It was no wonder Venerable Yuan Ci regarded Lu Chengde, this outsider Supreme Realm martial artist, so highly.
This was because—
the gap between the Supreme Realm and the levels beneath it was simply too vast!
They were practically beings from two different worlds!
Take the battle between Wind Thunder Pavilion and the Eastern Continent Martial Arts Alliance, for example.
Over the course of that decade-long war,
the number of Cave-Heaven Realm martial artists who had died and fallen had long since exceeded three digits!
As for the martial artists beneath the Cave-Heaven Realm who had died in the war,
their numbers were even more impossible to count!
On the battlefield, martial artists beneath the Cave-Heaven Realm were nothing more than cannon fodder to be expended at will.
Yet with such horrific casualties,
how many Supreme Realm beings had fallen during the Eastern Continent Martial Arts Alliance's more than ten years of war with Wind Thunder Pavilion?
The answer was three!
Such an intense battle concerning life and death,
and all it had lost was three Supreme Realm beings!
Moreover,
the reason the Eastern Continent Martial Arts Alliance and Wind Thunder Pavilion had ceased hostilities
was partly because those three Supreme Realm beings had died!
Their deaths had inflicted heavy losses on both sides.
The importance of Supreme Realm Venerables
could be seen from this alone!
Although the Supreme Realm was merely the level above the Cave-Heaven Realm,
the gap between the Supreme Realm and the Cave-Heaven Realm was ten, even a hundred times greater than the gap between the Void Realm and the Cave-Heaven Realm!
The Ninety-Nine Prefectures of the world were vast, and prodigious martial artists emerged one after another.
Records of Void Realm peak martial artists killing Cave-Heaven Realm martial artists by fighting above their level were