Fierce and Ruthless

"He's a good child too?"

Tu Shan Jun looked at Granny Qing with a half-smile as she leaned on her long staff.

Calling him a child was perfectly ordinary. Though Tu Shan Jun spent most of his time cultivating, in terms of age, he was by far the eldest among everyone present.

Yet he had never had a particularly keen sense of time's passage. Sometimes, merely researching and developing a single technique took ten or twenty years—already half a commoner's lifetime.

Yet he remained the same.

Sometimes, as long as one never saw oneself grow old, one never acquired the air of old age.

Granny Qing shook her head and said, "You should have come to find this old woman first."

But since matters had already come to this, she could hardly blame the tall cultivator in the black robes.

As she spoke, a trace of surprise flashed through her eyes.

She remembered that when she had last seen Tu Shan Jun, he had merely been a Qi Refiner with extraordinary methods.

Now that she looked again, where was there any trace of a Qi Refiner's aura? He clearly possessed the spiritual aura of Foundation Establishment.

Could a cultivator break through to Foundation Establishment in merely a few days?

They could.

But it should not have happened so quietly.

Granny Qing gave Tu Shan Jun a long, searching look. She had originally found him rather mysterious, fearing he carried no small secret. Looking again, even his cultivation had become unfathomably deep.

At first, even she had believed the Qi Refiner was truly only at the Qi Refinement stage. Who would have thought that he had concealed his cultivation?

Even she had failed to see through it.

Just as with his former Qi Refiner body, this Foundation Establishment soul-splitting incarnation still