Hearing the Grand Elder ask about Senior Apprentice-Sister Lu Yi, Lu Li's gaze dimmed as well. "I'm sorry, Grand Elder. We weren't blasted to the same place. I don't know whether Senior Apprentice-Sister is alive or dead now."
The Grand Elder sighed inwardly at those words, but did not press further. "It's good enough that you came back alive..."
As he spoke, his eyes suddenly widened. He looked Lu Li up and down as though he had seen a ghost. "You... you... what realm are you in now?"
Yuan Wu was also looking at Lu Gaoge as if he were an idiot. The moment Lu Li arrived, he had seen how powerful he was. Otherwise, the two guards would not have let him pass so easily.
Still, Yuan Wu was deeply shocked. He wondered what Lu Li had encountered and why he had become so powerful in merely one epoch.
It was not that it was strange for a Pioneer to reach the Ninth Order Peak within an epoch. The main point was that they all knew Lu Li had been blasted away back then, his fate unknown. Rebirth alone had likely taken many years. On top of that, Lu Li was no longer an Explorer and no longer had the auxiliary power of the space at his disposal. How had he become stronger?
"I didn't know before either, but now that I've seen the Grand Elder, I can confirm that I should now be at the True Self Realm Peak."
Lu Li spoke, filled with emotion.
He had only sensed that something was off halfway through the World Sea. Once he descended into this world, everything became clear.
It turned out that the flow of time in his home world had been abnormal. Perhaps whoever established that world's laws