Recently, Song Shufu had always felt as though he had fallen into a dream.
Every time he saw the Evidence Department in his charge packed to the brim with people, he felt as if he were dreaming.
The scene from the past few decades, when he had been the only one feeding the horses, seemed as though it were only yesterday, yet also as though it had happened long ago—like recalling reality from within a dream.
—It was only Ai Qinglan.
It was only Ai Qinglan's arrival, yet it had brought such an enormous change.
Ai Qinglan's achievement in cracking the Transforming Method was indeed beyond the knowledge of ordinary cultivators, but her many earlier accomplishments had also earned her no small reputation.
What was more, the halo of the Spiral Twins did not shine upon them alone; their disciples could also bask in its shade. To the vast majority of cultivators, the equation "Ai Qinglan" = "backed by the Spiral Twins" = "never short of funding" held true.
Of course, only some of the people here were disciples recruited from Sky Spirit Ridge.
The rest were outside reinforcements brought in from the Returning to One Alliance.
Most of Chen Feng and Ai Qinglan's classmates had yet to attain the Primordial Spirit—they were among the fastest of their generation.
However, Ai Qinglan had many senior brothers and sisters, as well as quite a few older senior brothers and sisters. The classmates of those senior brothers and sisters were naturally Grandmasters who had accumulated years of experience. Some of them had even trained disciples at the Primordial Spirit stage or beyond. These "disciples of her senior brothers' and sisters' classmates," or even "disciples' disciples," might have had research of their own and been unable to come here to work odd jobs.