My Son Is Truly Promising

"I heard that an Ice Bi on the verge of Dragon Transformation has appeared near Lao City—freezing eight hundred li, a million ice lotuses falling from the sky. It might condense an Azure Sky–level Ice Attribute Treasure Medicine during its transformation."

"You two should be going, right? Don't underestimate it just because it's Earth Vein Level—for us, it's a treasure above treasures."

"It just so happens that Chen Min is there. Chen Min will definitely go. What about you, older brother?"

Within the light mist, a clear male voice kept ringing out, full of sincerity.

"Chen Min is in Lao City. If I go, wouldn't that be walking to my death?" A voice that sounded neither male nor female spoke up.

"Tch, you say you won't go, but I don't believe you." The clear voice rang out again:

"Chen Min, your Luo Chen Clan should already be preparing over there, right."

After he finished speaking, the man named Chen Min did not open his mouth.

"Chen Min..."

"Shut up."

Far away, at the center of the Cold Pool, the youth named Chen Min also had a patch of light mist before him. He couldn't see clearly, but his gaze locked onto the last blurry figure within the light mist, and he laughed:

"Interesting, interesting!"

"This person... has absorbed four already." The androgynous voice spoke up, carrying a hint of shock.

At this moment, the figures not located in those three places all looked toward the light mist before them.

A moment of silence.

They had probed each other too much before this, still regarding one another as their own rivals.

As for Chen Yan, he had awakened far too late.

For a Heavenly Pride, even one day less of cultivation was already far behind.

But now, the three of them were all focused on Chen Yan at the same time.

His heart felt as if it had been frozen solid. Chen Yan shivered.

The Elemental Energy within the Light Pillar was very strange. Though it wasn't Blood Energy, it truly made Chen Yan's blood and qi grow even colder.

With every extra strand he absorbed, the blood and qi on his body turned another degree colder.

Fortunately, before he started absorbing, he wasn't in a state of exhaustion, so he could still absorb.

The fifth, the sixth...

Within the light mist, it grew quieter and quieter.

"A monster has arrived." The clear male voice spoke.

"Abnormal. Could his body have undergone some kind of modification?" The androgynous voice spoke up, tinged with surprise.

Too abnormal.

After they awakened, they were exhausted to the point of death. Absorbing Awakening Essence at that point was practically a life-or-death struggle.

No matter how resolute a person was, they couldn't manage this.

"Didn't you say only fools look down on others?" Chen Min laughed:

"What are you doing now?"

His laugh was very hearty, but a cold glint kept flashing in his eyes.

"I hope you can catch up to me. I don't want the Day of Hundred Meridians to be too boring."

His words carried an extremely thick confidence and arrogance.

Even when praising Chen Yan, there was no sense of urgency.

Because no matter how much Chen Yan absorbed, he still couldn't compare.

Until Chen Yan absorbed the seventh, Chen Min narrowed his eyes.

"Same as you now." The clear male voice spoke with a grin, but then grew even more solemn and strange as he looked toward Chen Yan's blurry figure.

"Is he going to absorb them all?"

"All eight absorbed... this person must have a secret."

"Perhaps this person is more resolute than we are."

No one spoke anymore.

They were all Break Limit individuals—the hardest thing for them to admit was that someone else surpassed them in diligence.

Until...

At some point, Chen Yan absorbed all eight.

"Excellent!"

Chen Min laughed, very coldly.

The other two's breathing grew slightly rapid.

Then, the light mist before Chen Yan dispersed.

"Loud," Chen Yan finally spoke.

Absorbing Elemental Energy while being watched and judged by others—there was no way he could be happy about it.

He'd have to ask later how to avoid being sensed.

Then, Chen Yan exhaled a puff of white mist, feeling the changes within his body, marveling in secret.

If when he first awakened, his coldness was somewhere between ice and water, now he felt more like a block of ice frozen for years.

After absorbing a massive amount of Elemental Energy, he felt like an Ice Lake that could freeze everything around him.

No need for Qi and Blood attacks, no need for punches or kicks—he could severely injure or even freeze an enemy to death outright.

If Zhang Qingsi had undergone a Limit Breaking Awakening, Chen Yan might not have been able to move before even getting close to him.

This was the true power of a Limit Breaking Awakening.

More importantly, Chen Yan seemed able to sense things he couldn't before.

Elements!

Yes, elements.

Before, he could feel the entire cell turning icy cold because of him, but he absolutely couldn't sense the faint Elemental Energy within it.

He reached out a hand, carefully feeling his surroundings. Thin white mist drifted slowly toward him.

Compared to the Light Pillar he had absorbed earlier, this bit of Elemental Energy was like a mosquito's leg.

