After chatting with his senior sister for a while longer, Xu Xing put away his phone and stood up.
Then he walked to the little garden in the backyard and looked up.
In his perception, purple, eerie threads wound around the Secret Realm that blotted out the sky.
"I suppose... that old thing saw it too."
That was exactly what he wanted.
If not for that, he wouldn't have needed to move the Secret Realm to the edge of reality.
He withdrew his gaze and looked in another direction.
There, in the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall building, Zhang Yunlu had completed the third stage of the Harvesting and Refining Method.
"Not bad."
At this rate, she wasn't progressing slowly at all. If he really tallied it up, he hadn't given her much.
Just a sword technique, a Trial Space where she could fight people again and again, and a copy of the Harvesting and Refining Method.
The sword technique was only average, the Trial Space wasn't hers alone, and the Harvesting and Refining Method wasn't anything special.
Without the ability to back it up, even the best cultivation method was useless.
If he were the old grandfather mentoring one of those protagonists, he'd have to admit he wasn't doing a very good job.
But cultivation had always been like this. In the end, the most important thing was always oneself.
"Let's see how things go from here."
Zhang Yunlu's Heaven-Forged Dao Foundation was within easy reach, but advancing further wouldn't be so simple.
And Xiao Fan... would soon reach the third stage.
Xu Xing sat down in a reclining chair. The Little Yellow Duck Chi Jiuyu had given him appeared in his hand.
He gave it a gentle shake.
"She really does know how to come up with things."