"You're going the wrong way," Xu Lei called out in the Netherworld corridor.
Jiang Chen did not look back. "No, I'm not. I just remembered I still have chicken soup simmering on the stove at home. I'm heading back first. Don't tell anyone I was here."
"Well..." Xu Lei hesitated, then could not help muttering, "Brutal as he is, he certainly knows how to enjoy life. He really loves making chicken soup."
Back home.
Jiang Chen first went over to Sister Hong's for a lavish breakfast, then helped her cultivate for a while. Her aura was fluctuating wildly, a sign that a breakthrough was imminent.
After a brief moment of thought, he took out several Spirit-Gathering Pills +2 and put her through some special training.
Amid the pain and pleasure.
As noon approached.
Sister Hong broke through, officially entering D-Rank!
This was so extraordinary that even Jiang Chen was shocked. In the mere few days since she had begun cultivating, she had relied on devouring ghosts' fortune, along with his torment.
She had gone from an ordinary person to a D-Rank expert.
If word got out, it would probably leave countless Unusual Persons stunned.
It seemed the Gu Family Bloodline and their Big Dipper Seven-Star Secret Technique were indeed far from ordinary.
But Sister Hong's experience could not be replicated either. First, she was exceptionally gifted to begin with, outstanding even among the Gu Clan Members.
According to some theories on fortune Jiang Chen had read.
After the Gu Family had declined for hundreds or even thousands of years, she was this generation's child of resurgence, bearing responsibility for reviving the family and carrying the fate of generations of her clansmen.
Then there was this.
Sister Hong had met Jiang Chen.
That night, he had taken her to absorb