Oceania, the super metropolis of Melbourne.
Melbourne was guarded by Ninth-Order Peak experts arranged by the United Nations, with more than twenty Ninth-Order experts stationed there by various countries.
The location Xu Jingming had teleported to was within Melbourne itself.
Originally, he had planned to leave through Melbourne's aviation port after teleporting over and return to Great Xia.
Unexpectedly, he ran into Catherine. So after arriving, he found a quiet café and planned to sit for a while before leaving.
"It's only been a few months since we last met, yet you've already broken through to the eighth order."
Inside a quiet private room at the café, Catherine looked at the young man before her, her fair, lovely face filled with astonishment.
She could not understand how Xu Jingming's breakthrough speed could possibly be so fast.
Even Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that accelerated cultivation had side effects and could not be taken indefinitely.
"That's just what happens when you're talented." Xu Jingming smiled.
The system was something he had been born with, so calling it talent was not wrong.
Catherine immediately choked on her words.
She had thought Xu Jingming would be a little modest, but she had not expected him to be so blunt.
After her initial amazement, she fell silent.
As the descendant of a Supreme Expert, the Goddess of the Holy See, and an SS-rank Metahuman Ability awakener, she had never doubted her own talent.
Yet now, after being dealt successive blows by the Kindling Divine Hall and Xu Jingming, she had become somewhat lost.
"Your Grace, there is no need to doubt yourself."
Seemingly sensing her emotions, Monica's Mental Strength transmission echoed in Catherine's mind.
"Just as I said before, the Kindling Divine Hall comes from the Second Civilization Era and possesses a deep foundation.