End of February.
Night fell, and darkness shrouded the entire Nuoding City.
Inside the bedroom, Chu Chengzhou, having finished his daily evening Meditation, clicked on his attribute panel with anticipation, waiting for the White Rank Eye Exercises skill to upgrade.
Not long after, the Eye Exercises skill finished its idle upgrade, and its Rank transformed into Yellow.
Staring at the skill bar for three seconds, Chu Chengzhou understood the effects of the Yellow Rank Eye Exercises skill.
Just as he had anticipated, the Eye Exercises upgraded to Yellow Rank now possessed the effect of enhancing Mental Energy.
For low-Rank Spirit Masters, the strength of one’s Mental Energy might seem useless, only becoming important when attaching a ten-thousand-year spirit ring, but in reality, that was not the case.
Meditation requires the consumption of energy, and low-Rank Spirit Masters simply cannot perform Meditation for long periods or all day.
Why does this phenomenon occur?
The most important factor is that the Mental Energy of low-Rank Spirit Masters is far inferior to that of Advanced Spirit Masters.
With a cultivation method to enhance Mental Energy, he would be able to significantly extend his Meditation time every morning and evening, indirectly accelerating the growth of his Soul Power Rank.
After some thought, Chu Chengzhou had a sudden idea and changed the name of the upgraded Eye Exercises.
[Skill: Spirit Refining (Yellow)]
Tang San: “I practice the Purple Demon Eye, what do you practice?”
Chu Chengzhou: “Eye Exercises.”
Tang San: “??
Are you kidding me?
You are courting death!”
The name “Eye Exercises” was a bit too childish, it was better to change it.
Subsequently, Chu Chengzhou removed the Spirit Refining skill from the idle slot and re-equipped the Meditation skill.
To accelerate the speed of Soul Power advancement, he still had to rely on his Spirit and Meditation.
“Four years from now, I should be able to become a one-ring Spirit Master, right?”
Chu Chengzhou estimated his cultivation speed.
However, the cultivation speed he estimated was based on his current cultivation efficiency.
Upgrading the Yellow Rank Meditation skill to Purple Rank required three hundred days of idling.
Moreover, by February of the year after next, his Elemental Summoning Flag Spirit would be able to evolve into a top-tier Spirit, at which point his Soul Power cultivation speed would further accelerate, so reaching Rank 10 quasi-Spirit Master would definitely not take four years; he estimated about two years would be enough.
Just as Chu Chengzhou was looking forward to a bright future, thousands of miles away in Heaven Dou City, two figures, one big and one small, were walking on the streets under the night sky.
Recently, this could be said to be the happiest time in Tang San’s life.
Tang San: Shocked, My Dad is a Titled Douluo?!
Having told his son the reason for moving and his own strength, Tang Hao naturally didn’t neglect him anymore.
Although they had been homeless for a while to avoid trouble, Tang Hao didn’t let Tang San suffer in terms of daily life.
They stayed in hotels, and he was fed until full at every meal, with meat at every meal.
After a period of time, Tang San’s originally thin physique due to malnutrition had visibly become sturdier.
Well, being well-fed was one of Tang San’s greatest dreams for the past six years.
The only thing Tang San regretted was not being able to learn any news about his mother from his father.
And whenever he asked his father why he was holding a pot of Gold-Veined Blue Silver Grass, his father would remain silent, as if he hadn’t heard him.
However, Tang San could see the longing inadvertently revealed in his eyes; his father hadn’t failed to hear him, he just didn’t want to talk about it.
A few days ago, Tang San discovered that his father had disappeared for a while at night, and that pot of Gold-Veined Blue Silver Grass was gone too.
The Blue Silver Grass his father treated as a treasure was gone, but Tang San didn’t ask much, because he knew that even if he asked, he wouldn’t get an answer.
And just yesterday, when he learned from his father that they were going to seek refuge with his aunt, Tang San was even more excited.
It turned out that besides his father, he still had relatives alive in the world!
Not long after, the father and son stopped in front of a tall building.
By the dim streetlights on the side, looking up, Tang San discovered that this was a five-story small building.
The overall architectural style of the building was slightly simple and unadorned, and on the plaque hanging above the gate, there were the two characters ‘Moon Pavilion’.
“Dad, does Aunt live here?”
After examining the small building named Moon Pavilion, Tang San asked.
“Hmm.”
The answer to Tang San was just a faint “Hmm.”
Subsequently, Tang San saw his father’s lips move slightly, and then he stood quietly in place, waiting.
Seeing that his father didn’t speak, Tang San didn’t ask further and stood with him waiting.
On the top floor of Moon Pavilion, in an elegantly furnished living room, illuminated by the light from a Spirit guidance lamp, a graceful and luxurious young woman was leaning on the sofa, reading a book in her hand.
Suddenly, a voice full of vicissitudes reached the graceful woman’s ears: “When the full moon is incomplete, a friend from the past appears; Yuehua, I am here.”
“Brother Hao?
Or am I hallucinating?”
A look of surprise flashed in the eyes of Tang Yuehua, who was reading.
“Yuehua, it’s me.”
Just then, the previously vicissitudinous voice entered her ears again.
“Someone come!”
Immediately, forcibly suppressing the joy in her heart, Tang Yuehua shouted to the downstairs.
“Madam?”
A maid’s voice sounded from downstairs.
“An honorable guest has arrived, open the door to welcome the guest!”
Tang Yuehua ordered with a slightly trembling tone.
“Yes, Madam!”
The maid downstairs was puzzled as to why there were honorable guests coming late at night, but she didn’t ask and immediately started arranging.
“Creak—!”
A sound of a door opening came, the Moon Pavilion gate slowly opened, and the bright Spirit guidance light inside shone out, illuminating the slightly dim street.
Tang San saw more than a dozen beautiful older sisters walk out from inside, standing on both sides of the Moon Pavilion entrance.
Immediately after, a young woman wearing a silver palace dress, looking exceptionally graceful and luxurious, walked out from inside.
‘Is this my aunt?’
Looking at the luxurious woman not far away, Tang San’s eyes were filled with shock and doubt.
His own appearance could be called ordinary, and his father’s appearance could even be called ugly, so why was his aunt so beautiful?
Although that tall figure was unkempt and sloppy, it still couldn’t hide that domineering aura, and Tang Yuehua immediately recognized that this was her second brother, Tang Hao.
Walking quickly to Tang Hao, Tang Yuehua didn’t care about the little Tang San on the side, grabbed Tang Hao’s shoulders tightly with both hands, her eyes filled with mist: “Brother Hao, you really came, how did you…”
Looking at his sister who was crying with joy and still carrying disbelief, Tang Hao sighed slightly: “It’s me, Yuehua, I have come.”
With trembling lips, at this moment, Tang Yuehua, not caring at all about her image as the master of Moon Pavilion, suddenly threw herself into Tang Hao’s arms and burst into tears.
After many years, she had finally seen her second brother, who had been missing without a trace and whose life or death had been unknown.
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