Qiao Lin led several elite Heaven Cover Army soldiers in guarding Marquis Jiang, their heads high and chests out as they strode back to Minhe Temple in high spirits.
Cheers instantly erupted across the courtyard.
From the look of it, Jiang Wang had already become invincible in the world.
Jiang Wang had no choice but to rein them in a little, lest these fellows grow too swollen with confidence and make enemies for him everywhere.
He liked challenges, but he was not particularly fond of getting beaten up.
Even setting everything else aside, he could not claim to sweep through Minhe Temple without restraint.
The Divine Presence Realm was unlike the Outer Tower or Inner Palace, with no clear divisions into minor realms. There was only one Spirit-Nurturing Palace, the Dao Vein coursing above it and the Divine Soul seated within. There were no Five Palaces and Four Towers, no especially distinct boundaries. Yet as the first great realm after breaking through the divide between man and heaven—the so-called "gateway to the upper three grades"—the disparity in strength between cultivators was immense.
There had never been boundaries within Divine Presence.
How could mortals possibly divide and rank those powerful beings who were like gods?
Even among Divine Presence cultivators themselves, some first cultivated their spiritual domains, some first developed Supernatural Powers, and some first advanced along their Dao paths. Judging merely from outward displays, it was difficult to distinguish strength from weakness.
Based on his own encounters, Jiang Wang felt that if they were broadly classified by combat strength, they could be divided into four levels.
People like Zheng Chaoyang, who had attained Divine Presence at immense cost or through special means, possessing innate deficiencies, without Supernatural Powers, unable to form a spiritual domain, and with Dao paths insufficiently solid...