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This chaotic battle with eight rogue cultivators was dirty and messy, and I was almost killed by a spear thrust through me. It was this close call that once again awakened Li Fan to the sobering fact that he was still just a Golden Core cultivator.
If he had a high-grade flying sword by his side, he would be an unbridled Sword Immortal, who could lop off a pile of heads with a laugh. But without his flying sword, he was only slightly better than a trash-tier Golden Core cultivator, and when blades clashed, the odds were evenly split.
Knowing many divine techniques was actually not very useful because these techniques required refinement. Even if his understanding was exceptionally high and he could grasp the transformation methods of Qiongqi in an instant, he had not deeply refined and thoroughly mastered this technique.
