After paying his respects to teachers such as Zhang Junsheng, True Lord Sea-Stabilizer, and Lord Lu Ling, Jiang Ding came before An Siyan, Jin Lingfeng, Liu Mei, and the other cultivators of his generation, looking over them one by one.
After so many years—what seemed like an exceedingly long stretch of time—there were only eight or nine of their peers left before him.
Elementary school, middle school, high school—all their classmates had already hidden away in the endless river of time. No matter how they called out, those people would no longer come out to meet them.
"Greetings, Great Sun Heavenly Monarch!"
An Siyan, Liu Mei, and the others said with grins.
"Hahaha!"
"Greetings, fellow True Lords."
Jiang Ding laughed heartily and returned the salute with cupped hands.
He did not feel that, after advancing to the Nascent Soul Stage, he was vastly different from Nascent Soul Cultivators and could put on airs.
"Back when we were young and taking the college entrance exams, Jiang Ding, you were still in the Innate Realm—not even in the Qi Refining Realm. Who would have thought that you would now have walked ahead of us..."
Liu Mei said with no small amount of emotion.
"Only one step ahead."
"Classmate Liu is also at the Nascent Soul Peak Stage. With only a Spirit Transformation opportunity left before her advancement, she is no worse than anyone else."
Jiang Ding said with a smile.
The group reminisced about the days from two thousand years ago, all of them sighing endlessly with feeling.
After chatting for a while, Jiang Ding bade his friends farewell and walked toward the lecture platform standing in the starry sky. Following the Immortal Sect's ancient tradition, he began recounting his insights from breaking through to the Nascent Soul Stage for the many