Venerable Wangqing was indeed formidable—his cultivation was profound, his divine abilities fierce, and his magic treasures numerous.
More importantly, he fought dirty.
Venerable Wangqing sparred with the Golden Ao Island Qi Refiners outside the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation. The aftershocks of their battle blew the formation back and forth, while vital energy churned across several hundred miles...
Meanwhile, several hundred miles beyond the mountain gate, an Earth Immortal Path Qi Refiner transformed into a tree stump was still snoring away, utterly undisturbed...
Li Changshou greatly admired his master's "unflappable composure" and "single-minded focus."
Venerable Wangqing's battle had displayed both imposing momentum and remarkable flair, giving Li Changshou much insight into "mid-level immortal combat."
Excluding the sect master and various Grand Elders who spent years in secluded cultivation, Venerable Wangqing was considered Du Xian Sect's strongest fighter.
Yet even after ten thousand years of cultivation, Venerable Wangqing had still failed to break through to the Golden Immortal Realm. Even within the Eastern Continent of Sheng, he could not be considered an expert.
Celestial Immortals still faced the limits of their lifespan. No matter how powerful their divine abilities or how numerous their magic treasures, before the passage of time, they ultimately could not escape becoming ashes.
Only Golden Immortals...
Only immortality...
Only by using One's own Dao to protect oneself, casting off the ordained fate of birth, aging, sickness, and death, and living as long as heaven and earth, could one be said to have taken the first step in the Primordial Wilderness.
This was merely the first step.
It only meant one barely possessed the qualifications for true experts to spare them a glance.
Li Changshou, who had watched the battle by the lake with his hands behind his back, gained some insight afterward. Yet he quickly absorbed all those