Below the hall, the many High-Rank Venerables seated behind their desks looked startled and began whispering among themselves.
A Third-Grade Divine Ability?
It was not as though no contestant in the Azure Flame Grand Tournament had cultivated a Third-Grade Divine Ability.
Some had even cultivated Fourth-Rank Divine Abilities.
Many of them had Creation Great Experts as teachers.
Even without such a teacher, a sect or faction would spare no effort to nurture someone it saw as its hope.
Naturally, it would give that person its best Divine Abilities and Cultivation Techniques to practice.
But there was a vast difference between cultivating a Third-Grade Divine Ability, or even a Fourth-Rank one, and creating one yourself.
Even if a cultivated Third-Grade Divine Ability was mastered to Perfection, its power could never match the power it had in its creator's hands.
The reason was simple.
Every Divine Ability had its own distinct character.
Take Qin Hao's Four Great Sword Moves—Watertight Defense, Shadowless Trace, Yellow Springs Road, and Gap-Seeking. He had created them to suit himself.
Qin Hao could bring out their full power.
Someone else might not be able to.
The clearest difference was his Self-World!
Qin Hao had a Self-World within him. Could anyone else cultivate one too?
The same principle applied to Xiang Wuqing's Third-Grade Divine Ability.
That was the difference between creating a Divine Ability and cultivating one. Creation was often harder, but the result was more powerful.
At the same level, a self-created Divine Ability could often overwhelm another Warrior's cultivated one.
"That boy truly is a Prodigy!"
"No wonder he made it into the Top Ten of the Points Ranking."
"Now Qin Hao's chances of winning look even slimmer."
"Congratulations, Marquis Zhanyun! With this, the Eastern Splendor Continent may have two geniuses make it into the Top Ten