The Second Martial Realm-Bone Tempering, Achieved!

"Buying a house in County Town? That's great! We could bring Mom and Dad over, and arrange for our little sister to go to school..."

Ning Mu took the news that Zhao Er wanted to buy a house in County Town fairly calmly, but his elder brother Zhao Da grew excited, even sounding wistful as he spoke.

"Leave this to me, little brother. As it happens, plenty of lineages have been pouring everything into training their younger generation lately. They're more strapped for cash now than ever, so quite a few properties in town should be up for sale. I'll ask around for you."

Ning Mu nodded beside him, agreeing to take care of it.

In these troubled times, ordinary people struggled to get by, and life was hardly easy for the lineages either. They poured all their resources into cultivating martial artists, not daring to let up in the slightest.

Martial artists were the roots from which a lineage grew. To cultivate them, lineages would rather sell their assets and scrimp on food and clothing.

Without martial artists to protect them, they could not hold on to their wealth even if they sat atop a mountain of gold. But if they raised a high-ranking martial artist who could even win a place in the Grand Exam, they would leap through the dragon gate, earning back every investment a hundred or a thousand times over.

"Then sorry for the trouble, sister-in-law!"

"We're family. What's all this formality for?"

With plenty of food and drink, all three wore smiles throughout the meal.

By the time they finished eating, the Sun Family had already sent over the banknotes and the meat from half of the strange serpent.

After leaving half the serpent meat with his elder brother, Zhao Er prepared to take