"Good! Excellent!"
Steward Zhang shouted his praise, the delight in his eyes impossible to hide.
He had already examined Yao Santu's body with his divine sense. The qi reservoir at his dantian was undeniably real.
He was now a genuine First Level of Qi Gathering cultivator, meeting the standard to enter the Secret Realm!
The two young helpers could not hide their excitement either.
"Wonderful! Brother Santu did it!"
"Yeah! Never give up! Fight with everything you have until the very last moment! We'll have to work twice as hard from now on too!"
Compared to the joy of those three, the other onlookers wore expressions of far greater shock and confusion.
Yao Santu, whose aptitude had been so abysmal that the sect had nearly driven him down the mountain, had actually broken through from the Tenth Qi Meridian stage to Qi Gathering within a single year.
No matter how they racked their brains, they could not understand it. No resources, no talent, and a fortuitous encounter was even more impossible.
As a registered disciple of the Hundred Artifacts Tower, who did not know that Yao Santu spent every day traveling between two points, without even a chance to leave? Where could he possibly have found an opportunity?
Could that opportunity have grown wings and flown over to find him?
Thus, after turning the matter over and over in their minds, everyone's thoughts ultimately settled on Yao Santu himself.
The only explanation for his present achievement seemed to be that ten years of unwavering diligence had finally brought about this moment of accumulated strength bursting forth.
Steward Zhang wrote Yao Santu's name into the register, then changed him into a clean set of clothes.
"Thank you, Master Zhang, I..."
"Whatever it is, talk about it after you come out. Entering