"Tianjie has indeed progressed a great deal, and can no longer be compared to when we were in the Upper Realm. Given time, perhaps he really can surpass the ancestors of the Xia family."
Chen Shi collected his mind, recalled the Profound Spring Swimming Dragon Sword, and walked out of Fengyang Manor together with Fairy Xiaoduan.
Tianjie had believed the gap between himself and Chen Shi could be bridged. Thus, when he saw Chen Shi slaughter the Xia family ghosts and gods of Fengyang Manor, not only did he not flee, but he remained behind, attempting to kill Chen Shi to prove his bitter cultivation and gains during this period.
At present, his corpse lay several dozen miles away. He had continuously attacked, yet not a single spell or divine ability of the Eight Awe Dragon Summoning Art managed to land on Chen Shi. This made him realize the sheer magnitude of the gap between them, and he died with an unsatisfied grievance. But in Chen Shi's heart, the gap between the two of them was not all that vast.
The ways in which he was stronger than Tianjie lay in the fact that the cultivation technique he practiced was slightly better, the arts and spells he understood were slightly more numerous, and what he comprehended was also slightly more than what Tianjie had grasped.
What he practiced was the Sixth New Talisman recorded on the Heaven Measuring Iron Ruler; the techniques he understood were those from the True King's Treasury; and what he comprehended was merely the sixty-four trigram transformations he had gained insight into from the Supreme Eight Trigrams Body Protection Talisman, alongside the sixty-four kinds of ghost and god domains derived from the trigram symbols.
Had Tianjie been willing to learn just a little more and comprehend