Chapter 609: Concept of Frozen Sword
"This trip is worth it!" Elias couldn’t contain his excitement. A wild grin lit up his face as he stood up, the newfound power coursing through him. He clenched his fists and felt the change—he was stronger, faster, sharper. More importantly, he had just broken through a bottleneck that would’ve taken him years otherwise.
He knew what this meant for someone like him. Elias was a one-star genius, and even worse, he wasn’t a peak one-star genius. He was at the bottom—barely considered worth investing resources in.
The peak one-star geniuses... they were already standing proudly at the Legend Rank—a realm of power that most could only dream of reaching in a lifetime.
Almost all the top geniuses from the Middle Domain had already stepped into that level, proving themselves as the true prodigies of their generation. In comparison, remaining in the Master Rank as a one-star genius was nothing short of humiliation.
One had to understand the structure of cultivation clearly—Master Rank came first, followed by the Champion Rank, and only then came the Legend Rank. Each rank was like a vast ocean, requiring not just strength but comprehension, talent, opportunity, and determination to cross.
To still be in the Master Rank, despite being labeled a one star genius, meant one had long fallen behind the curve.
In the Middle Domain, and especially in families like the Xuan Family of the Four God Nation, such people were considered wastes of potential, the bottom of the barrel among so-called geniuses.
They were the forgotten, the dismissed, the ones barely worth a second glance from elders and ancestors. Resources were never wasted on them. Opportunities were kept away. Even if they were lucky enough to hold some status, they were never truly nurtured—not unless they proved they were worth it.
Elias knew all of this. He had felt it in every family meeting, in every evaluation, in every condescending gaze cast his way. But now... after leaping from the 5th to the 7th level of Master Rank in one go, he had broken through that barrier—he had proven something