Another breakthrough, peak Saint

"System, we're back in the Upper Realm. Shouldn't you give it to me now?"

"Yes, right away. Your system has detected that you're in the Upper Realm, Master. The highest realm here is the Saint Realm."

"Raising your cultivation realm now, Master."

If anyone had heard their conversation at that moment, someone would certainly have asked the system:

"You gave it to him?" "I did."

"Why?" "He insisted."

As the system's words fell, in the next instant-

Another surge of refined Spiritual Qi coursed through Li Xiao's body, battering his four meridians and eight vessels as his cultivation realm soared madly.

Spirit Emperor...

Heavenly Emperor...

Profound Emperor...

Ancient Emperor...

Finally, Li Xiao's cultivation broke through to the Peak Saint Realm before stopping.

Li Xiao felt as though Number 19 had given him another massage. Twice in one day-who could withstand that?

"This... this is the presence of the Saint Realm."

Old Master Li trembled all over in fright, while everyone around him was dumbstruck.

At that moment, in the Li Lineage's forbidden grounds, an old man in black robes seemed to sense something. His eyes abruptly opened, and his figure flashed as he appeared before Li Xiao.

His withered hand reached toward Li Xiao.

"This... peak Saint, peak Saint."

Intense shock flooded the black-robed elder's aged face, and then he laughed aloud.

"Hahaha! Peak Saint! A dragon has risen from our Li Lineage! Heaven blesses the Li Lineage!"

What did peak Saint mean?

In the Upper Realm, cultivation was divided into Spirit Emperor, Heavenly Emperor, Profound Emperor, Ancient Emperor, and the Saint Realm.

The Saint Realm was further divided into Quasi-Saint, Saint King, Half-Saint, and Saint.

Each of these four Saint stages was separated by a heavenly chasm. Though Saint Realm cultivators were not uncommon in the Upper Realm, most were elders or sect masters of various Lineages and sects.

Among the younger generation, Saint Realm cultivators were rarer still. All who reached that realm were geniuses without one equal in ten thousand.

Yet strangely, throughout the entire Upper Realm, no one knew how many tens of thousands of years had passed without anyone ever seeing the Peak Saint Realm.

"Hahaha! Peak Saint Realm! Our Li Lineage is going to become the greatest Lineage in the Upper Realm!"

Li Yijian laughed wildly without stopping.

Even he, who had lived for tens of thousands of years, had only barely reached peak Quasi-Saint.

This descendant of his had boundless prospects.

"Ancestor, you've come out of seclusion."

Li Xiao smiled at the elder before him.

"You little brat, not bad! After all these years apart, you've actually reached such heights."

Li Yijian patted Li Xiao's shoulder and sighed with feeling.

Beside them, Li Xiao's father curled his lip even as he reeled in shock.

What are you showing off for? Aren't I still your father? Would you dare hit back if I beat you?

Li Kuangfeng turned his gaze toward Li Yijian.

Only after seeing Li Yijian nod did he breathe a sigh of relief.

He had thought some mighty cultivator had possessed his grandson. The ancestor had just tested him, and there seemed to be no problem.

Now he grew excited too.

Who was this? His grandson! How many years had it been since anyone in the Upper Realm had reached the Peak Saint Realm?

Now one stood right before him, and it was his grandson, no less. How much face would that give him when he told people? He felt he could brag about it for a hundred thousand years.

"Good lad, hurry and tell us what happened to you! I won't believe you didn't encounter some great opportunity on this trip to the Lower Realm."

Li Xiao rubbed his nose and said, "Grandfather, after you threw me into the void yesterday, I didn't reach the Lower Realm."

Hearing this, Li Kuangfeng was a little puzzled.

Li Xiao continued:

"After entering the void, I entered a different world. Time flowed rather differently there than it does here."

"One day in our cultivation world was hundreds of thousands of years in that world."

Everyone drew a deep breath at his words.

One day in the Upper Realm was hundreds of thousands of years there?

Did such a world exist? It was so outrageous that everyone wished they had been the one thrown in.

"That world was incredibly rich and colorful."

Reminiscence flickered in Li Xiao's eyes, and a smile unlike any before appeared on his lips.

"Not only was the Spiritual Qi there pure and abundant, but everyone traveled in carriages drawn by giant beasts. They had great rocs and flood dragons as slaves to take them into the skies and seas."

"And the food was like divine pills and wondrous medicines, with countless varieties and enough to fill everyone's belly."

"From just a few years old, children there read the secret manuals of all the great immortals' immortal arts."

"And then there was Number 19... never mind, let's not talk about that."

At this point, Li Xiao gathered his wandering thoughts, his spirits somewhat low.

He missed his home planet. Though this place was good, he was not from here, after all.

To explain his cultivation, he could only invent an excuse.

Hearing Li Xiao's description, everyone was shocked and filled with longing.

"Little Feng, hurry! Tear open space! However you threw this brat in yesterday, throw me in the same way today! Hurry!"

Li Yijian shouted excitedly at Li Kuangfeng.

"Ancestor, calm down! Calm down!"

Li Kuangfeng offered his ancestor a few words of comfort:

"Ancestor, although tearing open space has an extremely small chance of producing spatial turbulence, that was purely the brat's dogshit luck!"

Li Kuangfeng tried to persuade him.

"Besides, even if spatial turbulence appears, we might not reach the place that brat described."

Only after Li Kuangfeng rattled off a whole string of words did Li Yijian catch his breath.

"Send out word that our Lineage's qilin son, Li Xiao, has broken through..."

Before Li Kuangfeng could finish, Li Xiao waved his hand.

"Grandfather, there's no need. The greatest source of fear is insufficient firepower."

Li Xiao's expression turned cold as he spoke.

"You mean..."

"Exactly. It's time to settle accounts with the Pan Lineage. A grudge made today gets repaid today. Kill the chicken to warn the monkeys."

Li Xiao spoke calmly, then turned into a streak of light and sped toward the Pan Lineage.