Gu Qingfeng, Wen Shan, Zuo Mu, and the others all arrived. Before long, quite a crowd had gathered in Xu Yang's courtyard.
At first, everyone wanted to know why Xu Yang had stayed in the mountains so long. Soon, the conversation turned to what had happened during his four months away from the Heavenly Strategy Academy. Sun Tao, Huo Xiaochेन, and the other second-tier geniuses had all broken through to third heavenly origin. Even Sun Tao, the last to break through, had done so nearly two months earlier.
Among the third tier-the group below Sun Tao, starting with Liu Gao-only Liu Gao had reached third heavenly origin so far. The rest, even Fan Yi, Wu You, and Qiu He, were still grinding away at the bottleneck.
In truth, after more than a year at the Heavenly Strategy Academy, the gap between the original three hundred and sixty students was growing wider and wider.
Some suspected that the most gifted spirit bone prodigies were already approaching fourth heavenly origin. Meanwhile, the least gifted were still at the heavenly origin first layer after more than a year at the academy.
After chatting for a while, everyone soon dragged Xu Yang off for drinks.
He was in no hurry to attend to his other business. After spending more than four months in the mountains eating roasted meat every day, he had long since grown sick of it.
That night, he and the others drank themselves into a stupor.
Over drinks, he learned a few more things. His position on the Heavenly Strategy Wind and Cloud Rankings had not changed.
After more than a year, nearly everyone capable of making the rankings had already done so. Unless something unexpected happened, those who had failed to make the list before were unlikely to suddenly become