First-stage Late-stage Peak!
Like Huang Peng, Su Yan had a similar reaction. However, joy filled her heart even more. Looking at her son on the stage, her eyes suddenly reddened, "This kid!"
She smiled. Now, finally, she understood what her son meant earlier when he said he wouldn't disappoint them.
It turned out that her son had already reached the First-stage Late-stage Peak! No wonder, no wonder her son had always been so confident!
Shocked by Huang Xiaolong's punches and slowly regaining sanity from his frenzy, Huang Wei raged, "Impossible, impossible, you, you couldn't possibly have also broken through to the First-stage Late-stage Peak!"
He possessed a Tenth-level Martial Soul, was indeed a child favored by the heavens, and had even consumed a Thousand-year-old Luo Xin Grass. It took him five months of arduous cultivation to reach the First-stage Late-stage Peak!
What about Huang Xiaolong? His Martial Soul was merely a Seventh-level Martial Soul!
Like Huang Wei, Huang Qide, Huang Ming, and others were all equally puzzled.
At that moment, Huang Peng stepped forward to explain to Huang Qide, "Dad, over four months ago, Xiao Long found five Yang Fruits in a valley behind the mountain."
"What? Yang Fruit?!" Huang Qide and the crowd were astounded.
"That's right. Afterwards, Xiao Long consumed three for his cultivation, while the remaining two were given to me and Su Yan. I've now reached the Sixth-stage Late-stage Peak!" Huang Peng nodded, releasing his Sixth-stage Late-stage Peak Fighting Energy as he spoke.
"Consumed three Yang Fruits for cultivation!" Huang Qide looked at Huang Xiaolong on the stage, unsure what to say.
In the Great Hall, the people of the Huang Family Manor came to understand the "real reason" behind Huang Xiaolong's reaching the First-stage Late-stage Peak.
Three Yang Fruits!
Each Yang Fruit was comparable to a Thousand-year-old Luo Xin Grass!
"I didn't expect Xiao Long to have such a fortuitous encounter; this is a good thing." At this time, Huang Qide managed a smile, speaking not very naturally.
"If these three Yang Fruits had been consumed by Huang Wei for his cultivation, he might have already made a breakthrough to the Second Rank by now!" Huang Qide thought to himself.
Even Li Mu felt that it was a waste for Huang Xiaolong, with a mere Seventh-level Martial Soul, to have consumed three Yang Fruits.
A while later, the crowd recovered from their shock and slowly returned to their seats.
On the stage, Huang Wei's eyes were filled with jealousy. He stared at Huang Xiaolong resentfully, "I thought it was strange; turns out you just got lucky, consuming three Yang Fruits to cultivate to the First-stage Late-stage Peak!"
Huang Xiaolong replied coolly with a smile, "Are you saying, then, that your breakthrough to the First-stage Late-stage Peak wasn't because of that Thousand-year-old Luo Xin Grass?"
Huang Wei's face turned crimson, but without saying a word, he charged furiously towards Huang Xiaolong. He threw a fierce punch, which Huang Xiaolong countered with a punch of his own, sending Huang Wei reeling back. Advancing in a swift motion, Huang Xiaolong lifted his foot and landed a kick on Huang Wei's stomach. Like Zhou Xuedong a few months prior, Huang Wei screamed miserably, doubling over and tumbling back, rolling out for seven or eight meters.
Clutching his belly, Huang Wei felt as if all his internal organs had shifted, tears rolling from the corners of his eyes due to the pain.
Huang Xiaolong approached Huang Wei and sneered, "Five months ago, didn't you say you would cripple my hands at the clan's annual meeting?" Having said that, he stamped his foot down on Huang Wei's face.
Huang Wei screamed again.
Hands crippled? On the main platform, Huang Qide frowned, turning to look at his eldest son, Huang Ming, not aware of this matter. Huang Ming dared not meet his father's gaze, looking away.
