"A fifth-tier high-grade puppet master... the personal disciple of the seventh-tier puppet master, Demon Venerable Lianwu..."
Immediately afterward, he glanced through the jade slip's information on Gong Shulan and secretly let out a breath of relief.
This matching "cultivation realm" could undoubtedly be matched to the Gong Shulan in his memories—judging from this, there was a considerable chance that this woman was the Gong Shulan he had encountered in the human realm, rather than someone else in the greater worlds who merely resembled her.
"Advancing from early Spirit Transformation to late Spirit Transformation in a thousand years is somewhat fast, but considering that spatial rift on Golden Flame Island that leads directly to the Ancient Demon Realm... it is not impossible..." Wei Tu's gaze flickered as he mused inwardly.
The human realm was poor in resources. Aside from rare "heavenly prodigies" like himself and Jianglingzi, other cultivators would need at least several thousand, even ten thousand years, to advance from early Spirit Transformation to late Spirit Transformation.
Back when Gong Shulan had been at lower realms, she could rely on her Ghost Spirit Body to cultivate at a speed that crushed her peers. Yet after breaking through Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation, she had already faded into the crowd. After all, aside from its special divine ability of "one soul, two bodies," the Ghost Spirit Body was not some overwhelmingly powerful physique when it came to cultivation.
If not for that old monster, Scorpio Patriarch, coveting Gong Shulan's spirit body and deliberately supporting her back then, this woman could hardly have accumulated enough potential to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm, much less the Spirit Transformation Realm...
But... all of that rested on the premise that she was in the human realm!
If her cultivation environment had changed earlier,