Ji Wuling intended to use Great Zhou's accumulated foundation to help Ji Xuanyuan advance to the True Martial Realm. Anyone else would have been overjoyed beyond measure—just like Ji Xuansi beside him.
Unfortunately, Ji Xuansi knew that even if Great Zhou's foundation were handed to him, he still would not be able to advance to the True Martial Realm.
Though one could rely on external objects to advance to the True Martial Realm, such objects were merely aids. Iron still had to be hard enough to be forged; if one's accumulation was insufficient and one's strength lacking, then even the greatest treasure or opportunity would be wasted on them.
Thus, within Great Zhou, Ji Xuanyuan was the only one qualified to borrow an external object to advance to the True Martial Realm.
Yet Ji Xuanyuan himself seemed somewhat unwilling.
Ji Xuanyuan had his own persistence in the martial path. Advancing to the True Martial Realm through external means would not truly be his own power. More importantly, martial artists who advanced through external means were somewhat weaker than others of the same realm.
Although he had only heard these things secondhand, there was a living example before his eyes: Mogo, the Khan of the Golden Tent Khanate.
Ji Xuanyuan had clearly witnessed Ji Wuling's battle with Mogo. Mogo had practically been unable to put up any resistance whatsoever. Had Zoroastrianism's "Great Radiant Divine Venerable," Fan Luojia, not suddenly intervened, Mogo might even have been slain on the spot by Ji Wuling, who wielded a divine weapon.
Mogo's later death had been even more humiliating. He had actually been surrounded and killed by Su Xin and a group of Yang Spirit Realm martial artists. One could well imagine just how weak he had been among True Martial Realm experts.
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