Wide eyes, most filled with fear, stared at the stone stele, which revealed Asuros' transformation. He had appeared like a hellish demon before, but now appeared even more fearsome, more brutal, more terrifying. It was a fear at the instinctual level, as if every cell in their bodies was warning them to flee.
Even the stronger cultivators in the crowd, Dao Transformation and World Expansion experts alike, felt this instinctual warning, although they were better able to control their emotions than the weaker cultivators witnessing Asuros' true form.
There were some gazes in the crowd belonging to the ancient experts of the world that narrowed. They had read ancient scriptures and passages about an ancient foe, terrifying beyond all measure. Those descriptions matched Asuros' appearance almost perfectly.
The Grand Abbot narrowed his gaze as well, staring through the thousands of miles of land, mountains, and formation barriers to peer within the arena.