[Alliance Leader bonus update 5/10]
A piece of minor news quietly spread throughout the God Continent.
At first, it was merely a post on the public board of a small illusory realm. But very quickly, that message drew widespread attention across the God Continent.
"Wang Qi challenges Ai Qinglan."
For Modern Dharma cultivators, combat prowess was secondary; one's accomplishments in scholarship better reflected one's achievements. But humans were, after all, pseudo-social animals, and the impulsive, violent factors in their blood would not fade away. It was instinct.
Besides, this challenge carried plenty of hype.
"The showdown between the greatest geniuses of the last twenty years!"
"Half-step Primordial Spirit versus half-step Primordial Spirit!"
The news quickly exploded.
"What is half-step Primordial Spirit?" some cultivators asked in confusion.
The term "half-step Primordial Spirit" did not appear in official rankings, so not everyone knew of it.
Someone explained, "Half-step Primordial Spirit... isn't that a Core Formation Cultivator who has formed a Primordial Spirit Domain, opened the Heavenly Gate, yet has not crossed it?"
The questioner was puzzled. "Isn't that still just a battle between two Core Formation Cultivators? Why would it attract such widespread attention?"
"Two Core Formation Cultivators? 'Just'? What were you doing while cultivating in your sect—studying under your master's wife?" The explainer sounded rather pleased with himself. "A half-step Primordial Spirit has already knocked open the Heavenly Gate and can possess a Primordial Spirit Domain. Their combat abilities have long surpassed ordinary Core Formation Cultivators—put it this way, they can even unleash, for a very brief period, power that only Primordial Spirit cultivators possess!"
"Wait... uh, who was the half-step Primordial Spirit again—Wang Qi? The pinnacle of mathematics? The theory of incompleteness? Why? Hadn't he only entered the Dao ten years ago?"
"Half-step Primordial Spirit versus half-step Primordial Spirit"