Chapter 20: Those who humiliate my father shall die!

  "Father, what's going on with your injury?" Zhou Heng pressed down the anger in his heart and asked in a calm tone, but his slightly trembling voice still revealed the extreme emotions he was feeling.

  Zhou Dinghai thought for a moment, thinking that his son was born clever and could guess one or two things even if he didn't say anything. It's better to tell him directly, so he said: "A few days ago, I heard that a divine medicine had been born, and as a father, I went to try my luck and fought with others for a few rounds. Unfortunately, my skills were not up to par!"

  Zhou Heng immediately understood that his father had again risked fighting with others to find a "miracle cure" for him, but ended up being severely injured instead.

  This world has always been about might making right, if you can't even win a fight then you can only blame yourself for not being skilled enough! Zhou Heng could accept this, but what he couldn't tolerate was that his own father had suffered severe injuries for him!

  His father was his only relative, yet because of his own injury, he was furious beyond measure. It was precisely because of his own past "incompetence" that his father had to run around and take risks for him!

  Zhou Heng blamed himself, if it wasn't for his own uselessness, how would his father have been hurt?

  There is an evil fire in his heart, which almost burns up this world!

  No matter who he is, no matter how terrible his background is, he's dead for sure!

  Zhou Heng made a vow in his heart, but on his face, he forced out a smile and said, "Dad, I have some good news to tell you, I can cultivate now!"

  "What, really?" Zhou Dinghai's slightly dull eyes suddenly burst out with a sharp light, he looked at Zhou Heng carefully and immediately felt the strong aura on his body, although it couldn't compare to his peak period, but had absolutely entered the Bone Refining Realm!

  He had been away from home for more than four months, and his son had reached the Bone Refining Realm from being a useless waste that couldn't cultivate?

  "Haha, hahaha!" Zhou Dinghai burst out laughing, filled with joy, but the laughter shook his wound, and he immediately started coughing again. His face, which had just gained a few shades of red due to excitement, instantly turned deathly pale.

  But he still had a smile on his face, stretched out a big hand and patted Zhou Heng's shoulder, saying: "Good boy, good boy, Dad knows you can do it! You must be able to!"

  Zhou Heng also nodded vigorously, grasping his father's hand, and for a moment he was speechless with emotion.

  "Dad, who hurt you?" Zhou Heng finally couldn't help but ask.

  Zhou Dinghai remained silent for a moment before speaking, "Heng'er, the outside world is hundreds or thousands of times more vast than you can imagine. What you need to do now is focus on your cultivation and don't let other things distract you!"

  "Dad, you were seriously injured for me. I don't even know the name of our enemy. How can I possibly focus on my cultivation?" Zhou Heng said excitedly.

  Zhou Dinghai shook his head and said, "It's not that we're sworn enemies either. The heavenly material and earthly treasure have no owner, anyone can fight for it. Father has already said it before, it's just a matter of skill, nothing more!"

  "Dad!" Zhou Heng looked at Zhou Dinghai with determination, his eyes filled with stubbornness.

  This child is more like his mother than him!

  "Alright, but your current strength is too weak. Unless you can walk the Road to Heaven, Father won't let you go to your death!"

  Zhou Heng's body trembled, was it really a strong practitioner at the Jiling Realm level who injured his father?

  So what!

  Zhou Heng clenched his fists tightly, "Unavenged filial piety is a futile existence!"

  He is indeed not the opponent of a strong Jiling Realm cultivator now, but one day he will reach the Jiling Realm, and with his dantian space being more expansive, he will be at least twice as strong as an ordinary Jiling Realm strongman!

  Together with Ling Tian Jiu Shi, he has confidence in beheading any strong practitioners of the Gathering Spirit Realm!

  "Heng Er, how did your illness suddenly get better?" Zhou Dinghai didn't want his only son to dwell on his own injuries, and quickly changed the subject.

  Zhou Heng was taken aback, hesitated for a moment before saying: "I picked up a wild fruit in Pingtian Mountain, after eating it my whole body felt hot, I fainted for two days and then suddenly I could cultivate, and the speed is incredibly fast!"

  The matter of the black broken sword is too unbelievable and serious, it's not that Zhou Heng doesn't believe his father, but this secret itself is a huge burden, which he can bear alone!

  Zhou Dinghai was deeply convinced of this, because the motivation for his busy running around was to find a miraculous medicine to eliminate Zhou Heng's "stubborn disease". As a father, he now had nothing but boundless joy and pride!

  Who says he's a waste? Who has seen a waste that can advance from the first level of Refining Body to the seventh level in just four months?

  At eighteen years old and under, how many Refiners in the Bone Forging Realm can the Zhou family bring out?

  Although he can't compare to his twelve-year-old junior who entered the Bone Refining Realm with a monstrous talent, from Zhou Heng's cultivation time, he has far surpassed him!

  Having such a son, what more could he ask for?

  "Dad, I accidentally entered a valley and obtained a cultivation method. It's actually more than twice as fast as the Lianyang Formula!" Zhou Heng took out the "Moon Shadow Heart Formula" and, in front of his father, he could freely express his emotions.

  "What!" Zhou Dinghai's face changed, and after a shock, he was overjoyed. He trembled as he took the book, but surprisingly couldn't even hold it, and it immediately slipped onto the quilt.

