The cruel truth! The Tai Cang Overlord Body is destined to never become an Emperor?!

Inside the office.

As soon as Senior Jian uttered the four words "Tai Cang Overlord Body," the hearts of everyone present skipped a beat.

Li Zhanjun's face, in particular, was instantly covered in wild joy. He slapped his thigh hard, so excited he almost jumped up.

"Good! Great!"

"First we had that girl Shen Qingyi's Taiyin Sacred Body, and now we have this kid Ye Hao's Tai Cang Overlord Body!"

"It's as if the heavens are afraid our Great Xia won't have enough to eat and are practically chasing us down to spoon-feed us!"

"Senior Jian, according to you, as long as this kid grows up, our Great Xia will have another Great Emperor who can suppress the ages in the future?!"

Li Zhanjun stared intently at Senior Jian with burning eyes.

"A future Great Emperor?"

Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Senior Jian did not nod as everyone expected; instead, he shook his head quite bluntly.

"No, no, no, you've misunderstood my meaning."

"I never said this kid could become an Emperor in the future!"

"Huh?!"

At this, let alone Li Zhanjun, everyone present was stunned.

Gu Zhiyun's eyes widened even further, her face filled with confusion.

"But Senior Jian..."

"Didn't you just say that once the Tai Cang Overlord Body reaches Major Achievement, one can challenge a Supreme Great Emperor with nothing but a pair of iron fists?"

"Since he can challenge a Great Emperor, doesn't that mean he also has the Aptitude to become one?"

Gu Zhiyun's logic was clear and followed common sense.

Someone who can go toe-to-toe with a Great Emperor must surely be an existence at that same level!

Is there a problem with that?

"Correct, a Tai Cang Overlord Body at Major Achievement can challenge a Great Emperor."

Senior Jian stroked his beard and nodded with a serious expression, but then emphasized again:

"But it is merely 'challenging'!"

"Uh..."

Li Fan, listening from the side with a face full of confusion, couldn't help but interject:

"Senior Jian, is there a difference?"

"A difference? It's a massive one!"

Senior Jian sighed and explained patiently:

"Sigh, let me put it to you this way."

"A Tai Cang Overlord Body at Major Achievement has extremely terrifying physical strength, barely possessing combat power at the Great Emperor level."

"When encountering a true Great Emperor, they can exchange a few blows and even avoid falling into a disadvantage for a short time."

"But... it's just exchanging a few blows."

"If the fight drags on in a life-and-death struggle, the Hegemon Body will still be defeated!"

"A Great Emperor, after all, is an existence who wields Heavenly Mandate and is One with the Dao. How could they be easily surpassed by a mere Physique?"

"Now, do you all understand?"

After hearing this explanation, everyone finally had a sudden realization.

"I get it, I get it!"

Lin Xiyue nodded and said thoughtfully:

"So you mean a Tai Cang Overlord Body at Major Achievement is like a 'pseudo-Great Emperor.' They can punch up at a Great Emperor a bit, but in a real fight, they still can't win. Is that it?"

"Yes, that's the general idea." Senior Jian nodded in agreement.

"That's still not bad!"

Lin Xiyue wasn't disappointed; instead, her eyes shone even brighter.

"If it's this strong without becoming an Emperor, then once this Tai Cang Overlord Body actually proves its Dao and becomes an Emperor, wouldn't it be heavenly?"

"Would it be several times stronger than an ordinary Great Emperor?"

The logic was sound!

If the base stats are already high, once you apply a multiplier, wouldn't you be invincible?

However.

Facing Lin Xiyue's hopeful speculation.

Senior Jian looked at her with an extremely complex gaze, even carrying a hint of pity.

Then, he spoke a sentence that struck everyone present like a bolt from the blue!

"This is also what I wanted to emphasize next!"

"I'm sorry, girl Lin."

"Your hypothesis doesn't hold up."

"Because... the Tai Cang Overlord Body cannot become an Emperor!"

"What?!"

"Cannot become an Emperor?!"

These words were no different from a sudden clap of thunder on a clear day!

The entire office instantly exploded!

Everyone's eyes widened, unable to believe their ears.

The Tai Cang Overlord Body, which sounded so overbearing and Heaven-Defying, actually... couldn't become an Emperor?

And Senior Jian had said it with such a certain tone!

This was too ridiculous, wasn't it?!

