The morning classes concluded.
"Liu Hua, come with me," Zhou Hong whispered to Liu Hua after school at noon.
"Where are we going?" Liu Hua asked, a hint of confusion in his voice as he saw Zhou Hong's secretive demeanor.
"So many questions."
Zhou Hong and Liu Hua went to a secluded spot by the teaching building, a small patch of trees.
Zhou Hong took out a spirit pill from his person and said to Liu Hua, "Take this."
"What is this?" Liu Hua asked, puzzled.
"This thing can open up your foolish mind. If it were sold on the market, ten million would not be enough."
"Ah, so expensive," Liu Hua exclaimed, startled.
"Eat it quickly. After eating it, your intelligence will improve. Then you can research the body-refining method I taught you before. Whether you have a chance to walk the path of martial cultivation depends on you."
"Thank you, Zhou Hong." Liu Hua's eyes reddened as he looked at Zhou Hong, seemingly on the verge of tears.
"Stop being so sentimental." Zhou Hong kicked Liu Hua's butt, a hint of annoyance in his voice.
"Heh heh!" Liu Hua no longer stood on ceremony and immediately ate Zhou Hong's spirit pill. In his heart, his gratitude towards Zhou Hong was beyond words.
"I've eaten it. What happens next?" Liu Hua quickly asked.
"Just wait patiently. It might take three to five days for the medicinal effects to slowly take hold. During these three to five days, your intelligence will be gradually unlocked."
"Okay."
"Let's go eat."
Zhou Hong said no more and turned to go to the cafeteria with Liu Hua.
As people in the cafeteria looked at Zhou Hong, they felt a sense of fear. Everyone knew that Zhou Hong was now the true number one troublemaker.
Zhou Hong paid no mind to their gazes and ate his meal. It was fine with him if they were afraid; it brought him peace.
Just then, Zhou Hong's phone rang. He took it out and saw it was an unknown number.
"Hello, who are you looking for?" Zhou Hong answered and asked.
"You are Zhou Hong, right? I'll give you one hour. After one hour, I want to see you kneel before me and beg for forgiveness. Otherwise, you and your trash parents living in the shantytown will all die."
Upon hearing the voice from the phone, Zhou Hong's body trembled, and a surge of anger welled up.
"Who exactly are you?"
"Cao Xiulang is my nephew, so who do you think I am? Do you think our Cao family will just ignore what you did to him?"
"Heh heh, so it's you. Alright, how do you want me to beg for your forgiveness?"
"I'll give you one hour. Come to my family voluntarily and beg forgiveness from all my family members, and perhaps I can spare your dog's life."
"Give me your family's address."
"Cha Cha Road, Cha Cha Manor...!" The man on the other end of the phone immediately recited a string of place names.
Zhou Hong hung up the phone, a look of anger on his face.
"Liu Hua, eat by yourself. I have something to attend to outside."
"Where are you going?" Liu Hua asked, confused.
"Don't ask so many questions, it's private." Zhou Hong turned and left the cafeteria. He didn't know why he was so angry, perhaps it was the threatening tone that made Zhou Hong unbearable. Zhou Hong detested those who threatened others' parents or relatives at the slightest provocation.
"Very well. I was just playing around, but since you want to push it this far, don't blame me." A murderous glint flashed in Zhou Hong's eyes. If anyone from the Zi Xiao Continent saw Zhou Hong's current gaze, they would surely be terrified. Usually, when he exhibited this look, it meant he was truly enraged, and the result was the annihilation of a family or a power.
At this very moment, in a certain family in Jinzhou City.
Many people were seated in the main hall, their faces filled with anger. Below the hall, a young man was kneeling. This young man was none other than Cao Xiulang.
"Lang'er, how could you be so humiliated? With your 'ji ba' in your mouth, you've truly shamed our Cao family."
"Grandfather, I didn't want to. Who knew that bastard would go out for seven days of training and return having reached the tenth stage of a martial artist? That's why I was no match for him at all. I also didn't expect him to completely disregard the family power behind me and act with such impunity," the kneeling Cao Xiulang gritted out.
"Hmph, now your uncle has already called him and told him to come to our doorstep within an hour, or his entire family will be annihilated."
"Grandfather, wouldn't this alert him? He'll definitely be scared and run away now," Cao Xiulang said anxiously. Sudancn.com
"He can run, but his home can't. Your uncle has already dispatched people to monitor his parents. Unless he doesn't care about his parents' lives."
"But, won't this alert the Divine Constable Bureau?" At this moment, another man in the hall raised a concerned question.
"When a family disciple is so humiliated, do we still care about alerting the Divine Constable Bureau? Besides, we have connections within the Divine Constable Bureau. In short, this is an unbearable situation." An elder sitting above the main hall slammed his chair fiercely. The chair he was sitting on instantly shattered into a pile of broken wood with a loud bang.
"Patriarch, although this Zhou Hong comes from the shantytown, he has already been taken in as a live-in son-in-law by the Qiao family. Will the Qiao family intervene? After all, behind the Qiao family, there is also a master, known as Master Duan."
"Hmph, what kind of master is he? Moreover, the Qiao family is just a dog to that master. Do you think that master will truly act for the Qiao family? To that master, the Qiao family is merely an ATM."
"Very well, then we'll wait for this brat to arrive."
In the Cao family's main hall, everyone waited quietly.
Soon, half an hour passed.
"Patriarch, someone has arrived outside," a servant reported, rushing in.
"Let him in."
The next second, Zhou Hong entered the main hall. Zhou Hong scanned the group of people in the hall, his eyes showing a hint of disdain, like a fierce tiger entering a chicken coop, and these chickens were newborns.
"You are Zhou Hong?" the elder above the main hall asked angrily.
"Indeed. Who are you?"
"Hmph, I am the Patriarch of the Cao family. Cao Xiulang is my grandson. What you did to my grandson this morning, we have seen the video. You have incredible audacity. Even if my grandson is not your match, have you considered the power behind him? Do you think your grandson became the number one troublemaker just because he was arrogant? Are there no students stronger than him? No, it's just that those stronger than him dare not offend our Cao family. What are you? A piece of trash from the slums, who by some stroke of luck possesses martial cultivation talent, dares to humiliate my grandson." The Cao family patriarch became more and more enraged as he spoke. Zhou Hong did not interrupt him, letting him speak at length, as he would only have a few more words to live.