Those who had opened nine heavens were all true peerless talents.
Throughout the entire Sky-Pillar Immortal Domain, such figures were exceedingly rare. So long as they did not perish midway, even if they could not cultivate three Taiyi foundations and achieve perfect Celestial Immortality, breaking through to the Celestial Immortal realm was virtually set in stone.
Such a person possessed combat power at least comparable to five Earth Immortals at Great Perfection, yet he had not lasted more than a few exchanges against the three of them. Chen Nianzhi found this rather unexpected.
"Direct disciples of Zenith Heaven, truly extraordinary."
Chen Nianzhi murmured inwardly, a trace of admiration appearing on his face.
To be fair, the combat strength these few displayed truly far surpassed that of most direct disciples of grotto-heavens in the Sky-Pillar Immortal Domain.
At the same ninth level of Earth Immortal and within the same forbidden domain, Chen Nianzhi believed that even the Li Yan Divine Spirit would most likely be unable to defeat these people.
It was not that the Li Yan Divine Spirit lacked brilliance, but that the inheritances of such Zenith Heaven ancient sects were simply too powerful.
Every one of those before him seemed to have cultivated at least one Profound Wonder-grade divine ability. How astonishing was that?
One had to know that within the Chen Immortal Clan, apart from Chen Nianzhi, only Jiang Linglong's 'Five-Element Unity Qi' and 'Five-Element Divine Light,' as well as Qu Nishang's innate divine ability, 'Nine-Colored Immortal Radiance,' had reached the Profound Wonder grade.
Other than that, no one had cultivated a Profound Wonder-grade divine ability.
From this alone, one could see just how formidable these people were.
Not only were their cultivation arts and divine abilities more complete, even the resources at their disposal were beyond the