[That same year, you often studied under your master Liu Rusi alongside her granddaughter, Jiang Wen. Because you were close in age and possessed rather striking looks, Jiang Wen thought highly of you.]
[In the third year, your cultivation broke through to the Initial Organ Refining Realm. You were already able to paint Mortal Grade High-Rank paintings. Your Mysterious Grade martial skill, Thousand Mountain Snow, advanced to Initial Mastery. You comprehended Minor Mountain Shaking Fist Intent, and your Mountain Shaking Fist advanced to Perfected Mastery.]
[That same year, after two years spent with Jiang Wen, the two of you went from barely speaking and merely following Liu Rusi in cultivation to Jiang Wen gradually seeking you out to play whenever she was not cultivating. Because you knew clearly what you needed to do this time, you treated Jiang Wen very well. Because of you, Jiang Wen looked down on the other boys her age in the sect, believing them to be less mature and less graceful than you. The main reason was that you were better-looking. Jiang Wen was three years older than you, and this year she was already fourteen—the very age when a girl began to entertain romantic thoughts.]
[In the fourth year, you comprehended Minor Accomplishment Mayfly Blade Intent, and your martial skill Mayfly Step Slash advanced to the Perfected Mastery Realm. Your Mysterious Grade martial skill Thousand Mountain Snow advanced to Initial Proficiency.]
[That same year, the Snow Mountain Sect held its disciple competition. Among disciples of the same generation in the Snow Mountain Sect, no one could withstand a single exchange against you. You became the Snow Mountain Sect's current Senior Disciple Brother. At the same time, the way Jiang Wen looked at you grew increasingly strange. The two of you could be considered childhood sweethearts who had grown up together, and you had also spent the longest time together within the sect. Jiang Wen's feelings for you were discovered by Liu Rusi. After discussing it with Jiang Wen's parents, she decided to arrange an engagement between the two of you.]
[You did not refuse your master Liu Rusi's decision. In the end, the date of your wedding with Jiang Wen was set for the day you came of age.]
[In the seventh year, your cultivation advanced to the Late Stage Organ Refining Realm. You comprehended Minor Accomplishment Thousand Mountain Blade Intent, and your martial skill Thousand Mountain Snow advanced to the Perfected Mastery Realm. You were already able to paint your first Yellow Grade Low-Rank painting.]
[That same year, your friends Ye Mingyue and Lin Miao married and invited you to attend. You brought Jiang Wen along. Since you already had a wife by then, Ye Mingyue could no longer ask his future child to acknowledge you as their godfather. You had rarely met over the past few years, and when you reunited this time, the two of you drank to your hearts' content. You got drunk this time, and Jiang Wen was the one who ultimately brought you back to the Snow Mountain Sect.]
[In the tenth year, your cultivation broke through to the Initial Essence Gathering Realm. Your martial skills Mountain Shaking Fist and Mayfly Step Slash advanced to the Perfection Realm of Perfected Mastery, while Thousand Mountain Snow advanced to the Peak Mastery Realm.]
[That same year, you and Jiang Wen consummated your marriage. After enduring for many years, Jiang Wen finally had you that night. On the night of the wedding, Snow Mountain Sect Grand Elder Jiang Changtian gave both you and Jiang Wen an Earth Grade Low-Rank three-stripe Treasure Pill. Jiang Changtian had commissioned the pills in his early years; there had been five in a single batch, and they were called Minor Nirvana Treasure Pills. They could improve one's Bone Structure and were exceedingly precious. Even in Yicheng City, they were treasures with a price but no market.]
[After taking the Minor Nirvana Treasure Pill, your Bone Structure rose to Mysterious Grade Middle Rank, while your wife Jiang Wen's Bone Structure rose to Profound Grade High Rank.]
[In the fourteenth year, your wife Jiang Wen bore you a son and a daughter. Both children possessed extraordinary talent, and both had Profound Grade High-Rank Bone Structures. Jiang Changtian was overjoyed upon hearing the news. He hoped that one of the children could take the Jiang surname, and you had no objection.]
[In the seventeenth year, your cultivation advanced to the Middle Stage Essence Gathering Realm, and you painted your first Yellow Grade Middle Rank painting.]
[That same year, you felt that your funds for purchasing pills were no longer sufficient. Because your cultivation had advanced too quickly this time, the paintings you sold could barely sustain your pill purchases for cultivation. You began considering leaving to explore and gather resources. With memories spanning more than five hundred years, you knew clearly which places held treasured lands and Secret Realms. It was time to seize all those resources, but your two children were still too young, and you could not set your mind at ease. You intended to reconsider after they had grown a little older.]
[In the twenty-fifth year, your cultivation advanced to the Late Stage Essence Gathering Realm, and your martial skill Thousand Mountain Snow had reached the Perfection Realm of Perfected Mastery.]
[That same year, as your funds became increasingly insufficient, you first claimed the resources from several nearby minor Secret Realms that were easy to access, relieving your pressing need.]
[In the thirtieth year, although your son and daughter were only sixteen, they had already displayed talent far surpassing that of others their age. Deeply favored by the Snow Mountain Sect's Grand Elder, the two children had become the Snow Mountain Sect's Great Devil Kings.]
[That same year, you comprehended Great Accomplishment Mayfly Blade Intent, and your Yellow Grade Middle Rank martial skill Mayfly Step Slash advanced to the realm of Peak Attainment. At the moment of your breakthrough, you discovered Jiang Changtian standing beside you, guarding you. From his expression, you could tell that he was extremely astonished. After you completed your breakthrough, Jiang Changtian pulled you into an all-night conversation. He wanted to take you somewhere. If you could emerge alive from that place, you would have a chance to break through to a realm above the Void God Realm—the Spirit Condensation Realm, or even higher.]
[However, the place of inheritance was extremely dangerous. For ordinary people, going there meant nine chances of death for every one chance of survival. That was why he had not told you before. He did not want his granddaughter to become a widow so early, and you were also someone he had watched grow up. He had long regarded you as half his own child.]
[Jiang Changtian stated frankly that, with your current strength, you had a fifty percent chance of leaving that place alive. He did not force you to go, merely asked you about it. Facing Jiang Changtian's words, you knew he would not harm you, and asked whether you could wait for some time.]
[In the end, you received definite news: the Inheritance Secret Realm would close in another fifteen years, and once it closed, it would take one thousand years to open again. This Inheritance Secret Realm not only had cultivation restrictions, but age restrictions as well. Only those under fifty who had not broken through to the Earth Origin Realm could undergo the trial.]
[When Jiang Changtian learned that you were confident you could master another Great Accomplishment Realm within three years, he was left speechless. Soon afterward, he took an Earth Grade Low-Rank treasure blade from the treasury and handed it to you. Three Inscriptions were engraved upon the blade. He hoped it could help you during the trial, then left, saying that he would return after you mastered Great Accomplishment Mountain Shaking Fist Intent.]
[In the thirty-second year, you comprehended Great Accomplishment Mountain Shaking Fist Intent, and your Yellow Grade High-Rank martial skill Mountain Shaking Fist advanced to the realm of Peak Attainment.]