Seventh-rank Immortal Spirit!
Over ten thousand years of time, seas had turned to mulberry fields. Such a Great Change had actually allowed Gongshu Ling, a Third-rank Legend, to leap straight into the Seventh-rank Immortal Spirit rank.
This was not merely an increase in rank, but a leap in status. The effort a Third-rank Legendary Hero had to expend, the hardships they had to endure, to advance into a Seventh-rank Immortal Spirit Hero were likely beyond what others could imagine.
After all, every time a hero advanced, there was a possibility of their status falling. It was exceedingly common for a Third-rank Legend to become a Fourth-rank Epic; a Fourth-rank Epic becoming a Fifth-rank Rare was nothing unusual either. At the Sixth and Seventh ranks, there was an even greater possibility of fading into the common crowd.
This was not only tied to innate potential, but inseparable from acquired effort, and further influenced by fate and opportunity. One could say that no one lacking great perseverance, great wisdom, and great fortune could achieve it.
Take Gongshu Ling as an example. As a Legendary Hero, her innate potential was certainly not weak. Yet if she had relied on her own efforts alone, reaching the Seventh rank would already have been extraordinarily difficult. Even maintaining her Legendary status would have required untold hardship, let alone crossing Mythological and entering the highest Immortal Spirit rank.
The reason she had achieved this was due in small part to her innate potential and personal effort, but in far greater part to Xu Yang's no-expense-spared watering and cultivation, his pouring of heart and soul into guiding her step by step to this day.
For this, Xu Yang had even played favorites. Over all these years, he had focused on cultivating her alone. Whether it was the supply