All Four Great Disciples under Dharma King Xuanyuan possessed the strength to lead a sect of their own. Venerable Five Obscenities was the strongest person Shi Feiyang had encountered after Old Man Withered Bamboo and Revered One Yideng.
When he had fought Old Man Withered Bamboo, he had faced only the Reincarnation body, whose magical power was nowhere near that of his true self. Shi Feiyang had also plotted ahead, exploiting the flaws in his cultivation to leave his true body petrified where it sat and drive his current fleshly body into cultivation deviation. Only then had he won.
Later, when he fought Yideng, Heavenly Retribution was already approaching, throwing the old demon's mind into turmoil. Shi Feiyang had first made the hundred-odd thousand demon heads used in his formation turn against their master, likewise driving him into cultivation deviation and leaving half his body paralyzed before striking.
Now, against Venerable Five Obscenities, it was a genuine clash of strength against strength. Jiang Xuejun and Zhu Youmu were both on the level of the Three Immortals and Two Elders, the One Son, and the Seven True Ones. Even so, despite hating Venerable Five Obscenities to the marrow, they had not sought revenge themselves. They still had to ask their master, Yan Yingmu, to take them along and support them from the sidelines, practically pinning his limbs down before they could kill him. That alone showed how formidable he was.
As the eldest disciple, Venerable Five Obscenities had more than eight hundred years of cultivation. The same spell was far stronger in his hands than in those of his junior brothers, and the same magic treasure, nurtured and refined by him for over eight hundred years, could not be spoken of in the same breath as theirs. His Seven Fiends Mystic-Yin