For the past three days, Earth Elder had not been on the mountaintop. He also lacked Jiang Wu's innate ability of Observing Qi, which allowed one to peer through the body and directly perceive a creature's bio-magnetic field. Therefore, he had no idea of the true extent of Zhao Xuanqi's progress.
Even though he knew Zhao Xuanqi's strength was improving rapidly, he found it hard to believe it could be *this* fast.
There's a saying that you should see a person in a new light after just three days of absence, but Zhao Xuanqi's transformation in that time went far beyond that.
It was... as if he had broken some kind of restraint and been completely, thoroughly reborn.
