Yang Qi had quickly and casually taken down four top masters, and hadn’t received even the tiniest injury in the process. Everyone looking on was completely stunned, and knew that they were looking at a new consummate expert.

All of the disciples present had power indexes of at least two thousand. And they all had magical treasures that would push their fighting prowess so high that they could rival the leaders of the top sects. People like Battle Resister would be considered average compared to these disciples, and that wasn’t even to mention what the chief disciples were like. They had power indexes over three thousand. The fact that Yang Qi had defeated four such enemies was completely unprecedented and impossible to duplicate.

Furthermore, he had greatly benefited from the experience, having tempered his nascent divinity and rid himself of his dependence on the God Legion Seal.

The truth was that the worst type of obstacle was over-reliance on something. In fact, there was a name for such obstacles: dependency-devils.

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