Chapter 302 The Real Gap

"I never expected them to send you out," the Nan Family's Honored Instructor said, looking at the Golden Core First Layer Elder before him, as shocked as if a bomb had exploded in his heart.

He recognized the elder before him; he wasn't much older than they were, yet he was the closed-door disciple of the five old fellows, a level higher than his own eight great disciples, the recipient of the five's true teachings.

It seemed that the gap between them and the five was indeed growing wider. Back then, they were all at the Foundation Establishment Third Layer, but now, after so many years, their closed-door disciple had already reached the Golden Core First Layer. Did that not imply that the five's cultivation was even higher?

What they had discovered and speculated about their cultivation was simply not true. They had anticipated that, at most, the five would be at the Golden Core Second Layer, nothing too outlandish.