Was Yi Tang strong?
As a true disciple of Benevolent Heart Pavilion and the youngest physician of the pavilion in the current age, he was undoubtedly a powerhouse.
His attainments in the five senses were likely unmatched by anyone of the same realm.
Yet despite losing the initiative, Jiang Wang had borrowed the momentum and unleashed a dazzling array of techniques, ending the battle cleanly and decisively.
It had been almost a crushing defeat.
Those genius cultivators with supreme inheritances and personal instruction from powerful masters ascended to great heights as true disciples upon entering the Outer Tower, then climbed to the summit on the strength of their talent.
People like Dou Zhao and Chongxuan Zun—how many in the world could contend with them?
But Jiang Wang, who had fled Maple Forest City at seventeen, had needed to begin his climb from scratch.
For him, every step forward brought a brand-new, unfamiliar world. He had killed Outer Tower cultivators before—he had done so even while in the Inner Palace realm—but he could not claim to truly understand the Outer Tower realm.
Chongxuan Zun could stand upon River Viewing Terrace and say with disdain, "The Outer Tower realm does not seem all that difficult to understand."
Jiang Wang could not.
He could only walk, observe, ponder, and fight, all the way onward.
He replenished his foundations at Duke of Huai Mansion, and broadened his experience in the Mountain and Sea Realm and the City of No Redemption.
He had witnessed the truth of worlds being born and perishing, heard secrets from nine hundred years ago, and experienced many complicated lives.
Only after stopping in the Wuyandu Mountain Range, cutting himself off from the world and sitting alone for nearly half a year, did he finally digest all he had gained after