"Qin Hao?" The stern-faced young man paused. "Who is he? Four people reached the Tenth Layer today, and he was the fourth."
He thought for a moment, running through one face after another in his mind, then frowned.
"Have either of you heard of him?" he asked the two men beside him.
"No."
"He's probably not from the Central Continent."
Both men shook their heads.
"That's what I think too."
The stern-faced young man nodded. "He can't be from the Central Continent, or I'd have heard something about him. But there's no need to pay him much attention. If he can't even pass the Tenth Layer, his strength amounts to little."
He shook his head and looked away. One of the two young men beside him nodded in agreement, but the other seemed to have something to say.
"Big Brother," the second man said.
"Hmm?" The stern-faced young man's gaze sharpened.
"I think he may be worth watching," the man said. "I didn't notice him at first either. I only started paying attention after he passed the sixth floor and entered the Seventh Floor."
"Qin Hao spent a long time on the Seventh Floor, Eighth Floor, and Ninth Floor, but he was steady. He passed them one by one."
The speaker was rather thin. He thought as he spoke. "Then again, perhaps I'm overthinking it. He might not be worth our attention."
The stern-faced young man paused.
The other young man was taken aback too. Clearly, he had not expected his companion to have noticed Qin Hao so early.
The three men were Ke Cheng, the stern-faced young man; Qi Zhiyuan, the one speaking; and He Kai.
All three were members of the Spirit-Scolding Sect's Flying Fish Hall.
The Flying Fish Hall was the Spirit-Scolding Sect's intelligence-gathering branch. It collected