Everyone who had remained on Heavenly Light Peak Summit, and everyone riding swords through the night sky, was stunned by what they saw.
Elder Bai Rujing, in the Sea-Breaking Upper Realm, had actually lost to Jing Jiu, who was in Wandering the Wilds, Middle Stage. How was that possible?
And he had held that cat the entire time!
As people watched Jing Jiu settle back into his chair, they could not help feeling dazed. This seemed even more inconceivable than his becoming Sect Master.
Even Zhao Layue and Gu Qing, the two people who trusted Jing Jiu most unconditionally, could hardly believe their eyes.
Nan Wang had remained on Heavenly Light Peak Summit. Looking at Jing Jiu, she asked in surprise, "When did you break the sea?"
At Green Mountain, breakthroughs were usually described as entering a particular realm, with the sole exception of the Sea-Breaking Realm. Since its name already contained the word "break," why make things complicated?
This custom had begun more than six hundred years ago.
"A few days ago," Jing Jiu said.
True Person Guangyuan flew back to the summit just in time to hear this exchange. He could not help smiling wryly to himself, though some of his shock dissipated.
He had just said that Jing Jiu's cultivation realm was too low to qualify him as Sect Master. How could he have imagined that Jing Jiu had already broken the sea? Though there was still some distance between them, they were now in the same major realm. If the Sea-Breaking Realm did not qualify someone to become Sect Master, did that mean he himself had to go to Hidden Peak and endure until he reached Heavenly Access before coming out?
And Jing Jiu was so young.
If even Nan Wang and True Person Guangyuan were