He Pingsheng walked up to the counter in front.
Xiao He jumped in fright. "Master, have you risen from the dead...? How did you come out of seclusion without making a sound?"
He Pingsheng frowned deeply. "You..."
"You're already at the Golden Core Stage?"
"When did you form your core?"
"Why didn't you tell me?"
He Pingsheng could barely wrap his head around it.
He usually neglected to check on his disciple, but hadn't Xiao He been at the Qi Refining Stage just a moment ago?
How had she reached the Golden Core Stage in the blink of an eye?
It made no sense!
He Pingsheng hurriedly turned it over in his mind. He had spent quite a lot of time in seclusion lately. Since leaving the Five Dragon Ravine Secret Realm alone, he had gone into seclusion three times, for a total of twenty-five years.
"Master... do you even know how old I am this year?" Xiao He looked at He Pingsheng, her lips pursed in displeasure.
He Pingsheng frowned. "How old? Wait... let your master work it out..."
"Don't bother!" Xiao He said. "I was seventeen the year you cured my illness. Forty years have passed since then. Your precious disciple is only three years away from sixty!"
"I'm a cultivator with a single spirit root, blessed with extraordinary talent, and you've given me all these pills. Isn't it perfectly normal for me to reach the Golden Core Stage?"
With his disciple laying into him right to his face, He Pingsheng wore a bitter expression. "Perfectly normal, perfectly normal..."
The course of Xiao He's breakthrough also became clear in He Pingsheng's mind.
After his time in the Five Dragon Ravine Secret Realm, he had obtained two [Blood-Jade Purple-Skinned Jujubes]. He had swallowed one himself and enhanced the other