BOOOOOOOOOOM—ROOOOOOOOAR!
As the twenty-foot [Rank 4 Crimson Blood-Lightning Spear] plunged down to within ten feet of the [Frost-Pine Loving-Heart Elementary School] balcony. The twin pillars of black-gold and emerald-violet light erupting from nine-year-old Gu Nian and seven-year-old Su Nuannuan shattered the final mortal bottleneck inside both children’s dantians simultaneously!
Inside nine-year-old Gu Nian’s chest, his [Innate Chaos Demon Bone]—cleansed of every trace of dark curse by five months of his father’s cooking. Warmed by his mother’s [Frost-Phoenix Jade Hairpin]—ignited his Half-Step Rank 3 blood-essence into a roaring. Thirty-foot golden-black inner sea of true [Rank 3 Early Martial Grandmaster (Righteous Chaos-Dragon Internal Qi)]!
And right beside him, inside seven-year-old Su Nuannuan’s dantian, her [Innate Ten-Thousand-Poison Body]—nurtured by three hundred baths of warm spirit-herb soup and her father’s [Care-Package Upgrade Box]—blossomed into a dazzling. Thirty-foot emerald-pink cloud of true [Rank 3 Early Martial Grandmaster (Ten-Thousand-Herb Dissolving Aroma Qi)]!
A nine-year-old Rank 3 Martial Grandmaster!
And a seven-year-old Rank 3 Martial Grandmaster!
In the entire three-thousand-year martial history of the Great Qian Dynasty and the surrounding mortal kingdoms, any genius who broke through to Rank 3 Martial Grandmaster. The age of thirty-five was hailed as a once-in-a-century prodigy—and even twenty-four-year-old Auntie Qin’s breakthrough two days earlier had shocked the Prefecture Lord!
Yet right now, before the eyes of forty thousand citizens and three thousand Capital Guards. A nine-year-old boy in yellow bunny slippers and a seven-year-old girl holding a pink watering can had. Both stepped into the Rank 3 Martial Grandmaster Realm hand-in-hand on their elementary school balcony before lunch!
Up on his flying bronze disk a hundred and twenty feet in the air, forty-five-year-old Envoy Zhao Kun’s sadistic laugh choked in his windpipe as his eyeballs nearly popped out of their sockets:.
“WHAT?! EXTERNAL INTERNAL-QI PROJECTION FROM A NINE-YEAR-Aged BOY AND A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL?! TWO CHILD MARTIAL GRANDMASTERS?!”
Down on the school balcony, nine-year-old Gu Nian , at Rank 3 Early Martial Grandmaster, didn’t waste a single breath looking at Envoy Zhao Kun.
Stepping half a pace forward in his yellow bunny slippers. Keeping his left hand linked with his little sister’s. Nine-year-old Gu Nian drew his small right fist back to his hip and punched straight up into the descending twenty-foot Rank 4 crimson lightning spear!
“NOBODY HURTS MY SISTER OR OUR SCHOOL—[RANK 3 CHAOS-DRAGON GRANDMASTER FIST]!”
ROOOOOOOOOAR—KRA-CLANG!
A solid, thirty-foot-long black-gold dragon fist condensed from pure Rank 3 Martial Grandmaster internal qi—laced with a silver frost-phoenix crest from his mother’s hairpin!—erupted from nine-year-old Gu Nian’s small knuckles. Slammed head-on into the tip from the twenty-foot [Rank 4 Crimson Blood-Lightning Spear] eight feet above the balcony railing!
The fifty-thousand-gold-tael Rank 4 lightning spear—which Envoy Zhao Kun had expected to vaporize the entire school building—was stopped dead in midair by a nine-year-old boy’s single upward punch. Its crimson lightning shaft bending and cracking with a web of golden fractures!
And at that exact same instant, seven-year-old Su Nuannuan , at Rank 3 Early Martial Grandmaster, tilted her small head back beneath her yellow straw sun-hat!
Because the acrid ozone and blood-sulfur smell of Envoy Zhao’s lightning spear tickled the tip of her button nose. The seven-year-old little girl took a deep breath into her chubby cheeks and let out a mighty, pint-sized Rank 3 Grandmaster sneeze straight up at the cracked lightning spear:.
“ACHOO—MELT INTO SWEET LICORICE SYRUP, YOU UGLY RED SPARKLER!”
WHOOOOOOOSH—SIZZZZZZZZZLE!
From seven-year-old Su Nuannuan’s small mouth and outstretched palm erupted a thirty-foot dome of glittering emerald-pink [Rank 3 Ten-Thousand-Herb & Black-Licorice Dissolving Mist]!
Whereas ordinary mortal poison corroded flesh, Su Nuannuan’s redeemed Rank 3 Grandmaster medicinal-poison domain possessed a terrifying law-level property: it specifically dissolved hostile spiritual energy. Unstable talisman arrays while smelling like sweet rock-candy and roasted anise!
The instant Nuannuan’s emerald-pink mist enveloped the fractured twenty-foot [Rank 4 Crimson Blood-Lightning Spear]. The ferocious Rank 4 blood-lightning didn’t explode at all—it fizzled like a hot iron poker dunked into a vat of cold honey-syrup!
