Tian Yongheng knew that the Truth Endeavoring Arhat wasn’t one of the strongest in the world, or that his true cultivation was already at the Half Immortal Realm.
Only Half Immortals were worthy to be called the strongest beings in the Lower Realm.
It may be possible that he may be an Half Immortal, since only those directly related to the major factions knew of the existence of the Half Immortal Realm, and that it was the true peak of the Lower Realm.
It was only natural that the history books would describe his cultivation to be at the Immortal Ascension Realm.
But if he wasn’t a Half Immortal, then he was truly not one of the strongest.
From Tian Yongheng’s current knowledge, he could guess that only the major factions had mighty figures of the Half Immortal Realm as their leading personalities.
Which meant that there were less than a hundred Half Immortals in the entire world right now!
While Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators were probably in the thousands.
One had to know that this was the Mythical Era, a golden era where the entire world was at its utmost. Yet, there were still so little Half Immortals, explaining the difficulty of cultivating upto that realm.
The top powerhouses of the Tian Family and the Qin Family should also be Half Immortals...
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Tian Yongheng thought silently.
Nevertheless, Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators were also top experts of the world, and they couldn’t be ignored either.
Even if the Truth Endeavoring Arhat was not a Half Immortal but only at the Immortal Ascension Realm, he was still an extremely powerful person throughout the entire world.
Proper hospitality still had to be given to Yun Jiang as to not disrespect his master.
At this moment, Yun Jiang replied to Zhao Ye’s question, "Senior, when I first arrived here in the Qingyun Region, I had heard of many names, but when I visited a subordinate faction of my Benevolent Buddha Hall, the Little Zen Temple, their eldest disciple kept praising the Sword Prodigy of the Turquoise Lake Sword Manor, who could fight beings beyond his cultivation base and even defeat them with overpowering sword techniques!
From then on, my interest in the Turquoise Lake Sword Manor grew on and here I am! Although it wouldn’t be nice of me to challenge a junior a whole major realm below me, I can at least challenge his master for experience, right?" He had a smile on his face as he said this, his voice resolute and eyes firm.
Hearing his words, everyone present couldn’t help but be a little taken aback.
Is this monk a battle maniac?
Tian Yongheng thought.
Zhao Ye couldn’t refuse him, so he agreed with a composed expression on his face, hesitant inwardly.
Tian Yongheng and Yan Jingfei decided to watch this sparring session before leaving, and soon, all of them arrived to the floating mountain behind, hovering above the lake of Spirit Qi and Sword Intent.
Zhao Ye slowly landed on the tip of the huge stone sword embedded in the lake, and raised his hands slightly, keeping them at a distance from one another as if he was holding something.
The other Sword Cultivators of the Turquoise Lake Sword Manor around also gathered, talking amongst themselves about what was happening and asking about the identity of Yun Jiang.
"Young master Yun, I’m afraid even a small sparring session between us may cause a huge sensation through hundreds of miles. So, I’ve decided to create a small domain of void between space and time, in which you can truly get the battle experience. The domain will be a thousand miles in size, so we won’t have to worry about anything and can spar freely.
I’ll also suppress my cultivation to your level."
Zhao Ye declared, his voice carried over to Yun Jiang and the others.
Upon hearing this, Tian Yongheng was a bit stunned.
As expected, it can be used this way too.
He couldn’t help but think, remembering his experience with Zhao Ye in the Simulation Battle Trial.
In the simulation, Zhao Ye would use a special kind of ability sometimes, warping the void of the simulation space and trapping him in a unknown place of spacetime.
He always had to use sheer strength to break through it, which drained more than half of his Spiritual Energy, causing him to lose.
He also used many more unknown abilities, such as teleportation, shrinking the space around him etcetera.
That was when it dawned upon him that you can’t just cross the threshold of major realms by sheer force.
No matter how powerful he became in the Golden Core Realm, even to the level of being untouchable by the Void Refinement Realm, he still could never refine and warp the void to create a separate space until he stepped into the Void Refinement Realm.
The same was with other realms.
For example, to refine a Golden Core, one must attain the Golden Core Realm. It couldn’t be done in the Innate Realm no matter how powerful one became, even to the point of surpassing the Golden Core Realm.
They still had to enter the Golden Core Realm for it.
As for whether these pre established rules of Immortal Cultivation could be overwritten, he didn’t knew about that.
Maybe it was possible at the highest end of cultivation, when one was able to surpass everything.
Back to the present, although he had guessed that the ability Zhao Ye used must be related to the Void Refinement Realm, he still wasn’t sure of it. He had thought it could be used to create a separate space of itself for other things too, but same as before, it was just a guess.
Now personally seeing it being used that way, he was sure of it.
This must be how storage items are made, huh?
He got an insight from seeing such a scene.
He could try to refine a Storage Pouch after reaching the Void Refinement Realm after this.
As for the other statement Zhao Ye made, suppressing his cultivation to Yun Jiang’s level, even with that, it was near impossible for him to actually lose.
Even if he wasn’t fighting at his full power and only at the level of the Golden Core Realm, the methods, battle experience, skills, and abilities of the Void Refinement Realm were still with him.
At this point, Yun Jiang nodded, his eyes brimming with excitement as he replied to Zhao Ye, "As you say so!"
Nodding at his response, a dark sphere of void formed in Zhao Ye’s hands, which he released upward.
It slowly expanded and covered both him and Yun Jiang, then the entirety of the space above the lake’s surface.
The space inside was around a thousand miles, but outside, it only covered that lake, no more than 300 meters.
Refining the void, warping the space and time, creating pocket dimensions!
This was the true power of the Void Refinement Realm!
However, such heaven defying beings are nothing but fodder to the Nascent Soul Realm and above...
Tian Yongheng couldn’t help but shudder inwardly at this thought.
Immortal Cultivators were truly the most outrageous existences in all of creation indeed.
At this point, Tian Yongheng and the others were waiting for Zhao Ye and Yun Jiang to come out. They did not go inside of the separate space created by Zhao Ye because it would disrupt their battle inside.
Around an hour passed, and the sphere of void slowly shrank down as Zhao Ye and Yun Jiang came out of it.
Zhao Ye was in perfect shape, not even a hint of exhaustion on his face, Yun Jiang on the other hand was clearly fully drained of both his Spiritual Energy and mental strength, his state even detectable from outside.
He had a 11 inch long sword mark on his right arm, his blood still gushing out of it.
It would probably take a year or so for it to fully recover even with his cultivation of the Seventh Stage of Golden Core Realm. Although it could recover faster with the help of medicinal ingredients.
"I’m truly ashamed to admit that I got a bit carried away by Young master Yun’s astonishing strength and accidentally used a sword technique of mine." Zhao Ye said, sighing as he admitted his mistake as he landed besides the lake, followed by Tian Yongheng and the others.
Yun Jiang shook his head in denial as he also landed in front of them, saying, "I was too arrogant and challenged senior without a second thought. It will serve as a lifetime lesson for me in the real world."
He then sat just there, his legs crossed as he circulated his Spiritual Energy to recover from the battle.
Before he could close his eyes, he suddenly heard Tian Yongheng say something.
"Then, fellow daoist Zhao, I’ll take my leave."
At this moment, Yun Jiang suddenly stood up and spoke out, "Wait, senior, you’re the Master of Eternal Peak, right?"