Normally speaking, once one mastered a divine ability at Fifth Tier Perfection, one's battle prowess among the same realm already counted as superior. If not for Spirit Transformation Cultivators also possessing the ability of Law, Heaven and Earth, a single perfected divine ability would have been enough to dominate.
Therefore.
Divine abilities clashing head-on were only a method. If Spirit Transformation Cultivators truly wanted to decide victory and defeat, eight times out of ten it still depended on the might of their Dharma Image.
This point would only change once one reached the Void Refinement Stage.
Honored Xia truly had not expected that she, a dignified Spirit Transformation Fourth Layer cultivator, who was not considered weak in this generation of Yun Province either, would suffer Wang Yu's sneak attack. Caught off guard for a moment, disaster had arisen out of thin air.
How could she possibly endure this?
"Despicable to the extreme! How can you be worthy of the name Venerable!"
"Ridiculous~"
In reality, only now did Wang Yu realize.
As the ascension hub for the dozen or so nearby Lesser Thousand Worlds, the Mountain Sea Realm had enjoyed peace for too long. Its top-level cultivators had long since broken away from the situation where problems needed to be solved by fighting and killing.
After all, everyone had someone backing them, and their little lives were precious indeed.
Before they came to the Mountain Sea Realm to line up, perhaps they were still risking their lives to earn resources and bitterly cultivate their realms. But after lining up in the Mountain Sea Realm for a long time, their combat methods gradually grew rusty.
Instead, they relied on alliance and diplomacy, on exchanges of interests.
They used these to obtain the resources they wanted. This was a typical change in thinking.