"But I need a way to break through to Holy Spirit Rank. After all, I've already successfully advanced."
"What?"
Norton, who had been fairly composed, instinctively widened his eyes and froze for a moment.
It took him quite a while before he began to suspect he had misheard. He lowered his voice and asked, "You're not joking, are you?"
"No."
Ye Qian released just a tiny trace of Mithril Rank pollution from her body.
Anyone who had encountered Transcendents would understand what it meant the instant they sensed it.
Sure enough, Norton froze completely the next moment.
After a long while, just as Ye Qian began wondering whether he had been immobilized, the Old Man let out a long sigh and nodded hard several times. "Good lord, good lord!"
Ye Qian looked rather awkward. "Is there a problem?"
"There is. The problem is extremely serious." Norton's expression was incredibly animated, shifting from shock to confusion and concern.
"Uh... why does that expression make me feel like advancing this fast is going to cause trouble?" Ye Qian suddenly grew uneasy.
"Cause trouble? Yes, it definitely caused trouble." Norton did not know whether to laugh or cry. "Little girl, you've shattered everything I know. If you didn't achieve this through some strange item, then... you may be the fastest-advancing human in history. No exceptions."
"Huh?" Ye Qian froze.
She knew she had been fast, but... fastest in history? That joke was a bit too much.
"I mean it. At least as far as I know, nobody has reached Mithril Rank within a few months. And you... considering that the God-Forbidden profession requires a month to perform its ritual, that means you only spent two months meeting the requirements to break through to Mithril."
For one month, a God-Forbidden could not come into