Alliance to Destroy the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect

"The Great Sun Sword Heir in name and in truth?"

The answer made Chong Yuanzi's expression shift.

Back then, the Great Sun Sword Heir of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion could fight eight Daoist heirs of the Immortal Orders alone without losing. His strength reigned supreme among his peers, with few who could match him.

Had the battle on a higher plane not collapsed, bringing a host of Spirit Transformation cultivators into the fray, the Nascent Soul Great Sun Sword Heir could not have died. Even if he had been outmatched, he could have escaped.

Even now, more than three thousand years after the Sword Pavilion's destruction, the manuals used by the Eight Great Immortal Sects to train their Daoist heirs still clearly recorded the danger posed by a Great Sun Sword Heir of the same rank and how to counter him. Those warnings had never been removed.

Ji Liuyue, the Azurewood Daoist Heir, looked shaken as well.

An Immortal Order's Daoist heir had few enemies at the same rank. Even when they could not win, they had no reason to fear.

But the Great Sun Sword Heir was different. He was a natural enemy to his peers. Only eight Daoist heirs attacking together could fight him on equal terms, and the slightest misstep could bring ruin.

"This matter..."

"Doesn't quite make sense."

After a moment's thought, Chong Yuanzi, the Black Tortoise Daoist Heir, refused to be intimidated. "The Great Sun Sword Heir's strength did not actually come from extraordinary talent. In this realm, the finest talent is a Dao Body like ours. That is the limit."

"His true strength came from his sect."

"The Great Sun Sword Pavilion ruled this realm in its day. Naturally, its legacy and its Daoist heirs were far stronger than ours."

"Fellow Daoist Yu,