"This can't be right?"
"Is it that easy for ordinary mortals to cultivate? It feels too casual!" Qiao Wanli said.
"Yeah, it's too hard to believe." Qiao Yannian and Liu Liying also expressed disbelief.
They felt that they were just ordinary people, how could it be so easy to form a sword formation and become the strongest combination in Jinzhou City.
"Grandpa, Dad, Mom, it's true for ordinary people, but the cultivation techniques you practice, and the spirit pills you eat, are not something ordinary people can possess. Let's talk about the spirit pills first, ordinary people can't get them at all. And the body-refining techniques are incredibly precious, not to mention the Three-Phase Sword Art, none of these are accessible to ordinary people. Therefore, it's not impossible for you to achieve this much in just a few days. Even if it were other ordinary people, with the same procedures, they could do the same."
"Zhou Hong, where did you get your spirit pills, body-refining methods, and the Three-Phase Sword Art from?" Qiao Wanli asked doubtfully.
Zhou Hong casually replied, "Master Duan gave them to me."
"Impossible, don't lie to me. Before, when you mentioned Master Duan, I could still believe it, but now, I wouldn't believe it even if you beat me to death. If Master Duan had such powerful things, why would he come from the capital to Jinzhou City to show off in front of us ordinary people."
Zhou Hong smiled speechlessly, never expecting that Qiao Wanli and the others already knew that Master Duan wasn't doing well in the capital, which was why he came to Jinzhou City to show off.
"Alright, actually, I have an even more powerful expert behind me. As for who it is, I won't say." Zhou Hong chuckled.
"I knew it."
"Alright, Grandpa, I'll teach you how to combine the sword formation." Zhou Hong didn't want to waste any more words.
"Okay."
"Let's find a wide, flat area."
Afterward, Zhou Hong, Qiao Wanli, Qiao Yannian, and Liu Liying went to an unoccupied flat area and began teaching them how to form the sword formation.
After half a day of effort, Zhou Hong finally helped them successfully form the Three-Phase Sword Formation.
Under the Three-Phase Sword Formation, the power displayed by the three of them had indeed increased by an immeasurable amount. Seeing the power, the Qiao Wanli father-son-daughter-in-law trio was shocked.
"See? I didn't lie to you. If you form the sword formation now, defeating martial artists at the seventh or eighth stage won't be a problem."
"Mmm-hmm!"
"Alright, Grandpa, Mom, Dad, the rest is up to you. Continue to cultivate, and the stronger your own strength becomes, the more powerful the sword formation will be." Zhou Hong saw that time was running out, and he had already stayed for several more days to guide them.
"Zhou Hong, are you leaving now?" Qiao Wanli said with a hint of sadness in his eyes.
"Yes, I want to travel around China. When I've had enough, I'll head to the capital. I hope to see you at the Qiao family in the capital then."
"Okay, but there's one thing I still want to ask you. If we return to the Qiao family in the capital, and the family asks about our Three-Phase Sword Formation, what should we say? I think if the family finds out, some people might become envious." Qiao Wanli asked.
"Of course, you can't tell them, and you definitely can't spread it around. Just keep it to yourselves. In the future, if you want to pass it on, pass it to your descendants. Or, if one day you become the strongest in the Qiao family and control the Qiao family, then you can decide to pass it on to some talented disciples."
"Heh, don't even think about that." Qiao Wanli chuckled. Becoming the strongest in the Qiao family was something he didn't even dare to imagine.
"Although I don't know the strength of the strongest in the Qiao family, if all three of you can reach the Martial King realm, then after performing the Three-Phase Sword Formation, you might be able to defeat the strongest in the Qiao family."
"Martial King? Zhou Hong, please don't say that, my heart is about to jump out of my chest. I don't even dare to think about it." Liu Li laughed.
Zhou Hong said no more. It would indeed take some time for the three of them to become Martial Kings.
"Goodbye, I'm leaving now." Zhou Hong waved his hand.
Qiao Wanli and the other two watched Zhou Hong leave with reluctance, but they knew it was just a temporary farewell, and they would soon meet again at the Qiao family in the capital.
Zhou Hong left Jinzhou City and walked alone on a national highway.
Zhou Hong was not driving, nor was he using any means of transportation. He intended to walk across China, to see if he could discover anything, and at the same time, to understand what forces existed in China.
Soon, night fell, and Zhou Hong entered the forest. He built a bonfire in the woods, caught a wild animal, and rested on the spot.
Thus, time passed quickly.
In the blink of an eye, a week had passed.
This week, Zhou Hong had been walking in the forest every day, crossing several provinces, and he had no idea where he had arrived.
"Help! Is anyone there? Help! Wuwuwu!" About a week later, one evening, as Zhou Hong was walking in the forest, preparing to catch a wild animal, build a bonfire, and rest for the night, he suddenly heard a cry for help from below a cliff ahead. The voice sounded like a woman's.
"Hmm?" Zhou Hong immediately rushed towards the sound. His first thought was whether it could be Xiao Yu.
Soon, Zhou Hong rushed forward. He saw a sheer cliff, and on the cliff, a woman was dangling from a protruding tree. Su Dan Novel Network.
"Help! Is anyone there? Help." The woman kept crying for help.
Zhou Hong sighed, because this woman was not Xiao Yu. He didn't know how she fell off the cliff, but fortunately, she was caught by the tree, otherwise she would have fallen to her death. But fortunately, she met Zhou Hong today, otherwise she would have surely died. After all, this was a remote mountainous area, and it was evening. By the time someone discovered her, she would have likely died, or the branches would have broken, and she would have fallen to the bottom of the cliff and died.
Zhou Hong immediately leaped forward, followed the cliff wall down, grabbed the woman, and instantly brought her to the top of the cliff.
"Thank you, thank you, senior. Are you a cultivator?" The woman thanked Zhou Hong profusely after being rescued.
"You're welcome. Why are you in this desolate wilderness, a woman?" Zhou Hong asked.
"I dare not hide it from you, senior. I am a hiking enthusiast. I heard that a reclusive strongman once lived in this mountain, so I wanted to come here to explore and perhaps, by chance, meet this reclusive strongman."
Zhou Hong frowned slightly.
"Senior, you must be that reclusive strongman, right?" the woman said excitedly at this moment.
"I am not."
"Don't lie to me. You just leaped down from the cliff and flew up with me. Such immense power, how could an ordinary person achieve it? Although I am not a cultivator, I have seen strongmen fight. I can naturally tell that your strength is more than ten times greater than the so-called strongmen I have seen before."
"I really am not," Zhou Hong denied again.