The Channel-Opening Realm was by no means so easy to attain, nor was it so simple to advance one's cultivation after reaching it.
Otherwise, Zheng Pandao would not have earned such considerable renown even within Shuiyang Prefecture.
Yet now, two martial artists of common birth, both the same age as his juniors, had actually reached the same level as him. How could Zheng Pandao's feelings not be complicated?
Though he had long been deeply shaken, he had never expected such emotions to arise uncontrollably within him all the same.
But likewise, it was precisely because Li Chengfeng and Zhao Lie possessed such cultivation that Zheng Pandao was certain the two would emerge victorious in Shuiyang Prefecture's battle of prodigies.
With cultivation like theirs, it was impossible for them to lose to the younger generation.
Even among the seniors within Shuiyang Prefecture City, those capable of defeating them would absolutely not number more than a handful, and every one of them was a pillar of their respective families.
After all, compared to the Channel-Opening Realm, the Aperture-Condensing Realm was even harder to attain.
Otherwise, how could Thirteen Linked Docks have shaken the world with twelve Aperture-Condensing experts and one innate martial artist?
To the point that, despite remaining on the Martial Hall's bounty list for more than twenty years, no one had dared make a move against them.
This showed just how weighty the Aperture-Condensing Realm was.
And with his late Channel-Opening Realm cultivation, he had directly crushed an entire city beneath him, monopolizing thousands of mu of paddy fields and claiming nearly every good stretch of water suitable for conveniently raising fish.
The weight of the Channel-Opening Realm was plain to see.
Yet such a powerful realm, carrying such immense weight, seemed somewhat unreal before Li Chengfeng and Zhao Lie's