Fairy, please step aside, I've taken a liking to your man.

"You scored 891 points?"

When school let out at noon, Shen Bai saw An Li waiting for him.

Shen Bai's grades have now spread throughout the entire senior year of high school. Everyone knows that the school heartthrob has started to act like a monster!

Although the top student and school beauty knew Shen Bai's cultivation level very well, she never expected that he could score such a high score of 391 in the liberal arts.

Others may not know, but An Li knows very well that Shen Bai still has a first-level breakthrough pill. As long as he takes this pill, Shen Bai will be able to increase his score by 50 points. There are still more than four months until the college entrance examination. With Shen Bai's talent, it is very likely that he will catch up with her and step into the ultimate realm of the tenth heaven.

By then, a college entrance exam score of 990 would not seem like a difficult task for Shen Bai!

With this in mind, it wouldn't be a problem for Shen Bai to get into the Holy Academy!

They could even compete with students from across the entire empire for the title of martial arts champion!

The thought ignited An Li's competitive spirit: "I'll definitely catch up with my humanities grades before the college entrance exam!"

"Go for it! I believe in you!"

Shen Bai laughed heartily. He knew very well that the top student and school beauty had already secured her admission to the Holy Academy. Now, all she had to do was strive for even higher grades.

After all, every martial arts practitioner wants to take their skills to the next level!

The classmates who passed by the two looked on with envy and jealousy as they watched the two laughing and joking.

Shen Bai listened to the system notification in his ear without any reaction.

Like their classmates, these people had lost all interest in jealousy.

……

For the next month, Shen Bai lived a monotonous life, going between the milk tea shop, the repair shop, school, and home. He did nothing but go to school and work.

Finally, 100 days before the college entrance examination, he successfully entered the Ninth Heaven.

No one should be allowed to enter!

The ten levels of martial arts are: refining flesh, refining tendons, refining skin, refining filth, refining bones, refining marrow, exchanging blood, refining orifices, preventing leakage, and the ultimate realm.

Only by entering the state of "no leakage" can one freely close all the pores and acupoints of the body, ensuring that the body's Qi and blood do not leak out, and that true Qi is full but not overflowing. This prepares one for the final sprint towards the innate level.

Shen Bai woke up in his bedroom, feeling the abundant true energy in his dantian, and was extremely satisfied.

Finally, through his own hard work, he broke through to the Ninth Heaven!

Next, it's time to take the medicine!

Taking out the first-tier breakthrough pill that he had prepared beforehand, Shen Bai tilted his head back and swallowed it. A huge amount of medicinal power instantly transformed into a powerful yet gentle force, rushing into his dantian.

The true energy within Shen Bai's dantian quickly merged with it, transforming into a high-speed train that began rapidly transporting energy through all the meridians and acupoints throughout his body.

Every meridian, every acupoint, and every pore seemed to be opened up by the vital energy, without any stagnation.

This is the extreme realm.

The entire body's flesh and blood are developed to their fullest potential.

The next step is to return from the acquired to the innate state, entering the innate realm of harmony between heaven and man.

We nourish our qi and blood with grains after birth, and we consume the spiritual energy of heaven and earth before birth, thus returning to our original source.

Acquired true qi transforms into innate true essence, refines the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into spiritual power, and qi is naturally formed.

The Innate Realm is the prerequisite for the Qi Refining Stage.

After swallowing the first-tier Breakthrough Pill, Shen Bai's cultivation naturally entered the extreme realm and reached the Great Perfection of the Extreme Realm.

From then on, Shen Bai could break through to the Innate Realm at any time and transcend the mortal realm.

Getting out of bed, Shen Bai walked to the mirror and looked at himself. His already handsome face was now even more gentle and refined, with an added touch of charm!

"You've gotten even more handsome!"

Shen Bai touched his smooth chin, looking quite distressed: "I really don't want to rely on my looks for a living!"

Getting up and leaving the bedroom, Shen Wenwen skipped over to Shen Bai: "Guess who advanced?"

"Triple Heaven?"

Shen Bai keenly noticed that Shen Wenwen's skin was firmer than before, a sign that her skin training had been successful.

"Haha, you didn't expect that, did you!"

