The Immortality Cultivation World had a watershed at every step. The Tribulation Stage had five watersheds and five Heavenly Tribulations; every time a cultivator overcame one, their strength leaped forward.
But that still wasn't the most outrageous part.
The most outrageous was the Mahayana Stage. With no Ascension Channel, the immortals and demons who should have gone to the Upper Realm were forced to remain in the mortal world. Factors such as cultivation methods, aptitude, comprehension, and bloodlines determined the watershed between Mahayana cultivators.
Sometimes, the gap between two Mahayana cultivators was even greater than the gap between a human and Lu... Lu Xi. Calling it a difference between clouds and mud would not be an exaggeration.
Lu Bei wasn't at the Mahayana Stage. Relying on his bugged-out combat power, he had seized the Gravekeeper Black Tortoise's position. A Four Symbols-level Mahayana cultivator was like a dimensionality-reduction strike against the other Mahayana cultivators.
It could be said that apart from the heads of the Eight Kings' noble clans, sending any number of other Mahayana cultivators from the Demon Race would only amount to handing themselves over.
If they were cautious and careful enough to deploy the Star Dou Formation with the power of their entire clans, things would be even worse. Even the clan heads would be throwing themselves away.
Lu Bei dealt with two Mahayana cultivators from the Gu Diao Clan as easily as playing around. With just the Divine Speed Divine Ability, the Golden Winged Great Peng could firmly suppress a Gu Diao. In the time it took to drink a cup of tea, he had made a small profit of three and a half billion points of aptitude, barely moistening his throat.
The reason it took a cup of tea was that one of the Gu Diao