Snowflight City.
Bitter cultivation, alchemy...
Before he knew it, another three years had passed.
That day, Li Ping sat in a pavilion, chatting with Xu Guike, who had come to visit.
After becoming Dao companions with Lin Yue three years earlier, Xu Guike had stayed in the city to cultivate instead of going out to hunt demon beasts.
He was a sword cultivator with astonishing combat strength and a formidable reputation among Snowflight City's cultivators.
Li Ping knew that he was only at the foundation establishment middle stage.
Yet during the Ice Sea beast tide, he had seized the opportunity presented by the demon beasts leaving the Ice Sea to kill several late second-tier demon beasts, accumulating ample cultivation resources.
He intended to rely on those resources to cultivate in the city until he reached the foundation establishment late stage before considering anything else.
This made Li Ping marvel at the strength of his aptitude.
After all, as far as he knew, Xu Guike was only in his early seventies.
To be so young and already close to breaking through to the foundation establishment late stage-his cultivation speed was only slightly inferior to Xiao Yunzhi's.
His aptitude had to be either a heavenly spiritual root or a variant spiritual root.
Li Ping thought a heavenly spiritual root was more likely. Cultivators with variant spiritual roots did not cultivate that quickly.
Xu Guike clearly had exceptional qualities to have been accepted as a disciple by a core formation cultivator.
But spirit root aptitude was a cultivator's private secret. Unless someone was close to them, they would not disclose it. Thus, although Li Ping speculated inwardly, he did not ask.
He did not know that Xu Guike actually possessed the worst possible five-spirit root aptitude. However, he had the special constitution known