The other deputy leaders also found it hard to believe. To rise from the Purple Mansion to the Golden Core Realm in just a few short years was simply too fast. They had each spent no less than a thousand years to reach their current realm.
And even that was considered fast. They did not know how much suffering they had endured along the way, nor how many resources they had consumed. No one understood better than they did how difficult cultivation was.
But compared to this kid, they felt deeply unbalanced.
"We thought he was just a minor character. Who would have thought we'd caught a big fish?"
Wu An's eyes glinted with brutality and excitement. "A genius like this, with astonishing talent and a monstrous physique—if we sell him, he'll be worth a fortune, no less valuable than a supreme treasure."
"Of course. He's a Saint's disciple, an exceedingly rare commodity. Who knows how many demonic path tycoons would want to capture him for research, let alone a monster with such terrifying cultivation speed."
"We're going to offend the Universe Sect anyway. Killing one person is killing; we might as well kill someone important."
"Heaven truly favors us Red Scarf Bandits. To think we caught such an important figure—Heaven has eyes!"
"Capture him alive. Seize this kid alive immediately."
"But even a monster shouldn't improve this fast, should he? It defies reason."
"It's nothing strange. This world holds countless mysteries. The flow of time in certain secret realm worlds differs from that in other parts of the universe. Sometimes, only a day passes here while an entire year passes in those secret realms."
"So that's it. That kid must have entered some secret realm where time flows extremely quickly and cultivated there for several hundred years. That's why