Impact

"Congratulations?"

Palace Mistress Qingyu froze. Then, as if she had thought of something, her expression changed at once. "Monarch Jumang, surely you aren't planning to... have her marry some prodigy? That is absolutely out of the question."

Jumang felt somewhat helpless upon hearing this.

Han Su, standing behind him, hurriedly said, "Qingyu, you misunderstood. It seems you've truly devoted all your attention to this little girl these past few days, to the point that you haven't even had time to notice the developments outside."

"I promised Holy Son Li that I would take good care of her, so naturally I cannot go back on my word. She has only just broken through to Sunflare; this is precisely when her energy is most likely to run out of control. There can be no negligence whatsoever."

Qingyu said.

Jumang glanced at her and inwardly remarked, What good fortune... though this, too, was earned through genuine sincerity.

After considering it, he said, "The prodigy I speak of is not someone else. It is Li Pin—Prodigy Li."

"Li Pin!?"

Qingyu was stunned.

"We can no longer address him by name. He should be called Origin Zhou Guang."

Han Su said with a smile, "And very soon, we should be calling him the Origin Monarch."

"Zhou Guang? Monarch? Li Pin?"

Listening to them, Qingyu was utterly bewildered. "Li Pin... wasn't he only at the Sixty-sixth Rank of the Supreme Ladder a few decades ago? Even if the God Clan placed him ninth on the Black List, that still shouldn't be enough to..."

At this point, seeing the solemn expressions on their faces, the astonishment on her own gradually subsided.

It took her several breaths before she came back to herself. "Li Pin... has become Zhou Guang? Less than a hundred years after becoming a Star