After Duan Chongfang won, many people fell deep into thought, while some even began questioning everything they knew.
Qin Siyang heard a third-year student from Nanrong behind him mutter, "Duan Chongfang is already at sequence level seven?! That's practically cheating..."
Cheating?
Qin Siyang did not know what to make of it either.
If Duan Chongfang could not accomplish what ordinary people could not, how could he have become the universally acknowledged best student in his year?
Qin Siyang could not even bring himself to ask Duan Chongfang to compensate him for his Tier Four Armor. He, too, was utterly stunned.
Information about the Path of the Believer was monopolized by the powerful figures within the Safe Zone. It was not publicly available and could only be obtained through private conversations and word of mouth.
But Qin Siyang himself had never set foot on the Path of the Believer. To avoid exposing himself when talking with others, he had never joined Chu Baxing and the others in their discussions about it.
Qin Siyang had no idea how vast the gap between sequence level six and sequence level seven was, how far someone needed to advance along the Path of the Believer, or how much effort an ordinary person would have to expend.
In his experience, he had already killed enough people at sequence level six to count on one hand. Among them was Huang Changgong, deputy brigade commander of the Swallow Legion Ninth Brigade, whose strength rivaled a Tiger Cards expert, as well as Lin Cheng, a Reincarnation Church officer whom he had killed in a single move.
Overall, the combat strength of sequence level six Sequence Ability Users varied enormously. Their skills and combat experience certainly played a part, but there were also differences in their fundamental strength resulting from