His vital essence was powerful, his soul stable, and his sense of self robust. Qiushui Daoren had never felt so good. He felt that the essence stored within every muscle of his body was enough to crush a Dividing the Spirit or even Body Integration Realm high-level cultivator to death through brute force alone.
Now, aside from the Holy Emperor, all the other cultivators on Linghuang Island combined possessed less mana than he did alone.
Brimming with confidence, he stood before the Holy Emperor, hoping this mighty figure would offer him a word of praise.
Yet there was not the slightest hint of joy in the Holy Emperor's eyes.
He was an awakened banished immortal. His foundation was not on the same level as that of an ordinary Mahayana. There was no other reason: their accumulations differed.
It was like how Modern Dharma Cultivators used a single theoretical system to unite the achievements of every civilization, so that each person seemed to gain, from thin air, the accumulated achievements of countless people over two thousand years. He, meanwhile, had passed through many worlds alone, plucking the fruits of numerous civilizations and achieving mighty methods that ordinary cultivators could not even imagine. To a banished-immortal Mahayana, an ordinary Mahayana Cultivator could be crushed to death with a mere outstretched hand.
The main reason he had previously forbidden Mahayana Cultivators from appearing was that Mahayana Cultivators had completed My Dharma is One, and would create countless unforeseen variables when he finally absorbed them. For example, after absorbing a Mahayana Cultivator, he could easily give rise within his state of mind to heart-devils rooted in another person's thoughts.
He had never expected ordinary Mahayana Cultivators to provide combat strength. Instead, he had to guard against too many Mahayana Cultivators truly provoking those dangerous