With Sun Wen and the others gone, the Mountains and Seas Realm fell quiet again.
Yu Sheng also picked up the pace of his cultivation again, and in a particularly extravagant way.
He paid a hefty sum to hire an array master to come to his home and inscribe an array that gathered and trapped spiritual energy. Then he took out Demon Crystals one after another and smashed them in the room, letting the energy within spread out and fill the entire room.
Once he had done all this, Yu Sheng sat where the energy was densest, set the egg beside him, and clutched two Demon Crystals from sixth-level Demon Beasts as he began cultivating, going full throttle and absorbing the energy in the room like mad.
Whenever the energy was about to run out, he repeated the process.
Even the egg "benefited," soaking up plenty of energy and rocking happily without stopping.
The few cracks that had reappeared on its shell healed again as a result, silently proving how effective the energy was!
If Yu Sheng had been like the warmth of winter nearing its end and all things coming back to life as graduation approached, now he seemed to have frozen everything over again.
Or rather, everything he had done before had been for that photograph at the Graduation Ceremony, and nothing more.
Now that life was back on track, Yu Sheng regained his calm. His eyes were as still as an ancient well. He did not exactly seem unapproachable, but "I don't want to talk" was still written all over his face.
Life seemed a little dull.
Cooking, feeding the cheetahs, cultivating, rubbing the egg, sleeping...
It was always the same tasks, yet Yu Sheng seemed to enjoy them.
Over the next few months, the Gold Ingot