Chapter 3 Yang Yi
As their memories merged, Ye Chen, even as a former Supreme figure from his previous life, couldn't help but inhale sharply upon understanding this fact.
A thirteen-year-old Innate Expert, what an exceptionally monstrous talent that must be.
Usually, even geniuses with commendable talent would need to surpass the age of twenty to reach the Innate Realm, and these individuals were already the celebrated talents of the entire Tiandu Continent.
A thirteen-year-old Innate Expert... perhaps not the first in the history of the Tiandu Continent, but it was almost without precedent.
And this was merely the son of a city lord from an average medium-sized kingdom, without the massive cultivation resources from ancient Holy Lands that even the greatest nations found disturbing, yet he accomplished this purely on his own efforts; such talent undeniably matched the description of monstrously gifted.
The past "him" had been such an astonishing genius, yet why had he awakened as only at the Acquired Third Realm?
This was the most peculiar and baffling point.
With the continuous integration of memories, Ye Chen gradually uncovered all the reasons. At the age of fourteen, the "him" who was then known as the most outstanding genius in Xiafeng Country, participated in what was known as the peak grand assembly of the young generation on the Tiandu Continent—the Trial of the King's Ancient Road.
That was a trial path only the most outstanding geniuses with extraordinary talent were qualified to partake in.
The "Ye Chen" of that time had qualified, but he encountered a lifetime adversary, supremely talented and powerful, who shattered Ye Chen's Dantian, ruined years of hard-earned cultivation, and ousted him from the Ancient Road.
The Dantian is a cultivator's main storage location for power. Once broken, all one's strength is lost irrevocably, except if, as the legends say, a Heavenly God intervenes or an Immortal Pill is consumed.