(Thank you very much to 'Kaede no Chōrei' and 'Yan Yu Jiangnan' for the tips!)
As their gazes slowly followed the figure walking toward them, Garin, Linya, Mula, Cynthia, and Magnubi finally realized in shock.
This young man, who looked only to be in his twenties, had actually reached the Ninth Order Peak!
The Ninth Order Peak in his twenties?...
Had there ever been such a young Ninth Order Peak expert in the entire history of Sparlier World?...
Of course, Cynthia, Garin, Linya, and Magnubi, who had never met Wu Yan before, were even more shocked by this thought.
After all, when they had been on the Imperial Isle, the three Guardian Deities had only met Wu Yan once. At that time, Wu Yan had clearly only just entered the Ninth Order. It was only after he came out of the Land of the Gods that he had risen to roughly the Ninth Order Mid-Stage.
And how long had it been since they returned from the Imperial Isle?...
A month?...
Probably not, right?...
Could less than a month allow someone to rise from the Ninth Order Mid-Stage to the Ninth Order Peak?...
If such a thing really existed, wouldn't the Guardian Clan's patriarch have to find a thicker wall and smash his head into it until he died?...
One had to know that the Guardian Clan's patriarch had struggled at the Ninth Order for who knew how many years. Only after entering the Land of the Gods countless times had he finally encountered the opportunity to advance to the Ninth Order Peak during his last trip there.
Yet that hard-won opportunity had now been effortlessly surpassed in less than a month by this youngster, who had only been at the Ninth Order Mid-Stage less than a month ago. How could