My Brother Should Be a Genius

Yang Caidie's doting affection for Yang Chen was something Gu Mingyue could see clearly enough.

Who in the entire Yang family did not know how dearly Yang Caidie loved Yang Chen? Even the tiniest scratch on Yang Chen would make Yang Caidie ache as if she were dying. Yang Chen had grown up under Yang Caidie's protection since childhood.

Take Yang Heng, for instance. He only dared to mock Yang Chen with words, at most challenging him to an alchemy wager. If he dared touch even a single hair on Yang Chen's head, Yang Caidie would dare fight his whole family to the death. Even though Yang Heng's father was stronger than Yang Caidie, he absolutely would not dare provoke her, because once this woman unleashed her tiger's might, no one could stop her.

In one sentence: If you dared bully my little brother, then either you took my life, or I took yours.

If Yang Caidie truly went feral, not even nine oxen could pull her back.

Gu Mingyue did not know whether having such an outrageously fierce sister, yet one who protected him so fiercely, was a good thing or a bad thing for Yang Chen.

Yang Chen was currently wholly devoted to his secluded cultivation and had no idea what was happening outside. He had already refined the Gravity Pill and taken it long ago. Now, he had officially entered the stage of refining the pill's effects into his body, while his martial cultivation continued to grow and advance step by step.

To Yang Chen, refining a Gravity Pill could not have been easier.

As long as he had the materials, Yang Chen dared guarantee the pill's success.

It was just a pity that there was only one Fire Red Fruit. If he could refine several more Gravity Pills, then even if the effects were greatly diminished after taking one, reaching the Body Refining Realm Third Level would have been no problem at all.

Still, one Gravity Pill was entirely sufficient to support Yang Chen's advancement into the Body Refining Realm Second Level, and there were even signs that he could charge toward the Third Level.

After roughly one hour, Yang Chen's complexion gradually returned to normal. At that moment, he suddenly opened his eyes, and his entire aura underwent an abrupt transformation compared to before. It was not hard to see that after being tempered by the Gravity Pill, he had advanced from the Body Refining Realm First Level to the Body Refining Realm Second Level.

At this moment, he possessed more than five hundred jin of strength.

The Body Refining Realm First Level meant one hundred jin of strength.

The Body Refining Realm Second Level meant four hundred jin of strength.

After that, each level added three hundred jin of strength.

Yang Chen was now in the middle-to-late stage of the Body Refining Realm Second Level. As long as he broke through the seven-hundred-jin threshold, he would enter the Body Refining Realm Third Level.

"My entire body is filled with strength. This feeling was something I never had in my previous life." Yang Chen sighed with emotion.

In his previous life, he had merely been an ordinary person. Even one hundred jin of strength had been as hard for him as climbing to the heavens, much less the five hundred jin he possessed now.

What did five hundred jin of strength represent?

It meant that with a casual punch, he could shatter a massive boulder.

Yang Chen murmured, "It is just a pity that the materials for refining Gravity Pills are limited. At present, I can only reach the Body Refining Realm Second Level at most. Besides, my current alchemy equipment is far too crude. I have neither exotic fire nor Natal Fire, and my pill furnace is the most ordinary kind. I do not even have a dedicated Alchemy Room."

Exotic fire and pill furnaces were both treasures that aided alchemy.

Fire control was an extremely important step. If one possessed exotic fire, one could accomplish twice the result with half the effort. The same was true of a precious pill furnace.

Both were things one could encounter only by chance, never seek by design. Exotic fire in particular was exceptionally rare. In his previous life, Yang Chen had possessed an exotic fire called the Taiyuan Golden Fire. It was an unusual kind even among exotic fires, and he had paid a tremendous price to obtain it. In this life, he did not know whether he would have the fortune to encounter exotic fire again.

For a supreme alchemist, exotic fire was indispensable. Moreover, exotic fire was a symbol of an alchemist's status.

"Exotic fire and pill furnaces are both necessities for alchemists. Unfortunately, it is impossible to acquire either in a short time. If I want to lessen the burden of alchemy and achieve twice the result with half the effort, I can only make use of Second Master Yang's Alchemy Room." Yang Chen chuckled helplessly.

With his alchemy level, the Pill Formation probability for a Gravity Pill was certainly one hundred percent.

Yet the advantages of an Alchemy Room were something every alchemist desired, because it could make the alchemy process much easier.

"It seems that when I get the chance, I should pay Second Master Yang a visit." Yang Chen thought to himself.

"Gurgle..."

"Uh, I'm a little hungry." An embarrassed expression appeared on Yang Chen's face.

Although he had set foot on the martial path, only experts who had reached the Spiritual Martial Realm could avoid ordinary food and drink. Someone at the Body Refining Realm like him still needed to eat every day. At most, he could last longer than ordinary people. But after going three straight days without food, Yang Chen was starving.

At the dining table, Yang Caidie had already prepared the stewed goose perfectly, along with an entire table of side dishes, all prepared by her and Gu Mingyue.

"Eat, hurry and eat. You haven't eaten for three days. You must be starving." Yang Caidie spoke with worry written all over her pretty face.

Gu Mingyue's large eyes blinked and blinked. Though she did not speak, her meaning was much the same as Yang Caidie's. Seeing Yang Chen cultivate inside his room for three consecutive days without stepping outside had left both of them deeply worried. After all, Yang Chen had never been this diligent before.

Yang Chen looked at the stewed goose before him, then at Yang Caidie and Gu Mingyue. A surge of bitterness flowed into his heart like a thin stream, making him sigh softly inside.

