Jiang Hao and Zheng Shijiu had known each other for a long time. They had known each other from when Jiang Hao was nineteen.
Back then, Senior Brother Zheng was in the late stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm.
Twenty years later, he had made it to the early stage of the Golden Core Realm. He was, in fact, at the brink of the middle stage.
At that time, Jiang Hao had been in the early stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm too. He had made it to the middle stage of the Immortal Ascension Platform.
'Unknowingly, I came this far…' Jiang Hao felt like twenty years ago had been just yesterday.
"Twenty years ago, when we first met, you were only at the early stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm. Now you're already in the late stage of the Golden Core Realm! You've surpassed me by a lot," said Zheng Shijiu. "At that time, I never expected that you'd progress this much."
"I was just lucky," Jiang Hao said modestly.