‘This guy is so strong! Definitely far beyond my ability to fight directly. I have to keep my cool and be smart about dealing with him. After all, he probably has even more powerful people backing him. And if he breaks through and becomes as powerful as the Shepherd, he’ll be even more impossible to deal with.’

After all the tempering he had experienced throughout the years, Yang Qi knew how to keep his cool when dealing with powerful opponents.

Back when he was dealing with the Crown Prince years ago, he had experienced an even greater cultivation base discrepancy. By slowly but surely dealing with such dangerous situations, he had built immense confidence, and knew that even bitter defeats could provide valuable help to his nascent divinity and will.

For example, he had just advanced his Purrfect God Art.

Time passed as he studied the true energy he had just expelled from within him. After a while, he chuckled and exhaled his own stream of true energy to wipe the other one out of existence. He had already identified...