Everyone was shocked, struggling to digest this utterly unimaginable fact.
Yet they quickly calmed down and accepted it. There was no use refusing to accept it. At this moment, they perhaps understood that since Ye Xiwen had emerged from there, it was naturally not because his head had been caught in a door; he had truly completed the task.
Although the few who knew the truth had understood that the task had been arranged by the family head to protect Ye Xiwen, more people believed that the family head had set an impossible task. Given Ye Xiwen's circumstances at the time, it would already have been difficult for him to kill experts of the Celestial Realm First Stage, let alone so many of them. Without several years, it should have been utterly impossible.
Yet who would have thought that in a mere two years, Ye Xiwen had actually fulfilled his original promise and returned?
At this moment, everyone's expressions were grave. In particular, the faces of upper-echelon Ye Family members such as Ye Qian, who had intended to disregard Ye Xiwen, were exceptionally ugly. Only Ye Zhentian wore a broad smile. Ye Xiwen was his disciple, and now that Ye Xiwen had performed so outstandingly, it naturally brought glory to his own face—indeed, immense glory.
Still, a trace of shock flickered through his expression. Even he had not expected Ye Xiwen to truly grow to such a level within two years.
The further one progressed along the path of cultivation, the harder breakthroughs became. One basically had to pile up time. The only way to avoid relying on accumulated time was through endless fortuitous encounters or by constantly standing at death's door.
This alone made it possible to imagine what Ye Xiwen had paid over these two years to reach