Yang Qing successfully passed the Heavenly Tribulation, advancing another step in the Immortal King realm, rising from an ordinary Immortal King to a Peak Immortal King.
According to Gu Tuo, there were four Immortal Kings in the Immortal Realm fragment. Aside from Immortal King Wuji and Gu Tuo, whom he had already slain, there were two other Immortal Kings.
Like Gu Tuo, the other two Immortal Kings in the Immortal Realm were both Peak Immortal Kings, the most ancient Immortal Kings in the Immortal Realm.
In other words, after becoming a Peak Immortal King, even setting aside his actual strength and considering cultivation alone, he already stood at the pinnacle of the Immortal Realm.
"If I can advance another step, I can enter the level of an Immortal King Giant!" Yang Qing thought to himself.
There was little to say about ordinary Immortal Kings. As long as one successfully broke through to become an Immortal King, one would be at that level.
Peak Immortal Kings were not actually difficult either. With enough accumulated time, one could generally step into the level of a Peak Immortal King.
But Immortal King Giants were different. Even in the distant past, when the Immortal Realm had yet to shatter, experts of that level had been few and far between.
One could imagine how difficult it was to break through from a Peak Immortal King and become an Immortal King Giant.
Otherwise, not a single Immortal King Giant would have appeared in the Immortal Realm throughout the long ages.
Of course, that was true for others. For Yang Qing, as long as the realm was there, breaking through was merely a matter of time.
"I should work harder too!" Gu Tuo thought to himself.
He considered himself an extraordinarily talented person. Otherwise, he could not