As Huang Wei's cries echoed once again, Huang Qide glanced over, just as Huang Xiaolong's foot came crashing down again. Huang Qide opened his mouth, about to speak and intervene, but remembering Huang Xiaolong's earlier question about not intervening in their sparring, he hesitated and stopped himself, smiling bitterly inside. Now, he finally understood why his grandson had asked that question beforehand.
Huang Xiaolong stepped down three times in succession, and Huang Wei's originally decent-looking face finally turned into a pig's head. Watching his son being beaten to an unrecognizable state, Huang Ming clenched his hands tightly, anger flaring across his usually expressionless face as a cold gleam flashed in his eyes.
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But Huang Qide had not spoken to stop him, so Huang Ming did not dare to break the rules in public.
"Ah!" Having been stepped on three times in succession by Huang Xiaolong, Huang Wei, like a crazed beast trapped in madness, let out a beastly howl as the glow of his fighting energy suddenly surged, and a different aura wildly burst forth from him.
This sudden change stunned everyone before their eyes bulged in disbelief.
Sensing the change in his son's aura, the anger on Huang Ming's face disappeared, replaced by great joy.
"Young Master Huang Wei has actually made a breakthrough!"
"Second Rank, this is the aura of Second Rank!"
Some elders of the Huang Family Manor couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.
Second Rank!
Huang Peng and Su Yan saw that Huang Wei had actually made a breakthrough to Second Rank at this moment, and their hearts tightened once again; if Huang Wei had broken through to Second Rank, then what would become of their son?!
"Good, good!" Huang Qide watched his grandson Huang Wei undergo his transformation, laughing heartily. It was truly an unexpected joy that Huang Wei had broken through to Second Rank during this year's clan competition!
Huang Xiaolong took a few steps back, also surprised at Huang Wei's breakthrough.
"A Second-stage Warrior, huh." Huang Xiaolong said calmly.
At that moment, Huang Wei slowly rose from the ground. His eyes blood-red, he looked at Huang Xiaolong, and feeling the fighting power within him that was now twice as strong as before, he said to Huang Xiaolong, word by word, "Later, I want you to kneel and lick my toes!" Only then could he wash away his previous humiliation!
"Is that so." Huang Xiaolong appeared unconcerned.
Huang Wei roared in fury, and in an instant, he was in front of Huang Xiaolong, his fists erupting with fighting energy as he struck at Huang Xiaolong. After his breakthrough to Second Rank, not only had his strength increased, but his speed had improved greatly as well.
Huang Peng and Su Yan's hearts were in their throats, about to cry out in alarm when suddenly, Huang Xiaolong, who stood there, raised his hands and his aura skyrocketed in an instant as he counterattacked with his fists.
"Bang!" A louder crash resounded, and Huang Wei was repelled.
"What?! Impossible, how could this be!"
"Second-stage Warrior! This is the fighting power of a Second-stage Warrior!"
The elders of the Huang Family Manor and the steward, who had just sat down, screamed in disarray and abruptly stood up from their seats again, all staring at Huang Xiaolong in disbelief.
Huang Qide and Li Mu were equally shocked as they stood up, their eyes wide.
What the hell was going on? How could this kid's luck be so goddamn strong?!
Huang Qide turned his head to look at his son Huang Peng, and Huang Peng, his face full of shock, could not help but smile bitterly, "Dad, I... I don't know either." Son, oh son, the depth of his concealment pained him deeply! He had not anticipated that his son's true reliance was not the First-stage Late-stage Peak, but Second Rank!
Second Rank, Second Rank! Huang Peng looked at his son on the stage, his body trembling with excitement to the point where he felt an urge to rush up and embrace his son in tears.
A surge of pride swelled within Huang Peng's heart; this son who had broken through to Second Rank in just five months of cultivation was his son, Huang Peng's son!
Su Yan stood there, her eyes red, her expression not much different from her husband's.
"No, it can't be, it can't be true, this can't be real!" On the stage, Huang Wei, who had been shaken back, looked at Huang Xiaolong in a frenzy, shaking his head repeatedly and crying out.
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