At Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy, two days after returning from seizing the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk in the rear mountains, Xiao Yan vanished from his room in a flash and entered the Portable Space.
Xiao Yan traveled invisibly through the space. The Xiao Household's estate, covering over a hundred mu, had already been completed.
At that moment, the vast square where the black Testing Magic Stone Tablet stood was filled with the Xiao Household's younger generation.
Today happened to be the Xiao Household's annual cultivation testing day.
"Xiao Qing, Dou Power, fifth stage! Grade: intermediate!" the middle-aged Xiao Household man in charge of testing announced with a smile beside the Magic Stone Tablet.
The girl, around thirteen years old, politely bowed to the middle-aged man, then returned to the line with a faint smile on her pretty face.
"Little Xiao Qing actually advanced two stages in just over a month. That's incredible."
"Ever since disaster struck the Xiao Household, everyone's been cultivating harder. With the rich energy in the ancestral grounds, we've all enjoyed a wave of breakthroughs."
"Hehe, I advanced a stage too. I'm at the sixth stage of Dou Power now."
As each disciple's results were announced in the square, they drew murmurs from the crowd, whose faces were all bright with smiles.
Watching the Xiao Household's spirited younger generation from where he hovered invisibly in the air, Xiao Yan smiled.
The disaster that had struck the Xiao Household had not only spurred its youngsters on, but also helped them mature considerably.
With the abundant energy in the space as well, their cultivation had surged, each of them advancing one or two stages.
As for the ancestral grounds, that was the explanation Xiao Zhan and the elders had devised for the Spatial Realm after discussing