His essence qi and divine soul were still only at the level of having just stabilized at the early Realm Lord Realm, while his physique had reached the Realm Lord Realm Initial Stage Peak. With just one more step, it could enter the Realm Lord Realm Middle Stage.
A situation like Chen Fei's could not be called one of a kind in the Mystic Feather World, but it was indeed extremely rare.
Ordinary Realm Lords would not do something like this. If they only cultivated their physique and not their origin power and divine soul, their true realm would forever remain at the early Realm Lord Realm.
Practicing martial techniques without cultivating the core art would leave one empty-handed in the end!
Even a first-rank Body Tempering Realm cultivator understood this principle very clearly. Martial arts, moves, these were merely methods to defeat the enemy and seize victory. They had to be cultivated, and they were very important, but they were not the root.
The true root was origin power. Only when the realm of origin power rose would one's overall strength leap forward, and only then could one's lifespan truly complete its transformation.
Once one reached the Realm Lord Realm, the principle was the same. Body refinement could not raise one's true realm, nor could it raise origin power. In particular, it could not raise the divine soul. This was an enormous flaw.
Even if the physique could be cultivated to the Realm Lord Realm Middle Stage, and one's combat strength could stand shoulder to shoulder with the Realm Lord Realm Middle Stage, it was only standing shoulder to shoulder. If they truly fought, a Realm Lord Realm Middle Stage would have many ways to restrain you.
The main point was that raising the physique to the Realm Lord