Chapter 2268: Evolving What? (1/2)

Being one of the thirteen Eminent Elders, it was humiliating being chided in public by Li Wen. Thus the ugly expressions on Xu Jun’s and Guo Qirong’s faces were not surprising.

But both remained quiet.

Upon seeing that the two of them had kept silent, Li Wen snapped again, “I am asking you both, who gave you the authority to change the Holy Gate’s rules? Didn’t you hear me?” In the end, an overwhelming aura broke out from Li Wen’s body in all directions, covering the entire headquarters.

Under Li Wen’s suffocating aura, even Xu Jun, Guo Qirong, and other Eminent Elders felt as if there were ten thousand great mountains pressing down on them, robbing them of their breaths. Jiang Tian and other Holy Princes were shocked to the core by what they were seeing.

Li Wen, as the head of the thirteen Eminent Elders, had not shown his strength for a long, long time now, and merely his aura was already world-shaking.

Xu Jun’s, Guo Qirong’s, and the others’ faces changed again. No one expected that Li Wen’s strength would have reached this degree. Judging from Li Wen’s overwhelming aura, though he had not stepped into True Saint Realm, it was not far from it. Li Wen’s cultivation had surely reached the peak of half-True Saint Realm.

Li Wen could even be a Nine Tribulation half-True Saint!

“Speak! Who gave you two the authority, that you have the guts to change the Holy Gate’s rules as you please?!” Li Wen snapped again, seemingly he wouldn't relent until he got an answer. His momentum increased, and the pressure boring down on Xu Jun and Guo Qirong caused them to stagger.

“Senior Brother Li Wen, please appease your anger. We wouldn’t dare to revise the Holy Gate’s rules.” Xu Jun quickly pacified in fear, “We were just babbling nonsense just now!”

“That’s right, Senior Brother Li Wen. Please appease your anger. Senior Brother Xu Jun and I have got too used to joking together. We were just making a small joke.” Guo Qirong quickly added.

It had never occurred to neither Xu Jun nor Guo Qirong that Li Wen, who usually wore a gentle smile on his face, would throw a big temper, and that too in such a terrifying manner.

There was a trace of fear in Eminent Elder Gong Chen’s and Chen Shiming’s eyes. The Holy Alliance’s Jiang Tian and other Holy Princes also looked scared, looking at Li Wen.

“Joking?” Li Wen harrumphed coldly, “The Holy Gate’s rules are for you to joke around with?!”

Xu Jun hastened to say, “Senior Brother Li Wen is right. We won’t do that anymore in the future!”

Guo Qirong hurriedly promised as well.

Suddenly, Eminent Elder Chen Shiming’s eyes widened as he too thought of the same thing as Yang Jingzhi. His gaze shifted onto Huang Xiaolong, who was on the battle stage, in a split second. He stammered intelligibly, “C-could…? Could it be…?!”

Noticing Chen Shiming’s excitement that mirrored Li Wen’s, other Eminent Elders were scratching their heads in confusion.

Could it be what??

Right at this time, Xu Jun who had felt an intense hatred towards Huang Xiaolong until now, suddenly stiffened as a possibility resounded in his mind like a thunderclap. His gaze moved, fixing on Huang Xiaolong. It looked like he was staring at a monster. Unknowingly, Xu Jun started trembling as his expression changed drastically, colored with fear.

That’s right. It was fear, fear of Huang Xiaolong!

A half-True Saint actually gave birth to a sense of fear to a mere Ninth Order Sovereign?!

“Senior Brother Xu Jun, what’s wrong with you?!” Seeing Xu Jun’s pale face as if he had just seen a ghost while staring fixedly at Huang Xiaolong, it alarmed Guo Qirong; especially the hint of fear in Xu Jun’s eyes.

Xu Jun pointed at Huang Xiaolong with a trembling finger, and his words came out in stutters, “He, he, h-, could, could he be?!”

Listening to Xu Jun stuttering for a long time without making a complete logical sentence, Gong Chen, Song Yi, Sun Shangyi, Li Yuhui, and other Eminent Elders were even more confused and doubtful.

“It’s, it’s, evolving, evolving!” Suddenly, Eminent Elder Chen Shiming’s excited voice sounded.

But Eminent Elder Li Wen sternly cut off his words, “Eminent Elder Chen Shiming, pay attention to your words!”

Chen Shiming blanked for a second at Li Wen’s warning, and a chill ran down his spine as he reacted swiftly, “Yes, yes, Senior Brother Li Wen is right. Look at my loose mouth!” And Chen Shiming actually slapped his own mouth.

Although Chen Shiming did not finish his words, after hearing the word ‘evolving,’ Eminent Elder Gong Chen, Song Yi, Sun Shangyi, Li Yuhui, and the others shuddered inexplicably.

Evolving, evolving!

They had already guessed what Chen Shiming’s unfinished words were.

Gong Chen, Song Yi, Sun Shangyi, Li Yuhui, and the rest of the Eminent Elders’ attention were all on Huang Xiaolong, and their eyes sparkled with excitement.

On another side, Jiang Tian was contemplating with a heavy frown, ‘Evolving?’

Evolving what?

Although Jiang Tian could not figure out what Li Wen and other Eminent Elders had thought of, Li Wen, Song Yi, and every Eminent Elders’ excited expressions gave him a bad feeling.

An obscured light glimmered in his eyes, and it seemed as if he had to ask the Jiang Family’s old man. With the old man’s experience and knowledge, he might know what was the ‘evolving’ that Eminent Elder Chen Shiming spoke of.

Zheng Yongjia, Wu Shi, and other Holy Princes of the Holy Alliance were filled with doubt.