The strength Fairy Bai Luo displayed in that instant was enough to show that she stood on the same level as Yun Hezi. Yet before Qi Lianliancheng, she did not dare linger in the slightest.
In truth, only experts of her level could understand more clearly just how vast the gap was between cultivators of the same Nascent Soul Realm—from the Nascent Soul Early Stage, or even the stage of Nascent Soul Manifestation, to Nascent Soul Great Completion. It sounded as though the difference between sword aura cultivation, Sword Induction into Body, and Natal Sword Essence was merely one or two stages. But the further one progressed, the differences in actual strength multiplied severalfold, even tenfold! Just as someone at the sword aura stage might not necessarily defeat more than a dozen sword-control cultivators, while someone who had cultivated Natal Sword Essence could contend against more than a dozen sword aura cultivators, or even hundreds of sword-control cultivators. The higher one climbed, the harder advancement became, yet each step forward produced an ever more obvious difference in strength.
Fairy Bai Luo had in fact already cultivated her Nascent Soul to the point of condensing it and sending it forth, only one step away from Nascent Soul Great Completion. Although Luo Bei did not cultivate the inner-core arts that cultivated a Nascent Soul, his true essence cultivation had long been equivalent to the stage of Nascent Soul Manifestation. Yet merely the powerful aura emanating from Qi Lianliancheng had already made Fairy Bai Luo feel that she could not possibly contend with him. She did not dare make an enemy of Qi Lianliancheng at all, even though he was severely wounded and had fought battle after battle.
This gap was also one of the true reasons why the vast majority of sects