Thinking

"Me too!" Bian Chunchou shot up his hand, then whooped with delight. "Awooo! Wen Xu-Xu, you broke the record! My friend is incredible!" The fastest Foundation Establishment in the Cultivation Realm! Hahaha, that annoying Bushi has been surpassed. Oh, yeah!

Only then did Wen Xu realize what had happened, but he did not feel particularly excited. After all... he would rather be the first to reach the Golden Core Realm.

"Chen Zui is two years younger than me. Maybe he'll break my record. You're a year younger too, so maybe..."

Bian Chunchou threw an arm around him. "All right, all right, stop being modest! Wen Xu-Xu, you're a genius. Be a little proud! Come on, hot pot's on me! Oh, right—now that you've reached Foundation Establishment, will you practice Grain Avoidance?"

He froze, then sprang straight up. "No way. I need to reach Foundation Establishment soon too! Then I can use Sword Flight. I've dreamed of flying forever!!!"

Oh, right. Now that I've reached Foundation Establishment, I can try Sword Flight. No wonder his master had looked at him so strangely when he came down from Springless Peak. His master had been wondering why he had not flown.

But there was no need to rush. The three went happily down the mountain for a meal, while Wen Xu's astonishing feat of reaching Foundation Establishment in three years sent Yonglu Mountain into an unprecedented frenzy of cultivation.

"Why are the disciples pushing themselves so... hard today?"

The disciples attending lectures at Six Lectures Peak packed the place, more than twice as many as yesterday. The teacher was stunned. Yonglu Mountain has this many lower-level disciples?

"You were down the mountain yesterday, so you haven't heard. The junior granduncle from Springless Peak reached Foundation Establishment this morning."

The teacher gaped. "The junior