Wang Qi was also curious about Mi Tianzhao.
He believed that, sometime in Shenzhou's past, it had formed some kind of karmic connection with Earth, perhaps one related to the Celestial Great Saint. But in this age, that connection had vanished, and counterparts connected to Earth might no longer appear.
At present, the overwhelming majority of Free and Unfettered Cultivators were counterparts. This was not particularly strange. Scientists who truly possessed counterparts basically represented peaks of human wisdom. They themselves were the finest group among Earth's humanity.
Wang Qi himself had also explained that after the tempering of a second life, the talent of the first life would become even stronger.
The talents of counterparts were vastly superior to those of other humans who served as mere "background boards."
And the modern immortal path had only existed for two thousand years. As an Outer Dao, it was extremely young. Many Dividing the Spirit and Integrated Body Realm Cultivators were even far older than two thousand years.
At present, only those with the greatest talent could reach the realm of immortality in such a short time.
At most, differences in fields allowed some people to rise later yet arrive first, becoming Free and Unfettered Cultivators.
For example, the Immovable Dharma King. Astrophysics ought to be the field most easily linked to cultivation methods.
By contrast, Master Van had been temporarily held back because his field was not easily connected to cultivation methods.
Still, Wang Qi estimated that Master Van's breakthrough would likely come within the next few years.
But then again, the modern immortal path was founded upon the principle that "one person's comprehension can be passed to another without loss."
What one person could accomplish, another could certainly replicate.
Therefore, no matter how vast the gap in talent, Free and