Xu Le narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard Cangming say that.
Before Zion?
Wouldn't that have been his days with the Lighthouse Night Watchers?
Xu Le thought back. During those days, he had simply clocked in for work as usual, then suffered political injustice, persecution, and pursuit before finally fleeing Lighthouse for Zion.
Looking at that past, he had been a nobody through and through. There really wasn't anything worth bragging about.
Now Cangming claimed to have noticed him before Zion. Wasn't he just making awkward conversation?
"Mr. Cangming, don't pull my leg. When I was in Lighthouse..."
"When you were in Lighthouse, before you had even become a true Transcendent, you already dared to face Oddities. You faced your teacher from afar in the night, made a calm judgment, and decisively killed your mutated classmate before anyone could react. Even then, you had already shown qualities beyond those of ordinary people."
"I wasn't that impressive. You flatter me, sir."
"No, no, you were even more impressive than I said. What made you impressive was that, while your foundations were still lacking, you knew to latch onto someone stronger and seek their protection. In unfamiliar surroundings, you decisively chose to join the Night Watchers System. That was the finishing touch of dragon transformation in the development of your life. Precisely because you joined the Night Watchers System, you received systematic education in the Transcendent Profession System. It laid the groundwork for your later development. Those were all excellent-even perfect-choices."
"But my time in Lighthouse still ended in failure."
"No, that wasn't failure. People will always encounter someone they cannot defeat. Xiong Zemo... to you back then, he was like an insurmountable gulf separating you from a god, utterly beyond your ability to contend with. Yet even under such terrible