The man’s face reddened and paled.
It was hard to tell whether it was in anger, embarrassment, or shame.
A moment later, he turned to murmur something to the people next to him.
Their faces seemed to change instantly, whipping their heads to look at Caspian from a distance.
Their gazes did not look friendly.
Nevertheless, Caspian did not feel scared.
Instead, his head cleared as he squared his shoulders.
‘The men with Joshua are currently in the second stage of the Pulse Control Realm.
In that case, the members of the Dark Moon Sect should be here by now, which means Jessica should be in the spiritual palace by now as well.’
At the thought, Caspian’s heart thudded with excitement.
Just then, he noticed Joshua and the other Dark Moon Sect members with him heading his way.
“Casper Montgomery.” As a practitioner of the Dark Moon Sect in the third stage of the Pulse Control Realm, Joshua did not need to fear someone of the second stage of the Pulse Control Realm like Caspian.
That would not only be shameful for Joshua but also the Dark Moon Sect.
It was then that shock struck Joshua.
Caspian was only in the first stage of the Pulse Control Realm the last time they saw each other a year ago.
How did he already graduate to the second stage so quickly?
The accelerated jump seemed to have only taken around fourteen to fifteen months.
Joshua could hardly believe it.
Upon giving it a bit more thought, Joshua was able to deduce that the only reason it was possible had to do with his Purple Dragon King Ginseng.
Joshua ground his teeth together in fury at the thought, eyes darkening.
A member of the honored Dark Moon Sect, bamboozled by a mere apprentice disciple of the Heavenly Stars Sect.
The incident happened over a year ago but still left a bad taste in Joshua’s mouth.
It haunted him to no end.
That caused his advancement to be delayed, leaving him still in the third stage of the Pulse Control Realm.
Standing before Caspian now, Joshua planned to berate him in front of his disciples, just for the sake of his pride.
“Can’t believe I’m seeing you here.” Joshua did his best to straighten his body, trying to stare down at Caspian.
It was a shame, then, that Caspian grew quite a bit taller in the past year as well.
He surpassed Joshua in height, causing Joshua to have to tilt his head upwards to look at him.
“Warmest of greetings, Senior Joshua!”
“Don’t you use your false niceties on me, Casper, I’m not falling for them for a single second.
I see you’re here to take part in the official religion election as well.
Fortune surely favors the undeserving, I can’t believe you were qualified.” Joshua smirked coldly at Caspian, his eyes filled with condescension.
Caspian did not look bothered at all, a smile still ever-present on his face.
What he said next, however, made Joshua’s expression darken.
“Ah, you’re right.
It’s all thanks to that century-old Purple Dragon King Ginseng of yours that I’m able to even be here!”
Joshua was silent.
His face began to redden slowly.
Caspian seemed completely oblivious.
He rambled on, “Man, I was knocked up real bad and I wasn’t healing at all, on top of only being in the first stage of the Pulse Control Realm.
I thought I’d lost all hope of taking part in the official religion election, along with all hope of even trying to make it in my spiritual journey.
You helped me out by appearing then, Senior Joshua.
With such generosity to, gifting me an entire Purple Dragon King Ginseng.”
Joshua’s face flushed an even uglier shade of red.
He started, “A man as great as I…”
Caspian nodded vigorously, continuing almost immediately without giving him a chance to retaliate.
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