Won't lose to anyone in cultivation talent… Perhaps those were just Third Senior Brother's final words of encouragement.

If Tian Yang truly possessed such remarkable talent, how could he have remained stuck at the Golden Core realm during the previous lifetimes?

Furthermore, he needed to absorb earthfire constantly, spending thousands of years tempering himself, before barely achieving Spirit Transformation…

While he ultimately became a Spirit Transformation cultivator, it certainly doesn't speak to any extraordinary natural talent. Rather, it was the result of an ingenious, roundabout strategy.

Li Fan shook his head inwardly with a sigh.

After a while, Li Fan began compiling the information he had gathered during this period.

Back when he first entered the Cloudwater Palace, he had...