They had never imagined that the four half-step Dao-Integration cultivators who had abandoned the Blazing Central Hundred Domains for so many years, supposedly fleeing to avoid the Foreign-Realm Demon Emperor, would return as four Dao-Integration Supremes.
"Four Dao-Integration Supremes—no, one newly advanced Dao-Integration cultivator and three pseudo Dao-Integration Supremes."
Chen Nianzhi murmured inwardly, seeing through the four of them at a glance.
With the foundation of the Nameless Dao Ancestor, he naturally understood the difference between pseudo Dao-Integration Supremes and true Dao-Integration Supremes.
Although pseudo Dao-Integration Supremes were also called Dao-Integration Supremes, their foundations were exceedingly unstable. They had forcefully advanced through methods with immense side effects.
Such methods were exceedingly rare in Chaos, a breakthrough technique akin to pulling up seedlings to help them grow.
Once this method was used, not only would one possess merely ninety percent of a Dao-Integration Supreme's strength, but one could never advance another step thereafter. Thus, they were called pseudo Supremes.
Pseudo Supremes possessed combat power close to that of newly advanced Supremes. To half-step Dao-Integration cultivators, there was little difference between them and newly advanced Supremes.
Even so, such breakthrough methods were quite rare and required special Chaos spiritual treasures. Only powers at the Chaos Sovereign level could possess them.
Chen Nianzhi naturally possessed such a seedling-pulling method as well, but the members of the Chen Immortal Clan all had immense potential and had no need to keep using such secret arts to break through.
Moreover, Chen Nianzhi's Self-Sacrifice Dao held even greater potential. If he truly reached a point where he could advance no further, he could completely break through using the Sacrifice Self method and reshape a supreme foundation amid impossibility.
Having understood this, Chen Nianzhi no longer had any concern over the four of them.
He walked forward at