"If his baleful bones were concealed within... they would indeed have been difficult to identify before the first realm."
"Only after Lu Mian began cultivating the Fiery Baleful Qi Scripture did their effects emerge, sending his cultivation speed soaring."
Songyangzi added.
Over the past few days, they had also been carefully studying Lu Mian's past.
The main reason was that Lu Mian's cultivation speed was simply too astonishing.
According to the information currently available, Lu Mian had entered the shantytown quarantine zone as a refugee about six months ago.
In other words, it had taken Lu Mian only six months to go from an ordinary person to the second realm: meridian opening.
Such talent was staggering.
Even Xu Yi, hailed as the Demon Extermination Palace's greatest prodigy, had been stuck at the peak of the first realm for a long time, unable to open his meridians, despite cultivating since childhood, receiving instruction from renowned masters, and consuming precious medicines until he was sick of them.
Of course, that also had something to do with Xu Yi's personality.
Songyangzi did not suspect that anything was wrong with Lu Mian.
He merely thought Lu Mian must possess some special talent that had gone unnoticed during the bone examination at the Guard Hall.
Now that Elder Yu had confirmed Lu Mian's baleful bone constitution, Songyangzi's conjecture had proven correct.
Moreover, Lu Mian's personality did fit someone with baleful bones.
Withdrawn and ill-tempered, he found it difficult to get along with others, mostly keeping to himself and cultivating in silence.
Listening to Songyangzi and the others, Lu Mian smiled inwardly.
Back when he was at the Guard Hall, he had already realized that his overly rapid cultivation would inevitably attract attention.
Later, while reading in the Doctrine Transmission Palace's Book Repository, Lu Mian had