At this time, Ye Youyou was still in the middle hall, looking at her in a daze outside the door. Almost two or three hours had passed without her realizing it.
Zhou Liting walked to the central hall and took a look and found that it was Youyou, so he went in curiously.
"Youyou! Your body?"
He also noticed Ye Youyou's feet.
Ye Youyou quickly put her feet on the chair, curled up shyly, put the corner of her coat on her feet, and then told Zhou Liting what happened when she came here.
"I hope you're okay. Tian'er is in the room and should be out soon. It's getting late, so you can just eat here."
Ye Youyou was afraid of trouble and wanted to refuse. But seeing that his expression was very heavy and absent-minded, he didn't think much about it. Anyway, Brother Zhou Tian was with him, so he nodded silently.
"Old Xu!"
The housekeeper heard him being called, so he hunched over and ran out of the courtyard in a hurry.
"Hey, Master!"
Zhou Tian also came to the middle hall, saw Youyou was still there, and slapped his forehead.
"Ah, I actually forgot about you, my negligence, my negligence."
After saying that, he quickly came to Youyou and tightened her coat tightly.
"It's been a long wait, are you okay? The day is hot and cold. Are your bare feet a little cold?"
"Ah, Lao Xu, please ask the chef to make an extra portion of the meal. Youyou is also eating at our Zhou residence today, so we can have more hot food..."
"You guys can chat, I'll go to the study to look at the latest accounts."
So, Zhou Liting got up and walked out of the nave. Before leaving, he glanced at Zhou Tian with his peripheral vision, his eyes full of expectation.
"Brother Zhou Tian, my mother said that there is a grand martial arts competition on the Spring Equinox. If you can defeat your peers at the grand gathering, maybe my father and mother will not cause trouble for your Zhou family."
Ye Youyou's big, flickering eyes kept staring at Zhou Tian, their eyes full of joy.
After Zhou Tian heard this, his eyes gradually darkened.
"It's not that simple. Your father also said this. Without the blessing of the sea of qi, no matter how advanced my boxing skills are, I can't look down on those of my generation who have penetrated the sea of qi. They just want to see my jokes."
"Hmph, the martial arts competition might as well be called a ridicule conference."
Zhou Tian sat next to Ye Youyou, his eyes blank and expressionless, but he could still see his stubbornness and unwillingness to admit defeat.
Youyou put her feet on the ground, stood up and came to Zhou Tian's eyes.
"Brother Zhou Tian! Now everyone is making fun of you, and anyone can trample on you. You can pretend you are invisible, but where is your dead mother, your father and me? Do you really want to stay depressed like this?
"
"Ye Mansion doesn't allow me to interact with you now. I secretly came out to tell you this. Is it just to see your indifference?"
Ye Youyou's excited look caught Zhou Tian off guard. Youyou was usually cute and calm, but now she looked so irritable.
After hearing this, Zhou Tian hurriedly stood up and helped her onto the chair. When he saw her trembling feet, he picked her up regardless of anything else and put her on his knees.
"Youyou, I know what you said, it's just me..."
"Master, Miss Youyou, the food is ready. These are the shoes that the master has prepared for Miss Youyou."
Lao Xu stood at the door, holding a pair of shoes in his hand.
Zhou Tian took the shoes and placed them at Youyou's feet. Just as he was about to help her put them on, Youyou stood up with a whoosh, put them on himself and walked out the door.
"I hope you can think clearly."
He looked at the housekeeper outside the door again.
"Thank you Uncle Zhou for the shoes..."
After this meal, Zhou Tian was very upset. The three of them said nothing at the dinner table, which was extremely embarrassing.
After the meal, Youyou greeted Zhou Liting for a few words, turned around and walked towards the gate outside the courtyard.
"faint!"
Zhou Tian called out.
"Brother Zhou Tian, the efforts you make are for yourself. No one can wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep. I hope you can understand."
Bang!
Ye Youyou closed the door forcefully and walked away.
Zhou Tian looked at the solemn door in front of him, and the echoing sound was still ringing in his ears.
Zhou Liting looked at it, said nothing, and returned to the study.
He knew that Youyou was motivating himself, but his father's words today kept popping up in his mind. He couldn't accept so many things at the same time. With a complicated mood, he sat on the steps in the courtyard and looked up at the sky in a daze.
.
Unconsciously, the sky has darkened, and bits of starlight gradually appear in the boundless sky.
Suddenly Zhou Tian's body began to feel hot. At first he thought it was because of the weather, but as he began to feel something was wrong more and more, he found that his hands were getting redder and redder.
His eyes looked as if they had just been soaked in chili peppers.
"hiss!"
The whole body seemed to fall apart in an instant, and the bite and collision between the bones could be clearly heard.
Zhou Tian endured the pain caused by this series of changes and sat cross-legged.
Not long after, the courtyard became dark, with only Zhou Tian's side showing a flickering blood-red color.
Very eye-catching.
After the servants passed by, some were so frightened that they felt like they had lost their souls, and some were just about to scream when Old Xu dragged them over.
"The young master should be practicing, don't disturb him!"
"Old Xu! How come you know everything?"
