, his aura rapidly escalating as if breaking free, and within just a few breaths had breached the Other Shore Realm!
He intended to prove the Spirit Ancient Realm at this moment, before the Daode Tianzun and Buddha returned, to transcend the Chaos Sea, and head to the Nine Provinces!
Almost instantly, when the Heavenly Emperor broke the realm, the changes in Qi Mechanism within the entire Chaos Sea suddenly intensified, seemingly forming a connection with another world!
While Xuandu originally wondered how Qin Zheng had proven the Other Shore, yet the Heavenly Emperor claimed he had ascended to the Ancient Realm, questioning the realm Qin Zheng was in now?
Following that, the changes brought by the Heavenly Emperor’s breakthrough instantly pulled his mind back, causing his expression to become frantic.
He feared not the Heavenly Emperor’s transcendence, but rather the possibility of the Heavenly Emperor breaking the seal and reconstructing a new passage between the Polluted Land and the Chaos Sea!
Qin Zheng was sensible, but the Heavenly Emperor was not!
However, when he anxiously turned his gaze to Qin Zheng, he found Qin Zheng calm, without much worry, even measuring the Heavenly Emperor’s breakthrough with his gaze.
Could it be that Junior Brother Qin... had really ascended to the Ancient Realm?
Only at this moment did Xuandu belatedly reveal a look of shock, gazing at Qin Zheng with a sense of disbelief in his eyes.
At this moment, Qin Zheng calmly observed the Heavenly Emperor’s breakthrough to prove the Tao, without interrupting his intention to ascend, but perceiving the changes in the Heavenly Emperor’s body.
The Heavenly Pool Clan is most skilled at the Bow Path, and the most important aspect of cultivating this Tao is acute perception; therefore, after merging with Divine Ancient Essence Blood and operating [Heavenly Bow Path], Qin Zheng’s perception had ascended to an unprecedented realm.
At this moment, with the Heavenly Emperor breaking through, all the changes within his body clearly reflected in his heart with deliberate perception.
However, Qin Zheng currently only devoted half his perception to the Heavenly Emperor’s ascendancy, while the other half was focused on the swiftly weakening Ancient Clan Bloodline within his body!
After merging Divine Ancient Essence Blood, his perception of the Ancient Clan’s Bloodline Power was extremely sensitive, first detecting within the Haotian Mirror a drop of Haotian Divine Race blood that he received in the past, containing the power of the Ancient Clan.
This led him to understand that the former Heavenly God was most likely related to the Ancient Clan on the Nine Provinces!
After returning to the current ’Time Node’, he also promptly sensed the Ancient Clan Bloodline Power within the Heavenly Emperor’s body.
Yet compared to the Divine Ancient Essence Blood he obtained, the Ancient Clan Bloodline Power contained within the other’s body could be said to be extremely weak.
But even the most meager Ancient Clan Bloodline is still an Ancient Clan Bloodline, with this Bloodline Power safeguarding him, the Heavenly Emperor, even after ascending to the Ancient Realm, would not be eroded by the Power of Curse and lose his sanity to become a monster.
But under Qin Zheng’s perception at the moment, he discovered that although the Heavenly Emperor was attempting to break through, his aura was growing at an almost expansive speed.
Yet the Ancient Clan Bloodline Power within his body was constantly being weakened and diminished, as if ascending to the Spirit Ancient Realm required consuming this weak Ancient Clan Bloodline Power.
But in the presence of Qin Zheng, with Fusion Divine Blood experience, this simply is not logical, upliftment of breakthrough and Bloodline Power are not mutually consumptive, but rather progress side by side!