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Jennifer felt a flash of irritation and anger, but she quickly pushed the emotion back down. 

“General Yount, I know you’re proud and set your sights high. But breaking through to the Heavenly Realm isn’t such a simple matter, and the Leonards can offer you the greatest help of all.” 

“No need.” Skyler refused without a second thought. “A mere Heavenly Realm? I can break through with a snap of my fingers. I hardly need help from the Leonards.” 

When it came to cultivation, Skyler had no bottlenecks whatsoever. 

On top of that, the webs of interest among the great families were far too tangled, and the moment he got tied up with the Leonards in any way, he’d inevitably be dragged into all sorts of grudges and feuds down the line. 

Skyler had zero interest in cleaning up that kind of mess for the Leonards. 

Unwilling to give up, Jennifer wanted to try to talk him around once more. 

But before she could even open her mouth, Skyler showed her the door. “All right, you can go 

now.” 

Jennifer felt she was getting a raw deal, yet she didn’t dare go against Skyler’s wishes. 

She could only cast Skyler a plaintive glance and say respectfully, “I’ll take my leave then.” 

With that, Jennifer withdrew, deferential to the very last. 

At almost that very moment, Teagan happened to come back, and the instant she saw Jennifer stepping out of her house, her pupils contracted sharply. 

“It’s her! What’s she doing at my house?” Teagan couldn’t make heads or tails of it. 

Jennifer was the eldest daughter of the Leonards of Imperia, while the Webbs were nothing more than an ordinary family. 

Even though her father, Dominic, was the commandant of the Riverspire Garrison, there was no way he’d ever be worth the notice of the Leonards of Imperia. 

But if Jennifer hadn’t come for her father, then what had she come for? 

Could it be… An unbelievable thought suddenly sprang up in Teagan’s mind. Could it be Skyler? 

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Aside from their own family, Skyler was the only outsider in the house. 

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And with something going on at the garrison today, her father had left early, while she and her mother had both gone to the Yount Residence, leaving Skyler alone in the house. 

The more Teagan thought about it, the more possible it seemed. 

But what had Skyler ever done to deserve having Jennifer show up at his door of her own accord? 

No, she had to go find Skyler and get to the bottom of this! 

Walking into the house, sure enough she saw Skyler just about to head upstairs, and Teagan quickly called out to stop him. “Hey, Skyler.” 

“Something up?” Skyler’s steps paused, and he shot Teagan a sidelong glance. 

“Let me ask you, was that Jennifer just now here to see you?” Teagan asked. 

Skyler turned back and gave Teagan a puzzled look. “Yeah. Is there a problem?” 

Teagan was just about ready to lose it. Does he have any idea who that woman is? 

She’s the trueborn daughter of the Leonards of Imperia, of exceedingly noble standing, and even Connor, the commander-in-chief of Southmere’s Demon Suppression Division, has to be utterly deferential in front of her. 

Someone like that sought him out on her own, and he actually had the nerve to ask if there was a problem? Everything about it screams trouble, all right? 

Taking a deep breath, Teagan pushed down the storm raging inside her and asked out of curiosity, “How do you even know Ms. Leonard?” 

Though Skyler wasn’t a good-for-nothing, the gap between him and the Leonards of Imperia was simply far too wide, and he didn’t even have the standing to so much as come into contact with one of their members. 

Skyler shook his head. “I don’t know Jennifer. I’ve never met her before either.” 

Teagan was slightly taken aback, but that actually made perfect sense. 

Still, if he didn’t know her, then what had Jennifer come to see him for? 

But Skyler’s next words nearly made Teagan choke. 

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“It’s just that the girl was desperate to marry me, and since I’m not interested in her, I sent her on her way.” 

Teagan rolled her eyes hard. “Skyler, if you don’t want to tell me, then don’t, but can you please stop treating me like an idiot?” 

As if someone like Skyler could have the esteemed eldest daughter of the Leonards of Imperia begging to marry him? Just how handsome did he think he was, or how gifted? 

Besides, if Jennifer really had done such a thing, Skyler would probably have been over the moon with gratitude and agreed on the spot, so how could he possibly have turned her down? 

Skyler felt helpless, because how was it that when he told the truth, no one ever believed him? 

But he couldn’t be bothered to explain to Teagan, and simply went back to his room to keep cultivating. 

Teagan stamped her foot in anger, because this guy wasn’t the least bit honest. 

“Huh, wait a second!” Only now did it belatedly dawn on Teagan that something seemed off about Skyler’s cultivation. 

“That feels like… the aura of the Innate Realm. Skyler actually broke through to the Innate Realm?” 

Just the day before, Skyler had only been at the sixth stage of the Postnatal Realm, and later, during the mock exam, he’d climbed a full stage with every step he took-one minor stage with every step-rocketing to the ninth stage of the Postnatal Realm in a single breath and stunning the entire hall. 

Even if Skyler had deliberately concealed his cultivation and had been at the ninth stage of the Postnatal Realm all along, only a single day had passed, so how had he already broken through to the first stage of the Innate Realm? 

What kind of monstrous cultivation speed was that? 

“Maybe it’s the effect of that drop of Dragon Essence diluted ten thousand times,” Teagan guessed. 

At the same time, she recalled the top-grade Dragon Essence that Jennifer had given Connor that day, a drop that hadn’t been diluted in the slightest. 

Given how Connor doted on his son, he’d surely use every last bit of that top-grade Dragon Essence on Seamus. 

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If that was the case, then by the time the martial SAT came around, Skyler would probably really end up overtaken by Seamus, and crushed at that. 

“I just wonder where Jennifer ended up delivering that Saint Realm spear,” Teagan mused, a little curious. 

A Saint Realm spear was countless times more precious than Dragon Essence, and there was no telling just what sort of extraordinary figure would be worthy of receiving it. 

Naturally, Teagan had no idea that the spear was now in Skyler’s hands. 

Nor did she know that Skyler hadn’t even taken the Dragon Essence yet. 

At this moment, back in his room, he finally swallowed the Dragon Essence Raymond had given him in one gulp, and at the same time the Ninefold Genesis Art began circulating at full power. 

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