A Passionate Jiang Wen

[In the first year, your martial skill Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow advanced to Initial Mastery, and your martial skill Great Compassion Palm was successfully learned.]

[In the same year, your relationship with Jiang Wen heated up rapidly. Though you did not spend much time together, you treated her extremely well. With over a thousand years of experience living together, your care for her was meticulous in every detail.

Liu Rusi and Jiang Changtian saw your behavior and could tell that you truly liked Jiang Wen. What they could not understand was how a little brat not even ten years old knew how to flirt with girls.

Setting aside your age, however, your bone structure, talent, and every other aspect were exceptionally outstanding. At such a young age, you already possessed Essence Gathering Realm cultivation, Earth Grade bone structure, and a Special Physique. When Jiang Changtian learned this, he thought for a moment that it was some sort of trap waiting for him to jump into.

Yet he had not expected it to truly be a pie falling from the heavens. Worried that Jiang Changtian would be overly suspicious, you did not display excessively monstrous intelligence. You occasionally acted a little simple-minded, without making Jiang Changtian dislike you.

After all, not only had you spent a long time with Jiang Wen, you even knew what kind of underwear Jiang Changtian liked to wear. Once you understood someone's temperament, many things naturally fell into place. In just one short year, you established preliminary trust with the people of the Snow Mountain Sect.]

[In the second year, your martial skill Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow advanced to Initial Proficiency, while your martial skill Great Compassion Palm reached Initial Mastery proficiency.]

[In the same year, as Jiang Changtian came to understand you better, his trust in you deepened further. You and Jiang Wen became engaged. This time, you would no longer wait until you came of age; you would marry on the day Jiang Wen became an adult.

At the same time, in order to protect you, Jiang Changtian had friendly exchanges with the few other members of the Snow Mountain Sect who knew your true age. He made them all swear Martial Oaths not to reveal your real age, while publicly claiming that you were several hundred years old.

That year, due to a shortage of funds, you plundered the Secret Realms near Yicheng City that you remembered could be explored at the Essence Gathering Realm. After obtaining this sum of money, your shortage of cultivation resources was initially relieved.

There was no helping it. After all, relying on the little money earned from painting to support yourself was hardly feasible now. Fortunately, you had long prepared for this day, investigating the Ordinary Secret Realms nearby that were about to open and gathering every scrap of information about them. Although others had been quite puzzled at the time, with your powerful strength, you had no need to explain anything to them. The predecessors planted trees; now you sat beneath their shade. That was the principle.]

[In the third year, your realm advanced to the Essence Gathering Realm Middle Stage, and you painted another Mortal Grade High Rank artwork.]

[In the same year, Jiang Wen liked you very much. The girl was already fourteen and gradually came to understand certain matters between men and women. She repeatedly told Liu Rusi that she wanted to marry you as soon as possible, afraid that someone else would steal you away because you were too outstanding. Liu Rusi gave her several days of ideological guidance over this matter.]

[In the same year, although you noticed that Jiang Wen had lately been constantly touching you here and there, you knew that you were still too young and that some things could not be done too early. You suppressed the stirrings in your heart and consoled Jiang Wen as well.

In truth, although you knew much about Jiang Wen, it had all been like scenes in a movie. You had never truly experienced real interaction with her, and you also looked forward to the day you married her.]

[In the fourth year, your martial skill Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow comprehended Minor Accomplishment intent, and its proficiency advanced to Perfected Mastery. Your martial skill Great Compassion Palm advanced to Initial Proficiency. Your strength increased greatly, and before long, you painted your first Yellow Grade Low-Rank artwork.]

[In the sixth year, your Profound Grade High Rank martial skill Great Compassion Palm comprehended Minor Accomplishment intent, and its proficiency advanced to Perfected Mastery. Your strength increased by several tenths once again.]

[In the seventh year, your realm advanced to the Essence Gathering Realm Late Stage, and your martial skill Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow advanced to the Consummation Realm of Perfected Mastery.]

[In the same year, your friend Ye Mingyue married Lin Miao once again. Just as before, he invited you to attend their wedding. To avoid becoming a godfather, you still brought Jiang Wen along. As you had expected, perhaps because you already had a fiancée this time, Ye Mingyue did not mention having his future child acknowledge you as godfather.

With everyone happy, you drank heartily with Ye Mingyue, whom you had not seen in a long time. The two of you drank to your hearts' content, but you did not get drunk this time.]

[In the same year, not long after attending the wedding, Jiang Wen turned eighteen. On the day after her coming-of-age ceremony, you married Jiang Wen. At the same time, Jiang Wen received a Minor Nirvana Pill from Jiang Changtian, raising her bone structure to Profound Grade High Rank. Because your bone structure was too high, the Minor Nirvana Pill was useless to you. Perhaps only a true Nirvana Pill might be of use to you. You began looking forward to entering the Inheritance Secret Realm again, but you knew in your heart that Jiang Changtian would not bring up this matter before your strength reached the required level. Therefore, you had to cultivate Great Accomplishment intent before breaking through to the Earth Origin Realm.]

[In the eighth year, after spending a great deal of time cultivating martial skills, your Yellow Grade High Rank martial skill Mountain Shaking Fist finally comprehended Great Accomplishment intent and advanced to Peak Attainment. Your strength increased enormously.]

[In the same year, Jiang Changtian came to find you again and told you about the Inheritance Secret Realm. You pretended not to know about it, but still asked him to wait for some time.

You had a premonition that Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow had a chance of comprehending Great Accomplishment intent before you broke through to the Earth Origin Realm. That way, you might be able to test the Eighth Layer of the Inheritance Secret Realm. You knew that if only Mountain Shaking Fist broke through, this trip to the Inheritance Secret Realm might be even worse than the last one. You might not even be able to defeat the sixth layer, so it would be better to accumulate more strength.

Although you did not tell Jiang Changtian the real reason, he was willing to wait for you.]

[In the tenth year, your martial skill Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow comprehended Great Accomplishment intent, and its proficiency advanced to Peak Attainment.]

[In the same year, Jiang Changtian came to find you again. This time, you did not refuse and followed him to the Inheritance Secret Realm.

This time, you possessed a Profound Grade High Rank martial skill that had comprehended Great Accomplishment intent. You finally surpassed your previous limit and defeated the Demonic Beast on the Eighth Layer. In truth, you knew that you had a chance to clear the ninth layer, but you did not continue onward to the higher layer.

Judging by the increase in difficulty of the previous layers, you should have been able to pass the ninth layer without incident. But what if something unexpected happened? Without absolute certainty, you would not do such a thing again.]