Zheng Jin chuckled twice. "The little Martial Granduncle is broad-minded and generous; he won't fuss over such trifles. But this Junior Brother Chen Zui... he really is ferocious."
Zhi Lianshan could not help agreeing. "Come to think of it, isn't he still under thirty this year?"
"No idea. We'll know if we ask Old Xue from Blade Peak later."
The two followed closely behind the Sect Master to Blade Peak. Sure enough, Blade Peak was so bustling that there was scarcely room to set foot. Zheng Jin squeezed through the crowd with the others and finally found his old friend, Xue. "Your Junior Brother really advanced to Golden Core?"
Xue True Person turned his head. "Oh my, you two finally remembered to come back. True Lord Zhi, you're quite imposing now."
"Nothing special, nothing special. True Person Xue will have to work hard too."
Hearing that, Xue True Person could not help letting out a mournful sigh. "I'd only just managed to accept that you two are monsters, and now... do you know how old Junior Brother Chen Zui is this year?"
"How old?"
"He entered Yonglu Mountain at eighteen, reached Foundation Establishment at twenty-three, and has now formed his Core. By nominal age, he is only twenty-eight."
Six years to Foundation Establishment, five years to Core Formation, and he had even descended directly onto the Prodigies Ranking. What did that mean? It meant that so long as Chen Zui did not fall, a future place in the top ten of the Prodigies Ranking was set in stone for him.
"The younger generation is truly formidable. He should be the youngest Golden Core True Person in the cultivation world, shouldn't he?"
Thinking of it that way, Chen Zui's sudden appearance on the Prodigies Ranking no longer seemed so unreasonable. Ordinary