"Tier Six?"
Milton heard the question.
After pondering for a few seconds, he shook his head, then nodded.
His cryptic behavior left everyone puzzled.
Before An Kai could urge him on, Milton spoke of his own accord:
"I saw records about Spirit Infusion in the [Spirit Infusion Secret Realm]. They said Spirit Infusion was Tier Five, yet not Tier Five; Tier Six, yet not Tier Six."
"Instead, it's a level between Tier Five and Tier Six."
"Your Highness Wayne, does the royal family have no records? The Shak Kingdom's ancestor was a genuine professional above Tier Five."
Milton looked at Wayne, who was taking notes. Wayne shook his head gently. "The ancestor disappeared a hundred years ago, taking all the royal family's records about anything above Tier Five with him and leaving behind a single statement..."
"A statement? What did he say?"
The first to speak was neither Milton nor An Kai, but Widow Wang...
Her eyes gleamed, as though she was eagerly awaiting Wayne's next words.
Wayne stopped keeping them in suspense. "The ancestor said... the path of Spirit Infusion was wrong!"
"Wrong... wrong..." Widow Wang kept murmuring those words, growing increasingly excited...
Only when Hanks nudged her gently did Widow Wang come to her senses and realize she had lost her composure...
Then she grabbed Hanks's aged face and, ignoring everyone present, planted a smacking kiss on it, leaving a lip print.
An Kai watched everything Widow Wang did without reacting.
He knew she was hiding a secret.
When he learned that Widow Wang was secretly a Tier Five professional, he had already guessed that she had something to hide.
But he had never asked. An Kai knew that anything Widow Wang kept so carefully under wraps had to be troublesome.
And trouble happened to be what he