At the scene, as soon as Lin Chen said this, a trace of hesitation appeared in the eyes of both Dongfang Canglang and Yan Jun.
They were unsure whether Lin Chen was telling the truth.
But soon, that trace of hesitation turned into mockery. In their eyes, Lin Chen was merely putting on an act.
With their backgrounds, the goals many martial artists struggled their entire lives to pursue were merely their starting points. But even they had to obey a certain rule of the martial world: the limit.
Martial artists had limits!
That limit meant that no matter how inexhaustible one's resources were, it was impossible to rapidly pile them onto a martial artist and raise him from the Xiantian Realm to the Myriad Manifestations Realm or beyond.
Whether it was the imperial family or the Dongfang Family, if endlessly piling up resources at any cost could raise a martial artist's strength without limit, then the two of them would have entered the Myriad Manifestations Realm long ago.
Lin Chen had tempered his physical body to such a degree that he was practically invincible in the Myriad Manifestations Realm. This was already something that could not be accomplished by piling up resources alone. Even if they were unwilling to admit it, they could not deny that aside from possessing a heaven-defying opportunity, Lin Chen's own qualities were also responsible for tempering his physical body to this level.
To touch the limit of martial cultivation, one inevitably needed willpower far beyond that of ordinary people.
But when a martial artist pursued the limit in one aspect, he would inevitably have to sacrifice another. Even those with backgrounds like theirs were no exception.
If one's physical body reached its limit while one also sought to temper one's soul to the extreme,