For a brief moment, silence stretched between both sides. Chianxu could even hear her own heartbeat.
At last, the white-haired man finally spoke. "It seems the core did not go entirely to waste on you," he said calmly. "Still… one more breakthrough would have been preferable. If you had reached that level, resolving your current predicament would have been effortless."
Logan's eyes widened. "You mean… I could have reached the Martial Emperor Realm if I had refined that core properly?"
The man did not answer. Instead, he began walking toward them at an unhurried pace.
Chianxu's legs trembled. She could feel it.
This person in front of them was no ordinary being. He may have looked like a human, but she was certain he wasn't.
As a cultivator, she could at least sense a person's aura — if not their exact realm. But the presence before her now… it was beyond anything she had ever encountered.
