Earlyiest

If he was an adult then why would he not be able to take the loss with grace and give a simple handshake, even if fake? Since he can't even stomach the thought of successful people's congratulations then he's just a man child that everyone in the real world would hate to associate with.

In the great words of someone. Tides rise and fall but the ocean will always be present.

No staying silent is condoning it

So if he wasn't op he would've responded with more aggressive actions, interesting 🤔.

I mean we see these people all over today as well in the form of Karens.

Ah here it is. The person who courts death has arrived to raise the MC to prominence.

Didn't he just scan with divine sense the entirety of a cultivation continent? And cultivation continents are a lot bigger than our own. So the amount of information he took in right there from the secret clans hidden ruins should have been way more than a little group of people with miscellaneous information.

Not even that, there's also the fact that he was just absorbing enough Qi from the atmosphere to casually advance to the Tribulation stage and there's no distribuance in the Qi. So unless he's not sucking the Qi out of the world to advance himself then how did this go unnoticed?

I hope not but knowing Chinese books this might be the only path.

Agree