Explanation of the Book's Levels and Combat Power!

Friendly Reminder After Listing: In the early chapters, the male lead is quite weak, relying mostly on others, which led to a mediocre initial subscription rate. However, after the Heavenly Dao Grand Gift Bag was drawn upon listing, the male lead stuck to his righteous path and, with an incredibly cool and awesome demeanor, pulled the results back up significantly. Readers who dislike the weak male lead shouldn't rush to drop the book... It was listed at chapter 51, and he'll get strong right away!

Seeing that many readers have complaints about Lan Daozi's combat power, I'll explain it here in detail.

First and foremost, the True Origin Continent is not a traditional cultivation world. It's a post-war era that experienced devastation from the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, followed by the Dao Alliance defeating the Heavenly Demons through relatively advanced technology and establishing a new order.

In this book, many factors influence individual combat power—

[Cultivation Level] Fetal Breath, Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Soul Severing, Body Integration, Mahayana, Immortal.

[Skills] Including Sword Arts, Magic Techniques, and Body Techniques, as well as various Forbidden Techniques.

[Spiritual Artifact Assistance] Including Personal Swords and various Talisman Artifacts.

[Beast Taming Assistance]

[Pill Assistance]

[Combat Experience]

[Race] Generally speaking, Demons, Monsters, Ghosts, and Goblins are slightly stronger than cultivators of the same level.

[Status] For example, whether injured, at full health, distracted, or hyped up.

[Environment] For example, in desert combat, fire-attribute cultivators are definitely more effective than water-attribute cultivators.

(Among these, Skills, Spiritual Artifacts, and Pills can be divided into five grades: Heaven, Earth, Profound, Yellow, and Unranked. Note that these are grades, not levels; there's a subtle difference.)

[Etc.]

Anyway, it has nothing to do with seniority...

Among the factors influencing combat power listed above: cultivation accounts for half, and the other factors combined account for the other half.

Even so, those who can fight across levels, especially across major realms, are extremely rare.

This is also why the Dao Alliance headquarters once went to great lengths to recruit Lan Daozi!

Lan Daozi not only has high talent in Sword Dao but also possesses a certain supreme Heaven-tier Sword Technique, which allows him to fight across levels. He's just low-key.

Those readers who question Lan Daozi, frankly speaking, just don't want to see anyone other than the protagonist fight across levels.

Imagine if the entire world only had the protagonist capable of fighting across levels. Wouldn't it seem fake, making the protagonist appear like a freak everyone wants to dissect?

Shaping powerful supporting characters is to highlight the protagonist's greater power and make the world more realistic.

A world where only the protagonist is powerful is too empty, lonely, and cold...

Do you believe such a world truly exists?

A good novel will immerse you through details and characters, without making you question its reality.

Although my writing skills are limited, at least I'm striving in that direction.

As for shaping the character of Lan Daozi, the first reason is to highlight the protagonist's high level of Sword Arts, and the second is to highlight another key character in this book, One Sword Fox.

One Sword Fox is not mysterious at all; her prototype is Master Ling Zhouyue from Filial Piety—I was heartbroken when Filial Piety was blocked. Everyone should know from the new book's protagonist being named "Xiao Bai" that it's about picking up the threads with Master again.

It's just that the relationship has changed; it's no longer master-disciple but more like a Senior Sister relationship, to avoid interference from the censor.

Let's talk about the seniority issue in the Snow Flame Sect.

The Tian Yuan Era is not a dark cultivation world but an orderly one.

In this era, the Elders of a sect undertake a large number of teaching duties. Their positions are not ranked by cultivation level but by specialization.

For example, Pill Elder Master Yuhu's cultivation is Golden Core Peak.

Her cultivation is the same as Lan Daozi, a Core Disciple of Sword Wielding Peak.

Her combat power is even completely crushed by Lan Daozi, who is the Sword Dao Great Demon King.

But different fields have their specializations. As long as she refines pills to perfection, reaching the pinnacle, she will have plenty of strong individuals protecting her, and her status in the Cultivation World will be far higher than Lan Daozi's.

As long as you become the best in one specialization within the sect, you are the Elder of that specialization.

It has little to do with cultivation level.

However, most skills are strongly correlated with cultivation.

For example, Pill Refining requires the Refining skill. Only upon reaching the Golden Core Realm is there enough power to complete high-level refining.

Other specializations are similar.

This is also why Elders generally need at least Golden Core cultivation.

Finally, ahem...

Any seemingly unreasonable place in this book is definitely a foreshadowing!

(Emphatically)