Spirit Stones were only about ten to twenty percent as useful to them as they had been during the Dao Integration Stage.
Having advanced to the Tribulation stage a full century ago, they were still honing themselves in the early Tribulation Crossing stage. Yet, the steady rise in their cultivation also brought their power much closer to its primal source.
If an ordinary cultivator's capabilities increased on a scale of one to ten with each minor breakthrough, the growth in power for Fang Bahuang and the others far exceeded that number ten. In other terms, every single one of these avatars was an overlord among their peers, a monstrous existence. It was easy for them to take on ten opponents at once, and even defying their realm to fight superior foes, much as Fang Chen had once done, was no difficult task.
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