Enduring Humiliation and Bearing Heavy Burdens

With a light tug, she tore off her pajamas, revealing a body clad only in underwear before Qin Chen.

But Li Yuan did not stop there. She immediately began unfastening her underwear.

She knew that now was the time to show her worth.

Otherwise, she would end up like her son—casually crushed to death.

She did not want to die yet!!

She wanted to avenge her son!

But the prerequisite for avenging her son was staying alive.

So she could only swallow humiliation and cling miserably to life!

Thinking this, she could not help glancing at He Yi by the doorway, his eyes still wide open in death, and silently thought:

"Xiao Yi! You'll definitely understand your mother's painstaking intentions, won't you?"

With that thought, Li Yuan's movements became even faster.

She refused to believe that, with her fairly pretty face and this irresistibly alluring figure, she could not win over this handsome young man before her...

Boom—

Her thoughts came to an abrupt halt. Li Yuan froze, her pupils suddenly widening. A metallic sweetness surged up her throat, and she spat out a mouthful of blood.

She stared in disbelief at the fist that had landed on her chest. She could feel her heart had been shattered by the blow.

Unable to hold it back, she vomited another mouthful of blood.

"You, you..."

Li Yuan let out a weak moan, her eyes filled with confusion, as though she could not understand why Qin Chen had killed her without the slightest hesitation.

Was she not his type?

As life drained from her, the confusion in Li Yuan's eyes turned into deep, seething hatred.

"Brother... Brother Wen won't let you off! He... he'll avenge me...!"

With that, Li Yuan's head lolled to one side and she collapsed to the floor. All color vanished from her eyes, leaving only a lifeless gray.

Qin Chen swept a glance over Li Yuan's corpse, his eyes flashing with deep contempt.

At her age, she was still acting all coquettish. Who was she trying to show off to?

After glancing around the room, he left without hesitation.

He did not search the place for valuables. None of this stuff was worth much anyway, so there was no need to loot it.

Nor was he worried about leaving traces of himself behind at the scene.

Because he had committed the crime wearing gloves!

Since he had already decided to do this, he naturally had to be professional about it.

At the same time, he had no intention of dealing with the two corpses.

Like he said!

He was maintaining society's peace and stability.

Little matters like disposing of bodies could be left to the law enforcers!

As for the threat Li Yuan had made before dying, he took it even less seriously.

Who did she think she was, daring to threaten him?

What kind of powerful figure could trash like Li Yuan possibly know?

At most, someone in the Body Tempering Realm. Could it be a Star Vein Realm expert?

So long as they were still in the Body Tempering Realm, he had nothing to fear!

Though, considering he was only at the Body Tempering Third Layer right now, saying that was somewhat inappropriate.

But how long had he even been cultivating?

Give him some time to grow, and then he ought to be saying:

Mere Body Tempering Realm!!

Besides, heaven knew, earth knew, and he knew. Everyone else who knew had already gone down below for a hot bowl of forgetfulness soup.

The next day.

As the horizon began to pale with the white of a fish belly, the stars receded.

The first golden ray pierced through the clouds, and all things gradually took shape in the faint light.

"Phew~"

Qin Chen sat cross-legged on the living room floor and let out a deep breath.

"This Body Tempering Fourth Layer is a little hard to break through!"

A trace of helplessness colored Qin Chen's voice as he slowly rose to his feet.

After returning, he didn't choose to sleep and rest. Instead, he cultivated for another half of the night.

Between "the gun shoots the bird that sticks its head out" and "the early bird gets the worm," he leaned more toward the latter.

His cheat was the kind that could only be pushed to its fullest potential through his own hard work.

It wasn't the kind where he could sit back and wait for his strength to rise on its own.

To be fair, Qin Chen still preferred this down-to-earth approach.

One step at a time.

Only strength cultivated through his own efforts could truly put his mind at ease.

Diligence had always been a quality many people pursued.

Qin Chen also believed diligence was very important... my ass!!

What normal person enjoyed suffering for no reason?

Wouldn't it be great if he could just lie down and grow stronger? Why did he have to work himself so hard?

He was working this hard now only because he had no choice. Who told him his cheat worked this way?

ε=(´ο｀*))) Sigh!

He wanted to grow stronger just by lying down too!

He could only see whether there would be Combat Skills in the future that came with enormous side effects even if he just lay around.

As for now, he'd better honestly be a hardworking genius~

Still, the gap between Body Tempering Layer Three and the Body Tempering Fourth Layer was beyond his imagination.

It had been more than a day, nearly two, since he broke through to Body Tempering Layer Three, yet he still hadn't even touched the bottleneck of the Body Tempering Fourth Layer. He hadn't even reached the peak of Layer Three.

For a moment, he found it somewhat hard to get used to.

After all, before this, he had basically maintained the remarkable pace of breaking through one layer every day or so on average.

That was perfectly normal. The further one progressed in cultivation, the slower improvement became.

Although he hadn't made a breakthrough in realm, he had still cultivated the Burning Meridian Merging Spirit Art twice last night.

He was currently in the Recovery Period, and his Star Energy Aptitude was slowly increasing.

He really wanted to know just how much his Star Energy Aptitude had risen after circulating the Burning Meridian Merging Spirit Art several times.

But there was definitely no way to tell through his own senses. He needed specialized testing equipment.

Muyang Third Middle School happened to have such equipment.

He was going to school today anyway. If he didn't show up soon, Wang Yuemei would probably come knocking.

Qin Chen quickly washed up, went out for breakfast, then headed toward the school.

By the time he entered the school and arrived at his classroom, quite a few students were already seated inside.

When they saw Qin Chen arrive, a considerable number of them froze for a moment, then identical traces of sympathy appeared on their faces.

"Hmm?!"

Qin Chen couldn't help but pause at the sight of their expressions.

He had thought these guys might be unconvinced by him, or perhaps intimidated.

But he truly hadn't expected them to look at him with sympathy.

Filled with confusion, Qin Chen sensed the auras of the group.

After several days, many more students in the class had broken through to Body Tempering Layer One—roughly one-third of them.

But that was really only eight or nine people.

After all, their class had only around thirty students.

At awakening, more than half the students had a Star Energy Aptitude of zero—the so-called Waste Star Users.

It could be said that they had virtually no chance of ever setting foot on the martial path.

Students with Star Energy Aptitude and students without it would not be placed in the same class.

That was why their class size was not particularly large.

Aside from him, the lowest Star Energy Aptitude in the class was over twenty. Most students fell within the range of thirty to forty.

A small number had Star Energy Aptitudes above forty.

With Spiritual Energy Aptitude like that, breaking through to Body Tempering Layer One was not too difficult as long as one's family circumstances were somewhat decent.

But breaking through to Body Tempering Layer Two was difficult.

Looking around, only Wang Jing had broken through to Body Tempering Layer Two. And judging from the aura around her, which flickered between strong and weak...

She had definitely only broken through very recently.

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