Although everyone had already known in their hearts who would win, the ease with which Immortal Master Lan Yi defeated four Spirit Cultivation Practitioners still left them yearning for more.
Lan Yi had not used any Daoist techniques.
Apart from Baleful Intent, he had not activated any other Divine Destiny Clusters.
His fists and imposing spirit had once again opened the martial artists' eyes in the most straightforward way possible. They had to dare to imagine! Dare to believe! Even without Daoist techniques, martial arts—this unreasonable thing—could still become powerful enough to reach the level of a Land Immortal! Only if they dared to imagine it could they, in the not-too-distant future, open up new territory for the Star River and face technological military power on the level of a world war, or even two world wars, with martial arts!
The Qi Cultivation Practitioners' horizons had been broadened.
The Spirit Cultivation Practitioners had gained even more.
There were more ways to apply mental and spiritual power, along with even greater might. Take the epic, mythical scene of Thunder Phoenix pouncing on and killing a warship. Once their Innate Qi reserves grew, they could do it too. For Spirit Cultivation Practitioners, destroying a warship alone was not particularly difficult.
To use a somewhat inappropriate analogy,
this could be called infection.
During the early stages of the revival of spiritual energy, many people had obtained powerful bodies, but they did not know how to properly operate those bodies. Without an inheritance, cultivators who groped their way forward through instinct and outdated knowledge progressed slowly.
But if a complete system of the Great Dao were instilled into them—for example, if an Old Deng of Dual Cultivation of Dao and Martial Arts like Lan Yi pointed out the direction and provided examples of practical