By 6:30 PM on Sunday evening, Gu Changsheng stood by the kitchen stove checking the simmer on the bone broth. Three secret realms emptied in one weekend and Xiao’er stepping cleanly into Rank 4 Early, Gu Changsheng thought with quiet satisfaction. Meanwhile, our hundred-year regressor is probably coughing up blood into his silk handkerchief..
The warm lanterns of Willow-Breeze Courtyard lit up the twilight in Sky-Crown City’s South Ward. The Gu Family’s [Hot-Air Kitchen Balloon] landed smoothly in the backyard turnip patch and folded back into the sleek [Rank 3 Spring-Shock Luxury Caravan].
Wait until Master Dan-Chen (in his yellow Trainee Bowl-Scrubber #2 apron). Old Sergeant Ma came running out of the kitchen to help unload the weekend picnic bags—both Rank 4 Early elders nearly dropped their soup ladles when they saw twelve-foot, two-headed Flame-Hound Hotpot. At Rank 4 Early, trot cheerfully out of the carriage wearing two giant pink ribbons on his ears, followed by fifty tons of Rank 4 Star-Iron.
One hundred living Thousand-Year Fire-Lotuses, a thousand Moonlight Spirit Pearls, a hundred and thirty thousand Spirit Stones. Ten porcelain jars of [Rank 4 Sword-Tempering Jade Marrow]!
“Patriarch Gu... Grandmaster Yao...” Master Dan-Chen stared at the mountain of legendary Rank 4 treasures stacked across the courtyard, his grey goatee trembling in awe.
