Cultivation realm did not equal combat strength!
Within the same realm, foundations differed.
Combat strength could be worlds apart.
The strength of a Martial Core determined combat strength to a great extent.
And the number of Martial Cores had an even greater impact.
Xiao Chen had once discussed this with Qiongqi and learned that to become a sage...
Dual cores were indispensable!
The reason the Mortal World and the Spirit Realm differed so vastly in strength...
Was that, compared with the Mortal World, the Spirit Realm had an enormous number of dual-core cultivators.
Among all cultivators, those with dual cores accounted for five percent.
In some powerful Spirit Realms, that proportion was even higher.
At first, five in a hundred did not sound like much. It could even be considered exceedingly rare.
Yet compared with the Mortal World, they were already as numerous as hairs on an ox, enough to deliver an attack from a higher dimension.
After all, across Great Xia's secular world, no one had managed to condense dual cores for tens of thousands of years.
Of course, those born with memories of past lives, such as Ji Wushang, were exceptions. Such beings were powerful from birth, able to bypass the laws of reincarnation and inherit their former divine abilities.
Strictly speaking, Xiao Chen also possessed memories of a past life and had an extraordinary identity. For some reason, he had descended to the mortal world to temper himself... or undergo a tribulation!
For such figures, the radiance of their divine nature had not been extinguished, merely concealed for a time. Once awakened, they would become terrifying, soaring into the heavens in a single flight.
Apart from Martial Cores, the second threshold on the path of cultivation that widened the gap in combat strength was Dao fire.
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