Shen Fan kept traveling through the void, his mind still sifting through the memories of Xiong Gang and Yin Jiuxuan, two veteran True Sages.
By probing their memories, Shen Fan had discovered many interesting things.
One of them was their understanding of the tiny handful of people who stood at the pinnacle of the Realm Sea: the First-Grade Imperial Lords.
In these two fellows' memories, First-Grade Imperial Lords were invincible beings!
Yes, before a First-Grade Imperial Lord, even the strongest Third-Rank True Saint could only be crushed!
That overwhelming superiority came from two sources.
The first was that the Rule Origin World a First-Grade Imperial Lord established far surpassed that of a third-rank Saint Ancestor, as did the amount of sacred energy they could wield.
The other was that an Imperial Lord had condensed a first-grade Dao fruit. As a Dao fruit approaching the ultimate limit, it possessed an inherent rank that could suppress any Dao fruit below the first grade.
According to Yin Jiuxuan's memories, the Imperial Lord of his Yin Sacred Spirit Clan had once taken action against a Third-Rank True Saint from a disobedient Chaos True Spirit Race.
In his memories, their Imperial Lord had not even attacked. His mere arrival, and the mighty rank of his Dao fruit, had suppressed the opponent so thoroughly that he could not even use his sacred energy. He had then been easily captured and refined into a puppet soldier on the spot. Even today, he remained imprisoned by the Yin Sacred Spirit Clan, fighting for its interests!
Although that Third-Rank True Saint had only just broken through and might not even have fully stabilized his cultivation, this did nothing to diminish the might of a First-Grade Imperial Lord.
Putting himself in that position, Shen Fan knew he might not fare