"Ah! Forget it, since someone has their back, let's not bother them. Although it's humiliating for our Hou Family to be threatened by her, it's better than losing our lives," sighed a member of the Hou Family's son...

After the Elder Hou sighed, he carried the birdcage and walked out. However, Hou Guangrong and the others didn't notice that the Elder Hou was emitting a fierce aura as he left. He thought to himself about Ye Batian, "Once you're gone, our Hou Family will be the first to strike against your Ye Family, ensuring you won't rest in peace. Hmph!"

As they watched the elder leave, Hou Guanghua spoke up, "Big brother, should we let this go for now? It's no use getting entangled since the elder has already expressed his stance, and we can't go against his words!"

"Yeah, big brother, just bear with it for now. Once the elder of the Ye Family is gone, there'll be no one to back up that beast Ye Hao. Without support, won't it be easy to crush him?" Hou Guangfu chimed in.

"Hmm, second and third brother are right, let's bear with it for now?" Hou Guanggui also didn't want to provoke the woman who had once stirred the martial arts world into a frenzy.

"Alright! But Ah Zhong, if you can advance to the sixth level of National Martial Arts soon, go find trouble with him. I think even if that woman is really Bei Liusu, she wouldn't dare provoke you, since you're part of the younger generation." Although Hou Guangrong didn't plan to trouble Ye Hao, he wanted his son to at least disgust Ye Hao. While they might not dare kill Ye Hao, it would be enough to annoy Bei Liusu.

Otherwise, others might think the Hou Family is weak, being threatened by a woman and not daring to take action.

...

At the Shangguan Clan, Old Man Shangguan Dapao, seeing his cherished granddaughter crying, angrily shouted, "Which son of a bitch made my precious granddaughter cry! Oh, dear granddaughter, don't cry, grandpa's heart aches for you, don't cry!" A typical good grandpa!

"Xiaopao, Erpao, Sanpao, Siapao, are you all blind? Don't you see my precious granddaughter crying? Go and comfort her!" After shouting, Shangguan Dapao sat down powerlessly, his gaze falling on Shangguan Longyi, who had a crippled leg.

Shangguan Longyi averted his gaze slightly.

"Hmph! Useless! You can't even protect your sister, what's the use of keeping you?" Shangguan Dapao was about to go over and strike Shangguan Longyi.

At this moment, Shangguan Longyi hurriedly regained his senses and said, "Grandfather..."

Shangguan Dapao ignored her and forcefully struck over. Shangguan Longyi's heart bled, thinking, "Damn it, I'm the one who got hurt, not the one who failed to protect my sister. And my sister is crying because I got crippled, can't you see that, grandpa?"

Shangguan Longyi felt a sense of weariness and betrayal, overwhelmed by tens of thousands of curses.

"Shangguan Dapao, are you hitting my grandson? If you do, I'll cut you," came a voice from outside, a robust older woman holding a kitchen knife.

Frightened, Shangguan Dapao retreated continuously, steadied himself, and shouted, "Old woman, don't stop me, let him take care of my precious granddaughter."

"Stopping you, so what? Believe it or not, I'll castrate you while you sleep tonight." The older woman was even more fierce than Shangguan Dapao, her words making Shangguan Longyi burst into laughter.

"Enough, old woman, don't disgrace yourself. But I don't have time to bicker with you today. Xiaopao, investigate clearly who injured Longyi and who bullied Longyi, I will settle the score tomorrow, damn it!" Shangguan Dapao said as he glanced furtively at the old woman and decisively slipped away.

Shangguan Xiaopao naturally is the father of Shangguan Longyi and Shangguan Longyi. Their father, Shangguan Dapao, was not highly educated, and the Shangguan Family had reached its current scale largely due to the assistance of the old woman, Shangguan Dapao's wife. Without her, Shangguan Dapao would've been criticized countless times.

As for Erpao, Sanpao, and Siapao, they're Shangguan Dapao's second, third, and fourth sons respectively. Shangguan Dapao was once in charge of an artillery regiment, so when he later had children, they all continued the artillery theme.

"Alright!" Shangguan Xiaopao nodded and then turned to the old woman, "Mother, Longyi's leg has been broken, what do you think...?"

"What are you looking at? Is my grandson someone anyone can bully? Investigate thoroughly. Erpao, Sanpao, carry Longyi to my room, I'll treat him."

"Yes!" Erpao and Sanpao were quite afraid of this old woman, so they obeyed whatever she said.

...

Ye Hao spent a night in the Ye Family's courtyard, but ended up exhausted with all his bones loosened.

Because Ye Batian, the family elder, practiced pushing hands with him throughout the night. After dinner last night, the elder, still full of vigor, pulled Ye Hao to practice with him. This pushing and shoving lasted until after three in the early morning without sleep.

What puzzled Ye Hao was that Aunt Liu Su entered his room and covered him with a blanket last night? And she even shed tears? Ye Hao couldn't figure it out!

