There was a fundamental difference between someone at the Peak of Divinity Transformation and someone who was Half step into the Soul Integration Realm.
In the Divinity Transformation stage, a cultivator needed to refine the Nascent Soul slowly into the Primordial Spirit.
Indeed the Nascent Soul wouldn’t directly transform into a Primordial Spirit after surviving the Heavenly Tribulation.
But the cultivator needed to assimilate their comprehended Laws into their Nascent Soul to progress through the Deity Transformation Stage.
The small stages of Nascent Soul stage could be broken through with the Nascent Soul reaching a saturated stage after absorbing enough Spiritual Energy.
But each small stages of Divinity Transformation stage needed carefull and lengthy process of refining.
During this stage, cultivators also began to sense the existence of Authority because only now the slowly transforming Nascent Soul became powerful enough to withstand the pressure of a Heavenly Authority.
But of course, there were many lucky cultivators who could sense and comprehend Authority even before reaching Divinity Transformation stage by using some special Spiritual Treasures!
For example, even someone like Lucian didn’t manage to touch the threshold of Authority so far when Eris had been trying to comprehend Curse Authority just after reaching Nascent Soul stage which was still the basic cultivation one needed to have.
This also showed the vast advantage the members of the prominent families of the Dynasty had.
Then there were the cultivators at the Half Step Soul Integration stage.
To reach this stage, one needed to comprehend the five basic Elements.
Even if someone was born with a natural affinity for one of these Elements, they needed to transform that affinity into a Law.
Only after comprehending all five basic Elemental Laws could one attempt to break through the barrier between two stages.
Although it sounded simple, this process was incredibly long. Many cultivators couldn’t even complete this task before their lifespan ended!
In short, the power difference between the Peak of Divinity Transformation and the Half Step into Soul Integration was like the difference between a High Rank Spiritual Treasure and a Divine Treasure.
Both could cut, but the later carried the essence of at least six Laws and one Authority.
That was why even if Lucian could ‘easily’ defeat Haoran, he could only give his everything to survive against Leiran.
But everything changed when Lucian ripped a hole in the space!
Although there were cultivators who were also trying to comprehend the Space Law, Leiran wasn’t one of them.
And even if he was, so what?
This wasn’t a technique created by using Space Law!
The current situation was more like a natural disaster!
At this moment, the spatial tear continued to expand slowly, swallowing everything that came near it.
Tables, chairs, debris from the buildings were all pulled into the endless void, even Spiritual Energy.
Leiran reached the end of the formation. His expression was extremely serious when he saw that tear in the air.
Just by looking at it, his Primordial Spirit trembled intensely in horror!
Then his expression turned gloomy as he looked into the distance where a bloodied man was running!
This man was naturally Lucian who used the impact of the earlier attack with Leiran’s sword to make his body fly back a significant distance!
But in the process, he was now seriously injured with nearly half of his Essence Blood now burned away.
Still, he gritted his teeth and continued to run.
Because right now, he had the same feeling as Leiran.
The spatial tear wasn’t something he could handle.
And if he was a bit late, he might also get sucked into it!
Lucian trembled just thinking about it.
“I’m fucked,” He shook his head silently while running towards his women.
With this incident, he would surely be famous throughout the Dynasty.
But he didn’t regret it, after all they tried to touch his women.
As Lucian reached his women’s side, the evening sky suddenly began to glow as if countless stars had appeared.
“This must be the Array Formation of the Royal City!” Nysa spoke as she took out various pills, “That spatial hole, is this the trump card you were talking about?!”
Lucian nodded and gulped down all of them, then he sat down watching the sky, while his Gluttonous Innate Fate already refining the pills.
Iris and Sylvia sat on both sides of him, applying some unknown medicine lotion that he didn’t reject.
Lucian raised an eyebrow as he saw that at this moment, the small stars seemed to fall, creating a circular barrier around the spatial tear in an attempt to suppress the spatial tear.
However within few moments the azure barrier began to tremble as if on the verge of breaking!
“The formation can’t hold it!” Nysa shouted.
“We should leave now!” Lucian stood up and said gravely.
Suddenly, a blinding light shot down from the sky, and an ethereal voice boomed across the entire sky, “Seal!”
There seemed to something unfathomable in the voice as the spatial tear instantly closed with this single word!
A white-bearded old man in royal robes descended from the sky!
With his hands behind, he walked down towards the earth as if stepping onto invisible staircases!
With the appreace of this old man, the Heaven and Earth seemed to lose color!
“State Preceptor!” Leiran’s voice was filled with shock and respect.
He immediately bowed and Haoran, Qin Hongtang and Jiang Yun and with all the golden armoured soldiers did the same.
The old man ignored them, focusing entirely on Lucian.
Lucian’s body trembled violently as an instinctive feeling of kneeling flashed through his mind.
He didn’t know who this old man was, but the earlier action had already shown that this old man was surely a terrifying existence!
So he composed himself and bowed deeply, “Greetings Senior.”
Nysa and others also followed quickly.
“Someone with great Qi Fortune! You can indeed help this old man,” The old man smiled while stroking his long beard.
Lucian was stunned for a moment, “Senior, what do you mean?!”
The old man waved his hand and Spiritual Energy enveloped Lucian and his women, “Little girl Eris sent me here, so there’s no need to panic.”
Then the old man smiled warmly and looked into the west sky, “Lord Ouyang, you don’t mind if I take them, do you?”
As soon as the old man finished, a thick bearded middle-aged man seemed to materialize out of thin air, “Of course not. I was just strolling through the Royal City when I suddenly heard a commotion, so I came to check.”
At this moment, Sylvia who was beside Lucian quickly hid herself behind him and hugged him tightly.
Lucian frowned as he felt her intense trembling.
He was about to ask when he felt a gaze on him.
“Boy, don’t do anything stupid or your whole little family in that small sect will be killed,” A cold voice suddenly echoed in his mind!
Lucian’s heart sank.
The voice clearly belonged to the middle-aged man who had just appeared.
The white-bearded old man chuckled, seemingly oblivious to the mental message Lucian had just received, “This youngster caused quite a stir, but his talent is extraordinary. It would be a shame to waste it over a small misunderstanding.”