Reliance

This was simply a joke!

In the Second Boss's understanding, even a genius would need at least several decades of cultivation to reach the Spirit Essence Realm Ninth Level Peak and prepare to break through into the True Essence Realm.

After the True Essence Realm, a layer is a heaven. Breaking through each realm required even more time!

Taking himself as an example, he had spent more than a decade in hard cultivation just to advance from the True Essence First Layer to the True Essence Second Layer. That was only possible because they occupied the Lianyun Mountain Range and plundered vast cultivation resources from passing cultivators and merchant caravans!

And how old was that little ghost called Zhang Qingyuan?

When they had roamed unchecked through the Lianyun Mountain Range, that little ghost had probably still been nursing at home!

In just twenty or thirty years, his Cultivation Realm had supposedly soared straight to the True Essence Realm Sixth Layer, and rumor even had it that he could contend against the power of the True Essence Seventh Layer!

Even boasting required a draft that was not this outrageously absurd!

In the Second Boss's eyes,

that so-called prodigy was nothing more than a boast inflated by the Zhang Clan of Huashan County.

Its purpose was likely just to bluff them, so that the Zhang Clan's merchant caravans could pass through the Lianyun Mountain Range at a lower cost.

Who knew what the First Boss had been thinking,

to actually believe such ghost talk.

If it had been him, there was an eighty or ninety percent chance he would have raised his blade and hacked his way to the great gate of the Zhang Family in Huashan County, chopping off the head of every Zhang Clan member he found.

Then they would