From that moment on, Yin Ji gradually earned a measure of trust from the middle-aged steward.
Yin Ji's cultivation also advanced by leaps and bounds. In just three months, he reached the peak of the qi condensation realm.
In the middle-aged steward's eyes, Yin Ji was no longer an ordinary menial servant.
He taught Yin Ji the trick to condensing a martial spring.
And at eleven years old, Yin Ji had already become an Immortal Cultivator in the late stage of the martial spring realm.
To the middle-aged steward, such a speed of cultivation was simply unheard of.
He began to feel a belated dread, fearing that his efforts to nurture Yin Ji might bring about a great calamity.
The middle-aged steward also began to entertain the thought of eliminating Yin Ji.
But he did not make up his mind immediately. He simply continued assigning Yin Ji easy work, such as counting the slaves transported up from the foot of the mountain each day.
That continued until one day, an elder of the Heaven Wave Academy saw Yin Ji counting the slaves.
The elder learned everything about Yin Ji from the middle-aged steward.
The middle-aged steward wanted nothing more than to erase Yin Ji completely, but the elder thought otherwise.
Yin Ji became the academy elder's enforcer.
His main task was to dispose of disobedient slaves.
Yin Ji carried out his assignments flawlessly.
This earned him ever greater trust from the Heaven Wave Academy.
After all, by the time Yin Ji broke through to the qi sea realm at just thirteen years old, more than three hundred cultivators native to the Immortal Origin Land had already died at his hands.
In the eyes of these Immortal Cultivators from beyond the Immortal Origin Land, Yin Ji was one of their own,