[Note 2: Drawing in the prevailing momentum (37%)]
Soon... soon...
The Dragon Vein Fragment was stealing the prevailing momentum pretty quickly.
Of course, my recent red-hot reputation had helped, too.
Jiang Jingnian glanced at the translucent panel before him, anticipation rising within him.
As for his reputation out in the world.
Whether it was good or bad.
That was not a question that needed examining.
Jiang Jingnian hid the delight in his eyes, lowered his head to eat, and continued listening to Liu Qingzhi recount her morning match.
Her opponent had been a prodigy of the Sea-Gazing Pavilion's previous generation.
After a fierce battle, Liu Qingzhi had emerged victorious.
After all.
With the extra tutelage provided by the Grandmaster Path, Liu Qingzhi's martial arts could now be said to advance a thousand miles a day.
With every passing day, her martial arts grew stronger.
"...That was how it went."
Liu Qingzhi set down her chopsticks and sighed. "It's rather sad, really... when this person attempted to advance to Grandmaster back then, a Grandmaster from a hostile faction ambushed them, causing their Great Vow to fail. They've been stuck at Half-Step Grandmaster ever since and still haven't crossed that threshold."
Faced with such a story.
Jiang Jingnian's expression was complicated as well. "The Sea-Gazing Pavilion is one of the Twin Water-and-Fire Sects, after all. For something as important as advancing to Grandmaster, there wasn't even a protector?"
"I wonder whether those Rogue Cultivators and people from ordinary martial halls have any chance of making something of themselves at all."
Even for the prodigies of the Twin Water-and-Fire Sects.
Becoming a Grandmaster was this difficult.
One misstep.
And all Five Aggregates were clouded, the tribulation impossible to weather.
As for those Rogue Cultivators...
There was even less to be said.