"Wait... you..."
A look of disbelief appeared on Gu Wu's face. "Are you joking with me?"
Third-tier Contract Power.
What did that mean?
Even talented, hardworking Beast Tamers usually had to reach thirty before they could successfully break through, unless they encountered some special opportunity.
And how long had Xu Ran taken?
Gu Wu rubbed his brow, looking as though he were questioning everything he knew.
If he remembered correctly, Xu Ran had defeated his daughter and won the Rookie Beast Tamer Challenge the month before last, hadn't he?
Back then, his Contract Power had only been at the first tier.
Even if he had already been close to a breakthrough and successfully advanced after the competition, he would only just have reached the second tier.
From just reaching the second tier to breaking through to the third...
Since when could someone grow stronger at such a nonsensical speed?!
"I happened to obtain a strange resource outside the city that could greatly increase my Contract Power." Ever since obtaining the Meditation Acceleration Card, Xu Ran had considered how he should explain his absurd meditation speed if anyone noticed it.
"After absorbing all of it, I quickly broke through to the third tier, just like that." Xu Ran chuckled. "You could call it a lucky coincidence!"
A lucky coincidence...
Gu Wu gave Xu Ran a strange look.
I don't like prying into other people's secrets, but don't take me for a fool!
Gu Wu believed in the existence of the resource Xu Ran had mentioned.
Otherwise, there was no explaining his outrageous cultivation speed. Besides, Cloud-Gathering City had special resources like Heavenly Spirit Stones that could accelerate meditation, so it wasn't entirely impossible for other places to have resources that directly increased Contract Power.
But...
Gu Wu didn't believe a single