After those two figures slowly departed, only Azure Emperor and Xiao Yan remained.
Master and disciple exchanged a glance.
Those comforting words from earlier seemed like duckweed adrift in the mortal world; in the blink of an eye, none of it mattered anymore.
"Master, didn't you say breaking through to the Great Emperor Realm was extremely difficult?"
Xiao Yan asked bluntly, striking straight at the heart of the matter.
Azure Emperor's face darkened as she looked at her disciple before her. "Who knows how that brat Qin Jiuge managed it? Clearly, before this, his strength had still been insufficient. Yet now, one moment he was in the Half-step Great Emperor Realm, and the next he was in the Great Emperor Realm—he did not give anyone the slightest time to prepare. And it seems he has recently done many remarkable things on the Sky Profound Continent."
Azure Emperor kept trying to save face.
Xiao Yan, as the disciple, did not continue rubbing salt into her master's wound. Yet as a sense of urgency rose within her, she also became somewhat curious about Qin Jiuge at this moment.
The road to breaking through to the Great Emperor Realm must have been arduous, right?
Even with her master's help, it had not been easy for Xiao Yan.
Though Qin Jiuge had the backing of Great Emperor Realm experts, in truth, compared with all those people in places such as Chaos Town, the aid the entire Qin Family could offer him fell short by far more than a little.
All the way here.
Xiao Yan had relied on her master's assistance, while Qin Jiuge had truly relied on himself alone.
Sensing her disciple's thoughts, even an old monster like Azure Emperor could not help but feel some admiration. "That boy truly is capable. Didn't