Fixing Zhao Shanling with a baffled look, Nie Tian said, “I was going to ask you the same thing.”

Immediately after that, he added, looking even more baffled and surprised, “What? How come you’ve made such rapid advances in your cultivation? Last time I saw you, you were still at the early Saint domain. Now, you’re well into the middle Saint domain, and only a step away from entering the late Saint domain!”

Unlike him and Pei Qiqi, Zhao Shanling wasn’t a hybrid.

And unlike Dong Li, he hadn’t encountered heavenly fortunes like the dark stone and the Dark Aureole.

No matter how hard Nie Tian tried, he couldn’t figure out how Zhao Shanling had been able to make a series of breakthroughs in cultivation within such a short time, given the cultivation resources he had access to.

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