As individuals.
Everyone's overall strength was fundamentally composed of many different factors.
Speed, strength, defense, skill, recovery ability, reaction ability, even luck... all of them counted as indispensable parts of one's actual strength. Missing even one might lead to utter defeat.
Just as the factor determining how much water a wooden bucket could hold was often its shortest stave.
However, that being said.
Even though everyone knew that overall strength was determined by a great many factors, far beyond anything that could be explained in just a few words.
But...
When asked which part was the most important, people would often unanimously answer: [strength] or [speed].
Why?
The reason was very simple.
Because [strength] and [speed] had always been the most intuitive and direct outward expressions of power—simple and brutal.
Before absolute [strength] and [speed], no matter how unwilling people were to accept it, they found it difficult to argue back...
After all, they were like an uncrossable heavenly chasm. The mere sight of them bred fear and despair.
They were gaps and gulfs visible to the naked eye.
In Ling Wuyuan's view, his [Abyssal Divine Speed] was the embodiment of the very concept of [speed].
Its mechanics and values were nearly perfect.
It possessed no particularly flashy functions, but every effect was exceptionally practical, and even its actual consumption was not high.
Thus, even now, when he possessed [Torrent of Destiny] and [All Things Known] and seemingly no longer relied much on [Abyssal Divine Speed] in battle, he had never given up on researching [Abyssal Divine Speed] in depth!!
In fact, in his eyes, his true trump-card combat ability had always been [Abyssal Divine Speed]. All his other abilities merely added flowers to brocade... Even [Doomfall Calamity], the combat ability he had deliberately created, was far, far inferior to