Five Clusters

Cloud-Chasing Hall, Inner Courtyard main hall.

"Descendants of the Prefecture Capital's great clans?"

Mu Xingyao, who fought barehanded and carried herself with striking confidence, had also received her trial reward. She, too, had learned that the sect would open its Blessed Land.

"What cultivation level have those great-clan descendants reached, Hall Master?"

Mu Xingyao asked.

The master of Cloud-Chasing Hall had seen Jiang Chen's combat strength firsthand. Yet he still said those great-clan descendants would be their greatest rivals for the Sect Blessed Land.

From that, she could infer that the great-clan descendants of the Prefecture Capital were certainly stronger than Jiang Chen, and naturally far stronger than the rest of them.

"According to our information, they had already entered the True Baleful Realm at the start of this year. The most outstanding among them, the Prefecture Capital's Three Prides, entered it last year."

The master of Cloud-Chasing Hall spoke.

From before the new year until now, only three months had passed at most.

Three months did not seem very long.

But with equal talent, even an extra half month of cultivation could create a vast gap in cultivation level, let alone three months.

What was more, those great-clan descendants had the full resources of their respective factions behind them. That was something people from the Prefecture Cities, like Mu Xingyao, could not match.

"So the strongest great-clan descendants in the Prefecture Capital must be at the True Baleful Realm Pinnacle at the very least, even if they haven't entered the True Astral Realm!"

Mu Xingyao now understood why the master of Cloud-Chasing Hall had called those descendants their greatest rivals for the Sect Blessed Land.

A martial artist's upper limit in combat strength ultimately depended on cultivation level.

Even for Jiang Chen, who followed the path of Body Tempering,