Sun Yi had never liked looking closely at this ranking.
The names on it were far too distant from him. The more he read, the more it only filled him with heartache.
Sun Yi's gaze habitually swept over it quickly.
Those dazzling cultivation descriptions made him instinctively want to look away.
However,
when his gaze skimmed over the middle section,
an incomparably familiar name exploded into his mind like a thunderclap!
"Fang Chen? Junior Brother Fang?!"
Sun Yi abruptly sprang halfway out of his rattan chair.
His eyes locked onto that line, as though he wanted to see through the paper.
He even counted the words after the name with his fingers in disbelief: "Myriad Phenomena Sect, chief disciple of Azure Waves Institute! Two meridians opened... twelfth on the Rookie Ranking!"
This... how was that possible?!
Sun Yi's mind went blank.
Junior Brother Fang? That Junior Brother Fang whose aptitude was no better than his own!
How long had it been? A year?
He had already become the chief disciple of Azure Waves Institute?!
The immense shock left him unable to think for a moment.
When he left Myriad Phenomena Sect, Fang Chen had still been in the Viscera Realm, with an uncertain future.
When he departed, he had even left him a blessing—
He hoped that the next time they met, Junior Brother Fang would have successfully broken through to the Core Formation Realm, thereby fulfilling that regret of his own...
But now...
After the shock came an indescribably complicated emotion.
There was heartache and bitterness.
He had wasted away for many years without even touching the threshold of the Core Formation Realm, while his former junior brother had soared to the heavens.
Sun Yi shook his head and cleared away those useless thoughts.
A heartfelt, uncontrollable joy and