"Hm? Did I just hear Du En saying again that he has great comprehension?"
Suddenly, Supervisor Ren Li's voice came from beyond the main gate.
He pushed the door open and walked straight in, as though he had returned to his own home.
The bolt that had been locked tight slid open all by itself, as if it knew its place.
Ren Li stopped and swept his gaze over the people in the courtyard before finally landing on Du En. He blinked.
"So you've broken through to Mid-stage Qi Refining."
I thought it was something serious!
There was a certain flavor to those words.
It could not be called complete astonishment. It was more like he had nearly laughed aloud.
"Du En, it's not that I want to discourage you, but to be honest, you eat spirit cuisine every day and still needed two years of cultivation to reach Mid-stage Qi Refining. If word of that got out, people would laugh their teeth out."
"Is that so? Then what would count as outstanding?"
"You asked the right person! In the various great immortal sects, the entry standard for genius candidates is actually quite clear. It's whether you can break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm within a year."
A year? Foundation Establishment in one year?!
Upon hearing that timeframe, Ning Caize, Wei Ming, and the others immediately felt dizzy.
Thinking back to how they had stumbled along—without Du En guiding and leading them, they would probably still be like the other people from the Underlying Layer, crawling along like turtles for thirty or forty years before reaching Mid-stage Qi Refining—and then comparing that with the terrifying standard of Foundation Establishment in one year...
Hiss!
Were they even human?!
How could the difference between people be so enormous?!
While the five