"Lu Ziyin, it is not too late for you to abandon darkness and turn toward the light."
"I am willing to take you as my disciple. Join the Profound Sword Sect, and Shu Mountain is about to perish.
"From this day onward, you will be a disciple of the Profound Sword Sect. No one will dare gossip about you."
Lu Ziyin looked at the enormous Dharma manifestation in the heavens and smiled faintly.
"Two stinking fish and rotten shrimp—are you worthy?"
Lu Ziyin flicked the sword blade with a bent finger. Though the sword never left his hand, the hundred-mile gale abruptly froze solid.
"Hum!!"
"A mere Spirit Transformation Stage cultivator dares draw his sword before me?!"
Dark clouds pressed down upon the city. Three thousand hairline cracks split open across the sky, lightning gathering within them.
The gap between the Spirit Transformation Stage and the Body Integration Realm was not as simple as a single realm.
Even the difference between the Golden Core and Nascent Soul realms was like clouds and mud.
Let alone the gulf between the Spirit Transformation Stage and the Body Integration Realm.
Spirit Transformation cultivators were like ants gazing upon a sea of stars; Body Integration cultivators held the helm of that starry sea.
The difference between the two was not one of mere quantity.
Shu Mountain cultivators could fight above their realm.
But that was generally limited to realms below the Spirit Transformation Stage.
Qi Refinement against Foundation Establishment, Foundation Establishment against Golden Core, Golden Core against Nascent Soul, Nascent Soul against Spirit Transformation.
Beyond that, fighting above one's realm—
Even Shu Mountain had only a scant few capable of it.
Lingxu, and Xue Yun, the cultivation prodigy hailed as the most gifted disciple under heaven.
When Spirit Transformation cultivators faced the Body Integration