The World of Geniuses

Old Lady Jia had only gotten halfway through when Paranoid snorted coldly. "Shut up!"

A faint ripple of Coercive Pressure stirred in the air. "If you dare reveal my information, do you believe I can make your life worse than death, Jia Shuiqing?"

Old Lady Jia had guessed Paranoid's origins, while Paranoid had called out the old woman's real name.

Logically, there was more than a hundred years between them. They should not have known each other so well.

Thinking carefully, Jia Shuiqing should not even have been a hundred when Paranoid went into seclusion and vanished.

However, ordinary people did not understand the circles of geniuses. It was not as though anyone could enter that circle just by reaching a certain level of strength.

As long as someone's potential was great enough, even if their current strength was lacking, they might still attract that circle's attention.

—Once this person grew stronger and had the strength to enter that circle, they could become a partner for cooperation.

Paranoid particularly did not value strength—or rather, it was not that he did not value it, but he cared more about talent and comprehension.

Jia Shuiqing had become famous in her youth. Her talent had been astonishing, and she had possessed the potential to soar into the heavens.

She had not been the slightest bit inferior to the young Paranoid... well, in Paranoid's own opinion, she had still been somewhat inferior.

There truly were not many people whom geniuses regarded as their own kind. Those outstanding enough could hear of one another even across Star Regions.

Strictly speaking, it had been easier for Paranoid to recognize Jia Shuiqing than for her to recognize him.

The reason was obvious. How many Above Supreme beings were there in the Empire? As a junior, Jia Shuiqing