"Xu Taiping actually has such tremendous reserves of True Essence..."
"Even the Peak Lords have no more than that, do they?"
"When he met Peak Lord Jin with that saber strike earlier, I thought the Peak Lord had gone easy on him. Now it seems he really does have that kind of strength!"
"And that saber strike that saved Lin Buyu just now."
"So he was hiding his strength all along?"
After a brief, deathly silence, a fierce clamor of discussion erupted among the disciples in the Cloud Tower stands surrounding Five Elders Pool.
Things they had previously dismissed as coincidence and chance suddenly all fell into place.
At the same time, every one of them felt that Xu Taiping had refrained from revealing such profound True Essence reserves to hide his strength for the coming match.
It was not that Xu Taiping had deliberately hidden anything.
It was simply that, among the opponents he had faced before this match, there had actually been few occasions that required much True Essence.
"He even managed to fool me. It seems the boy must possess a Top-Grade Treasure that can conceal his aura."
Among the spectators in the stands, Sword Saint Amon spoke with a hint of surprise.
"Master, judging by Xu Taiping's aura, he's already on par with Great Completion of the Mystic Understanding Realm, yet his cultivation is still at Minor Completion. Do you know why that is?"
Chen Hao questioned A Meng curiously.
"After breaking through to the Mystic Understanding Realm and acquiring a cinnabar heart, cultivators have two further requirements when improving their True Essence, besides depth and abundance-refinement and purity. It's just like a blacksmith forging iron. Truly good iron must undergo a thousand hammerings and a hundred temperings, with less than a tenth remaining."
A Meng