The Nanyang Sect, the top floor of the Technique-Storing Pavilion.

Shen Yi sat in the white mist, turning over in his mind the killing of that White Jade Capital fish demon general by his own hand.

The panel could deduce a technique outright, but there was no making up for experience in a fight.

Only by going through enough of other men's methods himself, and thinking out how each was to be broken, could he come to move with real ease.

In the instant the fish demon saw through Heavenly Reckoning Forty-Nine and truly set foot on its road out, Shen Yi had understood something as well. A numinous method that at Return-to-Void could kill a demon across a whole realm still worked outstandingly well at the White Jade Capital level — but it had a limit after all.

However exquisite the stroke, there had to be realm enough underneath to hold it up.

A numinous method carried to Perfection could not be faulted on technique — it had left even Chiyang and Liu Shiqian at a loss — which said that a thing of this kind was not something every White Jade Capital elder managed to practice to such a pitch.

But as for realm…

When Shen Yi had used the Palm of No Life, what he chiefly leaned on was the Divine Phoenix Imperishable Sword Body, a match for the twelfth layer of Return-to-Void.

With the Guixu Immortal Armor and the Primordial Purple Qi both lending their weight, and the Azure Dragon Star-Shattering Spear on top of that, he had barely earned the standing to fight that fish demon.

And the reason he had won was that the fish demon had already spent the greater part of its strength on Heavenly Reckoning Forty-Nine and the iron token, and was long since worn to the bone. Finding a road out and then a man standing in it had wrecked its state of mind besides.

The ninth layer of Return-to-Void was still too low.

Were he at the White Jade Capital himself, then even leaving Dao weapons out of it,…