"What? Brother Chen, you're breaking through again? Are you trying to leave us no way to live?" Liu Qiaogui stared in shock. If Chen Huai'an broke through, the gap between them would only grow wider.
But he was genuinely happy for Chen Huai'an.
"If you worked as desperately as I do, you could manage it too." Chen Huai'an smiled. He said this only to lay the groundwork for his breakthrough in a couple of days.
Because the opponents he would face next could not be defeated with the cultivation of the Body Tempering Realm, Middle Stage, Sixth Layer alone.
But if Chen Huai'an broke through to the Body Tempering Realm, Late Stage, Seventh Layer, then defeating someone at the Body Tempering Realm, Eighth Layer would be perfectly reasonable.
But if someone at the Body Tempering Realm, Middle Stage, Sixth Layer defeated someone at the Body Tempering Realm, Eighth Layer, anyone would find it suspicious.
Chen Huai'an had to cover every detail. He had no desire to be watched.
Then again, people from the Zhang Family and the Zhao Family already had their eyes on him. These two forces alone kept him stretched thin; if others started targeting him as well, that would be going too far.
Right now, he only wanted to make a name for himself in this Challenge Tournament, earn a batch of cultivation resources, then wait until his cultivation broke through to the Qi Refining Realm and enter the Outer Sect smoothly.
Chen Huai'an's performance might not have been breathtakingly brilliant, but for a newly initiated disciple to achieve such results, there were still people willing to invest in him.
Steward Wu had someone prepare a batch of Spirit Cuisine for Chen Huai'an.
Liu Qiaogui and Li Fugui wanted such treatment too.
Li Fugui especially had been