One month...
Three months...
Five months...
"I want to go home!"
More than once, Wang Quan had wanted to make a run for it.
But Ying Jiaren was delighted after linking Bitter Cold City to its corresponding Underworld and obtaining level-seven authority over the Far Northern Land, so she kept dragging Wang Quan along to celebrate and repay him.
At first, Wang Quan enjoyed it.
But as time went on, he found it a little hard to endure. "Jiaren, I've been in the Far Northern Land for over a year."
"If I stay here much longer, everyone else will think I married into your family."
Ying Jiaren blinked. "Enough of that. Just tell me whether your Daoist Scriptures have improved."
Wang Quan nodded. "They have, but Beautiful Lady Yu is becoming less and less effective."
"At this rate, I'd be better off digging out a few more brains and hanging them up."
Ying Jiaren said, "Heh, you used to pester me to practice Beautiful Lady Yu."
"Now I'm repaying you, and you're resisting?"
Wang Quan...
"Fine. If you don't care, neither do I."
"Come on, let's cultivate!"
One year...
Two years...
Three years...
Wang Quan did not return to the Far Western Land, and Ying Jiaren paid no attention to how the other cities in the Far Northern Land were progressing with linking to the Underworld.
Day and night, without stopping, the two practiced Beautiful Lady Yu for three full years.
Over those three years, relying on their three great foundations-[Inverted Wisdom], [External Brain], and [Beautiful Lady Yu]-they forcibly advanced their progress in the Daoist Scriptures to over forty-two thousand volumes.
That pace was actually quite fast.
Without the support of those three great foundations, they would have been doing well to learn three volumes in those three years.
But