After introducing Xiao Li, Xue Lan, and Qing Lin, Xiao Lin had First Elder Zuo He take them away to register and get settled in.
Once again, only Xiao Lin and Ji Li remained.
"You've broken through to Dou Sheng, haven't you?"
After a moment of silence, Ji Li looked Xiao Lin over and asked.
After all, the old Xiao Lin could never have bypassed the countless grand formations within the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace so easily and arrived here without a sound.
A Dou Venerable's mastery of spatial power clearly wasn't enough for that!
That left only one explanation: Xiao Lin had broken through to Dou Sheng!
"Yeah. I'd actually already broken through the last time I came back."
Xiao Lin smiled and nodded.
"You bastard, were you trying to hide it from us?"
Hearing that, Ji Li immediately raised an eyebrow.
"You never asked, all right?"
Xiao Lin felt deeply wronged.
"So if we don't ask, you won't tell us?"
Ji Li rolled his eyes.
"Mm."
Xiao Lin nodded.
Crack.
Ji Li's fists immediately clenched.
But considering that Xiao Lin had already become a Dou Sheng, there was absolutely no way he could beat him.
So he took several deep breaths, suppressing the urge to give Xiao Lin a vicious beating.
"You're already an eighth-transformation Dou Venerable, and the ninth transformation shouldn't be far off. It's time to prepare for a breakthrough to the Saint Realm. So, have you given it any thought?"
As his friend, Xiao Lin naturally wanted to check on his progress.
"Any thought? Of course I'm planning to skip Half-Saint altogether and advance straight to Dou Sheng in one go!"
Ji Li was quite confident about that.
With his talent, he certainly had the right to say so.
As a descendant of the Purifying