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Looking at Mom's slightly disheveled hair, the faint excitement on her face, and her confident, meaningful expression, Lu Xin couldn't help feeling a little excited too. As for the question Mom had asked him, he... still didn't quite understand it.

But regardless, he had caught a few key words and understood what Mom had done.

No wonder she had quickly left his side after seeing the test paper the Old Director had given him.

Through that test paper, she had seen something and worried that he wouldn't make it through?

All those arrangements, even setting up such a huge scheme, had been to increase his strength?

To achieve that effect, she had even been willing to make herself look so disheveled...

Countless warm currents faintly surged through Lu Xin's heart.

He didn't know what to say. He only stared at Mom and, after a long while, gently nodded.

Sometimes, when emotions were too intense and a person didn't know how to express them, they instead appeared especially calm and unconcerned.

But it seemed Lu Xin didn't need to say anything special. Mom understood his feelings. She quietly looked at his right hand, then deliberately smiled as if nothing had happened and said, "You have to protect this nail properly from now on. It has quite an extraordinary origin..."

"It was 'borrowed' from the Mother of Punishment."

"Only a nail like this can keep this palm on your body."

"..."

"Mother of Punishment?"

Lu Xin was slightly surprised. He had heard this name before. She seemed to be one of the Thirteen Ultimates.

Mom had actually gone to her specifically to take out this nail?

Looking down at his palm, he found that it was impossible to tell whether the nail was real or illusory.

Within his vision, it clearly pierced