18 First real battle

'Twenty Qi Cultivators. One level eight Foundation Building, three level seven Foundation Building, and the rest of them all level five and below.'

Unlike on the path of Body Tempering where there were no sub realms and only major realm, on the path of Qi Building there existed a total of nine sub levels for every major realm.

Learning about this might make those without enough knowledge think that the path of Body Tempering was easy, but the truth of the matter was that tempering one's body was hundred times harder and more painful than Qi Building. In fact, the longer one remained on the path, the harder it would be to continue tempering their body due to the reaching the limit of what their flesh and bones could bear.

Qi Gathering, Foundation Building, Golden Core, Xiantian, Qi Sea, Nascent Soul, True Qi Realm, and finally Transcendence Realm.

These eight great realms of Qi Building coincided with the stages of Body Tempering due to which it gave people the impression that regardless of which path was picked, the end result was both of them being equally strong.

Due to this, most cultivators chose the path of Qi Building. After all, why pick the harder one when the easier one would make them just as strong?

But, how could nature and the heavens be unfair and not reward those who worked harder?

Those on the lower realms didn't know the truth, but after crossing a certain realm, everyone would realize the special advantages which only those on the path of Body Tempering had.

The biggest one of them was of course not needing Qi.

Unlike the Qi Building cultivators who needed to use Qi for everything starting from increasing their speed to strengthening their attacks, the Body Cultivators only needed their bare fists to attack and naked legs to run fast.

Adding on their already strong bodies, as long as a body cultivator managed to close in on a qi building cultivator and forced the fight into a close combat one, nine out of ten times it would be the Qi Cultivator who would die.

Given that both of them were in the same realm.

This didn't mean that Qi Building cultivators were weak either. Summoning flames to scorch the world and ice to freeze it, Qi Cultivators were the same as gods who could control natural elements and use them to attack and defend.

Therefore, at the end of the day regardless of which path the cultivator travelled on, all that mattered was their fighting style and their talent.

This was also what would determine if they would win and live, or die and turn to dust in a battle.

Also, it shouldn't be thought that only cultivators on the path of Body Tempering had hardships and limits. Those on the path of Qi Building also suffered from the limitation on their talent and future prospects in the form of Spirit Root.

Unlike those on the path of Body Tempering who could attempt to reach for more than what their body was willing to bear and breakthrough into higher levels, the Qi Cultivators could only surrender themselves to their Spirit Root.

Is your Spirit Root good? Then you'll grow to be a strong one. If not, you'll end up guarding the mansion of those who have good Spirit Roots.

Still lying on the chair, Li Feng didn't show any signs of moving while the shadows who jumped above the wall quickly surrounded him.

Purely based on individual strength, Li Feng who completed the Muscle Forming realm was stronger than any of the assassins one on one since none of them had yet to even reach the peak of Foundation Building.

But, the upcoming fight wasn't going to be a one vs one fight, and even if it was, there was no guarantee that Li Feng could maintain his advantage over any one of them who had taken part in real battles.

Gulping hard, Mo Fan still couldn't figure out why he was feeling uneasy.

All he needed to do was take a single step forward and wave his arm to slice the target's head off. But…. Why did he feel that doing so would be harder than reaching the heavens in a single step?

"What are you all waiting for?"

Speaking nonchalantly, Li Feng stood up and shut the Soul Replenishing Jade Fan and looked towards the twenty men who turned vigilant from his movements.

"Since you are here to kill me, why are you not making a move? It can't be that you've fallen in love with me due to how handsome I am, right?"

Laughing out loud, Li Feng added, "Since none of you are going to make a move, I will."

Boom!

Stomping his foot on the grass covered ground, Li Feng by relying purely on his physical capabilities arrived in front of one of the weakest in the group who was the 3rd Level of Foundation Building.

Shocked at the sudden movement of Li Feng, the rest of the assassins could only watch as he arrived in front of the one he picked.

But, while others were shocked and couldn't react in time, it didn't mean that Li Feng's target stood there dumbly.

Having sensed the killing intent directed towards him which lacked bloodthirst, the man figured out that he was Li Feng's target before anyone else and quickly got in the position to defend and then counter attack.

Unfortunately, even though he knew he was the target due to having lived through life and death battles, the man couldn't do much.

After all, knowing that an attack was coming, and reacting to defend or dodge it were two entirely different things.

Even though the man knew that Li Feng was going to attack him, his entire body betrayed him under the invisible pressure coming out of his attacker's body.

In fact, it was the man's eyes which let him down the most by not even letting him catch Li Feng's movements until everything was over and his vision had turned dark forever.