Gradually, as his blade clashed with the monster's blades, Zhao Cheng's sword grew faster and faster, his strikes fiercer and fiercer.
The limits of the human body were not this great, but compared to monsters, humans possessed skill—especially someone like Zhao Cheng, whose skill was on the verge of entering the transcendent realm.
Back when his stamina had still been weak, he had relied on it to slay monsters with his frail body. Now that the shortcomings of his body had been remedied, even he could not estimate just how powerful he had become. Before encountering this monster, every monster he had faced had taken no more than a single sword stroke.
Only the one before him could make him feel pressure.
At the same time, as he faced this monster, Zhao Cheng realized something: this monster had definitely not just embarked upon the path of evolution. It had already walked some distance down that path.
If it too possessed an evolution rate, then it was definitely not at 11%. It was very likely at 20%, or perhaps even higher.
From his earlier conversation with Li Huang'er, he could be certain that, in terms of skill, he had already reached the pinnacle of mortals.
Ultimate physical fitness combined with peak skill, yet he still held no overwhelming advantage against a monster.
If monsters at 11% evolution were already this powerful, then under normal circumstances, people who fell into this world had almost no chance of surpassing 10%.
Furthermore, for humans to exceed 10%, they needed to kill stronger monsters. Then how had this monster before him surpassed 10%?!
Were monsters different from humans? Like in a game, where stronger monsters could spawn—was this monster simply born at a higher level than its kind? Or was the path of evolution, of