Aboard the aircraft.
"Li Yang, what exactly is going on? Dean Hai wants us to leave immediately for Jiang City to see Li Yuan?" Dean Xu frowned.
She had originally had other important matters to attend to, only to be summoned out of the blue.
The key was—
Dean Hai had only explained things to Li Yang, then instructed her to follow Li Yang's orders.
Yet she did not know what the matter actually was. Naturally, she was rather displeased.
"Good news."
"But we'll have to see Li Yuan and confirm it before I tell you." Li Yang smiled mysteriously. "Don't worry. We'll be there in a few hours."
Yet Li Yang was already quite excited inside.
He could not forget the scene from not long ago, when Dean Hai had told him about it.
"Li Yuan is suspected to have already reached Unity of Heaven and Man." Dean Hai had spoken with extreme calm, as though everything were firmly within her grasp. "Go to Jiang City with Dean Xu and verify whether it's true."
Unity of Heaven and Man.
When Li Yang had first heard the news, his shock had been beyond words. He had even suspected that he had misheard.
Good heavens!
He, Li Yang, had trained for decades and struggled bitterly before entering the Fifth Stage. Even that had earned him the praise of countless people.
And Li Yuan? How old was he?
"If it's true, then in a year and a half, he went from newly entering the Third Stage to stepping into the Fifth Stage?" Li Yang muttered inwardly. "That rate of progress is too outrageous. It's even more outrageous than Fang Hai back then."
"However."
"This is my student, my disciple." Li Yang's eyes shone brightly.
Li Yuan had no idea that, in