Qi Refining Level 3000: Accept the Empress as your disciple

After crossing into another realm, Ye Kong discovered that each day spent fishing granted him a breakthrough in cultivation. Over a decade, he has ascended past the 3,000th layer of Qi Refining. He anticipated a life of quiet monotony, roasting divine beasts and hunting phoenixes, until the day a reincarnated empress arrived to become his disciple. Ye Kong pleads, “Disciple, must you cause me such constant worry?” The empress retorts, “Impossible! My master only pretends to cultivate Qi—he could never truly be a peerless master in disguise!”