Qin Erniu was having the hardest time of all right now.
He had originally been far stronger than He Xiuyuan.
Then that damned fellow had suddenly surpassed every one of them.
He was practically the strongest below the Twin Beauties of Divine Firmament now.
And Qin Erniu had become the benchmark.
In fact, He Xiuyuan's sudden rise had left the other disciples of the Divine Firmament Sword Sect somewhat lost as well.
When He Xiuyuan had been the benchmark, they had still had a chance of surpassing him.
But with Qin Erniu as the benchmark, those disciples had no way of getting past him.
Qin Erniu set the bar far too high.
Without He Xiuyuan, they had no idea how to measure their current strength.
Qin Erniu was even less suitable as a unit of measurement, because his talent made him stronger the more he fought, unlike He Xiuyuan, whose strength had previously been fixed.
As for those above Qin Erniu, they were even more impossible to measure.
Those people were so powerful that there was practically an unbridgeable gap.
The Divine Firmament Sword Sect's disciples were now primarily considering finding someone else to serve as the benchmark.
And sure enough, they actually managed to choose one.
What was more, the ones they chose had already died.
The Four Azure Fox Sisters.
Because they had to acknowledge one thing.
The Azure Foxes were truly formidable.
Their cultivation realm had simply been low.
But now that the Phantom Tree Spirit had reached Return to True, it could adjust the Azure Fox illusion directly to Return to True as well.
Most importantly, the Phantom Tree Spirit could now directly recreate the Azure Foxes' combat thinking.
Giving them the Azure Foxes' combat thinking was enough.
Once their cultivation realm was filled in, they