From the Heavens Descended an Immortal Sister

Chapter 178: Chapter 176: Half-Step Leisure Cloud Realm_1

"Trust is of course necessary, but you can't give a clear reason, which is highly suspicious!" Bai Qi said earnestly.

"Then let's investigate, although it will probably take about ten days or so. Before we have a definite answer, you still have to trust me," Fang Ren said.

"Ten days? It doesn't take that long for the Bai Family to investigate someone, at most three or four days. If grandfather speaks on my behalf, we could even get the results today," Bai Qi said.

"Three or four days, huh..."

Fang Ren nodded, feeling that this timeline was quite good. By the time three or four days had passed, the finals would be taking place, and there would be no need for secrecy.

"What's the matter, are you feeling guilty?" Bai Qi frowned and asked.

Fang Ren replied with a slight smile on his face, "Of course not. Speaking of which, are you full yet? If not, we could order some more."

"Hmph! I'm so full of anger I could burst!"

As she said this, Bai Qi stood up, and the sight that had been blocked by the dining table now came into Fang Ren's view.

Bai Qi's slender waist was overshadowed by her belly, which was bulging as if she were three or four months pregnant.

"This... you're okay after eating so much?" Fang Ren looked at her swollen belly and was utterly embarrassed.

"This isn't from eating; it's from frustration!" Bai Qi immediately corrected him.

"Alright, alright, whatever you say, you're the boss..."

After a small commotion, Fang Ren hurriedly went to pay the bill and then quickly left the place with Bai Qi, not understanding what had gotten into the girl as she seemed to pay no heed to her public image, with people around them staring continuously.

It was only when Fang Ren saw the baseball cap firmly on her head that he had an epiphany. It was all because of the courage that the hat gave her; otherwise, given her personality, she would normally be very concerned with maintaining the "Bai Family Princess" image.

After leaving the restaurant, Bai Qi was in no mood for shopping, mainly because her stomach was so full. She couldn't use her True Qi right now, so she felt bloated and uncomfortable, not even wanting to walk.

Eventually, Fang Ren found a hotel not too far from the Alchemist Guild and rented two rooms for a temporary stay.

Bai Qi was so full she could barely move, flopping down onto the bed in her room without an ounce of energy to spare.

Seeing her like this, Fang Ren thought about retrieving a pill from his Space Ring that could strengthen internal organs to give to her, but then he thought better of it, realizing she would just start interrogating him the moment she regained some energy, so he decided against it.

After closing the door to Bai Qi's room, Fang Ren returned to his own room to prepare for a breakthrough in his Realm. However, due to concerns that the shockwave from the breakthrough could damage the hotel, he summoned Xiao Yuan to help contain the shock.

He had been holding back from breaking through his Realm for many days, feeling like a cannon loaded with gunpowder, just short of the spark needed to ignite.

Sure enough, less than five minutes into his cultivation with his eyes fixed, the atmosphere around his body suddenly became turbulent.

After a brief surge, all the energy rushed back into his body as if converging to a focal point where it was intensely compressed before exploding outward.

The gray True Qi stormed around the room like a fierce wind while Xiao Yuan's halo above its head projected the same gray aura, enveloping the walls and furniture of the room.

Moments later, the True Qi inside Fang Ren settled down, gently hovering around his body, every bit firmly under his control.

"This sensation... it doesn't feel like the Peak of the Chongshan Realm," he muttered.

Fang Ren opened his eyes, feeling the changes within his body, and couldn't help but talk to himself.

"Heiha Heiha!"

Qianye retracted the aura around her and hopped to Fang Ren's side, frantically gesturing with her hands and feet to convey her message.

Watching her dance about, Fang Ren didn't find it hard to guess what she was trying to say. After all, as his realm continued to rise, the spiritual connection he had established with Qianye was getting stronger. Sometimes, she just had to act cute and he would get the gist of it.

"Half-step Leisure Cloud Realm?" Fang Ren blankly said, "You mean to say that I'm no longer within the Chongshan Realm, and with a bit more cultivation, I can step into the Xianyun Realm?"

"Heiha Heiha!"

Qianye nodded her head.

"Once you start killing on the path of the Asura, the speed of cultivation is indeed fast," Fang Ren couldn't help but let a slight smile curve his lips as he spoke to himself.

"Heiha Heiha!"

Seeing him smile, Qianye immediately tugged at his fingers and vigorously shook her head.

"I'm not being arrogant; I'm just happy for a moment," Fang Ren explained after seeing her reaction.

Qianye's small round face still bore a look of concern as she then extended two branches from her head, and on one branch, she carved a long line of characters.

Fang Ren leaned in to read them and soon felt a bit disheartened.

"Aren't you hitting me a bit too hard..."

The message on the characters that Qianye carved conveyed that his cultivation speed was indeed very fast on Earth, but in other worlds, it wasn't considered too fast—just average.

Fang Ren learned about the existence of other worlds some time after Qianye took him on the path of the Asura. Qianye hadn't described much about the outside worlds to him, so he didn't have a clear concept of the cultivation speeds of beings from those worlds.

But he knew that there were True Immortals, demons, monsters... many powerful things out there.

However, to tout his cultivation speed, which he was very confident in, as only average in other worlds, was somewhat a blow to him.

But he quickly adjusted his mindset and smiled, saying, "Never mind, never mind. Anyway, I don't have any grand aspirations. I just want to live a simple life with Qing'er, as long as no one comes to disturb us, that's good enough."

"Heiha..."

After hearing his words, Qianye stared at him with a dazed expression, as if deep in thought about something.

Thump thump—

At that moment, there came a sudden knock on the door. Fang Ren immediately gathered his True Qi and stepped off the bed, opening the door of the hotel room.

As he opened the door, just as he expected stood Mu Huanqing, wearing a straw hat.

She was dressed in a clean white gown, her hands gently held in front of her, and her lips curved into a faint smile. No matter how one looked at her, she didn't seem like a General raging on the battlefield but rather like an elegant lady who had been nurtured in the arts of music, chess, calligraphy, and painting since childhood.