Li Yuan took a moment to reflect on the battle. The leap from seventh rank to sixth rank went far beyond raw power—speed, reaction time, the mysterious ancestral seal, and a doubled lifespan were all part of the package. And the gap was vast enough to be decisive.0

If Li Yuan and General Mammoth had been on equal footing in terms of raw strength, his spear might never have so much as grazed the other man.0

Sixth rank cultivators seemed to have eyes everywhere, granting them near-impossible levels of perception. And they could potentially recover from being sliced in half, thanks to their ancestral seals. It truly was a world of difference between sixth rank and seventh rank.0

“Impressive,” Li Yuan...0