"I-I-Is this r-really the power of a Nascent God cultivator?!" A Heavenly God Sect Elder, face pallid and streaked with cold sweat, choked out his disbelieving exhalation between ragged gasps. "E-Even though I prepared my soul for this inevitability...m-my very foundation remains shaken to its core!"
"T-The gap s-separating our realms is simply...u-unfathomable!" Another wide-eyed elder, her once regal features twisted into a rictus of abject horror, gurgled out a mantra stemming from generations of cultivators dating back to the founding of their lineage.
"U-Unreal!" A third elder - a boastful, arrogant Soul Severing cultivator infamous for his peerless Path insights - had abandoned all traces of his typical hubris, eyes rapidly flickering from side to side as if delusionally praying to wake from this living nightmare. "H-How can a solitary cultivator b-boast power sufficient to threaten our entire sect's legacy?!"
