"These days, everyone thinks they're an Enlightened Dao powerhouse. What a joke."
"Senior Brother Li, you're giving this place far too much credit."
"Oh? How so?"
"Enlightened Dao is a realm only experts above the thirty-second step can reach. How could just anyone cultivate to it?"
"That is true. At the very least, among the younger generation of our Ten Million Great Mountains, aside from a very limited few geniuses including Senior Brother Bai Luodan, who else can cultivate to the thirty-second step?"
"What kind of roundabout crap are you spouting here? Is Senior Brother Bai someone any piece of trash can compare to?"
Flattering and mocking voices rang out one after another from the crowd approaching from behind.
At first glance, there seemed to be nothing wrong with those words.
But who was Qin Shaofeng?
From those words alone, he had already figured out why the first speaker had sounded familiar.
Bai Luodan.
It was actually Bai Luodan—the one he had accidentally squeezed hard enough to hurt, who had then avoided him like the plague, even making quite a few jokes of himself while hiding from him.
Qin Shaofeng slowly turned around.
As he looked over, the six people who had just come from behind had already appeared before him. Surrounded like stars around the moon at the very center was none other than Bai Luodan, whom Qin Shaofeng had met once before.
Qin Shaofeng saw Bai Luodan.
Bai Luodan likewise clearly saw Qin Shaofeng, whose body and face had become grimy from this period of training, with quite a few holes even torn into his clothes.
"Eh? You brat actually dared to turn around?"
The moment Qin Shaofeng looked toward them, a young man walking beside Bai Luodan, seemingly the closest to him, immediately shouted in anger.
His