Jiang Ding did not hide his confusion. Within the Immortal Sect, he had always been relaxed and never bothered with keeping his joy and anger from showing.
"Senior, how does one catch up to someone whose strength, background, flying sword, potential, and everything else far surpass one's own?"
He asked the seniors around him.
These seniors were all his teachers. There was no need to conceal questions; he could simply ask them directly.
"Catch up to a prodigy stronger than yourself?"
Divine Mechanism Heavenly Lord was taken aback.
He thought of that figure within the lightning tribulation.
That figure had clearly only been at the early Spirit Transformation realm, yet had easily beaten the Great Sun Sword Heir until he coughed up blood. If that person was a True Person, they must have come from an exceedingly terrifying power, one that possessed immortal Dao achievements far beyond the Immortal Sect's current limits of exploration.
He sank into thought and did not respond for a long time.
Jiang Ding waited patiently.
High-level cultivators took a long time to think, like supercomputers. When making major decisions, they often had to assess immense volumes of shifting variables: changes in the political situation, changes in spiritual energy tides, military developments, shifts in internal political struggles, and more.
The more one understood, the more one knew, the more reverence one held for the unknown.
Thus, when pondering major issues, high-level cultivators were actually slower than ordinary people, because ordinary people ignored the complex variables that ought to have been considered. Their soul computational power was too weak; they lacked the ability to incorporate so many variables into their calculations.
Several months later.
"Your question reminds me of the time when the Immortal Sect rose to prominence."
"Do you know what that time was like?"
Divine