"After staying in Zhou Mansion for so long, if you don't understand anything, go back to your room immediately! Don't pry if you shouldn't pry."
After that, the servants dispersed one after another.
Only Lao Xu silently observed behind Zhou Tian.
After a long time, the blood-red light emitted by Zhou Tian's body gradually dimmed, but a trace of gas appeared on the top of his head.
He slowly opened his eyes. Although his whole body was still extremely hot, his body and mind felt much more comfortable.
Just as he was about to stand up, his ears suddenly became several times more sensitive. When he noticed someone behind him, he couldn't help but turn around and punch him. This punch from the air really frightened Zhou Tian.
This punch directly hit four dragons. It usually requires a lot of strength to perform to such an extent, but this time it was done easily.
But he didn't notice that Lao Xu actually hid.
"Master! Master! No, it's me, it's me, Lao Xu!"
Lao Xu ran out from behind Zhou Tian in a slightly exaggerated manner, and kept muttering to himself.
"It's Lao Xu! What are you doing behind me? I almost hurt you by accident!"
Lao Xu bowed and smiled: "Haha, it's okay. Even if you hurt me, the young master will find a way to save me. As for what's behind you, the master arranged for me to look after you!"
Zhou Tian asked hurriedly when he heard the word "master".
"Dad is still in the study now?"
Lao Xu nodded hurriedly.
Then, Zhou Tian quickly ran over and walked in without knocking.
"Be presumptuous! Enter without knocking. Who taught you how to behave!"
Zhou Tian had no choice but to retreat and knocked on the door.
Zhou Liting was seen leaning down to write calligraphy. He raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhou Tian by the door.
"Come in and close the door."
Zhou Tian didn’t know where to start.
Zhou Liting saw that he was sweating profusely and asked, "Did you feel anything unusual just now?"
"Dad! I just felt like my whole body was about to explode. There seemed to be an indescribable force in my body that was suppressing my body. And that punch just now, I didn't use any force at all, it was just a random punch.
It exerted such great power...Dad! This?"
Zhou Liting put down the brush, raised his left hand, asking him to stop talking for the time being, and walked around from behind the desk to stand in front of Zhou Tian.
"Next, you will hear everything I say clearly."
"I will never say it a second time. As a member of the Zhou family, memory and understanding are necessary conditions."
"Do you still remember the soul-eating blood beads I gave you at noon? They were the result of several years of catalysis before I abolished my cultivation. In the end, only the essence was left, so I asked you to swallow it."
"This bead can allow a person with Qi Hai to instantly increase his power dozens of times, and his state can also be directly stretched to the highest level that he can endure."
"And you are born with a locked sea of qi. This bead is the key to allowing you to open up the sea of qi. But I don't know how to use it yet. You are only seventeen, and the days are very long. You can adjust it slowly.
practise....."
After Zhou Tian heard this, he felt excited and confused. Many questions suddenly popped up in his mind. Just when he was about to open his mouth to ask, his father suddenly asked sharply: "Show me your arm!"
He slowly stretched out his arms.
After Zhou Liting observed carefully, a long-lost smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"You see, your Qi sea has a tendency to open up."
Zhou Tian followed his father's gaze and looked at his arms, only to see a faint vein moving slowly, slowly extending from the wrist to the arm. Although it was not very obvious, his eyes were vaguely visible.
Zhou Tian excitedly raised his head and looked at his father's face as cold as ice and smiled: "Dad! It worked!"
And Zhou Liting, who had smiled just now, instantly changed back to his original appearance.
"Go out, I have said everything I need to say. As for how to practice and how to use the effects of the beads themselves, you still need to explore it yourself."
"The Spring Equinox Competition is less than a week away, so you have to hurry up."
After saying that, he brought the words he had just written before Zhou Tian's eyes.
It turns out to be the word ‘ming’.
"Hang these words in your room. From today on, your destiny is in your control. Whether you want to change your destiny or not, it depends on you."
Zhou Tian wanted to continue communicating with his father, but Zhou Liting waved his hand impatiently and motioned for him to go out.
There was no other way, so Zhou Tian had no choice but to take the calligraphy and walk out.
When Lao Xu saw Zhou Tian walking out, his dejected look was heartbreaking, and he could clearly see the words in his hand.
He rolled his eyes and wanted to step forward and say a few words of comfort.
"few....."
"Old Xu!"
Zhou Liting shouted.
"There's no more tea in the cup!"
Lao Xu had no idea. He was about to speak but was interrupted by Zhou Liting, so he had to turn around and walk to the kitchen.
Zhou Tian didn't pay attention to Lao Xu's actions. His eyes were straight as he thought about what his father had just told him. After returning to the room, he hung the words on the wall.
Sitting on the edge of the bed, watching the flickering veins in my wrist, all kinds of emotions rushed into my heart.
Then he sat cross-legged on the bed again.
But this time, he wanted to feel the power of this bead with his heart.
Slowly, slowly, I don't know if he entered a dream or somewhere. When he opened his eyes, he saw a vast white scene with nothing in it.
Looking at it coldly, the white light around him made his eyes feel a slight burning sensation.