Master looked disdainful.
I smiled instead. "Master, you worked hard this time too. Later, I'll see if I can get Uncle Yu to get you some bait."
Master's eyes lit up. "That'd be great! Make sure you explain it properly to that idiot Yu Long and have him get me more.
That meter-class fish in my spot is way too picky about food. Otherwise, I'd have hooked it ages ago."
"Alright, I'll talk to Uncle Yu when I get the chance."
"..."
Master was very satisfied and nodded at me.
Seeing that Master was in a better mood, I changed the subject. "Master, I really didn't expect your cultivation to be so high—and for you to break through so quickly. I feel that in a few years, you'll reach the Three Souls Realm, maybe even surpass Grandmaster!"
At present, Master indeed seemed to have that kind of potential.
By my estimation, over the past year or so, Master had gone from the peak of the Strength Soul Realm or the early Vitality Soul Realm all the way to half a step into the Heavenly Surge Realm. That rate of advancement was simply astonishing.
And these were later-stage realms. I had spent so long just breaking through from the Heroic Soul Realm to the Strength Soul Realm.
Master said I had talent, but now that I compared us, I felt that Master was the one with true talent.
Yet Master merely smiled. "Impossible. Reaching this point is already my limit."
"How could it be impossible? In just over a year, you've broken through so many realms.
When we dealt with that red-clothed Water Demon at South Heaven Lake, it was at most around the mid-to-late red-clothed stage, right? At the time, you were at least at the peak of the Strength