Li Poxiao was completely unafraid of Pan Shu's attacks. He took them head-on without even a muffled grunt, so when I approached Pan Shu, he also pounced over to help shield me. Naturally, I wouldn't let him take the blade for me for nothing. The Angry-Eyed Black Dragon's Disintegration Art struck Pan Shu as well. The vein-pattern attacks were anything but slow, yet Pan Shu instinctively dodged them several times!
I was secretly astonished. I had already gained some understanding of the cultivation realms in the Qiongtian World. The Sleeping Life Formula was, after all, an ancient manual, and it had also explained the levels of cultivation. The division between cultivation realms and aptitudes was the same: the strongest was the Upper Three Grades. Judging from Pan Shu's current level of strength within the Upper Three Grades, she had probably cultivated to the third grade among them. She could be considered an exceedingly powerful sect master.
Reaching such a level depended greatly on aptitude. If one's innate aptitude failed to meet the requirements of that realm when tested, then no matter how one cultivated afterward, it would be extremely difficult to reach the level of the Upper Three Grades.
For example, with an aptitude in the Middle Second Grade, crossing the chasm to reach the Upper Three Grades would probably be extremely difficult, unless one encountered some opportunity that improved one's aptitude. Thus, the saying about aptitude could practically be regarded as truth here. That was also why, as someone with an Absolute First-Grade aptitude, I stood head and shoulders above everyone else throughout the Azure Wood Sea of the Forgotten Homeland!
Next came the Middle Three Grades. Aptitudes in these middle grades were everywhere in the Azure Wood Sea's immortal sects and could be considered extremely common. They were