While I'm at the martial arts academy, my wife is cultivating while I enjoy life.

"Honey, can you hug me?" Ye Rou asked pitifully.

She felt that her husband had put in so much effort for the family, and as his wife, she hadn't understood that and even doubted his character, which was very wrong of her.

Sister Jing is right. Only family is the one thing you can't let down. To hell with the rules.

Yang Ding hugged his first wife, kissed her, and comforted her.

"Don't feel guilty. You've grown up very quickly under your husband's guidance."

I'm hungry.

"Eat up, you need to consume more high-quality protein while breastfeeding."

Ye Rou relaxed when her husband stopped being angry.

"Stay with me and my son tonight. Ruoxi and I will take turns; she can't handle it alone."

"Of course, only you can rival me."

"Honey, have you noticed a rise in my love for you lately?"

"It's rising every day, but you've already reached a threshold; it's just slowing down."

Yang Ding hoped that his first wife would keep her affection at 80% or 90%, not 100%, since her family had a tradition of committing suicide for lovers.

Zhang Peng, listening from the side, felt like throwing up. These young people nowadays are shameless; he and his wife never do this kind of thing.

Ye Rou was so full after eating just one piece of crab meat.

"Honey, although absorbing these two million jin of energy will allow me to break through to the upper fifth rank, how long will it take me to finish absorbing it?"

"Take it slow. I'll have Da Long make these into dried seafood so he can carry them with him as dry food and eat three to five pounds of them every day."

For those with a strength-based character to achieve a breakthrough, alchemy is the best option. Eating beast meat is a very slow process, and humans don't have the digestive systems of giant beasts.

Refining high-level beast cores requires temperatures exceeding 3,000 degrees Celsius, a specialized furnace, and some professional knowledge.

In the Northern Border City, alchemists can be hired for money on the black market, but in the Eastern Sea City, only the city lord's family can afford to employ one.

Soon, Zhou Ruoxi and Fang Jing got up.

Seeing Ye Rou sitting coquettishly in Yang Ding's lap, even burping, the two knew that they had already reached an agreement.

Yang Ding called Zhou Ruoxi over, "Third wife, these are six water-type beast crystals, estimated to have no more than 20 points of spiritual power. With your current cultivation level, you can easily digest them. Swallow them all."

Zhou Ruoxi touched her long neck, finding it hard to swallow.

"Can I eat it separately? There's just too much this time."

"Eat it all at once, there might be more tonight."

"Are you sure you don't want to sell?" Zhou Ruoxi asked. "This could probably fetch seven or eight million."

"Sell it now, we're not short of money, hurry up."

Yang Ding pinched Zhou Ruoxi's chin. "Open your mouth."

Despite his unwillingness, Governor Zhou, a man of great stature, still opened his mouth with his eyes closed.

Yang Ding tossed one in, "Swallow it, Ye Rou, pour some water."

"OK."

After swallowing three pills, Zhou Ruoxi couldn't swallow any more and choked until tears welled up in her eyes. Surprisingly, she had a kind of pitiful and aloof beauty.

"Cough cough, ugh, why do you always like to force things?"

She slapped Yang Ding's hand away, took the water glass from Ye Rou, and swallowed the first three pills after taking four or five sips.

Zhou Ruoxi was exasperated when she saw that Yang Ding still had three pills in his hand.

Previously, it was very difficult to find such high-quality beast crystals in Jiangling City.

The Jiang family, possessing 20 points of spiritual power, purchased the water-element blue crystal from the northern black market at a high price, costing 1500 million.

They are truly unaware of their own good fortune.

Thinking of this, Zhou Ruoxi closed her eyes and opened her mouth again, "Come on, husband, I can do it."

Yang Ding fed her two pills first, and only fed her the largest one after she swallowed them.

Zhou Ruoxi had swallowed all of this stuff and had no appetite for breakfast anymore, so she went upstairs to meditate.

