Joel leaped down from the second-floor terrace, his towering frame blocking Xu Jingming's path.
"Xu Jingming, we meet again."
Joel folded his arms across his chest, his voice booming like a bell.
"Funny how I keep running into you everywhere.
What, a little Cosmic First Order nobody like you managed to worm your way into a place like Aries Planet?"
With Xu Jingming's current Mental Strength of 985 trillion hertz,
he had sensed Joel's aura the moment he entered this residential district.
But he hadn't expected the man to jump out and block his way so directly.
Seeing that Xu Jingming remained silent, Joel assumed he was guilty and deliberately raised his voice.
"Let me guess. It couldn't be that your dear senior sister, Lin Qianxue,
used some trick to bring a freeloader like you in, could it?"
There were quite a few pedestrians along the road, and Joel had intentionally raised his voice.
The moment he said this, the generals passing nearby all turned to look.
These were all battle-hardened Eight-star and Nine-star Generals, their gazes sharp as blades as they instantly focused on Xu Jingming.
"Lin Qianxue? That Nine-star General from the Eternal Star Alliance?"
"This is her junior brother? Never seen him before."
"Wait... I think I remember him."
Amid the murmurs, a general with a faint scar on his face suddenly spoke up.
"He's Xu Jingming!
I saw him in the Virtual Universe broadcast of the Monster Hunting Competition three years ago!
He was only at Starlight Peak back then!"
The moment the scarred general said this, the surrounding generals erupted into an uproar.
"Starlight Peak? Three years ago?! So Xu Jingming really is only Cosmic First Order now?"
"Are you kidding me? Lin Qianxue really brought him in? Is the Eternal Star Alliance treating mandatory