Master, don't tease me, you can't handle three of them.

Ultimately, it didn't fulfill the Nascent Soul cultivator's wish...

Because in the days to come, Jingyou will have to fight with Jingshu to help Jingshu control the Spirit Gathering Body.

Although the Nascent Soul cultivator was unhappy, he did not object.

“I have a problem with that!” Jingyou raised his hand in protest.

"I'll make you grilled fish every seven days," Jing said.

"That's a great decision! Bro, shall we continue right away?" Jingyou's expression changed instantly, and he said with a grin.

"What a disappointment!" The Nascent Soul cultivator couldn't bear to look at him.

Jingyou didn't argue; after all, his brother's cooking was truly delicious. He just didn't cook often, and all his pleading and cajoling was useless. Now that he was finally getting a hot meal, he'd be a fool not to agree!

In the following year, Jingyou fought hard against Jingshu in order to earn a living, and his own Breaking Sun Sword Technique gradually improved.

Soon, a year passed.

The nascent soul rubbed Jingyou's head, returned to its original size, and went back into Jingshu's body.

Jing Shu then returned the spiritual energy in the Secret Realm to the ancient jade, restoring the Secret Realm to its original state.

However, after these years of exposure to spiritual energy, some of the plants and animals in the Secret Realm have developed sentience, and the Secret Realm itself has begun to generate spiritual energy. Perhaps, in a few hundred years, this Secret Realm will become a true secret realm.

Jing Shu didn't have time to think about that, because the exit of the Secret Realm had opened.

"I'm finally out!" Jing You was incredibly excited the moment he stepped out of the Secret Realm.

Although the spiritual energy was abundant in the Secret Child Realm, and his cultivation level increased rapidly, there was no one else besides him and his brother. Furthermore, Jingyou's personality, shaped by the Nascent Soul stage, was completely restless.

"Brother! Where do we go next?" Jingyou asked, turning to look at Jingshu, who was looking up at the sky.

“Now, stay away from me,” Jing Shu said suddenly, his expression serious.

Jingyou's smile froze, his thoughts a jumbled mess, tightening with each passing moment, and his heart began to clench with pain. "Brother, do you not want me anymore?"

"?"

Hearing Jingyou's tearful voice, Jingshu subconsciously looked down and saw that Jingyou's eyes were filled with tears, as if he could cry if he said "yes".

"Don't talk nonsense." Jing Shu sighed softly.

"I've reached the Golden Core stage, and the tribulation lightning is coming soon. If you don't get far away, the tribulation lightning will strike you down along with it."

Upon hearing this, Jingyou looked up at the sky, and sure enough, the sky, which had just been cloudless, was now covered with dense, ominous clouds. Jingyou even seemed to hear thunder.

Jingyou's face flushed red, and he dashed away, shouting as he ran.

"Then, I'll wait for you at the entrance of that town!"

Jing Shu gave a helpless laugh, then looked at the rolling thunder, preparing to face the tribulation.

This was Jing Shu's third time undergoing the tribulation of lightning, so he was very experienced.

An hour later, the tribulation clouds dissipated, and a full and round golden elixir appeared in Jing Shu's dantian.

However, the last piece of clothing Jing Shu wore was damaged.

After Jing Shu used a cleaning spell to remove the dust and grime from his clothes, the holes of various sizes on his clothes became even more noticeable.

We can't just go to town like this, can we? Jing Shu silently looked at the clothes he was wearing.

"Don't you have one more thing?" The Nascent Soul suddenly asked, seeing Jing Shu standing still.

"Where are the clothes?" Jing Shu retorted instinctively, but suddenly stopped.

“Yes, that’s the one.” The nascent soul knew that Jing Shu remembered. “It’s better than you wandering around in this tattered outfit.”

"..."

On the other side, Jingyou stood at the town gate waiting for Jingshu, but his mouth was not idle either. He bought a bunch of peaches from an old man who was going into town to sell peaches, and ate the peaches while waiting for Jingshu.

Jingyou looked in the direction Jingshu was looking. Hadn't his brother arrived yet? The tribulation clouds had already dissipated...

Jingyou wasn't worried at all that Jingshu would get hurt. His brother had already gone through two tribulations, and his physical strength far exceeded what his current cultivation level should be capable of, so he wouldn't get injured.

As Jingyou was thinking, a person dressed in a dark-colored robe with subtle patterns descended from the sky and slowly landed in front of him.

A hint of amazement flashed in Jingyou's eyes. "Brother! You look much better in black than in white!"

Jing Shu gave a faint "hmm," not feeling much. In his opinion, all colors of clothes were pretty much the same, except that white made him look more harmless.

However, Master likes to see him dressed like this. I wonder where Master is now? Is he still at the Cloud Burial Sect?

Jing Shu admitted that he missed his master, missed him very, very much...

"Brother, where are we going?" Jingyou asked curiously as he followed Jingshu.

“Return to Yunzang Sect,” Jing Shu answered without hesitation.

"Okay." Jing You had no objections. Although he had never been in a relationship, he knew that his brother was probably thinking about Immortal Venerable Han Luo!

"But brother, let's go to the clothing shop first! I'm still wearing the Yaoyang Sect disciple's robes." We can't let him keep wearing those clothes, can we?

“Okay.” Jing Shu stopped and turned to walk in another direction.

"Brother, the clothing store is here. You've come to the wrong place," Jingyou pointed to a shop on the side of the street and reminded him.

“We’re not buying this; we’re going to buy robes,” Jing Shu explained.

Originally, Jing Shu didn't care much about what clothes he wore, but these past ten years have made him fully realize how important it is to have a robe that can withstand ordinary damage! At the very least, it can't be damaged by the slightest bit of harm!

In almost every slightly larger town, there will be a trading company in the center where cultivators can buy and sell things—Jin Yi Trading Company.

Jing Shu took Jing You to a trading company to order several robes. While waiting for the robes, he asked someone from the trading company to take Jing You to see if there was anything he wanted. He then sat in a private room and took out his communication jade slip.

The moment the jade slip was opened, countless messages popped up, all sent to him by Gu Meng.

Jing Shu looked at each item one by one. Ten years had passed inside the Secret Realm, but only five years had actually passed outside.

For five years, Gu Meng sent him a message every day, telling him what had happened that day, how much her cultivation had increased, how she had finally chosen her favorite weapon, how terrible her senior brother's cooking was, and how even her master didn't want to eat anymore, etc...

Jing Shu slowly scrolled through the messages, and one from two years ago caught his attention.

[Master went out today. I heard from my eldest brother that there seems to be news about some new divine artifact, and Master went out to check it out. I wonder when he'll be back. Is Master unable to tolerate my eldest brother's cooking anymore? Did he sneak out to eat something better?]

Jing Shu was both puzzled and amused. He knew his senior brother wasn't cut out for this after that time he helped him in the kitchen. But shouldn't divine artifacts be things created at the very beginning of the universe? How could there be new divine artifacts now?