Rupture of membranes

  "Why did you lie..."

  As Du Fei and Xiao Ai were about to leave the main hall, Du Han, who was seeing them off, suddenly spoke up in a soft voice.

  Upon hearing this, Du Fei was startled and suddenly turned his head, looking at Du Han who was standing beside him with a calm face.

  "You don't have to be afraid, I didn't mean anything else, it's just that I feel a bit puzzled. You should know something about the murderer, but why aren't you saying anything?" Du Han said calmly.

  Du Fei stared at Du Han for a moment, and after confirming that the other party did not have malicious intentions, he said in a low voice: "Some things, doing them yourself is always better than letting others do them?"

  "Is that really so?" Du Han smiled lightly and nodded immediately, "No matter what, this is your business, and it has nothing to do with me, just...".

  "What's wrong?" Du Fei asked in a low voice, frowning.

  Du Han glanced at Du Fei, then looked at Little Ai before continuing: "Let's not talk about other things for now. If you want to stay in the Du family and protect what you want to protect, your current strength is really nothing... Although Master Du has barely acknowledged you as an inner disciple, your strength is truly too weak... In less than three months, it will be the Family Ritual Festival... I hope that by then, your status as an inner disciple won't be taken away from you!"

  "And I'm also very interested in you..."

  Having said that, Du Han smiled lightly and ignored Du Fei, turning around and leaving.

  "Family Festival..."

  Du Fei's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and a hint of strangeness flashed across his face.

  The family worship, he naturally cleared. It is said that this worship is a grand event held by the Du family every year, in addition to worshipping ancestors, there is another very important thing at this extreme point, which is the clan comparison!

  Among the tribes, younger members of the family can challenge each other at will. If the challenge is successful, the opponent's identity and status will fall into one's own hands.

  So every year's ancestral worship is an extremely important matter for the younger generation of the Du family. Many people spend a whole year preparing, all for this one occasion!

  "Is it only three months?" Du Fei smiled slightly, his gaze falling on the bustling square once again. "Although there are only three months of time, however, it's enough!"

  On one side, Xiao Ai saw Du Fei's sudden change in expression to being spirited and lively, and didn't know what he was thinking of. On his lovely face, a hint of a relieved smile flashed for an instant.

  "Huh?"

  He let out a long sigh and Du Fei collapsed onto the bed without any elegance, his face revealing a comfortable expression.

  "What's wrong, young master? Are you that tired today?" Little Ai shook her head somewhat helplessly and said softly.

  "It's just too annoying... " Du Fei shook his head slightly.

  After leaving the hall, the two of them attended the Du family gathering. Originally, with Du Fei's identity, they wouldn't have gotten into any trouble, but after learning that Du Fei had an insider nephew, many people came over to greet him.

  Although there is some kindness in this greeting that needs to be studied, but such similar activities make Du Fei feel even more tired than when he was cultivating.

  "Speaking of which, young master, when did you start practicing, and it's even the fourth level of body tempering?" She sat down on the edge of the bed, stretched out her hand to gently rub Du Fei's back, and Xiao Ai asked in a low voice.

  "If I said it was only cultivated in the past few days, would you believe me?" Du Fei suddenly turned around, grabbed Xiao Ai's wrist and smiled.

  "What Master said, Xiao Ai believes..." As soon as Du Fei grabbed her wrist, Xiao Ai's face turned bright red in an instant. She seemed to want to shake him off, but hesitated for a moment and didn't make any further movements.

  However, Du Fei didn't notice Xiao Ai's expression, but instead sat up, clapped his hands and said: "No matter what, it's not necessary to hide the fact that I can cultivate now. From tomorrow on, I can focus on cultivating... If within three months, I can advance to the seventh level of Body Tempering, then Du Qing... everything of yours will cease to exist!"

  Upon hearing this, Xiao Ai's face flashed with a hint of surprise, but she immediately blinked her eyes slightly and said softly: "I believe in you, young master, you must be able to do it!"

  This unreasonable trust made Du Fei's heart warm, he couldn't help but stretch out his hand and rub Xiao Ai's head, causing the other person's face to turn bright red again...

  The Du family occupies a vast area within the city of Bu'Er, even the only mountain peak in the city has been included in the family's forbidden area.

