Yao Sen!
Deputy Cult Master Yao Sen of the Sun Moon Divine Cult.
Of course, seeing Deputy Cult Master Yao Sen within the Sun Moon Divine Cult Headquarters was not surprising in the least, much less enough to astonish Ye Zhen.
What astonished Ye Zhen was Deputy Cult Master Yao Sen's current cultivation: the second level of the Palace Opening Realm.
When Ye Zhen had left the True Spirit Domain for the Outer Sea of Death, Deputy Cult Master Yao Sen had merely been in the Pulse Forging Realm.
Yet in the short span of a year and a half, Deputy Cult Master Yao Sen's cultivation had reached the middle stage of the second level of the Palace Opening Realm!
The middle stage of the second level of the Palace Opening Realm.
Over the past year and a half, Ye Zhen had fought tooth and nail, obtained a Great Treasury Palace Opening Pill, and held countless Spirit Crystals in his hands before he had finally succeeded in opening his palace.
Yet if he wanted to break through to the second level of the Palace Opening Realm, even cultivating entirely with Top-grade Spirit Crystals, it would still take at least two years at the fastest.
To raise his cultivation to the middle stage of the second level of the Palace Opening Realm would likely require more than three years.
But Deputy Cult Master Yao Sen had, in merely a year and a half, not only successfully opened his palace, but also raised his cultivation to the middle stage of the second level of the Palace Opening Realm.
It was not that Ye Zhen could not tolerate others cultivating faster than him.
It was simply too inconceivable.
According to Great Sage of Sea Quelling, Ye Zhen raising his cultivation to the second