Within the Nine Realms Map, seeing nine streaks of light rushing one after another to kill him, the cultivator surnamed Sun hurriedly brought out his Spiritual Artifact. It was, astonishingly, a long staff!
With the long staff in hand, he parried and swept, knocking all nine Controlled Artifacts that had reached him flying. Yet the staff hummed without stop, and the hands gripping it trembled faintly. The rage on his face was replaced by shock as he immediately realized he had encountered someone formidable!
When he had seen that Lu Ye was merely Cloud River Tier Two, he had not thought much of him. Only after exchanging blows did he realize that this Cloud River Tier Two's strength far exceeded his imagination.
The Cloud River Realm was a realm where cultivation differences could be enormous. Some advanced to Cloud River with 240 Apertures, while others did so with 360 Apertures. Even at the same tier within this realm, the strength they could unleash was often as far apart as heaven and earth.
The sect the cultivator surnamed Sun and the others came from was merely Rank Five. None of them had advanced to Cloud River with 360 Apertures. The best among them was the burly man, who had advanced to Cloud River with 312 Apertures. The cultivator surnamed Sun was worse still; in the Spirit Stream Realm, he had cultivated only 290 Apertures before reaching his limit, unable to open another Spiritual Aperture.
On the Cloud River Battlefield, there were many cultivators like him. Cultivators like Lu Ye, who had advanced with 360 Apertures, were instead few and far between.
Not to mention that Lu Ye had once been the Spirit Stream Ranking Leader, receiving Heavenly Mechanism's rewards and cleansing four times, as well as Heaven's Mystery Blessing when he