Even if we speak of living ancestors like Taihao Huanyao, who have awakened several times, none of them had ever laid eyes on the figure before them. In the old days when the Saint King Project still existed, they hadn't held the Heavenly Venerables of the Five Heavens in particularly high regard. After all, those were merely juniors whose innate talent had once fallen far short of their own. But now that the Saint King Project had been disbanded, and having been awake for several centuries, they had gradually accepted their current reality. Today, they no longer possessed the qualification to look down upon Heavenly Venerables with that former sense of superiority. Consequently, the looks that Cui Shenzhi and the others cast toward Great Heavenly Venerable Xulong also carried a trace of faint awe.
"So this is Great Heavenly Venerable Xulong... I wonder how vast the gap in strength is between him and ordinary Heavenly Venerables," Fang Chen thought to himself.
At that moment, Great Heavenly Venerable Xulong glanced at Black Lao San and nodded slightly. "Although I am of the Soul Clan, I was originally of the Dragon Clan in my lifetime, so you and I can broadly be considered of the same kin. There is no need for such formalities. Take this batch of students and go down to rest. This journey won't take too long; we will reach the Nirvana Forbidden Zone within three days."
Chapter 1039