Hearing Xuan Youli's words, the four young Meishan sword cultivators realized that this time, they had truly kicked an iron plate.
Earlier in the Gold Dao Secret Realm, they had fought the cultivators of Lingxiao Dao Academy and the monks of Kudhan Temple to a standstill, giving them the illusion that they were already a match for the Heavenly Talents on the Gold Ranking.
But in truth, at this stage, most of the righteous path's Heavenly Talents on the Gold Ranking were either in seclusion, breaking through to higher realms, or had already gone to the frontline battlefield.
Thus, those who had come to the Five Directions Immortal Mansion this time in search of treasures and opportunities within the Secret Realm were mostly the new generation of righteous path geniuses who had yet to fully mature, along with second-string figures from the major powers.
The foremost among them were that little monk of golden light from Kudhan Temple and Yu Shuang, the leader from Penglai Palace.
Both possessed considerable combat strength among their peers. The former could be counted as one of the leading figures of the new generation, while the latter had already reached the standard to ascend the Gold Ranking in terms of raw strength.
Yet compared to someone like Xuan Youli, an established Heavenly Talent who had occupied a place on the Gold Ranking for over twenty years and whose ranking continued to rise, their combat strength was somewhat lacking.
One had to know that when the Heavenly Talent Ranking was last updated, Xuan Youli had already risen to the forefront of the third page of the Gold Ranking.
Now, after so many years, coupled with the tempering of the demon-slaying war in the southwest over the past several years, she had made further progress in both