"Yes, I reached the eighth tier," Yue Chen replied. "Grandpa Han, Grandpa Yang, is something wrong?"
"Three months..." Han Qian murmured to himself, as though he had not heard Yue Chen at all. "And he chose to do it just after his spiritual power reached the peak of the seventh tier..."
"He didn't even prepare anything-not even pills to help him break through..." Though Yang Haohan's expression remained unchanged, his voice was unsteady. "Not even the Children of Light recorded in the Temple Alliance's history cultivated at such a terrifying speed..."
Before long, Yang Haohan noticed something unusual inside Yue Chen's body.
Although Sol had designed the seal restricting Yue Chen's use of the other two elements with great precision, concealing it remarkably well, Sol was still in his infancy. At this stage, he could only barely hide it from ordinary scrutiny. Fooling the Alliance's foremost experts, such as Yang Haohan, was still rather difficult.
Fortunately, Yang Haohan had not discovered what was truly happening inside Yue Chen. He merely sensed that the elemental aura in Yue Chen's meridians seemed somewhat thin, followed by a feeling of muddiness. It was rather unlike that of Long Haochen, who was also a Child of Light.
"This is..." Yang Haohan frowned, but after several fruitless probes, he released Yue Chen's arm.
He knew that Yue Chen's circumstances were unusual. But now that Yue Chen's importance to the entire Temple Alliance had changed, he needed to understand everything about him.
He still remembered the beginning, when Yue Chen had not been the Child of Light he was today, but a child Han Qian had selected from a Knight Temple Branch in a frontier town near Imperial Dragon Pass and brought to the Holy City to train.
Although Yue Chen had already demonstrated exceptional talent