At this, Tan Lin merely smiled faintly.
"How much did you hold back just now? There's no need to spare your master's pride. Facts are facts. The only reason I was once your master was that I heard the Dao before you did.
"Since ancient times, disciples have not necessarily been inferior to their masters..."
"Master is too modest..."
At that, the Female Emperor lowered her gaze, avoiding his eyes as she looked elsewhere.
"Didn't Master hold back as well? If Master had not endured such twists and turns in the past, you would have reached your current level long ago.
"I only got there before you by chance."
Hearing this,
Tan Lin glanced at her but said nothing further.
Her talent surpassed his.
No matter how one looked at it, that was the truth.
On the surface, in her eyes, he had attained this Heavenly Emperor Dao Fruit over three lifetimes. Yet before that, he had already gone through several lifetimes of Reincarnation.
Of course, among all those lifetimes, only three had truly touched the Imperial Dao Realm.
And in his lifetime as Human Emperor Suiren, he had not even had the chance to make the Ultimate Leap before perishing.
As for the "previous life" of this lifetime, he had not become a Great Emperor either. He had merely achieved Alternative Dao Attainment.
Only in this lifetime had his Dao Law undergone a fundamental transformation!
Yet without the accumulation of those previous lives, especially the foundations laid by his two lifetimes of bitter cultivation in the Lunar and Solar paths, perhaps he would not have truly succeeded in cultivating both Lunar and Solar together in his life as Human Emperor Suiren, let alone attained the Dao in the end.
The Female Emperor, meanwhile, had begun far below him. At