Late Spirit Essence Realm was basically one hurdle after another.
This was completely different from when Zhang Qingyuan had luckily slain the Crimson Fiend Yao Python in Azure Mountain Town last time, a beast comparable to a Spirit Essence Realm Eighth Level Cultivator.
That time had been entirely an accidental outcome.
Just like how a Spirit Essence Realm Eighth Level Cultivator, if caught off guard and offering no resistance at all, could likewise have his head chopped off in a single stroke by a Spirit Essence Low-Grade cultivator.
Zhang Qingyuan had been able to kill the Crimson Fiend Yao Python in desperate circumstances half a year ago,
but that did not mean he possessed the strength to contend against Spirit Essence Realm Eighth Level Cultivators.
In a real battle,
a Late Spirit Essence Realm cultivator who stood one level higher held comprehensive suppression over a cultivator of the first tier. In terms of the density and concentration of Spirit Essence alone,
the Spirit Essence of a Spirit Essence Realm Eighth Level Cultivator was, on average, more than twice that of a Spirit Essence Realm Seventh Level Cultivator!
This
was why Late Spirit Essence Realm cultivators found it difficult to succeed in over-level challenges.
Yet within the vast Cultivation World, among the countless beings of the mortal world, there would after all be one or two anomalies who used all manner of means to erase the gap between realms.
Zhang Qingyuan could be considered half an anomaly himself.
With all his methods working together, coupled with the fact that his Water Origin Art had already reached the fourth level, his Spirit Essence was more than a cut above that of ordinary Spirit Essence Realm Seventh Level perfection cultivators.
He had astonishingly gained the strength to contend with cultivators who had just