"Hmph! A sneaking coward who won't even show his face!"
"I'm Shen Rongguang of the Tiannan Shen Clan. You'd better know what's good for you and get off the arena yourself, before you embarrass yourself!"
Shen Rongguang swaggered up to Shen Changchuan and faced him. His gaze was full of arrogance as he spoke haughtily.
There was an air of looking down on everyone in his words.
It wasn't as if he'd made that sneering remark without thinking.
Rather,
he was more than ninety percent certain he would win this fight.
That wasn't an exaggeration.
It was a fact.
In the Cultivation World,
cultivators in cities were generally much stronger than those in the countryside.
Cultivators from great clans were likewise stronger than most independent cultivators outside their walls.
Their respective circumstances and resources determined this.
For example, cultivators born into great clans,
even if they were from a collateral branch, had access to cultivation experience and other resources that rogue cultivators could hardly hope to match. They enjoyed a higher starting point and a clear advantage.
Take nothing else: just consider their command of Spell Techniques.
Cultivators from great clans could consult their elders and receive sound recommendations on which spells to cultivate. As they trained, they could get guidance from their clan, and visit the Scripture Pavilion to read their predecessors' notes and insights on cultivating those techniques.
This meant that cultivators from great clans only needed to focus on one thing and devote enough time and effort to it to reach a fairly advanced level.
And what about rogue cultivators outside the clans?
Unless they were one of the very few whose luck defied the heavens—say, someone who discovered an ancient cultivator's abode and rose to prominence with a profound inheritance, or someone so gifted that a