Shen Wenwen, hands on her hips, said smugly, "I just stepped into the Third Heaven! The Third Heaven at twelve years old, who dares to dream of that?"

"You're thirteen! Tomorrow's your birthday!"

Shen Bai looked up and ruffled her hair, sighing with admiration, "Your talent is just too amazing!"

"Of course!"

Even after her age was corrected, Shen Wenwen wasn't too angry. Instead, she continued to boast, "Just wait, before I get to high school, I'll definitely reach the tenth level!"

Shen Bai nodded: "Keep it up, brother! I've already reached the Extreme Realm ahead of you!"

"Haha... Huh? What? You've reached the pinnacle?"

Shen Wenwen was about to continue laughing when she froze: "You advanced too?"

"Yes, just as you advanced to the third level, I advanced to the tenth level!" Shen Bai looked at his sister with a smile, his heart filled with satisfaction.

Bloodline suppression feels so good!

"ah--"

Shen Wenwen's face, which had been full of joy and happiness, turned to sadness: "Couldn't you have waited just one more day? Let me be happy for one more day?"

"There's no way around it, I'm pretty amazing too! Besides, isn't double the happiness even better?"

Shen Bai got up to prepare breakfast for the two of them. After a hard night of cultivation, they needed to replenish their nutrition.

"It's my birthday tomorrow, what are you going to do?"

Shen Wenwen's unhappiness stemmed from being suppressed by her brother once again. Immediately afterward, she began excitedly considering how to celebrate her birthday the next day.

"How do you want to spend it? Tomorrow is the weekend, are you inviting classmates over, or are you planning to go out?"

Shen Bai suddenly realized that he had hardly seen Shen Wenwen interacting with any close female friends.

That's not a good idea. Who doesn't have a girlfriend?

"My classmates are all too childish, I'm not playing with them. Let's go to the mountains to practice our marksmanship tomorrow!"

Shen Wenwen took out her dual pistols and brandished them at the wall, exclaiming, "I can't wait to go out and fight monsters!"

"You? You'd be lucky if you didn't get eaten by monsters!"

Shen Bai shook his head, starting to plan where to go tomorrow.

In addition, we also need to deal with Hu Weiwei's situation.

……

In the past month, Xuanhua Pharmaceutical has become history.

The main members of the family were all imprisoned.

Xuanhua Pharmaceutical's assets were auctioned off, and Bai's Pharmaceutical and Hu Weiwei decisively took them over. They then formed a new pharmaceutical company with Bai's original assets and Hu Fangkun.

Now, a company called Kunbai Pharmaceutical is rising rapidly.

With Hu Fangkun, a newly promoted Nascent Soul True Monarch, backing it up, Kunbai Pharmaceutical's future is immeasurable!

After everything settled down, Hu Weiwei extended an invitation to Shen Baifa, inviting him to become an apprentice alchemist at Kunbai Pharmaceutical.

Shen Bai knew very well that this was a disguised way of compensating himself.

The catalyst for the downfall of Xuanhua Pharmaceutical and the Xuan family was the low-toxicity Gathering Yuan Pill developed by Hu Fangkun, but the most important catalyst that enabled Xuanhua Pharmaceutical and the Xuan family to fall so quickly was Shen Bai.

This time, Bai's Pharmaceuticals and Hu Fangkun and the Hu sisters reaped the lion's share of the profits, so naturally they wouldn't forget Shen Bai. However, given Shen Bai's current strength, he's not yet qualified to get a share of the spoils in this matter.

Therefore, Hu Weiwei ostensibly invited Shen Bai to be an apprentice alchemist, but in reality, she was indirectly giving Shen Bai a high salary, which he could receive for life without having to do anything.

This is a solution that we felt was most suitable after communicating with multiple parties.

Giving him some medicine or magical artifacts was nothing compared to Hu Fangkun's petty kindness; such a reward was too stingy.

Instead of that, it would be better to give Shen Bai a long-term and stable source of income, so that in addition to his identity as the Night Fiend Hall member, Shen Bai could also be branded with the name Hu Fangkun.

Paying salaries is only one aspect; the connections and protection of the Nascent Soul True Lord are more valuable than anything else.