"Really? Twenty-five years old? Late tenth layer of Qi Cultivation? Who... which one??" Hearing Gen Gen's words, Wu Nai could no longer sit still. He sprang to his feet and looked over the area below the platform again and again. By now, the few at the eleventh layer of Qi Cultivation had long since been chosen, and those remaining were either at the tenth or ninth layer of Qi Cultivation. Moreover, all of them looked young. Besides, in the Cultivation World, who would take a person's apparent age at face value?
Xiao Hua's clearly tenth-layer Qi Cultivation, along with his obviously eighteen-year-old, somewhat youthful face, made knowledgeable cultivators assume at a glance that he had consumed some age-preserving exotic herb. Naturally, they would not pay him any mind! After all, an eighteen-year-old cultivator at the tenth layer of Qi Cultivation would already be another's prized disciple. Why would he come to the Thunder Control Sect to take another master?
"You?" Wu Nai's gaze landed on a disciple some distance from Xiao Hua, one whose age and cultivation were both comparable. In truth, Xiao Hua was not slow either. The moment he heard Gen Gen call his name, he immediately prepared to step forward, but Wu Nai moved faster. Before Xiao Hua could even take a step, he had already leapt out.
"Disciple Xiao Hua greets Senior!" Xiao Hua stepped forward and bowed in salute.
"You?" Wu Nai looked at Xiao Hua, his gaze flickering. "Are you certain you are truly twenty-five years old?"
Xiao Hua was speechless. When he had told the Foundation Establishment cultivator testing bone age that he was twenty-three, he had counted the three years at Huanghua Ridge and the two years he had spent in seclusion cultivating. Yet he had completely forgotten the two years he