Three months was neither long nor short.
Although the problems within Hongchen Mansion were serious, with Jing Hongchen finally free to handle them, things would not spiral out of control no matter what.
Since Chen Ming had been punished with three months of confinement, Jing Hongchen simply stayed with his grandson and granddaughter in a small courtyard within Hongchen Mansion, keeping Chen Ming company for those three months.
Aside from handling internal affairs, he spent his days guiding the three in Soul Tool techniques and supervising their training—or, more accurately, supervising Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen's training.
Chen Ming had come from a world without magic in his previous life, so some of his innate perspectives differed from those of Douluo natives.
Just as children born with the right to attend school found it difficult to understand how desperately those without that right longed to learn, the vast majority of Soul Masters in the Douluo World found it difficult to understand the thirst for extraordinary power possessed by someone from a world without magic.
Chen Ming's craving for the extraordinary power of Soul Power had not reached the insane, anything-goes level of someone who had lost himself to obsession, but in the eyes of ordinary Soul Masters, it was still remarkably extreme.
Other than necessary rest and relaxation, Chen Ming gladly devoted nearly all his time to cultivation. Whether he was refining his Soul Power or tempering his body, as long as he could feel himself growing stronger, he could overcome nearly any pain or exhaustion.
In Jing Hongchen's eyes, Chen Ming's method and drive for cultivation made it seem as though he carried some blood-deep vendetta on his back.
If not for Chen Ming's mature mindset and his hatred for Evil Soul Masters, which was even deeper and heavier