Yao Lao's face was filled with shock. Xiao Yan had only been gone for a year. A year ago, he had apparently been just a Two-Star Dou Zun, yet now he had actually reached the level of a Half-Saint.
How long had it even been?
This was the Dou Zun realm! To leap seven stars in a single year at this realm-what kind of speed was that?
Seeing such a spectacular expression on Yao Lao's face, Xiao Yan felt particularly pleased.
An air of breezy nonchalance appeared on his face as he said lightly, "Just a Nine-Star Dou Zun. What's so surprising about that?"
Upon hearing those words, Yao Lao's face twitched violently several times.
Listen to him. Was that something a human being would say?
Back then, it had taken him nearly a hundred years to cultivate from a One-Star Dou Zun to a Nine-Star Dou Zun, and that was with him constantly gulping down pills.
From being expelled from the Yao Clan to reaching nine-revolution Peak Dou Zun, he had spent a full two hundred years. After that, he had remained at the peak of nine revolutions for another hundred years before breaking through to Half-Saint.
Even so, he was considered exceedingly young among Half-Saints.
Yet this brat Xiao Yan was only nineteen, and he had already reached Nine-Star Dou Zun.
Was this brat planning to become a Dou Sheng before thirty? If so, that cultivation speed was simply terrifying.
If other experts learned of this, they would probably drop dead from sheer outrage.
But Xiao Yan's next words made the corner of his mouth twitch yet again.
"Teacher, do you have any way to help me become a Half-Saint within a year?"
Xiao Yan asked with a smile.
"Become a Half-Saint within a year?"
At that moment,