"Only forty-three?!"
Hearing the elder beside him, Gu Yuan could not help but feel greatly astonished.
He had thought Bai Ge was at least over seventy!
After all, on the Dou Qi Continent, aside from members of Dou Di families like them, who could rely on the Dou Di Bloodline within their bodies to reach the Dou Zun realm in their twenties,
ordinary people needed to spend countless years to break through to the Dou Zun realm. Those who could reach the Dou Zun level in their fifties were already considered top-tier geniuses!
Bai Ge had appeared in the Jia Ma Empire a few years before Xiao Xun'er was born, then lived alongside Xiao Xun'er for more than a decade, not to mention the time spent traveling to the Central Continent.
If Bai Ge had spent fifty years reaching the Dou Zun level, then adding up all those years, he should have been at least over seventy.
Yet unexpectedly, he had been completely wrong!
This Bai Ge before him was only in his forties. Although he was still older than his daughter, Xiao Xun'er, the difference was already quite limited.
At the very least, reaching the Nine-Revolutions Dou Zun level in his forties made him a first-rate genius even within the Ancient Clan!
"I didn't expect I had underestimated him!"
Looking at Bai Ge, Gu Yuan could not help shaking his head with a sigh.
Originally, what he and the entire Ancient Clan valued most about Bai Ge was his status as a Ninth-Rank Alchemist. He had never expected Bai Ge's cultivation talent to be so extraordinary as well.
To reach the Peak Nine-Revolutions Dou Zun realm in his forties, coupled with his status as a Ninth-Rank Alchemist, he had every chance of reaching the Dou Sheng level before turning