But even a mosquito's leg was still meat—Chen Yan wasn't willing to waste it.

Would he have to find ice to train on every day from now on?

Chen Yan pondered. That should work, probably.

The cold in the air gradually faded, and droplets of water condensed on the walls of the entire dungeon.

"Hm?"

Outside the Town Martial Hall, Luo Puxin raised an eyebrow slightly.

It seemed to have gotten a bit warmer.

Unlike the others, he had been meticulously sensing the changes in the air.

Could it be that Chen Yan had failed?

"I'm going to the bathroom," he said, preparing to head to the dungeon to check.

"Then I'll go too," Zhuang Xihang immediately spoke up. Judging Xin Gongxian was none of his business—he wanted to find Chen Yan, but Luo Puxin had been blocking him all along.

Was Luo Puxin trying to steal his student?

"No, you can't go." Luo Puxin frowned at Zhuang Xihang.

"Director Luo, you can't even control someone's bodily functions, can you?" Zhuang Xihang was getting angry.

Luo Puxin pressed his lips together:

"I know you want to see Chen Yan, but Chen Yan is very special. Right now, he's not condensing one new stripe—it's actually three.

If you go, you'll really disturb him."

Luo Puxin shut up after saying that.

He himself felt how absurd this sounded, so he simply continued:

"Even if they're three Shallow Stripes, he can't be disturbed."

Silence.

Yin Yanjun, who had been sorting through Xin Gongxian's crimes, stopped talking. Zhuang Xihang sneered at Luo Puxin.

Do you even hear what you're saying?

A kid who just learned a Breathing Technique and only condensed one Strength Stripe is about to condense new stripes?

Three of them?

Don't treat people like fools.

Can't you show some respect?

"I'm serious!" Luo Puxin spoke again, a hint of helplessness in his heart. He really wasn't good at lying.

But he truly couldn't let anyone go in.

"Principal Zhuang, my son is a genius!" From the side, Chen Yuxu spoke up, full of pride.

What's so absurd about three stripes?

Chen Yan is my son. It's perfectly normal for my son to condense three stripes.

Zhuang Xihang let out a light sigh and glanced at Chen Yuxu.

Speechless.

I know your son is a genius.

But... do you even know what Horizontal Refinement Stripes are?

He could guess that Luo Puxin had some secrets, and let out a light sigh:

"Then you go first. I'll head to the restroom in a bit."

"Mm." Luo Puxin waved his hand, then entered.

As for the onlookers gathered around, some were baffled.

"Was that Venerable Sir just now talking about Chen Yan?"

"Chen Yan? Chen Yuxu's son?"

"Chen Yuxu says his son is a genius."

"He really is a genius—he got the Town Martial Bonus and was awarded twenty thousand."

The crowd murmured, voices filled with surprise and envy.

"Old Hu, your Hu Family is really about to rise. Look out for me from now on, yeah?"

Beside Hu Zeyuan, a man with a wine-red nose spoke up, only to see Hu Zeyuan's face turn black as he barked:

"Piss off!"

He was annoyed, angry, furious, helpless, and full of regret.

His gaze toward Chen Yuxu was complicated, to the point he almost dared not look.

Why did it have to turn out like this?

"What did you say?" The wine-nosed man had a short temper too, glaring at Hu Zeyuan, but after glancing at Chen Yuxu in the distance, he spoke with a sneer:

"Heh, get rich and forget your own folks. You're a real piece of work!"

Someone nearby teased:

"Old Wang, you probably don't know—Hu Zeyuan and Chen Yuxu fell out long ago. Hu Zeyuan even led people to cause trouble at Chen Yuxu's house before.

You want him to look out for you? He can't look out for shit."

After that, laughter rippled through the crowd. The wine-nosed man finally caught on and sneered at Hu Zeyuan:

"So you've been on bad terms for a while. Even a honest man like Chen Yuxu you'd bully—you're a real bastard."

Hu Zeyuan's face flushed red:

"What did you say?"

"Bastard!"

"You motherfucker...!"

The two started fighting. Hu Yuan hurried to break it up but was shoved aside.

The crowd erupted into noise.

In front of the Town Martial Hall, Chen Yuxu watched coldly, not bothering to intervene.

But in his heart, he was bursting with pride.

His son had made it!

These past few days, updates have been sparse—first, because we're still in the verification period, no debut yet.

Second, because I'm sorting out the plot to avoid too many mistakes.

Now that it's sorted, back to eight thousand!

The chapter count might not hit four, but my chapter word count isn't two thousand either.

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Also high martial, already completed. If you like this one, you'll probably like that one too.