"Ahem, Master, your disciple hasn't forgotten... I still remember."
After leaving the illusion, Zhong Yi knelt on the floor with his head lowered, like a child who had done something wrong.
The lightning he had seen in the party lobby hadn't been Luna's electric arrow. Grand Elder Chao Wendao had nearly struck him down with Ninth Heaven Divine Lightning...
As the Spirit Cloud Sect's head disciple, Zhong Yi occasionally taught the sect's disciples in the Elders' stead, so it was hardly surprising that Chao Wendao had come looking for him.
He pointed at the rising sun outside the window, trying to salvage the situation.
"Look, it isn't even dark yet... I won't forget tomorrow's lesson!"
"What do you mean, tomorrow? I think you've lost all track of time..."
Chao Wendao was so furious that his beard bristled several centimeters upward, and a bolt of divine lightning struck Zhong Yi squarely on the forehead.
"It's not that night hasn't fallen... dawn has already broken!! Your lesson starts in two hours!!!"
"???"
Zhong Yi was dumbfounded.
He hadn't imagined he had been playing for so long, completely oblivious to the passing time.
"You wayward disciple! You've let your toys swallow your ambi... hmm?"
Chao Wendao had been about to scold him some more when his furrowed brow suddenly relaxed.
"My good disciple, has your cultivation improved again?"
Zhong Yi froze. Only after Chao Wendao pointed it out did he realize that his cultivation really had improved a little.
The bottleneck that had kept him stuck all this time was actually showing faint signs of an impending breakthrough?
"How strange. I was clearly just in the illusion..."
Zhong Yi rubbed his chin in puzzlement.
He hadn't felt much of anything yesterday, yet after a day of playing "Immortal Abyss Continent Operation," this had