(Heart of Sanfe City, Su Pei's POV)
There was a time, long ago, when the name Su Pei had meant something.
Back when he and the current patriarch of the Su Clan, Su Tang had both been freshers at the Rodova Military Academy, it was Su Pei who had drawn all the attention, all the whispers, and all the envy, as instructors labelled him the next great prodigy of the Su Clan, a man destined not just to rise, but to dominate.
His combat scores had outclassed every student in his batch, while his mana cultivation rate had broken long-standing records that even the professors privately acknowledged might never be broken for at least a couple more decades.
He reached the Transcendent Tier by the age of twenty-seven, a full year ahead of Su Tang, and by the time he stepped into the Monarch Realm at fifty, the gap between them had only grown wider, as Su Tang still lagged behind, struggling to keep pace.
