A few days ago, Yue Wen had thought that, given his current combat strength, securing a City Hero slot should have been a piece of cake. After all, among those of the same realm, he was practically invincible.
And among the young geniuses above his realm, Jiang City only had one Hu Yunting. Surely three late-stage Gang Realm experts would not suddenly pop up out of nowhere. Yet his prediction had come true.
But wasn't this coming true a little too absurdly? A tiny sect like the Body Tempering Sect could produce three of them?
Why did it feel like some fantasy novel, where every time he reached a new realm, that realm immediately became worthless... He was only at the middle stage of the Gang Realm, yet late-stage Gang Realm cultivators were already sprouting up like cabbages?
Wasn't the pace a little too fast?
Fighting cultivators was not like fighting demons, where challenging someone above your realm was so easy. Yue Wen would not shy away from a fight against Immortal Sect disciples at the late stage of the Gang Realm, but neither did he dare guarantee victory.
This was simply too strange.
If the Body Tempering Sect's current generation truly had three disciples who had successfully reached the Refining Gang Realm, there was no way he would only be hearing about it now.
Xiao Chubai began explaining what had happened. "During the independent cultivator points tournament, didn't we get to know a group of allies? Later, we gradually brought in some other independent cultivators who had also advanced. We've kept in regular contact."
Yue Wen knew about that. Centered around the Xiao family brothers and Dong Mengyao, this small group had been quite lucky during the independent cultivator points tournament. They had avoided the conflicts among the various