Pei Xuanjing ended his closed-door training, descended Shenxiao Mountain with Pang Hong, and found a tavern in a city at the foot of the mountain.
The master-disciple duo sat in a private room of the tavern, where Pei Xuanjing ate whilst answering Pang Hong's questions about martial arts cultivation.
Back on Taihe Mountain, after being guided by Taoist Qingxu Zi, Pang Hong had already broken into the Seventh Grade Realm.
After more than two years of intense cultivation, he had honed his physical body to its peak half a year ago and could have attempted to break into the Sixth Grade Martial Artist's realm.
From following Pei Xuanjing at the Martial Academy to now, when Pei Xuanjing is twenty-nine, Pang Hong is almost twenty.
Being a peak Seventh Grade Martial Artist at the age of twenty, with Pang Hong's average abilities, is already surprising in the entire world of martial artists in the Great Ming.