Xin Guo was stunned.
"Your grandfather wants to see me?"
Li Bao'er nodded, "My grandfather said if you have time, you should come to our house as a guest!"
Old Master Li had helped Xin Guo before, and Old Master Li was incredibly strong, so a visit to express gratitude was only right.
"No problem at all!" Xin Guo agreed.
Shi Tailang stood by, "Bao'er, when those people from the church came to stir up trouble, the church guy called our grandpa 'Deputy Head'. What kind of organization is our grandpa a Deputy Head of?"
Zhang Yaozu nudged Shi Tailang with his elbow, "You're shameless, 'our grandpa'? Is he your grandpa? He's my and Bao'er's grandpa!"
Li Bao'er said, "I won't talk about what kind of Head he is; it's better for everyone!"
The others also knew what to ask and what not to ask.
Li Bao'er sent a message to her grandfather.
"My grandpa said after the mid-term exam? If you have time, you can come to my house as a guest! Can you, Xin Guo?"
Xin Guo then remembered that he also had to meet Chu Xinyao's father after the mid-term exam.
However, there was enough time. He could visit Li Bao'er's grandfather right after the holiday, as it would be on the way.
"Then I'll go right after the holiday! Does Old Master Li have time?"
"He can!"
Shi Tailang shamelessly asked, "Bao'er, can you also let a few of us go to witness Old Master Li's demeanor?"
"Oh, I'll ask!"
Li Bao'er tapped away, sending a message. A few seconds later, Li Bao'er softly and sweetly said, "My grandpa told me to politely refuse you all without hurting your feelings."
Shi Tailang scratched his head and chuckled, "Bao'er, that's a bit too polite!"
The group chatted and laughed as they headed to the dining hall.
After dinner, Xin Guo, as usual, went to practice.
Just as he arrived at the gravity room, Hua Cheng was inside, sparring with a puppet.
Hearing Xin Guo enter, Hua Cheng put his arm around Xin Guo, "A Xin, well done! That was incredibly satisfying!"
"It's also fortunate that Sixth Brother gave me the Taiyi Ascending Dragon Art!" Xin Guo said sincerely.
Hua Cheng waved his hand dismissively, "We're all brothers! No need to be so polite with me!
Let's get to the point. You are now only a hair's breadth away from Five-Star Combat Power. Four-Star Combat Power is about making your internal Qi manifest as a protective shield on your body's surface, while Five-Star Combat Power is about using Qi to create a protective film to shield your internal organs!
Five-Star Combat Power, in the old terminology, was called 'Guan Jing' (Observing the Well). Imagine your body as a well. Everyone's Talent is different, so the size, shape, and capacity of their well are different, and naturally, the storage capacity of their internal Qi and blood is also different.
To reach Five-Star Combat Power, the first step is to use your Qi to protect your two large kidneys. The kidneys are a person's innate life gate and also the source of a person's strength. People with weak kidneys look sickly. For those with Strength Talent, it's even more important to protect their kidneys! People with healthy kidneys are full of energy, have great strength, and have endless vigor for anything they do!
When you condense a Qi protective shield around your two kidneys, you officially enter Five-Star Combat Power. After the kidneys, it's the liver; after the liver, it's the heart; after the heart, it's the spleen and stomach; after the spleen and stomach, it's the lungs. Because the kidneys govern water, these follow the order of the Five Elements' mutual generation."
Xin Guo suddenly understood, "So that's how it is!"
Hua Cheng patted Xin Guo's shoulder, "Don't get complacent just because you killed Yang Haosi. Don't forget, the score with the church hasn't been settled yet!"
"I won't forget!"
"Then from now on, strengthen your kidneys, and forge two indestructible kidneys!"
Following Hua Cheng's guidance, Xin Guo began to condense a Qi protection for his two large kidneys.
His lower back felt warm and close to his kidneys. Qi protected his kidneys; when they were good, he was good too.
He trained until 11:30 at night.
Usually, this kind of training would be very tiring, but today he wasn't as tired as usual. It had to be said that having a good mentor was indeed very important.
As night fell, Xin Guo put on his blindfold to temper his mental strength. After a simple protection of his two large kidneys, this mental strength tempering was much easier than before.
Xin Guo took a shower and lay back on his bed.
There was still a month and a half until the mid-term exam.
According to the current progress, reaching Five-Star Combat Power by the mid-term exam was more than enough.
There were almost no rules in the God and Demon Ruins. Xin Guo had to kill Huo Shi there, protect Lao Se Pi Shang Tianque's illegitimate daughter, and complete the task Kou Tianlin entrusted to him. It seemed he would have to become a master of time management.
However, to increase his chances of winning, Xin Guo decided to recruit the other two Tiger Guards mentioned by Tiger Guard Mo before going to the God and Demon Ruins.
He took out his zhilian device and looked through the missions near the ancient battlefields where the two Tiger Guards were located.
Xin Guo had filtered them before. He chose a mission near Chu King Ancient Ferry, planning to go there on the weekend.
Tiger Guard Mo had said that there was a Tiger Guard Ali near Chu King Ancient Ferry.
Xin Guo then took out his grandfather's phone, but there was no message from his grandfather.
He then sent a message to Huang Xiue, asking about the progress of the Seven Killings Sect's recruitment.
Huang Dabao had recruited more than ten people during this period, waiting for Xin Guo to come and bestow the divine power. This guy's recruitment was all screened by Xiue, and each person was chosen very carefully.
Xin Guo set the time and place for next weekend, near Chu King Ancient Ferry.
While contemplating things, his phone vibrated, and he saw it was a message from Chu Xinyao.
Chu Xinyao forwarded a post to Xin Guo. It was a viral post on the largest Awakened forum in the country.
The title of the post was a bit sensational.
"Shocking! Zhuge Heng, a Jie Liu Zi from the Ninth Division, led people to forcefully enter the White Lotus Society! Indecent photos of him and the White Lotus Society's Vice President's daughter-in-law leaked!"
Xin Guo raised an eyebrow, muttering to himself, "This Bai Mao Zai is so scandalous."
Chu Xinyao's message came again.
"Xiao Fang, look quickly, that instructor from your Ninth Division is trending!"
Just as Xin Guo was about to click in, Chu Xinyao's message came again.
"Won't you talk to me first ah ah ah? / Kill you." This was followed by a string of seemingly random symbols, sent out of anger.
Xin Guo, of course, knew that Chu Xinyao was just using a secret code known only to the two of them.
When it was translated, Xin Guo was stunned.
