He returned to the guest hall and sat with what Zhao Tianhe had said.
The gate tests the cultivation. Not the person. The deep zone had been the person. The gate was the structure the person had built. And the structure, to hold under the gate's amplification of its incomplete parts, needed more than what he currently had.
He thought about this carefully rather than dismissing it.
His framework was extensive. Sixty-seven skills, four Cataclysmic passive integrations, two years of cultivation at an amplification rate that produced results the Lower Domain had no precedent for. Attributes at values the Bureau's classification system had no tier for. An Abyssal weapon with an active Thunder Spirit. Half Aethel-Sun constitution.
All of it was real. None of it was in question.
