Zhao Ziyan looked up at him, her pupils trembling with emotions.
"Chen'er… I…" She gulped her saliva as Max waited, feeling anxious. Then she revealed, "I… broke through."
"Oh!" Max exhaled in relief.
"You… Why aren't you surprised?" Zhao Ziyan asked.
Max sat beside her, leaned in and kissed her cheek before saying with a small smile, "Because it's nothing surprising, Mother."
"Why?" Zhao Ziyan asked, perplexed.
How was it not surprising?
She was already in her late forties, about to turn fifty in a few years. By this age, a person's Vital Qi had started weakening which made it almost impossible to progress in their cultivation, of course, unless they were a Sky Ascension realm cultivator as the cultivator of this realm possessed a 500 years lifespan and their Vital Qi was very abundant.
This was why, when Patriarch Gu died, neither she, nor the three Elders were considered to be the potential candidates to be nurtured into a Bone Tempering cultivator.
