This clearly shows that the elder places great importance on Ling Zhenfei, and the advantage of using the Heart-pursuing Item for long-range attacks is naturally to stay away from the battlefield.
Theoretically, the attack range of this Heart-pursuing Item is as large as one's own Divine Sense, but most people can't achieve this because the two aren't exactly the same concept.
In fact, from Ling Zhenfei's perspective, the reason many people can't kill with a sword from such a distance is simply because they haven't cultivated to the proper Realm.
Today, people feel extremely strong after reaching the Pursue Heart State, but the cultivators of the past were very powerful, with several other Realms beyond the Pursue Heart State.
Now it seems unattainable, but who knows if those records of Flight and Escape are real or not.
Perhaps, when cultivation reaches higher stages, true Flight and Escape might be possible, it's entirely possible.
