Gu Changtian naturally had no doubts about the truth of Qin Fengming's words. In his view, no matter how heaven-defying the young man's aptitude was, it was impossible for him to have advanced to the late Integration stage—or even its peak—while he was still in the Human Realm.
He had stayed in the Human Realm before and knew that, for a cultivator to advance from the early Integration stage to the late Integration stage, it would take at least a thousand years, even under circumstances where pills were supplied without interruption.
When he had first encountered the young man, the latter had been no more than a peak Nascent Soul cultivator.
To raise his cultivation to the Integration Realm in a place as lacking in Heaven and Earth energy as the Human Realm, and then advance to the late Integration stage, in a mere few hundred years was absolutely impossible. After all, there could not possibly be a large number of pills in the Human Realm.
Thus, there was only one possibility: the moment the young man entered the Integration Realm, he had found a spatial node and then ventured into the Spirit Realm.
Only under such circumstances could he possibly have advanced to the mid Spirit Severing stage in a mere few hundred years. Even so, such rapid advancement was still terrifying, but it was not entirely impossible.
The reason Gu Changtian had been able to advance to the late Spirit Severing stage was that he had originally been a late Profound Tier cultivator.
Back then, when the main body of the Tianling Sect had dispatched him to the Human Realm, he had used a secret method to suppress his cultivation drastically, bringing it down to the Nascent Soul stage.
Now that he had returned to the Spirit Realm,