I worked the night shift last night, so I can go to work this afternoon.

"Honey, you should go and rest for a while. Jingjie and I will take care of things here," Ye Rou said.

Yang Ding also went up to the third floor. Zhou Ruoxi was meditating on the bed, replenishing her mental energy by 40% at once. It felt incredibly refreshing, and she had to absorb it quickly.

Yang Ding crawled into her pink quilt, hugged her legs, and prepared to sleep.

"I need to regulate my breathing, so I can't sleep with you. I'll wake you up at noon."

"it is good."

"Where are you going to put your hand? You're disturbing my peace of mind."

Zhou Ruoxi slapped him hard, and he could only shrink back and obediently go to sleep.

To verify whether Zhou Ruoxi's mental strength increased proportionally after his mental strength increased, Yang Ding also checked the system interface.

Last night he was dragged into the deep sea, and his three wives each gained 3% more affection for him.

[Third Wife: Zhou Ruoxi]

【Affection Level: 25%】

[Cultivation Progress: 60%]

[Mental Strength: 68818 points ↑]

[Level: A+]

[Azure Dragon Technique, 25% experience points]

[Frosty Swords Technique, 35% experience points.]

[Blood Mist Technique, 25% experience points.]

……

Second wife: Fang Jing

【Affection Level: 39%】

[Cultivation Progress: 60%]

[Mental Strength: 68818 points ↑]

[Level: A+]

[Personal Domain Technique Breakthrough to Level 3, Experience Points 60%]

[Void Rift Technique, Level 3, 80% experience points.]

[Breaking through to the third level of the Void Escape Technique, 20% experience gained.]

Both his water and space systems have broken through to A+ level, and Yang Ding's mental strength cultivation is now twice that of Fang Jing.

However, his proficiency in the techniques is not as good as his second wife's, so he needs to practice more.

The cumulative effect is working, and the speed is simply amazing.

After Ye Rou's affection for him exceeded 50%, the replication effect of his punching power continued to accelerate, and it has now reached 97 jin. He is still at the upper level of the fourth rank, and he is still 150 million jin away from breaking through to the lower level of the fifth rank.

This level is almost unbeatable among students at Jiangling University, but even the weakest soldier in the East Navy starts at the third rank, so it's not quite enough.

At noon, Yang Ding was awakened by his beloved son's crying, while Zhou Ruoxi was still meditating and regulating her breathing.

"How's the absorption going?"

"Very good, fresh blue beast crystals are indeed easy to absorb. I feel it's about time. It would be even better if we could put them into practice in a real battle," Zhou Ruoxi replied.

"Change your clothes and have some food, we need to go to work."

"Okay, I'll be right down."

Yang Ding kissed her little mouth and went to Ye Rou's room to coax her son. It turned out he was hungry, and Ye Rou was feeding him.

"Gurgle..."

Hearing the noise, Ye Rou looked at him and asked, "Honey, are you hungry? Zhang Yan has already prepared dinner."

Yang Ding could only suppress his craving and turn his attention to Zhou Ruoxi's profile.

[Third Wife: Zhou Ruoxi]

【Affection Level: 25%↑】

[Cultivation progress: 60%↑]

[Mental Strength: 96345 points↑, +27527↑]

[Level: A+]

[Azure Dragon Technique, Experience Points 35%, +10%]

[Frosty Swords Technique, experience points 49%, 14% remaining.]

[Blood Mist Technique, Experience Points 35%, +10%.]

As expected, the level of affection remained unchanged, but Zhou Ruoxi's cultivation level increased by 40%, so it was copied in the same proportion.

Thinking that he had only taken a nap, yet his mental strength was already nearly three times that of Fang Jing, Yang Ding was too embarrassed to share this joy with his second wife.

"The effect is really good, and Zhou Ruoxi's aptitude is indeed impressive, absorbing it so quickly."

"Hopefully, we'll make another big profit tonight and get my third wife to the Grandmaster level soon."