"Aberrant Metal Ranking 50, Mystic Radiance Gold, mid-stage Seventh-Grade Nascent Core, Profound Gold Body."
"As expected, he was no ordinary powerhouse—at least fifty percent stronger than Fang Tu."
"The gap in power between Nascent Core grades was simply unreasonable!"
Watching Shen Xuan, who had already flown backward and was staring at him with unwavering eyes, Lin Xuan could not help sighing inwardly.
The Lower Three Grades Nascent Core were nothing remarkable, while the Middle Three Grades Nascent Core marked one's entry into the ranks of the strong.
A Seventh-Grade Nascent Core had already stepped across the threshold of the prodigy class.
Though he had yet to encounter Nascent Core Realm cultivators with eighth-grade, ninth-grade, Transcendent Rank, or Immortal-grade cores, Lin Xuan was almost certain that such levels possessed the potential to effortlessly crush lower-grade Nascent Cores.
No wonder Transcendent Realm cultivators were so obsessed with pursuing the essence of power. Some would rather die than break through to the Nascent Core Realm.
The gap between Nascent Core grades truly was one step, one whole world.
This was crystal clear from Shen Xuan and Fang Tu.
Those at the late stage of the Lower Three Grades Nascent Core were not even qualified to be mentioned in the same breath as them.
To put it bluntly, Lower Three Grades Nascent Cores were cannon fodder in battle.
Only by entering the ranks of the Middle Three Grades Nascent Core would one have a chance of becoming one of those so-called great powers in the future.
Of course, nothing was absolute. This vast fantasy world held countless fortuitous opportunities.
Perhaps someone had once matched a prodigy with a low-grade Nascent Core, but such beings were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns throughout the long history of the Azure Cloud Realm.
"A monster—this