Enemies were the best teachers.
Every powerhouse able to maintain rapid progress possessed the ability to learn from their opponents.
Jiang Wang, who had eaten from a hundred households, was the foremost among them.
Yet even with a famed teacher's guidance and a clear understanding of its crucial secrets, a supreme technique that could be relied upon as a trump card often demanded immense time and effort to master.
It was impossible to understand it at a glance and wield it at once.
Unless Jiang Wang, already in the Divine Presence Realm, were observing an opponent who had been in the Soaring Dragon Realm at the time.
In the overwhelming majority of cases, such observation and learning in the heat of battle could only capture a fraction of the essence. Truly making it one's own was by no means easy.
For example, from watching Zhang Xun's Sword Qi turn to threads to cultivating his own Frost and Snow Shine, Jiang Wang had gone through a long period of exploration. Even his initial method of refining sword threads had differed from Zhang Xun's.
Only this move, Sea of Bitterness Turnback.
Though it was Jiang Wang's first time seeing it and his first time using it, he had already grasped seventy percent of its true essence. He had first fully obtained its secret, and only then recreated its form.
That was why the Hearing Bell was called a supreme treasure of the Buddha Sect; why everyone from the bodhisattvas to the true inheritors of Black Lotus Temple on Ancient Calamity Mountain fought to the death over it; why Mount Sumeru pressed onward for it, wave after wave!
At this moment, Frost Cloak streamed behind Jiang Wang as he strode upon the clouds, utterly carefree and composed.
Then, as he abruptly turned back,