Ning Fengzhi: Let Xue Qinghe Deal with Spirit Hall; Breaking Through to Level 20

Everything settled back into calm, and time slipped by unnoticed.

Tang Shan immersed himself in a steady routine of cultivation. Each morning, he woke and called Xue Qinghe to join him for exercise.

Xue Qinghe mostly practiced Standing Stake to build a foundation, while Tang Shan used Hidden Force to temper his bones and organs again and again. Afterward, they ate together, then went about their separate affairs.

There was one small incident. One day, Tang Shan made another breakthrough in tempering his organs and coughed up a considerable amount of stagnant blood. Xue Qinghe was so startled that he immediately tried to summon a healing-type Soul Master. Fortunately, Tang Shan reacted quickly and caught his hand.

Once Tang Shan explained that coughing up black blood was a normal result of expelling impurities as his organs grew stronger, Xue Qinghe was astonished. From then on, he took his Internal Martial Arts training seriously.

Tang Shan had no idea whether Xue Qinghe diligently cultivated his Soul Power in private. After all, he could not see through the disguise provided by the Angel God Armor.

A week after Tang Shan arrived at the Prince's Residence, the Second Prince of Heaven Dou, Xue Shan, returned from distant Bafang City. Soon afterward, he and Xue Qinghe were summoned to the palace together.

Tang Shan had no way of knowing what happened there, but the radiant smile Xue Qinghe could barely suppress when he returned made one thing clear: he had left an excellent impression on Xue Ye.

Tang Shan only learned what had happened that day after asking Xue Qinghe.

Upon his return, Xue Shan had also submitted a memorial to Xue Ye. Its contents were broadly similar to Xue Qinghe's: complaints that Bafang City's officials refused to cooperate with him and treated him