"Back then, Luo Kai was so weak that he wasn't worth my attention, but he brought out something that impressed me greatly."
"It was called explosives, and it was extremely powerful. I personally saw the explosives he made blast a Seventh Rank to death."
"By rights, I should have seized Luo Kai on the spot and forced him to reveal how to make explosives."
"Unfortunately, by then he had already become the academy head's disciple."
"Luo Kai became my youngest junior fellow disciple."
He had become the disciple of the head of Star Gazing Academy? This fellow's luck ranked among the very best of all the players!
"Is your Star Gazing Academy's head a Fourth-Rank Grandmaster?"
Yang Ling's expression shifted.
Kong Xinghu couldn't help the corners of his mouth lifting.
"Although Star Gazing Academy is only second-rate, its foundations are extraordinary even among second-rate institutions. Our master, the academy head, is already a Third-Rank Grandmaster, not a Fourth-Rank Grandmaster!"
"A Third-Rank Grandmaster? Does this academy head have a first-class internal skill, or did he force his way into the first-rate realm with a second-rate internal skill?"
A thought stirred in Yang Ling's mind. Xu Qing had previously told him about the strength and foundations of the Major Sects, as well as the ranks of their experts.
According to him, even the strongest members of a third-rate sect could only reach Seventh Rank. That was the limit of third-rate inner cultivation.
But... after internal skills and martial skills reach supernatural skill, there's still the transcendent saint realm...
Xu Qing knows nothing about where these things come from. He's just an ordinary disciple of a third-rate sect. Everything he knows is merely common Jianghu hearsay...
"Your academy head's talent is quite outstanding, to have broken through to Third-Rank Grandmaster with a second-rate