After returning from the End Starfield, Jiang Nan threw himself into the Origin Flow Cosmic Array!
There were still 28 days left. With the tenfold time difference, that meant 280 days—plenty of time for Jiang Nan to make another push!
Ever since Jiang Nan had gone to the Eternal Gale, Zhong Yingxue and the others had been cultivating in the cosmic array nonstop. They hadn't come out once!
Only five months had passed outside, but Zhong Yingxue and the others had experienced a full 50 months inside the array—more than four years!
They missed Jiang Nan so much they were about to explode!
After all, they'd never been apart for so long before. Even though they were cultivating in the array, Zhong Yingxue and the others knew everything that had happened outside!
They just hadn't gone out, since they couldn't help with anything. They might as well use the time to improve themselves!
By now, Zhong Yingxue, Xia Yao, Wu Liang, and the others had all reached around the eighth or ninth stage of Transcendence!
For them, reaching the tenth or eleventh stage would probably be enough to break through to Star-Devouring Class!
They just weren't quite on the verge of breaking through like Jiang Nan was!
Wu Liang saw Jiang Nan's level—seventeenth stage of Transcendence—and was stunned on the spot!
=????(???????)"Brother Nan... did you deliberately hold back your level so you could wait for us? You didn't have to wait, you know. You should've broken through when you could!"
"You've held back so many stages, that's ridiculous! You could've gone on to middle school, so why keep repeating elementary school?"
Jiang Nan covered his face. What the heck did Wu Liang mean by repeating grades? He wanted to level up, too!
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