"Just consider it my loss."
Those light words drifted across the Snowy Wasteland.
"I don't care about the outcome. Winning or losing makes no difference to me. I have no obsession with the battles of the past. The only reason I fought was because I wanted to know just how strong you truly are..."
Bai Xiu spoke slowly. "This proves my interest in the God Slaying plan. I want to know how far mortals can grow. After breaking through the twelfth layer, I lost my point of reference."
Yes.
Bai Xiu... had already broken through the twelfth layer of the Deep Sea. However, he had not applied to the Federal Government for a title, and the Bai clan was currently concealing the news of his breakthrough.
After breaking through the twelfth layer, Bai Xiu encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation for the first time in his life.
Not long ago, he had returned to Nagano and revisited Snow Forbidden City. To verify the results of his cultivation, he chose to challenge the titled powerhouses within the Bai Clan Ancestral Hall.
The two battles had both ended cleanly and decisively.
He first defeated the current clan head, Bai Xiaochi, then defeated his own elder brother, Bai Chen.
Back then, Gu Nanfeng broke through the twelfth layer of the Deep Sea at the age of twenty-nine, becoming Eastern Continent's youngest titled powerhouse.
Bai Xiu had accomplished all of this before reaching twenty-eight.
He had already reached the endpoint that the vast majority of mortals could never reach in their entire lives—the ultimate limit! Yet unlike Gu Nanfeng, he did not bear the burden of his clan. The Bai clan was not like the Gu family of the past, divided into the New and Old Factions, nor did it need Bai Xiu to