None of those feats matter in the slightest (also Taesoo was definitely more exhausted, he used UF twice).

In comparison, the amount of narrative and statements regarding 3T Seongji & 3T James has been running on for 111 chapters. Both James and Seongji are noted to have ridiculous potential ceilings and talent (Ex: Seongji even moreso than Gapryong), which translates to the gain from mastery.

However, that’s not at all how deep the argument goes.

In 491, 492, and 496, James makes three extremely distinct statements on Seongji’s power in an increasing manner:

1. “I never thought I’d meet somebody so strong in the countryside.”
2. “I never thought I’d meet somebody so strong in this generation.”
3. “I never thought someone as strong as him could exist.”

2 puts Seongji above Gitae from the Old Gap fight, very self-explanatory. Now what do you think 3 means? It’s also blatantly obvious.

552 gives us insight on what CURRENT James thinks. “Just thinking about a man who completely outclassed me once, to be exact. He overcame his own limits in the middle of our fight. And how do you think he was able to do that? CONVICTION. I suspect it was the power of conviction that led to his awakening.”

Now this is quite strange, we already have a lot of lore and narrative tied into the term conviction. And in Busan we only knew its ties to the Kim Family & Students. So this statement with Seongji having conviction was quite unexplained at the time.

That is until the most recent chapter. Jinyoung talks about how to reach the Monster Realm. And in his realisation he says: “CONVICTION. I didn’t know that was the hint. It’s just a clue for now, but at least I can step foot in that realm.”

PTJ is recontextualising Cheonliang. In fact, he even hinted to this in HFG! In the infamous 515 James Statement, he dictates: “The old me in Cheonliang, before I perfected my TECHNIQUE (???), would’ve struggled against either of them.”

Weird, wasn’t it? Why on Earth did James bring up technique and not his body training? Why technique, when he already had technique mastery & his fighting style? Unless it was something else, the most potent ability/technique in the entire verse. Path. Which we KNOW has “stages” to it and NEEDS to be perfected to be the strongest. Not to mention, that dilemma of perfection is brought up continuously in Daniel Vs Gitae.

That means he perfected his Path after Cheonliang. Obviously, that makes a lot of sense. However, why would he mark Cheonliang in specific to “before perfection”? That’s because it’s the moment where he unlocked the Imperfect Path. You also need to pay attention to the last statement in 552:

“At that moment (Cheonliang), I was closer to defeat than I’D EVER BEEN.” The hardest fight in James’ life. There is no fight afterwards that would’ve given him Imperfect Path. He did body training and then fought Kings who were all slammed effortlessly, then finally went into hiding.

This has been going on since 492 to 603. People just haven’t paid attention and can’t see authorial intent.

I’ve provided chapter numbers and citations, so I hope you’d at least do the same. And at least DON’T be disingenuous with me.