With a single spell, he had shaken the very foundation of the Su Family's grand formation. Such cultivation and strength truly opened the eyes of the Northwest's True Intent Cultivators.
Earlier, within the Earthly Treasure Secret Realm, it was not as though they had never witnessed the strength of Central Region True Intent Cultivators.
Yet at the initial stage of the True Intent Realm, Chen An's combat power had clearly surpassed cultivators of the same realm by far too much.
Every one of the Northwest True Intent Cultivators present had once been a renowned genius of the Northwest in the Lower Three Realms.
Though they could not compare to the truly monstrous prodigies on the Heavenly Talent Ranking, fighting enemies several minor realms above them within the same major realm had once been as commonplace as daily meals.
But after they reached the True Intent Realm, those days were gone forever.
The exceptional talent they had once been so proud of seemed to have been taken back by heaven the instant they stepped into the Path Enlightenment Realm. For the first time, they felt their own mediocrity and dullness, as well as the bitter hardship of a Dao Path trapped in difficulty.
Cultivation was hard to advance, and Dao arts were hard to cultivate. They could only rely on the accumulation of time, grinding their way upward bit by bit.
Forget fighting across realms as they had in the past—even exchanging pointers and discussing the Dao with Central Region cultivators of the same realm already made them feel dwarfed by comparison.
At lower realms, the gap between Azure Waves Northwest and the Central Region might not have been so obvious. Yet once one reached a certain height and set foot in the Dao Awakening Realm, that enormous disparity became far