"Wife, this is bad. Something terrible has happened."
Shen Hong hurried home, his expression flustered.
Li Ling was busy in the kitchen. Seeing his panicked expression, she said irritably, "Has the sky fallen? Why are you rushing around like that? Can't you act like a grown man?"
"The sky's about to fall!"
Shen Hong gave a bitter smile.
Li Ling said, "What exactly happened? Tell me carefully."
Shen Hong said, "Shen Mu—he's reached the Third Stage of Boiling Blood."
"Third Stage of Boiling Blood?"
Li Ling rolled her eyes and sneered. "He's only at the Third Stage of Boiling Blood. What are you panicking for? You're at the Seventh Layer of Boiling Blood. Are you afraid of him?"
Clearly, she still didn't understand why Shen Hong was so alarmed by Shen Mu's cultivation.
Seeing that Li Ling wasn't moved in the slightest, Shen Hong said anxiously, "He's only been in the Firewood Gang for half a year, and he's already at the Third Stage of Boiling Blood. Do you know how fast that is?"
Li Ling rolled her eyes. "I don't practice martial arts. How would I know?"
"Let me put it this way."
Shen Hong hurriedly explained, helpless. "For an ordinary person in the Body Tempering stage to reach the First Stage of Boiling Blood, they need to digest at least ten jin of ungraded beast meat to build up their blood energy."
"And it takes at least ten days to digest one jin of beast meat!"
"In other words, if Ming wants to reach the First Stage of Boiling Blood someday, he'll need to spend at least three months tempering his body!"
"And that's only the time it takes him to reach the First Stage of Boiling Blood!"
"To reach the Second Stage, he'll need to digest twenty