He was dressed in a fine and proper manner, but what about Yang Caidie? His sister's skirt was filthy, and he did not know whom she had fought, but one corner of her clothes had been torn. As for Gu Mingyue, ever since he had known her, she had rarely changed clothes.

Yang Chen had encountered no shortage of women in his previous life. Loving beauty was a woman's nature. Which woman did not enjoy dressing herself beautifully? But what about Yang Caidie and Gu Mingyue? Did they not love beauty? No. They had left the better conditions for him. He was dressed handsome and dashing, while the two of them suffered.

Having noticed these details, Yang Chen clenched his fists and made up his mind. If he could not let the women by his side live good lives, then what meaning was there in Yang Chen being reborn here at all?

At that thought, Yang Chen already had an idea.

Just then, Yang Caidie spoke in a rough yet cautious manner. "Chen, your sister wants to tell you something."

"What is it?" Yang Chen asked curiously.

"Well... can you stop cultivating martial arts? You've been in seclusion for three days straight. Even your complexion looks different from before." Yang Caidie's voice was full of heartache.

Yang Chen let out a soft breath. "Sister, you always advise me not to set foot on the martial path, but didn't you walk through these hardships step by step as well?"

Yang Caidie shook her head like a rattle-drum and earnestly said, "Sweetheart, our situations are different. Your sister started training when she was little, and the truth is that martial arts require one to temper their foundation from childhood. You are already this old. If you start training now, it will be very difficult for you to catch up with people your age."

Yang Chen laughed helplessly. "Sister, that may not be so!"

"What may not be so?" Yang Caidie blinked her eyes.

"Actually, these past three days of secluded cultivation have not been without results." Yang Chen said with a smile.

Yang Caidie might be fierce, but she was not stupid. Once she understood, she opened her mouth and said, "What can you cultivate in three days?"

One had to know that laying a foundation was extremely important for martial artists. Many children began building their foundations and tempering their martial path at the age of four or five, yet they still needed until around seven or eight to enter the Body Refining Realm First Level. If they could reach the Body Refining Realm Second Level, they were geniuses.

The higher one went, the harder it became. Generally, reaching the Body Refining Realm Ninth Level or the Body Refining Realm peak would likely require one to be forty or fifty years old. As for breaking through the Body Refining Realm and entering the Spiritual Martial Realm, that depended heavily on fortune. There were not many Spiritual Martial Realm experts even in the Yang family, which showed just how rare such breakthroughs were.

Although the Body Refining Realm was not as scarce as the Spiritual Martial Realm, one still had to build a solid foundation from childhood and advance step by step. Yang Caidie truly did not know what her little brother could have cultivated over the past three days.

Yang Chen smiled calmly, as composed as ever. "Sister, Mingyue, come with me to the courtyard."

As he spoke, Yang Chen laughed aloud and strode into the courtyard.

Stones of varying weights were placed throughout the courtyard. Martial artists simply called these stones "Training Stones," and they were commonly used for training. Their other purpose was to test the strength of someone at the Body Refining Realm. If someone could lift a three-hundred-jin boulder, it meant that person had reached the peak of the Body Refining Realm First Level and was not far from the Second Level.

The Yang family's Coming-of-Age Ceremony also relied on Training Stones to test the current strength and achievements of the younger generation. A genius like Yang Heng likely tested himself once every day.

As one of the Yang family's female geniuses, Yang Caidie naturally had such things in her courtyard.

From fifty-jin stones to fifteen-hundred-jin boulders, the courtyard had them all.

Yang Chen stood in the courtyard with his hands behind his back. "Sister, I will use these Training Stones to test my current strength. The two of you need only watch from the side."

Yang Caidie said worriedly, "Sweetheart, don't force yourself. Start with that fifty-jin one! Martial cultivation must proceed gradually..."

She chattered on at his side, yet Yang Chen seemed not to hear a single word. He walked past the fifty-jin boulder and continued forward. Then came one hundred jin, one hundred fifty jin, two hundred jin...

"Mi... Miss, Young Master..." Gu Mingyue was so anxious that she could not remain still.

Yang Caidie was dumbfounded as well. She did not know what Yang Chen intended to do. In truth, if Yang Chen could lift the fifty-jin boulder, she would have jumped for joy, because that would at least mean her little brother was a genius. In only three days, he would already be close to entering the Body Refining Realm First Level.

Yet her little brother had not even spared the fifty-jin boulder a glance.

What was going on?

Yang Chen, however, continued until he stopped beside a five-hundred-jin boulder.

Unlike others, he did not rub his hands together in preparation. He merely patted his palms, wrapped his arms around the boulder, and then shouted, "Rise for me!"

In an instant, the five-hundred-jin boulder seemed to no longer weigh five hundred jin. Yang Chen forcibly lifted it over his head, holding it high in the air.

The next moment, Yang Chen slammed the boulder onto the ground with a bang.

Five hundred jin—successfully lifted.

Gu Mingyue's eyes widened, her little mouth opening slightly as she said in a remarkably enticing voice, "Mi... Miss, did you accidentally put the fifty-jin and five-hundred-jin stones in the wrong places again?"

"No, they weren't misplaced..." This time, Yang Caidie was completely certain that she had not mixed them up, because the sound of that boulder hitting the ground was not something a fifty-jin stone could make.

She was no less shocked than Gu Mingyue. Her chest rose and fell violently, and her pair of proud, full breasts stirred endless fancies.

Gu Mingyue said at a loss, "Then how did Young Master... Young Master do it?"

Yang Caidie kept muttering, over and over again. Only after a long while did she swallow hard. "My little brother... should be a genius!"