  Zhou Heng's face changed color, his father's injury was far more severe than he had estimated.

  He hastily opened the pages of the book, allowing Zhou Dinghai to glance over them. After Zhou Dinghai nodded slightly, he turned the page. Although the four-thousand-word-long manual was abstruse and difficult to understand, Zhou Dinghai was a genius who could grasp it after a brief pause. He quickly browsed through the entire manual.

  "Heng Er, this technique is not to be taken lightly!" Zhou Dinghai closed his eyes for a moment, and then his face turned extremely serious. "Moreover, the consequences are too severe, if even a hint of information leaks out, it will bring about deadly disaster! You must burn it immediately, and from now on, you can only cultivate it yourself, do not tell anyone, nor pass it on to anyone!"

  As expected, ginger is old and spicy, Zhou Dinghai made the most accurate judgment in an instant.

  Zhou Heng nodded, he had indeed thought of burning the "Moon Shadow Heart Sutra", but that would have to wait until Zhou Dinghai learned it by heart.

  "Dad, have you remembered?" Zhou Heng asked.

  "Seventy-seven eighty-eight, just remember it, I can ask you!" Zhou Dinghai showed a hint of a smile, having obtained such a skill he was naturally delighted.

  Zhou Heng nodded, not daring to waste any time, and immediately went to the kitchen to start a fire, burning the "Moon Shadow Heart Sutra" to ashes. Although the book's paper was resistant to decay for a hundred years, it couldn't withstand high humidity, and soon turned into a pile of flying ash.

  Creaking, the door of the other courtyard was pushed open at this time. A servant carrying a tray walked in and called out: "Hey, hey, are you dead or not? If you're not dead, make a sound, it's time to eat!"

  Upon hearing this, Zhou Heng suddenly jumped up!

  "Huh?" The person who walked in, upon seeing Zhou Heng, couldn't help but reveal a look of surprise on his face. It was clear that he hadn't expected him to return suddenly, but he didn't put much thought into it either. He simply placed the tray heavily onto the table and said, "You're back just in time, no need for me to feed that useless person anymore! Hmph, originally there was only one useless son, now I've also become a useless person, truly befitting of father and son!"

  This man was a man in his thirties, known to Zhou Heng, and was one of Zhou Jianming's men, named Zhao Si. He used to be Zhou Jianming's servant, but now he had become the manager of the main house and had some status among the servants.

  You are also a low-ranking official, yet you dare to openly defy your superiors. Have you eaten the heart of a bear or the gallbladder of a leopard?

  Zhou Heng opened the lid of the tray on the table, and as he scanned it, his angry expression intensified.

  Is this what they call a meal? It's just leftover rice and rotten vegetables, is this something people eat?

  What right does Zhao Si have to treat his own father like this? After his anger, Zhou Heng was more worried - how serious was his father's injury, and even a servant dared to bully him?

  "Haha, didn't your old man tell you? Zhao Si, being someone by Zhou Jianming's side, naturally also views Zhou Dinghai and his son as thorns in the eye. "Your old man was crippled and is no longer a master of the Blood Refining Realm, he's just a useless piece of trash!"

  "You're a piece of trash, your dad is a useless person! If we're not from the same family, don't come through our door!"

  Zhao Si burst out laughing, without a single care - Zhou Jianming had hated Zhou Dinghai for so many years, and now that he had caught this opportunity, he would naturally take this father-son pair to their deaths, he didn't need to be afraid at all.

  Zhou Heng's face was already unable to suppress the killing intent that was seeping out, his father not only had his cultivation crippled but also suffered a severe injury. Previously he was too emotional and hadn't noticed, but now thinking back, he didn't smell any medicine in the room!

  What does it mean that Zhao Si brought over only leftover rice for pigs to eat and no medicinal congee?

  The family has given up on Zhou Dinghai and is letting him fend for himself!

  Losing one's cultivation is losing one's value?

  No, the family may be pragmatic, but they are not cold-blooded to this extent! This must be Zhou Xianming's doing behind the scenes. Only with his strong insistence could the family make such a ruthless decision!

  In these few days, how much humiliation has Father endured! If he had returned a few more days later, Father would have lost his cultivation and there would be no medicine to treat him. Adding that to the food he's been eating, how many more days could he have held on?

  Insulting my father! And still wanting to kill my father!

  Zhou Heng's heart was filled with violent rage, his murderous intent shot straight up into the sky!

  He stretched out his hand and made a grab at Zhao Si's neck.

  "Dare to——ah!" Zhao Si didn't take Zhou Heng seriously at all, and was just about to casually punch him to the ground. But who would have thought that his neck had already been pinched by Zhou Heng before he could even swing his fist, instantly rendering him powerless, and his swinging fist fell limply down.

  Kaka, Zhou Heng's hand tightened further, and Zhao Si's throat made a sound of bone joints being squeezed. His face suddenly turned purple-red and began to turn black. He struggled weakly, his eyes flashing with terror and deep incomprehension.

  How could Zhou Heng possibly possess such immense power, rendering this peak-stage Body Refining cultivator utterly helpless!

  Isn't this kid supposed to be an untrainable waste?

  "Whoever insults my father, dies!" Zhou Heng pronounced coldly, his right hand snapped, a crisp crackling sound, Zhao Si's legs kicked out, his head fell, dead!