After Zhang Huaiyun left, Zhang Jiading, humiliated to the extreme, was so furious his eyes nearly split open.
But the gap in strength between them was right there.
"When did he break through to the middle stage of Golden Core? His strength was clearly inferior to mine before. How could he break through just like that? Could he have obtained some great opportunity somewhere?"
Zhang Jiading ground his teeth and began to think.
During this period, none of them had had many chances to go out. They had not even completed some of the tasks assigned by the family.
Without going out, how could one obtain a great opportunity?
After pondering for a moment, he suddenly remembered that someone in the city had recently been selling lottery jade tubes. It was said that quite a few people had drawn good items from them.
"Could he have gotten it from there?"
Having figured it out, Zhang Jiading took out some pills and swallowed them to recover from his injuries.
Once his injuries had healed, he left the family with all his possessions, eyes bloodshot, to buy lottery jade tubes.
After finding a shop that sold lottery jade tubes, he bought a full thousand in one go and opened them frantically.
After opening all one thousand without getting a grand prize, he kept buying more.
Just as he had nearly squandered all the spirit stones he had painstakingly saved up—
A golden light finally appeared inside a jade tube.
Overjoyed, Zhang Jiading quickly left with the jade tube. After confirming that it was a cultivation technique jade tube, he rushed home to study it.
"The Evil-Repelling Heart Manual? Sure enough, that damned Zhang Huaiyun must have drawn this item before breaking through and coming to cause trouble for me."
After muttering to