To become a top-notch prodigy in the Floating River Area, there are two standards.
First, one's cultivation must at least reach the second stage of Qi Absorption.
Second, one must have practiced second-tier low-grade internal power.
Given these two premises, the internal power of a top-notch prodigy could roughly match the usual Qi Absorption masters of the fifth tier. Combined with the advantage of techniques, they could easily defeat these masters.
Xue Ang was such a person.
In the late period of the second stage of Qi Absorption, he was cultivating second-tier low-grade internal power, the Black Cloud Technique. While he was still far from perfecting the Black Cloud Technique, his internal power fell no short of the peak of the fifth tier in Qi Absorption.
At this moment, layers of faint black qi continuously revolved like clouds around Xue Ang, blurring his figure and making him look like an eerie shadow.
"Such a strong aura."