As the person involved, Ye Hao was completely frozen at this moment.

To be fair, when he first heard he possessed a special Physique, his heart was filled with wild joy.

After all, he had personally seen the power of Shen Qingyi's Taiyin Sacred Body; it was strong beyond belief!

But before he could be happy for even two minutes, a bucket of cold water was poured over his head.

Cannot become an Emperor?

Although he was still just a rookie and didn't have a concrete concept of how high the Great Emperor Realm actually was.

He was still a new-era college student who had read countless cultivation novels.

Just hearing the title "Great Emperor," he knew it was the end of the road for cultivation, the supreme ceiling!

And now... he had only just stepped over the threshold of being a Cultivator, and he was already being handed a death sentence?

Telling him he could never dream of reaching the summit in this lifetime?

This was too much of a blow to one's Dao Heart!

"Senior... Senior Jian, you aren't joking, are you?"

Lin Guohui swallowed hard and asked in disbelief.

"In such a major matter, I naturally would not joke."

Senior Jian shook his head, his expression solemn.

"As far as I know, in the long history of the Cangxuan Great Realm, the highest achievement of every generation of Tai Cang Overlord Body possessors has stopped at Major Achievement!"

"Throughout all of ancient history, there has never been a Hegemon Body at Major Achievement who could successfully break the Shackles and prove their Dao to become an Emperor!"

"Legend has it that although the Hegemon Body is powerful, it possesses some unknown Innate defect, which leads to the curse of being unable to become an Emperor."

"Ah... how can it be like this?"

After hearing this, Gu Zhiyun's face was full of regret.

"Such a Heaven-Defying Physique actually has such a fatal flaw?"

"That's just too much of a pity!"

She didn't know much about the path of a Body Cultivator. After all, in the Cangxuan Great Realm over the last few tens of thousands of years,

Body Cultivators had long since declined. No powerful Body Cultivator experts had emerged, and relevant records were few and far between.

But this tragedy of having peerless potential yet being destined never to reach the summit still made her sigh.

"Wait!"

Just as everyone was feeling regretful.

Sikong Yang, who had remained silent all along, suddenly seemed to remember something and abruptly looked up!

"Senior Jian!"

"Your words just now... seem a bit incorrect, don't they?"

"Oh?"

Senior Jian looked at him with some surprise: "Do you have a different insight?"

"I remember... the one who was famous in history for proving his Dao through his Physical Body, the Overlord Emperor Jun..."

"Wasn't he a Tai Cang Overlord Body?!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole room was shocked!

The Overlord Emperor Jun?!

Lin Xiyue was all too familiar with this name!

After all, the introductory volume of the Hegemon Heaven Indestructible Scripture her brother gave her was the Legacy of this very Emperor Lord!

If he was also a Tai Cang Overlord Body, didn't that mean... Senior Jian was wrong? The Tai Cang Overlord Body can actually become an Emperor?!

"Oh?"

When Senior Jian heard Sikong Yang mention the Overlord Emperor Jun, the surprise in his eyes deepened by several degrees.

"Such a secret matter is not well known even in the Cangxuan Great Realm."

"Where did you learn of this?"

"It's quite a coincidence."

Sikong Yang didn't hide it and told the truth.

"Many years ago, I was fortunate enough to enter a Legacy Secret Realm left behind by the Overlord Emperor Jun."

"It was there that I obtained some records regarding his life's deeds."

"Among them, it was clearly mentioned that what the Overlord Emperor Jun awakened was indeed the Tai Cang Overlord Body!"

"No wonder..."

Senior Jian nodded, coming to a realization.

"Since you have obtained his Legacy, it is not surprising that you know of this."

"What you said is correct."

"The Overlord Emperor Jun... was indeed a Tai Cang Overlord Body!"

"However!"

Senior Jian's tone suddenly shifted.

"You only know one part of it, not the whole story!"

"Do you know how the Overlord Emperor Jun was able to break that curse and prove his Dao against the heavens back then?"

"It was because, at the moment his Hegemon Body reached Major Achievement..."

"He made a decision that everyone found insane!"

"He... personally severed his own Hegemon Body Origin!"

"He discarded that invincible Physique that looked down upon the world!"

"He sought life through death!"

"Only then was he able to successfully break that shackle, reach the Ultimate Sublimation, and step into the Supreme Emperor Realm!"