Upon seeing Ye Hao, Ye Batian, the family elder, quickly dismissed the nurse Yao, strode over energetically, and seeing this, Ye Hao also assumed his stance...

"Bang bang bang!"

After a few rigid clashes, Ye Hao didn't feel much, but the old man couldn't take it. His strength was only at the third level, and he was getting old, not as robust physically. Although carrying the Cold and Hot Ice Marrow that Ye Hao gave him, it only served to prolong his life and stop his body from feeling overly exhausted.

"Kid, not bad!" The old man said breathlessly after exchanging a few moves.

"Old man, come here, I have something to tell you." Seeing how the old man was panting after just a few moves, Ye Hao wanted to stimulate the old man's second cell cycle.

A large Luminous Pearl from the past allowed Xia Zhu's mother, an ordinary person, to live forty years longer. The old man had National Martial Arts at the third level; if he injected the Spiritual Power of a Golden-winged Dolphin into the old man, could he revert the old man back to the state of a forty or fifty-year-old?

Ye Hao had Qianqian measure the potential. The Spiritual Power of a Golden-winged Dolphin equals the strength of two large Luminous Pearls. If the old man could fully absorb it, he might break through to the fourth level, together with Ye Hao's unique technique to store the Spiritual Power in the old man's acupuncture points, certainly extending the old man's life by several decades.

"Just call me grandpa, what's the matter?" The old man leaned forward with a smile.

Ye Hao, although feeling that the Ye Family's members were very kind to him, was still unable to quickly adapt to calling Ye Batian grandpa.

"Old man, I want to offer you a fortune!" Ye Hao said mysteriously.

"What kind of fortune?" The old man's curiosity was piqued. He also saw a little mystery in Ye Hao, feeling intrigued to know what Ye Hao had planned.

"Old man, I've observed your bones are not as strong as they used to be, partly because you've exhausted yourself too much in the past, preventing your bone marrow from metabolizing like your cells.

Furthermore, your cells are increasingly weakening, unable to effectively metabolize. This affects your mobility, and once you're unable to move, you become lazy.

At the third level of National Martial Arts, you can exert only at the first level's strength. Even though you wear this necklace, your strength cannot fully employ the third level of National Martial Arts. So, I intend to stimulate your cells to undergo a second cycle, equivalent to a new life, then inject a large amount of Spiritual Power into your acupuncture points to store it there, keeping your body always in a state of Spiritual Power.

Day by day your body will become stronger, and with the initial infusion, you can perhaps immediately attain the fourth level of National Martial Arts. You know, once a breakthrough occurs, even if a person is exhausted to death, the post-breakthrough strength can instantly rejuvenate them." Ye Hao confidently declared.

However, he feared the old man might not believe him or see it as unnecessary.

"Oh? How exactly would you do it?" The old man showed a keen interest.

But at that moment, Nurse Yao came over, carrying a bowl of precious soup, saying, "Old Commander, time to drink your soup."

Ye Hao glanced at the soup and realized it contained many stimulants for the body. He thought there was no need to further stimulate the old man, so he said, "Old man, you don't need to consume this anymore. Consuming it excessively will only clog your meridians..."

"What do you know? This is a prescription by Hua Ji, the famous physician across Huaxia, for the Old Commander. It's not for you to say it's useless." Nurse Yao snapped at Ye Hao.

"I say it's useless, and it's useless. Perhaps if you drink it, your skin might become smoother, but for the old man, it's of no use anymore because these things initially can stimulate the body cells, allowing them to cycle between death and rebirth, but over time, the impurities within the old man have accumulated. This results in cells unable to wholly metabolize, hindering entire bodily coordination. If you don't believe it, let's witness it ourselves?" Ye Hao was enraged by Nurse Yao, who had constantly been against him since he arrived at the Ye Family's courtyard. If he didn't demonstrate his abilities, she definitely wouldn't be convinced.

"How to witness it?" Nurse Yao scoffed.

The old man cheerfully watched Ye Hao and Nurse Yao bicker without interrupting, thinking it's great that young people shared common topics.

"Then let the old man lift his shirt, you press a few times on his back, and I can clearly identify where he feels pain and where he feels comfort." Ye Hao insisted.

"No way, Yanjing's weather has turned autumn, it's too cold to take off clothes," Nurse Yao objected.

Ye Hao cast a disdainful glance at her, then circulated his Inner Breath to create warmth within a meter's radius...

"This... you're wasting Inner Breath, are you mad?" Nurse Yao was stunned. Who would bother, like Ye Hao, to use Inner Breath for warmth?

"Stop talking nonsense, I have plenty of Inner Breath," Ye Hao turned to the old man, "Old man, I'll help you take off your shirt."

The old man nodded, he wanted to see if Ye Hao really could sense which cells in his body were malfunctioning and which cells could still complete a normal cycle. (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)

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