Silence.
A brief silence fell over the Cultivation Room.
As she listened to Phantom, disbelief filled Ye Li's beautiful eyes.
He mastered the first level of the Origin Core Secret Tome?
How long had it been? A year? Half a year?
Even less!
But how was that possible?
She had once been hailed as the most gifted disciple under the Frost Crown Dominator, yet it had taken her over four hundred years of solitary contemplation to succeed.
Xu Jingming might have possessed extraordinary talent in weapon intent.
But the Origin Core Secret Tome involved the core mysteries of the universe's origin.
It had little connection to combat talent, demanding an entirely different kind of comprehension and affinity.
"There's absolutely no way."
Ye Li murmured under her breath, her voice brimming with absolute certainty.
With her experience and understanding of the Origin Core Secret Tome, she knew all too well how difficult it was.
At the Star Tier, grasping the basics in half a year?
Throughout the history of the human race, those capable of such a feat...
Were probably limited to those exceedingly rare special lifeforms that had long since become legends, beings born with an affinity for the origin. But certainly no human!
Then there was only one explanation.
"An excuse..."
Ye Li pressed her red lips together, forming a cold curve.
"To think you would fabricate such a clumsy lie just to see me.
Xu Jingming, what could possibly be so urgent?
Or... what are you scheming that requires you to resort to this?"
A faint irritation rose in her heart.
She appreciated people who worked hard and held to their principles, but she despised deception and empty boasting.
Especially when he had used the Origin Core Secret Tome as his excuse—something that concerned both her teacher's assessment