Tongtian River

"Don't worry. It isn't anything serious; I just need to return and handle it," Qu Qingsheng explained softly when he saw Chen Fei's solemn expression.

"I can go alone. Elder Zhou should return with the Sect Master," Chen Fei said in a low voice.

Only when facing a sect like Sword Return Tower, one that possessed a late-stage Aperture Refining Realm expert, did Chen Fei need the sect to come support him. Otherwise, with Chen Fei's current strength, he could handle the vast majority of situations.

Qu Qingsheng and Zhou Zixun exchanged a glance, then nodded without objection.

Yesterday, when Chen Fei had driven a God Slaying Sword into Xing Xinzhao's Sea of Consciousness, Qu Qingsheng and the others had noticed that something seemed strange about Chen Fei's cultivation. Later, as the three traveled together, they discovered at close range that Chen Fei had actually reached the Mid-stage Aperture Refining Realm.

At that moment, Qu Qingsheng and Zhou Zixun had been somewhat dumbfounded. Unlike the delight of recovering the sect's cultivation technique, they had nearly begun to suspect that Chen Fei had been possessed by someone else.

By any calculation, it had only been about three years since Chen Fei broke through to the Aperture Refining Realm. Yet in those three years, Chen Fei had risen from the Early Stage Aperture Refining Realm to the Mid-stage Aperture Refining Realm.

Such cultivation speed was simply too terrifying, too inconceivable.

Afterward, Chen Fei briefly demonstrated the Heavy Origin Sword, and only then did Qu Qingsheng and the others realize that Chen Fei had comprehended the Heavy Origin Sword to such a level that he was no weaker than Qu Qingsheng.

As long as one's comprehension of a cultivation technique was high enough, coupled with sufficient resources, such rapid advancement in cultivation at