6- Breakthrough.. 1

Zhong Peng's train of thought was suddenly interrupted by the sound of his room's door being pushed open.

He lifted his gaze to find a genial middle-aged man standing before him. It was none other than his father, Zhong Li, the esteemed leader of the Zhong clan. "Son, how are you faring?" his father's soothing voice reverberated throughout the room.

"I'm doing well, Dad," Zhong Peng replied nervously, feeling somewhat awkward calling someone "Dad" after so many years of losing his father. "So, this is what it feels like to have a father who cares for you," Zhong Peng thought to himself, realizing the depth of parental love that he had been missing out on for far too long.

As his father sat with him for a while, Zhong Peng felt a warmth in his heart that he had not experienced in years.

Eventually after spending time with him for a while his father bid him farewell and departed from the room.

After his father departed, Zhong Peng shifted his focus to the demure-looking young lady standing before him. It was difficult for him to believe that she was the same person who had killed the former young master of the Zhong clan. After contemplating how to handle this situation, he finally decided to issue a command to the young lady. "Go and fetch me something to drink," he ordered, his tone firm and uncompromising.

The young lady obediently nodded her head and departed to get what Zhong Peng asked her to. After a brief time, she returned with freshly brewed tea and assisted Zhong Peng in pouring himself a cup.

"ok, you can leave"zhong peng send her off before contacting the old man who extended his consciousness to examine the tea before him.

"hmmm it seems like they are desperate to take your life," the old man said with a sigh.

"so there is truly a flame heart vine essence in the tea" chill ran down Zhong Peng's spine.

To Zhong Peng's surprise, he noticed that they had added a small amount of ice essence to the tea. He quickly realized what they were trying to do. While the quantity of ice essence added was not enough to cause any significant harm, it would provoke the fire essence of the flame heart vine within him, causing it to fight fiercely to eliminate the ice essence. This, in turn, would double the damage inflicted upon his body.

Zhong Peng was left to wonder who could be behind such an assassination attempt as he pondered the matter at hand.

Just as he was lost in thought, Zhong Yuan suddenly strolled into the room, wearing a smile on his face.

"Young master" he clasped his hand and bowed slightly.

"paying respect to the elder yuan" zhong peng replied his greetings with a deep bow.

"I heard that you were awake so I decided to pay you a visit to know how you are doing"

"I am fine now elder" zhong peng replied.

"Since you are fine I'll be taking my leave" he stood up and walked out of the room.

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Four days later zhong peng room

"I thought you said you have resolved the problem with my crippled cultivation" zhong peng was again inside the grand room with the old man a look of displeasure could be seen on his face.

"yes I have indeed resolved the problem with your cultivation" the old man replied also angry about how ungrateful zhong peng could be, zhong peng wanted to argue but looking at the serious look on the old man's face he realized that the old was serious about the issue.

"But I tried to refine the surrounding spirit qi but it wouldn't work."

Which cultivation techniques did you use" the old man asked curiously.

"I use the ten breath of purity it is a cultivation technique only cultivated by the inner discipline of the clan" zhong peng replied.

"Ah, I forgot to mention that you cannot cultivate low-quality techniques anymore. You have inherited my inheritance and your qi essence has become extremely pure. Therefore, low-quality cultivation techniques will no longer suffice for you," the old man stated, his expression calm and collected.

"Where could I get a high-quality technique the best technique in the whole Zhong clan is a tier 1 low-quality battle technique" Zhong Peng replied anxiously if he can't cultivate a low-quality technique that means he is not going to ever cultivate.

"Uhmm when I said high-quality technique I didn't mean a high-quality technique I mean divine quality techniques" Zhong Peng who was about to heave a sigh of relief after hearing the first part of the statement froze.