Qin Fengming spoke lightly, but to Li Canglin, his words struck like thunder exploding, leaving him shaken for a long while.
Although he would not have placed a peak Profound Spirit cultivator in his eyes, seeing the young cultivator before him—someone he found somewhat familiar—still caused a wave of shock to surge through Li Canglin, who had existed in the Cultivation World for over a million years.
Li Canglin had naturally experienced the Profound Spirit realm himself, and the process had been exceedingly difficult. Despite his outstanding aptitude and heaven-defying fortuitous encounters, advancing from the Demon Venerable stage into the Profound Venerable stage had still taken him one or two thousand years.
Advancing from the early Profound Venerable stage to the Profound Venerable peak had taken him another three or four thousand years.
That was only because he had once risked his life to obtain two or three tremendous fortuitous opportunities, allowing him to advance smoothly. During the time Li Canglin had remained alive, he had encountered countless genius cultivators in the Cultivation World who were trapped at the bottleneck of the peak Profound Spirit stage. It was an astonishing number, absolutely impossible to count.
Yet looking at the extremely young cultivator before him, Li Canglin felt as though his mind had grown hazy.
Back when they had been at the He Yang Palace ruins, Fairy Yaoxi had strongly advocated for Qin Fengming to participate in the trip to the Hongyuan Immortal Palace. In Li Canglin's view, sending a cultivator who had not even reached the Profound stage there would have been utterly useless.
Even if a cultivator who had not reached the Profound stage possessed extraordinary Formation Attainment, his comprehension of the laws of heaven and earth would ultimately be far too poor. Once he reached the Hongyuan Immortal