You promised yourself to be a caged bird, but you became the supreme young master?

Two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

Qinghe City, second floor of a teahouse.

Lu Heng, having long abandoned his cultivation, came to this place.

"Aheng, Aheng, over here." Lu Jinnian waved to him from the second floor.

Upon seeing this, Lu Heng nodded in response.

There was no particular purpose to this trip; it was simply a way to relax during their training. After all, humans are not robots, and during their last martial arts demonstration, the two of them had agreed to take a stroll around Qinghe City together.

Lu Jinnian patted his chest and said that he would host the dinner and pay for everything.

Lu Heng naturally agreed to this without much hesitation.

"You're really aloof," Lu Jinnian remarked, somewhat exasperated.

"Otherwise what?" Lu Heng didn't say anything, but his eyes said it all.

"Okay, you're awesome, boss."

Being aloof is perfectly normal. Speechless for a moment, Lu Jinnian slumped onto the table in despair.

Lu Heng ignored this dramatic guy and started reviewing the past two months that seemed to have passed in the blink of an eye.

Instead of opening the panel immediately, he first thought about whether anything memorable had happened in the past two months.

The answer is no!

As it turns out, he didn't have any protagonist's halo.

There are no monsters around that can refresh regularly and mindlessly feed kills and drop gold.

Aside from the very beginning, when Lu Fengqing, that truly despicable man, was blinded by jealousy and manipulated public opinion through rumors, attracting the interest of a young master and leading to someone challenging him.

During this period, Lu Heng did nothing but cultivate; there were no changes whatsoever.

Even though he was Lu Qingyan, a young lady who was a huge trouble in his eyes, as her sparring partner, it was still the same.

After all, in the eyes of most outsiders, he had only mediocre talent in cultivation.

Even with the addition of comprehension talent, or even genius-level combat skills, it still cannot compare to a true cultivation genius.

Under these circumstances, let alone the fact that Lu Heng is still just Lu Qingyan's sparring partner, even if he were to truly become Lu Qingyan's follower, he would only be considered one of her future core members.

As for his attempt to seduce this young lady, it's not a question of whether it's possible or whether he's qualified; in the eyes of most people, he's simply not worthy.

A very small number of people—well, actually only Lu Jinnian—would think that way because they only knew a fraction of Lu Heng's talent.

Otherwise, a normal person, unless they're mentally ill, would never overthink things!

Therefore, it's natural that no one would be so bored as to bother him.

Lu Heng himself was quite happy with this.

In addition, Lu Heng, who defeated Lu Boyong, who wielded a low-grade spiritual weapon and whose talent was considered above average, in the monthly ranking challenge, naturally squeezed into the top 50.

His salary at the external hospital was directly upgraded from level D to level B.

Aside from not being eliminated due to a single unsatisfactory rating, the treatment changed from one serving of mid-grade spiritual food every ten days to one serving of mid-grade spiritual food every three days.

Compared to the initial period, it has more than tripled.

This also saved Lu Heng a lot of resources needed for cultivation.

As for why his strength, which was enough to defeat Lu Boyong in one blow, couldn't even make it into the top 25 of this batch of outer court youths,

The difference lies in the fact that, apart from the dozen or so young disciples from the main family of the outer courtyard and the three cultivation geniuses from the branch families, there are a total of about twenty people with at least the strength of the mid-stage of the Body Refinement Secret Realm.

There are also at least five other young men from the branch families with above-average talent who wield spiritual weapons of medium or higher grade.

To win a battle, simply mastering the basic sword techniques is far from enough.

Not to mention that these five teenagers who dared to challenge the top 25 all possessed advanced combat techniques.

Even if their cultivation level is only at the third level of the Body Refinement Secret Realm.

However, unless Lu Heng dares to reveal his proficient level of "Basic Sword Technique," a talent that is beyond his current stage, there is almost no possibility of winning the battle.

It should be noted that Lu Guhong, a middle-aged man with blue eyes who was a cultivator in the Qi Refining Secret Realm, had only cultivated the Basic Sword Technique to the minor completion level during his Body Refining Secret Realm period.

The difficulty of mastering combat techniques is evident.

Lu Heng wouldn't risk losing more than he gained just to improve his treatment by one rank.

Although his improvement over the past two months has been remarkable.

But faced with the enormous Lu clan, they still had no ability to resist.

As he pondered this, Lu Heng opened his control panel.

Lu Heng

[12 years old]

Life Rank: None

[Cultivation Level: Body Refinement Level 4 (Slight Pill Poison)]

[Talent: Void Bloodline (Unawakened)]

[Technique: Basic Body Refinement Method (Minor Success 400/3000)]

Basic Swordsmanship (Proficient 420/1000)

Evolution Points: 99/100 (After reaching the maximum value, it cannot be accumulated, but can unlock one life leap)

(Evolution points can only be accumulated through daily settlements)

This is a panel of data that would be unbelievable even to Lu Jinnian, who knows him to some extent.

His cultivation level had broken through not long ago, which was unavoidable.

However, reaching the mid-stage of Body Refinement in just three months is an overachievement for someone with average to below-average talent, and it's somewhat understandable given Lu Heng's exceptional abilities.

At this stage, he is only focusing on improving the level of his cultivation technique, not his cultivation level itself.

There are only two reasons.

The higher one's cultivation level, the more resources one needs to maintain it.

Compared to the extremely difficult-to-detect cultivation technique level, the cultivation level, even if it cannot be seen at a glance, is still too easy to detect and too easy to expose.

Without a suitable reason, Lu Heng dared not allow his cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds.

Even with his current cultivation level, he could potentially reach the sixth level of the Body Refinement Secret Realm overnight.

His gaze swept over the faint traces of poison beyond the cultivation level.

Mild erysipelas: Caused by ingestion of medicinal pills; all non-perfect grade medicinal pills contain toxicity.

Mild erysipelas does not affect current cultivation, but it will have some impact on future realms. Moderate erysipelas will affect current cultivation, while severe erysipelas will completely cut off the path of cultivation.

[These negative influences can be gradually resolved through spiritual practice, and can be purified through evolution and transformation.]

This is the panel information that Lu Heng saw earlier.

Three months have passed, but the faint erysipelas on the panel has not disappeared.

Although this was probably due to the extremely weak nature of the erysipelas, it still served as a warning to Lu Heng.

Even for him, taking too many pills would cause a lot of trouble.

Of course, it's just troublesome, not the complete ruin of the future as indicated by the panel information.

The root cause lies in the last sentence of the panel information: one can purify oneself of all negative influences through evolution and transformation.

And the first evolution...

It's right here!