  This is a place where only members of the Du family can set foot, a place for cultivation. In the mountains, there are even fierce beasts raised by the Du family for the purpose of cultivation.

  But for this reason, in recent years, fewer people have come here to practice, so it has also become somewhat deserted.

  At this moment, at the waterfall on the back mountain of Du's house, there are a few strands of white fog drifting around, and in the white fog, there is a muffled sound that comes out, moving people's hearts.

  In the pond before the waterfall, Du Fei stood in the waist-deep water, his body slightly relaxed, his hands clenched into fists. At a certain moment, he suddenly punched out at the water's surface.

  "Drink——"

  With a loud shout, the water in front of Du Fei was instantly split open, revealing a gully, and even the bottom of the pond was exposed. However, just a moment later, the pond water filled up the gully again.

  "Is it still like this?" Watching this scene, Du Fei slightly twitched the corner of his mouth and immediately said with a hint of self-mockery.

  After pondering for a moment, Du Fei slowly let out a breath and withdrew his stance, saying calmly: "System, what's going on? Didn't you tell me that the fastest way to break through the seventh layer of Body Tempering was like this?"

  "The question is clear, but the answer is unclear!" A cold electronic voice echoed in Du Fei's mind, without any further explanation.

  Upon hearing this, Du Fei couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh. Earlier that morning, when he started his cultivation, he had asked the system what the fastest way to advance to the seventh stage of Body Tempering was. The result was that the system's answer was to use the "Breaking Water Technique" from the Mianquan school.

  But Du Fei broke through one morning and didn't achieve anything, even feeling that it wasn't as good as his usual cultivation.

  At this point, Du Fei couldn't help but shake his head, and with a light tap of his toes in the water, he returned to the shore like a fish. He casually took off his clothes, wrung them out and threw them on a rock, before standing up again and slowly practicing his cotton fist by the pond.

  "Bang Bang Bang——"

  A set of cotton fist was thrown out, and Du Fei's whole person suddenly became spirited. Along with his movements, the surrounding fog seemed to be brought along, dancing like a whirlwind.

  "Go——"

  With a low shout, Du Fei's final move had transformed his fist into a palm, heavily slamming onto the tree in front of him.

  "Squeak——"

  This time, with Du Fei's movement, a small tree with a diameter of about the size of a bowl emitted a harsh whine and immediately crashed to the ground.

  "Have I finally achieved something? It wasn't in vain that I've been practicing for half a month!" He was silent for a moment, but Du Fei still had some dissatisfaction.

  Although, as he cultivated day by day, he also felt that his strength was constantly accumulating, but this accumulation was extremely normal and completely different from what he had expected.

  If there is no comparison with others after three months, then even such cultivation would be useless.

  But because of the existence of that tribe, it seems that being slow like this won't work!

  Within three months, I must reach at least the seventh level of Body Tempering! Otherwise, how can I be a match for Du Qing!?

  A wisp of gloominess surged up to his mind, and after taking a deep breath, Du Fei finally said in a low voice: "System, apart from this broken water method, is there any other way to increase the speed of cultivation?"

  "Beep! Question clear, system searching... Data acquired. Affirmative?" This time, the system gave a response in less than an instant.

  Du Fei didn't hesitate at all.

  "License obtained, start loading data, start reading——"

  "Ding——"

  A familiar pitch-black space appeared again in Du Fei's mind, but this time, there was no human figure in the space. Instead, a large black cauldron emerged, with black flames boiling inside.

  "This is..."

  Before Du Fei could ask, he saw that several strangely shaped plants suddenly flew out from all sides of the space. These plants deliberately stayed in front of Du Fei for a moment before quickly falling into the large cauldron.

  Then, the flames in the large tripod suddenly surged, and those plants quickly merged together. After that, they flew out of the large tripod and turned into a thumb-sized golden elixir, falling in front of Du Fei.

  At the same time, the cold electronic sound rang out again.

  "Nine-grade elixir, marrow-washing pill, suitable for nine-grade martial artists and below to take, can wash bones and refine marrow, increase cultivation speed, if taken for a long time, even can increase true breath."

  "Refining materials: Ziwei leaf, Tiger bone flower, Orchid stem and leaves, Stone heart marrow, Refining method..."

  As the electronic sound faded away, Du Fei's expression on his face slowly turned into astonishment, and in the end, the astonishment turned into incredulity!