Knowing his place?
Faced with a man whose mere roar of pure might could shatter his mind, how could Wei Lao dare not know his place?
Although he didn't know what kind of existence this fellow was, nor why he was impersonating Lord Chixiao, Wei Lao didn't even dare to confirm whether this person's strength was truly formidable.
But he also didn't dare to test him.
Because he knew that once he made a move to test him, if this man's power was truly unfathomable, the consequences awaiting him would be unimaginable.
Moreover, when he had met Gu Qingfeng's gaze earlier, there had been no sorrow or joy, no anger or rage, not even a hint of killing intent—only tranquility. Such a person was terrifying, terrifying to the point of killing without blinking. Perhaps it should be said that human life was like grass in his eyes.
Not far away.
Peng Jia, Yue Jinghong, and over a dozen other Immortal Court nobles were also collapsed on the ground.
They were vastly different from before.
Previously, they had been arrogant, domineering, and overbearing. Now, they were each in a sorry state, collapsed on the ground in fear and terror. Beyond fear, what filled them more was disbelief.
Yes.
Disbelief.
They simply couldn't understand how a person with no cultivation and no Fortune could shatter their minds with a single roar of might.
They couldn't understand.
Nor did they believe it, and they couldn't accept such a fact.
This feeling was as unbelievable and unacceptable as witnessing an ant trample an elephant to death with one's own eyes.
Especially Peng Jia.
As a direct disciple of Nandou Sect and a noble son enfeoffed by the Immortal Court, with over a hundred layers of Great Natural Order Color Spirit and the invincible Great Sun Radiance Dharma Aspect, he had never feared anyone. Even when facing opponents stronger than himself, or even True Immortals, even if he couldn't win, he had confidence in protecting himself. Never before had he encountered a situation like today, where the other party hadn't even made a move—just a single roar of might had caused his mind to collapse.
Such an outcome was something his powerful self-esteem couldn't bear, and his proud bones wouldn't allow it.
He also didn't believe this person was truly so powerful.
Steeling his heart, Peng Jia gritted his teeth, forcibly gathered his scattered mind, sprang to his feet, glared with furious eyes, and shouted sharply, "This noble son doesn't believe you're really that powerful!"
Forcibly gathering one's scattered mind.
The consequences were extremely terrifying.
Not only would it cause backlash, but there was also the danger of qi deviation.
But.
At this moment, Peng Jia didn't care about any of that. He wanted to reclaim justice for his dignity and his face!
As he stood up, brilliant light erupted wildly around him.
It was the myriad-colored Great Natural Order Color Spirit—a full one hundred and sixty-eight layers!
Whoosh!
When the one hundred and sixty-eight layers of Color Spirit bloomed, the hall was instantly swept by surging winds and clouds. Yin and Yang transformed, the Five Elements evolved—like rolling dust, like swirling snow, like countless bolts of thunder and lightning madly striking.
This was the might of the Great Natural Order Color Spirit.
This was the power of the Great Natural Order Color Spirit.
It could not only intimidate the mind but also annihilate the physical body.
The mysteries of the Great Natural Order Color Spirit were layered, each stronger than the last. With one hundred and sixty-eight layers of mystery, an ordinary Dharma Aspect Grandmaster would be crushed to dust on the spot.
Exaggerated?
No!
Not at all.
Because many had personally witnessed Peng Jia using his one hundred and sixty-eight layers of Great Natural Order Color Spirit to crush over a dozen Dharma Aspect Grandmasters into mincemeat.
After all, it was the power of the Great Natural Order. Forget ordinary Dharma Aspect Grandmasters—even Wei Lao, an Ancient Earth Immortal, didn't dare to be the slightest bit negligent when facing Peng Jia's one hundred and sixty-eight layers of Great Natural Order Color Spirit. Although he could resist it, he could only do so by relying on the Nascent Soul Dharma Aspect he had cultivated over thousands of years. He absolutely wouldn't dare to take it head-on.
