"Was that person really Zhao Cheng?"
"Or... am I dreaming?"
Vaguely, Sun Yi heard a girl speaking beside him. He knew that voice well—if he remembered correctly, it belonged to a girl named Shen Siyu, the biggest social butterfly in the class.
She was the sort who dared to say anything and ask any question, without caring whether the other person felt awkward. As long as she wasn't embarrassed, that was all that mattered.
But how could Zhao Cheng not be Zhao Cheng?!
He had seen with his own eyes as Zhao Cheng killed the first monster.
Besides, wasn't he still holding Belvia's hand right now?!
Yet when Sun Yi looked again, even he began to waver.
The Zhao Cheng before him truly differed from the one in his memories. His features were still the same features—one glance was enough to confirm it—but the details had changed far too much. If Zhao Cheng's looks had once been like a crude clay figurine, then now he was jade through and through.
He no longer even felt human, but like a divine son descending from the godly realm into the mortal world, possessing a perfection beyond all ordinary beings.
This was Life Completion, from Silver to Gold!
In truth, Zhao Cheng was still a little short of true Life Completion, but its splendor had already begun to show.
Gold was a turning point from human to god, special by nature. Once any life reached this stage, it would gradually evolve toward the perfection shaped by the balance point between self-perception and collective perception.
Different people underwent vastly different degrees of change at this stage.
It could not be denied that some people were born nearly perfect, like Belvia. She had not changed much at all when she reached this stage.
It was