Chapter 299: Being a Grandfather Wasn’t Easy
Kang Lin fumed as Master instructed her to message her grandfather about the qi sources and the Time dilation rooms.
“It’s not top secret,” he said, “but the information is sensitive. After debating with myself back and forth a few times, I decided it was better that he hear the straight scoop from you instead of relying on rumors. Use one of my dragons to send it, though. They’re faster and more secure than what you normally use.”
It wasn’t that she thought the task was too menial for her or anything. There was almost no price he could ask of her that was too much to repay all he had done for her. The problem was that the subject was a bit of a sore one for her.
Yang Ru would already surpass her in every way simply due to the massive gulf in their talent levels, but she’d had a hope, albeit a slim one, that she could find some way to keep up. The use of the qi sources and Time dilation rooms rendered even that tiny prospect impossible.
Master forcing her to inform Grandfather about it felt too much like fate rubbing her face in her failure.
But such a reasonable request from Master simply wasn’t something she could refuse. If Grandfather—or anyone from the Poison Claw Sect really—found out she balked at such a thing, they’d send her to the Punishment Hall. Truly. Many disciples had performed far more unpleasant tasks for their masters. She knew of one boy who’d been forced to spend ten straight days from before sunup to after sundown scrubbing alchemy cauldrons with hardly a break for meals, and he’d done it with a smile on his face.
Maybe she was spoiled. She’d never thought of herself as spoiled.
“Of course, Master. Right away, Master.”
She pulled a brush and ink from her ring and got to work.
Grandfather,
Master asked me to inform you that he has successfully created two Dilation Rooms that accelerate Time by a factor of ten. A qi source in each room provides aspected qi matched to the disciple.
So far, Zou Tian and Yang Xiu have both begun the process. Master is being careful by slowly increasing their number of sessions, but if they continue to show no ill effects, he expects them to peak at a rate of an effective two hundred hours of cultivation per day.