"Brother Yun, you actually reached the Half-step Supreme Being realm. That truly left us... astonished, utterly astonished!"
In the minor guard office, Fu Hao and the others stood before Li Qingyun, their attitudes completely transformed. Shocked and awed, they looked up at him slightly.
A fierce jealousy surged in their eyes, yet they had no choice but to bury it with all their might.
Before this, Fu Hao and the other five Shi-level bloodline descendants had looked down on Li Qingyun from the bottom of their hearts, treating him with contempt. Even during this major inspection, they had all believed that Li Qingyun had to take the blame and serve as the scapegoat for the minor guard office.
Even if there were no "flaws," there had to be some enormous flaw.
By sacrificing an overlooked collateral reject of the Shang Household and preserving everyone's "innocence" in this minor guard office, would that not make everyone happy?
As for how that reject would end up, or whether he would be happy, no one cared.
But now, Li Qingyun had suddenly made a name for himself with one brilliant feat, breaking through to the Half-step Supreme Being realm and shattering all their schemes and intentions in one stroke!
The reject had risen, the commoner had taken his place above others. With the strength and status of a Half-step Supreme Being, he was no longer someone these Shi-level bloodline descendants could bully.
Even Hao Ke, the minor guard chief, had become restless. The way he looked at Li Qingyun was like he was looking at an opponent who posed an immense threat to his authority!
A Half-step Supreme Being assigned to this minor guard office—how could an ordinary artifact-supervision worker's post possibly satisfy him?
"Shang Yun, congratulations. Who would have thought our minor