"Humph! A coward who hid his head and showed his tail!"
"I am Shen Rongguang of the Tiannan Shen Clan. You'd best know what's good for you and roll off the stage yourself, lest you make a spectacle of yourself later!"
Shen Rongguang swaggered over to stand opposite Shen Changchuan. His gaze was full of arrogant disdain as he spoke with unbridled arrogance.
His words carried an air of looking down from on high.
It was not as though he had mindlessly opened his mouth to mock his opponent.
Rather, it was because—
he was more than ninety percent confident that he would win this battle.
This was no exaggeration.
It was fact.
In the Cultivation World,
cultivators in cities were generally far more formidable than cultivators in the countryside.
Cultivators from great Lineages were likewise stronger than most Rogue Cultivators outside.
This was determined by the conditions of their respective environments.
For instance, cultivators born into great Lineages—
even those from collateral branches—possessed resources such as cultivation experience that outside Rogue Cultivators could scarcely hope to attain, granting them a higher starting point and greater advantages.
Setting everything else aside, just in terms of the spell techniques they mastered—
cultivators born into great Lineages could seek guidance from their predecessors and elders, obtaining proper spell cultivation arrangements. While practicing spells, they could receive instruction from their Lineage and find their predecessors' annotations on cultivation experience for those spells in the Scripture Depository Pavilion.
This allowed cultivators from great Lineages to reach a fairly profound level so long as they focused their attention and invested sufficient time and effort.
Compared to them—
what about the Rogue Cultivators outside?
Unless they were among the rare few blessed by heaven-defying fortune—for instance, uncovering a predecessor's Cave Abode and ascending to the heavens