"War and calamity have indeed changed the standards by which geniuses are judged."
Mu Yuan had heard a little about these rising powerhouses.
Some of them were no less renowned in the Eternal World than Uta and Dorai, and some were even stronger.
Take the War Lord, for example. He was either fighting a war or on his way to one, and had already turned the tide countless times on the battlefields of the Western Desert Empire.
He was not far from the Saint Realm, and it was obvious that even after ascending to sainthood, he would still be able to advance at an astonishing pace.
That was the benefit of riding the wave of war!
"Even with the same Legendary Grade, under normal circumstances, an ordinary legend would still need decades of accumulation to ascend to sainthood."
With sufficient diligence and a great opportunity, that time could be shortened, but at least more than a decade would still be necessary.
That was accumulation.
Cultivation had always required taking one step at a time.
However, certain talents and even great might that could benefit from war and calamity could rapidly skip this accumulation stage, allowing themselves to snowball in strength.
The former were legendary prodigies, and so were the latter.
But clearly, the latter had greater advantages in the current version. They were the Children of the Version.
"In fact, the ability to sustain war with war, turning war and death into nourishment to feed oneself, is most common among the undead. Perhaps that is precisely why the Filth Faction chose to exterminate the Undead Empire first back then."
They had been afraid.
In the Undead Empire of old, there had been more than one or two Saint Realm existences who possessed the Undead Calamity Breath.
That was the most