Fighting nascent soul for the first time
For a moment everyone was stunned. Then they stared at Jin Tong.
There was a huge difference between core formation and nascent soul. It was a much greater difference than the one between foundation establishment and core formation. The latter was only a difference in the quality of qi. The former was a difference in the nature of the focus of cultivation itself. In fact, often there was a fundamental difference in the cultivation direction between any two steps. Especially in the qi cultivation path.
As a result, there were often nearly insurmountable differences between the strengths of the two steps. And they would grow and grow the further you grew. It might even be beyond the difference between two realms in a higher step. It was rare, but there have been instances of gods killing titled gods. But an immortal step cultivator has never killed a god in history.