Big Dreams and Small Goals

Zhang Ping stared at Guan Hongying and asked seriously, "Has Li Aoxue ever indiscriminately killed innocent people? Does she enjoy killing people like a cat playing with a mouse?"

"How could that be possible? Her Majesty harbors grand ambitions. How could she do something so completely pointless?" Guan Hongying denied it outright.

Zhang Ping then roughly recounted Liu Sishan's experience and continued, "I believe my sister wasn't lying. So how do you explain this?"

"Impossible. Roughly when did she encounter Her Majesty?"

Although Guan Hongying disliked the Cleanup Team for obstructing Li Aoxue's plans, she actually held Zhang Ping in high regard.

She knew very well that Zhang Ping would never lie about something like this.

Therefore, she had to prove Li Aoxue's innocence.

"Roughly when?"

Zhang Ping frowned slightly. He had a good memory and remembered Liu Sishan saying that she had taken only one year to advance from a Novice Awakened to an Intermediate Awakened.

She had also said that when she and her master encountered Li Aoxue, she had still been an Intermediate Awakened and could do nothing.

Pearl Ability Academy was a public academy, funded entirely by allocations from the City Lord's Manor.

Ordinary students enrolled at the age of eight and underwent ten years of cultural education and physical training, though many geniuses graduated early.

Liu Sishan had also enrolled at eight, and she was three years older than Zhang Ping.

By the time Zhang Ping enrolled at eight, she had already graduated early. She had been eleven then.

In other words, she had become an Intermediate Awakened at the age of twelve.

Zhang Ping was now seventeen, while Liu Sishan was three years older, making her twenty.

By that calculation, Liu Sishan had become an Intermediate Awakened around eight years ago.

The problem was