Chen Mo's newfound "glory" had long since extended beyond the campus.
When his parents learned that their son had not only become some kind of "Key Cultivation Student," receiving a monthly "salary" of 1,500 yuan, but could also eat high-end Nutritional Meals at school for free and use a "Spiritual Energy Room" they had never even heard of, the old couple was so delighted they could barely find their bearings.
That very day, his father, Chen Guoqiang, rode his bicycle to the market, bought the fattest pork belly and the most expensive cooking wine, then personally stewed a whole pot of Braised Pork, glistening red and fragrant. At the dinner table, after downing two small drinks, his face glowing red, he vigorously patted Chen Mo on the shoulder—though Chen Mo had circulated his qi beforehand this time, so it did not hurt. "Good! Good lad! You've done your old man proud! I knew it—my old Chen family's bloodline is no coward wherever he goes! Just hearing 'Key Cultivation Student' makes a man feel fired up!"
His mother, Chen Yaqin, became a full-fledged "bragging-about-her-son maniac." From the old sisters she danced in the square with at the residential complex, to the familiar vendors at the market, to her coworkers at the factory, almost everyone knew that her son had "made something of himself" and was "being treasured by the school." Whenever she described the school's benefits, the pride in her voice made it sound as though Chen Mo had already become a Martial Arts Grandmaster.
Even his younger sister, Sister Chen Qing, who was in middle school, truly felt the "halo effect" her brother brought. She had once been just an ordinary student in her class, but now, because she had a "martial arts genius brother with Qi and Blood nearing