Meng Zhao was now known as the Lord of the Northern Meng Dragon King, ranked alongside Shen Tianci of the Jinling Shen Family as one of the Peerless Twin Prodigies. This was common knowledge. Thus, many martial artists acknowledged Meng Zhao's potential and martial prowess.
Back then, Meng Zhao had displayed the martial arts of a Peerless Grandmaster, defeating Wu Huaien, the Heartless Path grandmaster, and shaking the north and south of the great river. His prestige had only grown more imposing. The Jianghu Martial Arts World, the imperial court, and the great aristocratic families had all been shocked, but it was not beyond comprehension.
After all, he was a supreme prodigy who stood above the present age. Such cultivation speed was certainly swift, but not impossible. Shen Tianci was four years younger than Meng Zhao; in a few years, he might not be much inferior either.
But although grandmasters and Great Grandmasters both bore the word "grandmaster," and there was no essential difference between them, the gap in combat strength was no different from that of an entire major realm.
Meng Zhao had gone from an insignificant man at Ci'en Temple, worshipping buddha and chanting sutras, with cultivation no higher than the postnatal realm, to a Great Grandmaster in merely four or five years. Such speed, in this era, could not simply be described as stunning talent. It was truly, truly beyond words.
Beitang Xing in particular was several years older than Meng Zhao. In their youth, his martial arts had actually surpassed Meng Zhao's.
It was merely because he had cultivated secret martial techniques to consolidate his foundation and raise the upper limit of his potential that he had continually suppressed himself, hoping that once he broke through to grandmasterhood in the future, he would soar to the