Ten Years of Summers and Winters

Spring has passed and autumn has come, and ten years have gone by in the blink of an eye. Although Shen Ge's injury has not been healed, his basic skills have become much more solid than before. Not only has he made progress in weapon crafting, but he has also made some progress in talisman and array formation.

This is all thanks to the injury; otherwise, Shen Ge would have been too preoccupied with cultivation to learn these things that require focused concentration.

Shen Ge's cultivation level has now reached the Foundation Establishment Late Stage. No matter how much he cultivates after that, his realm cannot be improved by even a little bit. He can only further compress and solidify his spiritual power.

It can be said that at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage stage, no one can rival him in terms of pure spiritual power.

Furthermore, there was still no news of Huang Tao. He had vanished without a trace, like a drop of water disappearing into the ocean. This left Shen Ge, who wanted to skin him alive, helpless. After all, the Southern Barbarian Lands was so vast that he couldn't possibly lead his men to search every inch of it.

"Master, how have you been lately?" A girl with a slender figure and delicate features, wearing a purple dress, pushed open Shen Ge's door and asked hurriedly.

Shen Ge is no longer a boy. Although he hasn't reached the age of an uncle yet, he looks much more mature and composed than before.

He glanced at Su Sui with a helpless expression, and said with some distress, "This is bad, this teacher is very bad. You always come in without knocking, and you're always making a fuss. How can this teacher be good with such an ill-mannered disciple?"

Faced with Shen Ge's lecture, Su Sui was completely unconvinced, letting it go in one ear and out the other. She quickly sat down on the table, picked up a spiritual fruit, and started eating it.

Although the action was indecent, Shen Ge only glanced at it and didn't say anything.

After finishing a spirit fruit, Su Sui reached out to wipe it on Shen Ge's clothes, but Shen Ge slapped it away.

"What kind of rule is this? Who's the master here, you or me?"

Su Sui playfully stuck out her tongue and said coquettishly, "Master, Su Su was wrong, don't worry about such trivial matters. Su Su brought you a gift this time."

"Even Foundation Establishment Realm can't get into that Clear Spring Secret Realm of the sect, what good stuff could it possibly have?" Shen Ge said dismissively, clearly looking down on those things.

Upon hearing this, Su Sui angrily pointed at Shen Ge and said, "Fine, I kindly brought you some good things back and you're complaining! Whatever, I'm not going to care anymore, I'll just let you fend for yourself."

After saying that, Su Sui turned her head away, looking angry.

After waiting a while, seeing that Su Sui was still the same, Shen Ge said a little awkwardly, "Didn't you say you were going to give me a gift? What, you're not going to give it to me now?"

Su Sui pursed his lips, tossed out a box, and said to himself, "Inside is a Soul-Nourishing Pill. I went through a lot of trouble to get it, and I even owe some favors to others for it."

"Of course, don't overthink it. I'm only after those talismans, Law Artifact, and Spirit Stone you have."

Seeing Su Sui rambling on and on, Shen Ge smiled but didn't expose her. He then raised his hand and put away the Soul-Nourishing Pill.

"Don't go out again after you come back this time. You've already been at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refinement Great Perfection Refining for a year. You've accumulated enough experience and it's time to prepare to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm."

"Then you should go to your Martial Aunt Liuyue's cave abode and go into seclusion there."

Su Sui nodded to indicate that she understood, and then she said, "The sect will be recruiting new disciples soon. I've already taken on some tasks with Senior Sister Nishang. We'll be responsible for teaching them. After that, I'll go into seclusion to break through my current level."

"Everyone else is eager to spend all their time cultivating, striving to make further progress as soon as possible. But you, you're not busy at all, always doing things haphazardly. Can you please stop being so irresponsible?"

"You should know you have Supreme-Grade Ice Spirit Root, an ice attribute, but do you even have a trace of ice attribute?"

Su Sui pouted and retorted, "Master, you're wrong about that. Although my Spirit Root is ice-attribute, if I were also ice-cold, do you think you'd like me like that? Hmm... like Uncle Liuyue..."

Shen Ge's veins throbbed, and he waved his hand, saying, "Alright, stop talking. Go do what you need to do, don't just stand here, it's annoying."

Su Sui ignored Shen Ge's order to leave, picked up another spiritual fruit and started eating it, asking as she did so, "I wonder where Aunt Mu Wan has gone again. I went to her cave abode just now but didn't see her."

"Why are you asking me if I didn't see anyone? Did you think she would report to me where she went?"

"No, that's not it. Martial Aunt Mu Wan wouldn't give you that kind of face. I was just saying it casually."

"Also, I heard that the Evergreen Sect has recently produced a genius, I think his name is Ye Xingchen."

"Why do you care so much? Is genius really that important? Before reaching the Golden Core, all geniuses aren't really geniuses. They're just distinguished by their weapons and who wields the strongest and most powerful wood magic."

"Even if he has all five elements of Spirit Root Spirit Root, if he is fully armed and has mastered powerful spells, can you say that he can't beat someone with Supreme-Grade Spirit Root?" Shen Ge said disdainfully.

"Um... Master, what you said makes sense." Su Sui was speechless for a moment.

"Therefore, now is the time for you to make the most of your strengths. You have Supreme-Grade Ice Spirit Root, and your cultivation speed far surpasses that of your peers. Instead of fighting against them at the same level, you should quickly improve your cultivation to crush them."

"People should know how to play to their strengths and not be so rigid."

"Alright, alright, stop nagging. I'll go cultivate now, okay?" Su Sui waved his hand and said, "Master, you have to wait for me. Once I reach the Golden Core, I'll definitely go to the secret realm and bring back medicine to heal your injuries. Don't die first."

Upon hearing this, Shen Ge grabbed a nearby cup and smashed it at him. "You little brat, you think you're so great? Have you forgotten your master's cultivation level? Besides, by the time you reach the Golden Core and find medicine for me, I'll probably be buried in the ground by now."

But as soon as Su Sui finished speaking, she ran off, taking the whole plate of spiritual fruits from the table with her. The cup didn't even hit her.

Shen Ge Shen Ge lay on the chair, sulking for a while, until he saw the box on the table. He calmed down, chuckled, took out the Soul-Nourishing Pill, and swallowed it.

"At least he has some filial piety; it wasn't for nothing that I've raised him from infancy, changing his diapers and feeding him all these years."

Of course, Shen Ge only said this when no one was around, because if Su Sui heard it, she would throw a tantrum again.

Su Sui's unpredictable temper is somewhat reminiscent of the water element, since ice is another form of water.