Liu Shan's Disdain! Divine Kite Pearl!

Just as Xu Jingming and Ling Shuang were enjoying an endless springtime of passion...

Liu Shan also met Hu Jinyu, the Vice-Curator of headquarters, in the Virtual World.

"What was so urgent that you sent me several messages in a row?"

Hu Jinyu asked blandly.

As a Ninth-Order Middle-Level Law Saint, he spent a considerable amount of time cultivating every day.

Only at times like this could he spare a little time to handle miscellaneous matters.

"Curator, something happened on my end." Liu Shan gave a bitter smile and recounted what had happened that morning.

"What? Xu Jingming has already entered the seventh order? So quickly?"

Hu Jinyu frowned.

Xu Jingming had only advanced to the sixth order during the Genius Competition.

By calculation, only a little over four months had passed.

Yet he had leaped directly from the sixth order to the seventh!

That rate was simply monstrous!

"Yes."

Liu Shan nodded slightly. Although Xu Jingming was a rival, he still could not help but sigh.

"They say that the higher a Metahuman's rank, the slower their advancement becomes.

But that rule seems to have stopped working on Xu Jingming.

His teacher, Su Qingli, took only two and a half years to break through from the Sixth-Order Peak to become a Ninth-Order Martial Saint.

I estimate that Xu Jingming may break his teacher's record and shorten the time needed to reach the ninth order even further."

"Not necessarily. The difficulty of advancing from the seventh to the eighth order, and then to the ninth, rises exponentially.

Unless Xu Jingming relies on an external aid like Su Qingli did, it is almost impossible for him to reach the ninth order within two and a half years."

Hu Jinyu shook his head.

Take Liu Shan himself, for example. He had been