'He actually... really broke through? An Astral Force master this young?!'
Her red lips parted slightly, but for a moment, she was speechless.
Tan Yang's gaze was locked on Chen Qing, the tempest raging in his heart no less than anyone else's.
His mind couldn't help but flash back to when he'd first seen Chen Qing's name on the cross-review list.
'Chen Qing?'
'How long has it been?'
'He'd actually broken through the Astral Force bottleneck that had stumped countless geniuses, and now stood on equal footing with old-timers like them who had cultivated for decades?'
Peng Zhen, the Dean of the Kun Earth Institute, first widened his eyes in utter disbelief. That disbelief quickly morphed into an extremely complex mix of emotions, finally settling into an expression of unconcealable awe.
He subconsciously glanced at Hong Yuandong, the Dean of the Li Fire Institute, beside him, only to find the man wearing the exact same "seen-a-ghost" expression.
