"For my goal, I need to become stronger..."
Upon entering the seventh-tier world, Lu Ping'an was surprised to discover that the gap between him and other professionals of the same tier had significantly narrowed.
Previously, Lu could easily take on 2-tiers without any problems, even when he was at fourth-fifth tier, he had experiences of clashing to the death with those at the sixth and even seventh-tiers.
Killing equivalently tiered third or fourth-tiers was like slaughtering chickens for him, presenting no difficulty whatsoever.
But now, even when facing a seventh-tier, he had to be extremely cautious, and against any eighth-tier, he had to be mentally prepared for the possibility of a full-out battle ending in defeat.
None of the old eighth-tiers were easy to deal with... Advantages in various hardwares and softwares became less obvious, and what troubled him was that it still seemed difficult to gain short-term advantages in rule-level internal battles.