Jiang Ding did not hide his confusion. Within the Immortal Sect, he had always been relaxed and did not care much for keeping his joy and anger from showing.
"Senior, how does one catch up to someone far stronger than oneself in strength, background, flying sword, and potential?"
He asked the seniors around him.
These seniors were all his teachers. There was no need to conceal a question; he could simply ask it directly.
"Catch up to a Heavenly Talent stronger than yourself?"
Shenji Heavenly Monarch froze.
He thought of that figure within the lightning tribulation.
That figure had clearly only been at Early Deity Transformation, yet had easily beaten the Great Sun Sword Son until he coughed blood. If that person was a True Person, they must have come from an incomparably terrifying power, wielding Immortal Path achievements far beyond the Immortal Sect's current limits of exploration.
He sank into thought and did not respond for a long time.
Jiang Ding waited patiently.
High-level cultivators took a long time to think, like supercomputers. When making major decisions, they often had to estimate enormous data variables in every aspect—changes in the political situation, changes in the Spiritual Energy Tide, military development, shifts in internal political struggles, and more.
The more one understood, the more one knew, and the more one revered the unknown.
Thus, when contemplating major issues, high-level cultivators could actually be slower than ordinary people, because ordinary people ignored the complex variables that should have been considered. Their Spirit Calculation Power was too weak to incorporate so many variables into their calculations.
Several months later.
"Your question reminds me of the rise of the Immortal Sect."
"Do you know what things were like back then?"
Shenji Heavenly Monarch's gaze was as deep as the stars.
"According to historical