Return of the golden trio

After four days of traveling full speed. Wang Wei, Long Yue and Lee Zheng returned to victory city.

When they arrived they were taken aback. The city was much bigger than when they left, also the market square was way busier and the shops were selling better products than before.

"This has happened since our families took over?" Wang Wei said.

"Yeah, looks like it." Long Yue said.

"I wonder what happened to the sacred moon, void, and jade family." Lee Zheng said.

"I guess we'll find out if we just ask around."

So the boys started asking around. As they were asking around they were getting recognized as the golden trio and were being asked for their autograph. Eventually, they found out what happened to the three families.

"The three families became subsidiary families to ours. The void family was absorbed by the holy leopard family, the jade family by the snow-white eagle family, and the sacred moon family by the red fire dragon family." Wang Wei said.

"So that means our families are now the strongest families in the city." Lee Zheng said.

"Yes, I even heard someone say that this city was almost as powerful as the capital." Long Yue said.

"That is amazing." Lee Zheng said.

"Alright, let's all go back to our families and meet each other in one week." Wang Wei said.

The three boys each visited their own families. Their holiday would last for one and a half months so they were preparing to cultivate and train the entire time to get even stronger.

"Patriarch, I'm back." Wang Wei said as he walked into the red fire-dragon family hall.

"Little Wei you're back." Wang Longwei said.

"Yes, I have a holiday so I decided to spend it at home." Wang Wei said.

"That is wonderful." Patriarch Longwei said. "Let me walk you back to your house."

While they were walking back patriarch Longwei asked all kind of questions. About how the school had been treating him since he left jade city, and how his cultivation had been going.

"Level twenty-nine?!" Wang Longwei cried out.

"Yes." Wang Wei said. "But don't scream so loud, I don't want everyone to know. it will get me a lot of attention and then I can't focus on my cultivation. I am close to becoming a chi master, and if that time comes before I go back to the academy I will rely on the family to help me hunt down a soul beast."

"Of course, you can count on the family." Wang Longwei said.

"Thank you."

After they talked a little more they arrived at Wang Wei's house. He was welcomed by his parents with big hugs and a nice meal. When his parents found out about his level they could not help but celebrate.

"My son is a one in a thousand-year genius." His father said proudly.

"I am so proud of you." His mother said with tears in her eyes.

"Mom, dad, it's nothing. The entire of jade academy is full of people like me." Wang Wei said.

"But they probably didn't start out with the universally known trash red snake soul form." His father said.

"Whatever, I'm going to go cultivate." Wang Wei said embarrassed.

He went to the forest he used to go when he attended victory academy. He decided to put on a cloak to hide his appearance because he didn't want to be disturbed.

'I am so close to reaching level thirty. Why am I stuck here.' Wang Wei thought to himself.

He had reached a bottleneck in his cutivation. He then remembered what his teacher told him.

'Overworking is a bad thing for your body. It is required to relax every once in a while.'

'Alright it's decided tomorrow I will go into the city and I will do something fun.' He thought to himself.

It was right at this moment that he felt someone approaching fast. He stood up and was ready to battle.

"How dare you trespass on the red fire-dragon family's ground." The person said as he pounced toward Wang Wei.

Wang Wei said nothing in return and dodged the person's attack. After exchanging blows with the person he had a familiar feeling.

'Wait, isn't this..'

"Lu Piao?" Wang Wei said as he took off his hood.

"Young master Wei? Is that you?" Lu Piao said.

"Yes, it's me." Wang Wei said.

After this, they immediately stopped fighting and started talking.

"How have you been?" Lu Piao asked.

"I've been great, I am almost at the rank of a chi master." Wang Wei said. He would trust Lu Piao with his life so there was no doubt he would keep this kind of information from him.

"Chi master! That is amazing." Lu Piao said.

"Thanks, your martial arts have improved as well." Wang Wei said.

"Of course. I have been training very hard for the past year. But since I am only a martial artist I can't use any special techniques." Lu Piao said with a disappointed look on his face.

"Then take this and cultivate this technique." Wang Wei said as he handed over a certain scroll to Lu Piao

"What is this?" He asked.

"This is the bone enhancing technique. It consists of eight levels namely. The red bone structure, the orange bone structure, the yellow bone structure, the white bone structure, the star bone structure, the solar bone structure, the galaxy bone structure, and the universe bone structure. I have cultivated to the peak of the orange bone structure and when I will make my breakthrough to chi master I will also breakthrough to the yellow bone structure. You don't necessarily need soul energy to cultivate this technique, although it will make it significantly easier. What I am trying to say is that this is a martial arts technique which will help you strengthen your body. I am planning to give it to all the martial artists in our family so the overall strength will increase." Wang Wei said.

"Thank you, young master Wei. This is amazing." Lu Piao said.

"Don't mention it. I will keep searching for these kinds of martial art techniques so I can help the family more." Wang Wei said.

"It's getting late, young master. You should return home." Lu Piao said.

"Okay, by the way, I am going into the city tomorrow would you like to join me?" Wang Wei asked.

"Of course." Lu Piao said.

"Then it's settled tomorrow we will go into the city." Wang Wei said.