Above the Seventh Rank belongs to the domain of top-tier card masters.
Every major rank advancement beyond this point could stand as a lofty threshold that many talented card masters might spend a lifetime trying to overcome.
However, for Leonard Churchill, the chance to break through the Eighth Rank seemed to come too easily.
Because he acquired the Divine Fire Cultivation Secret Method of "My Heart is the Universe" from Emperor Lanlingster, his Divine Power stepped onto a new level. This also quietly resolved the greatest mutation risk of Secondary Demonic Dissolution at the Eighth Rank.
The threshold for promotion seemed to vanish all at once.
This is the advantage of a sequence-specific inheritance; bypassing detours, as the cultivation methods are almost all aimed at these extraordinary bottlenecks.
The Emperor's Secret Method is, of course, a top-notch secret method.
With Griffith's guidance as a Ninth Order, it's almost infallible.
