Although he would never admit it out loud, deep down, the high-ranking practitioners of Shenhun Dao believed that the only force capable of rivaling them was the Martial Artist Stratum. "Transcendence" was their term for the existence of themselves and the martial artists—something that went beyond ordinary people and served as a core worldview of Shenhun Dao. They maintained that all old humans were primitives, core evidence of unevolved beings; and though they rarely acknowledged it verbally, they grudgingly accepted that martial artists also belonged to the ranks of the evolved, albeit far inferior in their degree of evolution.
Now, this deeply ingrained belief of Shenhun Dao was beginning to shatter in the mind of the handsome man. As a high-ranking member of Shenhun Dao, a powerhouse of the Soul Realm, and a direct disciple of the founder and strongest figure of Shenhun Dao, he had every reason to be arrogant. In truth, his strength gave him ample grounds for pride; his power ranked him firmly in the top ten of all Shenhun Dao. Aside from the founder and the founder's five chief disciples, he was among the absolute elite.
Moreover, his natural talent was exceptional. Having cultivated Shenhun Dao for less than twenty years, he had advanced from an ordinary person to the Soul Realm, practicing one of the premier techniques of Shenhun Dao: the Mother of Darkness Scripture. All of this had fostered in him an attitude of supreme arrogance. Especially given his experiences …
Chapter 416