This High Heaven strike is complete.
Feeling the fierce wind rush against his face and gazing at the vast sea of clouds churning below the cliff, Huang Tian came to a realization.
Before, I could defeat and kill third-rank martial artists while still at the fifth rank, and contend with second-rank masters. Now that I've broken through to the fourth rank, with Tusita Heaven and High Heaven to aid me, I should be able to hold my own against a supreme first-rank grandmaster. I might even count among the stronger first-rank fighters.
But I haven't fought one yet, so I can't be certain. What I can say for sure is that I could kill an ordinary second-rank grandmaster with a turn of my hand!
At last, he stood at the very pinnacle of Qin Province.
Qin Province had only ten first-rank grandmasters in all. Four served the court: the commander of the Martial Guard, a first-rank divine constable of the Six Gates, a first-rank divine general of the Black Armor Army, and the governor of Qin Province.
In the martial world, the grand elders of Qin Province's four leading sects were all first-rank grandmasters.
There were also two unaffiliated first-rank grandmasters who lived in seclusion and had no wish to found factions.
But after news spread that the Thunder-Chasing Lightning Divine Sword had appeared in Yong Province, the Qin Province authorities dispatched the Martial Guard commander and the Six Gates' first-rank divine constable there as reinforcements. Three of the four sects' grand elders had also gone to Yong Province to seize the divine weapon.
As for the two unaffiliated masters, no one had seen them in Yong Province. Perhaps they had gone too; perhaps they had not.
In short, there were only five first-rank experts left in Qin Province at