The moment he attained the Violet Palace, Lin Jinhe felt the magic power within him gather drop by drop. Each drop seemed as vast as a river. If he unleashed it all, his former self could never have withstood a single blow!
"So there truly is a chasm between Foundation Establishment and the Violet Palace..."
He sighed softly, grateful that he had spent the past several decades cultivating in seclusion on his clan's land. Even when outsiders called him an old tortoise, he had refused to venture out, and so had escaped certain people's treacherous attacks.
And by "certain people," he naturally meant the three True Persons of the Gilded Metal Sect.
Now, however, True Person Suihua was dead. Only True Person Baiyang and True Person Han Qi remained in the Gilded Metal Sect, and its strength had diminished considerably.
At last, he had attained the Violet Palace himself. Newly advanced or not, he was a Violet Palace cultivator now, with some power to resist the two True Persons.
Standing in the air, Lin Jinhe gazed toward Baoshan Commandery in the Chu Kingdom. Now that I've attained the Violet Palace, the worst possibility is that the Gilded Metal Sect's two True Persons will attack me. But that seems unlikely. I'm a Violet Palace cultivator too, and they've already congratulated me from afar rather than trying to suppress or kill me. They intend to win me over.
After a few moments' thought, he understood why. The resources of the Five Commanderies could support three or four Violet Palace True Persons at most. Had Lin Jinhe attained the Violet Palace before True Person Suihua's death, a struggle over cultivation resources would have been almost inevitable, unless he joined the Gilded Metal Sect in seizing territory elsewhere, or accepted slower cultivation without competing