Baoshe's eyes were filled with doubt, and faintly, a trace of envy.
Her feelings were understandable. Although a True Devil Progenitor was far stronger than an ordinary Saint Ancestor, to earn so glorious a title as Saint Ancestor, one had at least to be a powerhouse who had stepped into the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
Tribulation Transcendence was the final realm of immortal cultivation. Once one crossed that threshold, even if one's cultivation could not advance another inch, the sheer length of one's lifespan was enough to leave others tongue-tied.
Living for over a million years was easy. A mighty figure like Nailong True Person had even experienced the war between the two worlds several million years ago; how long he had lived could well be imagined.
In short, beings at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage had not reached true ageless immortality, but because their lifespans were far too long, in the eyes of ordinary cultivators, they were not much different from eternal life.
And their strength was even more inconceivable. The gap between them and the previous realm was so great that it was difficult to describe in words. A powerhouse at the peak of the Spirit Division Stage might very well be unable to defeat even a single incarnation of an early Tribulation Transcendence being.
Of course, the incarnation spoken of here was not like the wisp of Split Soul Lin Xuan had encountered, casually seizing some body. Such an incarnation was still something an old monster at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage had painstakingly refined.
But no matter what, the fact that they could not even defeat an incarnation showed just how vast the gulf was between an old monster at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage and a peak Spirit Division existence.
Therefore, only when an Ancient Demon advanced to Tribulation