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Every sect had people planted by other sects. They could not quite be called spies; sometimes, when something happened, they simply allowed news to be learned at the first possible moment.

Every sect also knew in its heart which people had been planted by other sects. It was an unspoken understanding, because everyone did the same thing.

Thus, when news of Chen Fei breaking through to the Aperture Refining Realm spread among the disciples, people from the other sects naturally learned of it one after another.

The birth of an Aperture Refining Realm cultivator was a major event for any sect. Even a hegemonic force like the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect attached immense importance to the emergence of an Aperture Refining Realm cultivator within its ranks.

The Yuan Chen Sword Sect was naturally no exception, especially since Chen Fei had taken only a little over a year to go from becoming a True Disciple to breaking through.

At that speed, he had left the other True Disciples in the dust by an unknown distance. If every True Disciple possessed Chen Fei's breakthrough speed, why would the Yuan Chen Sword Sect ever worry about flourishing?

Of course, that was purely wishful thinking. Even the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect could not produce an Aperture Refining Realm martial artist every year. Though the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect had quite a few True Disciples, and its top ten True Disciples could nearly crush the chief disciples of other sects with ease—

When it came to the Aperture Refining Realm, it was still a matter of one chosen from a hundred. Even a sect as powerful as the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect needed several years between the birth of each Aperture Refining Realm cultivator.

With worse luck, that interval might stretch to six or seven