When Peng Jia summoned his proud Great Natural Order Color Spirit, Wei Lao immediately looked over, only to discover, to his shock, that Gu Qingfeng was completely unaffected.
He still sat in his chair, legs crossed, sipping his wine, not even bothering to glance at him.
How could this be!
Wei Lao was dumbfounded. He stared carefully, certain that there was no Nascent Soul Dharma Aspect circulating around Gu Qingfeng, nor any Fortune, nothing at all—not even a trace of spiritual energy.
In other words, he was completely relying on his physical body to withstand it.
No!
He wasn't withstanding it.
Because he simply wasn't affected by the power of the Great Natural Order Color Spirit. It was as if the maddening one hundred and sixty-eight layers of Color Spirit enveloping this space weren't targeting him, but someone else.
Why?
No one knew.
Peng Jia knew even less. He couldn't afford to dwell on the shock and fear in his heart. As he summoned the Great Natural Order Color Spirit, whoosh—in an instant, brilliant light erupted around him again. This time, it was a pure, silvery-white radiance, sacred and powerful, condensing and transforming above his head into a massive, nine-meter-wide ball of light, like a sun suspended in the hall.
The silvery-white radiance was blinding.
The powerful Radiance might further intimidated the already shattered minds of the crowd.
The vast, rolling power of Radiance filled everyone with fear.
Everyone knew this was the Great Sun Radiance Nascent Soul Dharma Aspect, the symbol of an Immortal Court noble son.
As was well known, Nascent Soul Dharma Aspects also possessed many mysteries of Fortune. But so-called mysteries of Fortune were utterly insignificant before the Great Sun Radiance Dharma Aspect. Because this Great Sun Radiance Dharma Aspect possessed the might of the Great Sun and the power of Radiance, hailed as the king among Nascent Souls, the monarch among Dharma Aspects. Few Dharma Aspect Fortunes could rival it. Precisely because of this, the Great Sun Radiance Dharma Aspect was renowned as invincible.
Relying on this Great Sun Radiance Dharma Aspect, Peng Jia feared no Earth Immortal. Even though Wei Lao was an Ancient Earth Immortal, he similarly held no fear.
Don't be fooled by Wei Lao's Nascent Soul Dharma Aspect, tempered over thousands of years—it possessed no Fortune, just an ordinary Nascent Soul Dharma Aspect. So, facing Peng Jia's Great Sun Radiance Dharma Aspect, he had no certainty of victory.
The Present Era was not like the Ancient Era.
The Ancient Era competed on the strength of Nascent Soul Dharma Aspects. As long as you had enough perseverance, even with poor aptitude, your Nascent Soul Dharma Aspect would slowly grow stronger.
But the Present Era was different. The Present Era competed not on the strength of Dharma Aspects, but on Fortune. Before powerful Fortune, so-called perseverance was useless. Even if you cultivated for a hundred or a thousand years, you might not match a single powerful Fortune of another.
In the hall.
Peng Jia had truly gone all out.
One hundred and sixty-eight layers of Great Natural Order Color Spirit mystery.
A Great Sun Radiance Dharma Aspect with eighty-one transformations.
Yet.
It was useless.
That Gu Qingfeng still sat in his chair, unhurriedly sipping his wine. From beginning to end, he hadn't even looked up. His sleeves didn't stir, his hair didn't flutter. No matter how frenzied Peng Jia's one hundred and sixty-eight layers of Great Natural Order Color Spirit were, no matter how domineering his eighty-one-transformation Great Sun Radiance Dharma Aspect was—it was all useless.
That man in white, that Gu Qingfeng, remained completely unaffected.
Not in the slightest.
Witnessing this scene.
Everyone was utterly stunned, each frozen in place as if they had seen a ghost.
If they had still harbored doubts about Gu Qingfeng's strength before, then at this moment, no one had any doubts left.