Cui Zhenhai had always been ruthless and fiercely protective of his own. To everyone's astonishment, he had actually slaughtered all the people present this time. At the same time, Ji Xinghai and the others had all relaxed, letting out a long breath.
Facing a Divine Connection cultivator, even though there were two or three thousand cultivators here, they had been utterly powerless to resist him. The few Integration stage cultivators all understood that if Old Devil Cui had made a move, not a single one of them would have survived.
The farther cultivators advanced along the path of cultivation, the more difficult each breakthrough became.
Although the difference in strength between cultivators of the same level seemed small, advancing was extraordinarily difficult. Moreover, for a cultivator to advance from the Integration realm to Divine Connection, the hardships involved were already impossible to describe in words.
On Ice Plains Island, there were certainly several hundred, perhaps even more than a thousand, Integration stage cultivators. But there were only three Divine Connection cultivators.
Although it had not reached the terrifying ratio of one survivor in ten thousand, it was still astonishing.
Advancement was difficult for cultivators, but the benefits it brought were also innumerable. Not only did they gain far more refined control over Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, but the Heaven and Earth Origin Energy within their bodies also became purer, fuller, and vastly greater in quantity. Their own strength underwent a world-shaking transformation.
Although a peak Integration stage cultivator's magic power had almost completely transformed into Vital Energy and Power, it had not undergone purification by the Heaven and Earth laws, and flaws still remained. Compared with a Divine Connection cultivator, the difference was as vast as heaven and earth not only in quantity, but also in purity.
Thus, for