Fifty Bandits Encounter Three Baleful Stars, Part One

From Thunder Spirit King, Ye Chen learned many things. Although the geniuses of their generation were exceptionally flourishing and dazzling, the geniuses of the previous generation had not been inferior either. The strongest among them were comparable to the former Four Great Young Giants. Before reaching forty, they had stepped into the Half-Step King realm, some even making it onto the Life and Death Realm Candidate List. Now, nearly ten years had passed, and each of them was approaching fifty. Their cultivation and strength must have become terrifying.

This also explained why, apart from their generation, there were no young geniuses in their forties or fifties on the True Spirit Continent's Grandmaster Ranking. It jumped straight to the older generation's experts. Most of them had become Half-Step Kings, so naturally they would not come out to compete for rankings on the Grandmaster Ranking. A grandmaster was merely a grandmaster—how could one be mentioned in the same breath as a Half-Step King?

As for the strongest Half-Step Kings, there were not merely three on the True Spirit Continent. Thunder Spirit King knew of five, and including some who remained in seclusion or spent years abroad, there might be more than ten. The True Spirit Continent was far more than it appeared to be. Otherwise, it could not be the center of the True Spirit Continent, the place blessed with the most abundant fortune.

Furthermore, Ye Chen learned from Thunder Spirit King that quite a few geniuses of this generation on the True Spirit Continent had already become Half-Step Kings. Bai Wuxue had been the first, followed closely by Lu Shaoyou, Xiahou Zun, Xiao Chuhe, the Godshark Princess, and others. As for Dugu Jue and the rest, they had yet to break through when Thunder Spirit King left, but they were probably