Chapter 80: Discussing Qi Refining After the Feast
Around Jiang Che, words of praise rang out without end.
For one thing, he had genuinely rendered great service. In saving Ailin, aside from the three Qi Refining cultivators who had served as its main pillars, his contribution stood above all others. No one could compare, and he certainly deserved their thanks.
More importantly, he had caught the eye of Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Apparently, before the four elders left, they had even argued over whose peak Jiang Che would join!
With such treatment, never mind everyone else-even the three Qi Refining cultivators, Du, Pang, and Li, had to view him in a different light. They could no longer treat him as an ordinary lower-level cultivator. When the three spoke to Jiang Che, their tone even carried a hint of consultation, quite unlike their former habit of ordering him about.
Amid the bustle, Hu Yan and Zhang Erguo sat at a table a little farther away, watching the figure surrounded by the crowd from a distance.
Zhang Erguo sighed. "After this, Junior Brother Jiang really is going to soar into the heavens."
"Yes." Hu Yan took a sip of wine. "Once he returns to the sect, there'll surely be no shortage of merit credits, spirit stones, or rewards."
"Actually, we could tell long ago that Junior Brother Jiang was no creature destined to stay in a small pond. It's just-we never expected it to happen so quickly."
"Mm, Junior Brother Jiang has been in the sect for less than a year, hasn't he?"
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Naturally, both were happy for him.
Yet beneath that happiness, as was only human, each inevitably felt a little pang of bitterness.
They had all been struggling along as nominal disciples. Watching someone beside them rise straight into the