The battle power between a Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator and a Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator has an absolute strength gap.
Only elite Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivators, who are key cultivators of major sects, might level up in battle due to stronger cultivation techniques and more powerful treasures.
But even then, it's just battling ordinary late-stage Golden Core cultivators; if they encounter late-stage Golden Core cultivators from similarly large sects, they still can't win.
The higher the realm, the harder it is to fight above one's level.
It is very rare for cultivators like Li Shiming, who can fight above their level from an early stage, to exist. He can do so only with the help of his life-bound treasure IBMz15.
So when the two late-stage Golden Core cultivators, engaged in battle, simultaneously changed their attack targets to the two Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivators, the unprepared defensive line of the middle stage was instantly breached.