Fizzzzz-POP-sparkle!
Within two seconds, shattered from below by nine-year-old Gu Nian’s thirty-foot Rank 3 Chaos-Dragon Fist and dissolved from around by seven-year-old Su Nuannuan’s Rank 3 Black-Licorice Mist. The entire fifty-thousand-gold [Rank 4 Crimson Blood-Lightning Spear] melted into a harmless shower of sweet-smelling pink sugar-sparks. That drifted gently down over the street without scorching a single wooden railing on the school balcony!
Inside the second-floor classroom doorway behind them, six hundred schoolchildren blinked as a warm breeze smelling of sweet honey and black licorice brushed their cheeks—and then erupted into a deafening chorus of cheers!
“WAAAAH! CLASS MONITOR GU NIAN AND LITTLE SISTER NUANNUAN PUNCHED AND SNEEZED THE GIANT LIGHTNING SPEAR INTO CANDY SPARKS!”
“BIG BROTHER NIAN AND NUANNUAN ARE REAL RANK 3 MARTIAL GRANDMASTERS!”
Across the rooftops and sidewalks of Central Avenue, forty thousand citizens—and fifty-two-year-old Prefecture Lord Qin Zheng. Who had just landed on the neighboring roof with his sword drawn—stared at the two children on the balcony in speechless, earth-shattering awe:.
“A nine-year-old Rank 3 Martial Grandmaster and a seven-year-old Rank 3 Martial Grandmaster... In the Gu Household, even the elementary-school children are Martial Grandmasters who can smash a Rank 4 Capital talisman with one punch and one sneeze!”
And down on the granite flagstones in front of the pharmacy, inside twenty-nine-year-old Gu Changsheng’s consciousness. The system bells rang out with the loudest, most glorious golden jackpot cascade since he had awakened the [God-Tier Good Dad System] five months ago!
Because according to the foundational laws of the [God-Tier Good Dad System], whenever a redeemed child whose Darkening Index was kept safely below 20% (Gu Nian: 10%. Su Nuannuan: 8%) broke through into a new major cultivation realm, their [10x Redeemed Kid Daily Bonus] multiplied by a full order of magnitude!
[ DING! HISTORIC MILESTONE — BOTH KIDS REACH RANK 3 GRANDMASTER! ]
* Child #1 (Gu Nian, Age 9) : Advances to [RANK 3 EARLY MARTIAL.
GRANDMASTER]! [Darkening: 10%]
-> 10x Redeemed Kid Bonus Up! : +1,000 -> +10,000 DP/day!
* Child #2 (Su Nuannuan, Age 7) : Advances to [RANK 3 EARLY MARTIAL.
GRANDMASTER]! [Darkening: 8%]
-> 10x Redeemed Kid Bonus Up! : +1,000 -> +10,000 DP/day!
* Household Grandmaster Count : FOUR Rank 3 Martial Grandmasters.
(Dad, Auntie Qin, Nian, Nuannuan)!
* Daily Dad Points Income : +430,000 -> +450,000 DP/day!
Looking up at his nine-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter standing safe, proud. Glowing with Rank 3 Early Martial Grandmaster light on the school balcony, twenty-nine-year-old Gu Changsheng gave them an approving nod and a warm thumbs-up:.
“Good form on the horse stance, Nian’er, and ten out of ten on the sneeze, Nuannuan—both of you get two [Gold Star Stickers] after lunch!”
Up on the second-floor school balcony, hearing their father’s praise, nine-year-old Gu Nian , at Rank 3 Early Martial Grandmaster, let out a happy breath. The thirty-foot golden-black Chaos-Dragon phantom coiled affectionately around his small shoulders before sinking neatly back into his meridians without a single trace of exhaustion or internal heat.
Turning to his seven-year-old little sister beside him. Nine-year-old Gu Nian pulled a clean white cotton handkerchief from his yellow bunny apron pocket and gently wiped a tiny droplet of sweet honey-licorice mist off the tip of Su Nuannuan’s nose:.
“Nuannuan, your Rank 3 sneeze melted the whole head of that lightning spear before it could even crack my dragon fist! Did the lightning smoke sting your nose?”
“Not at all, Big Brother Nian!” seven-year-old Su Nuannuan , at Rank 3 Early Martial Grandmaster, giggled. Sniffing the air as a few leftover pink candy-sparks landed on the brim of her yellow straw sun-hat like sugar snowflakes.
“Now that Nuannuan is a real Rank 3 Martial Grandmaster like Dad, Auntie Qin, and Big Brother Nian, Nuannuan’s nose can turn any stinky lightning bolt into sweet rock-candy!
Look—even Little Fatty Wang and the first-graders caught sugar-sparks on their sleeves!”
Behind them in the classroom doorway, eight-year-old Little Fatty Wang and six hundred young students were staring at their Class Monitor Gu Nian and Little Sister Nuannuan. If looking at two young gods from a storybook:.
“Class Monitor Nian! Earlier that scary flying man in the sky said he wanted to lock you. Nuannuan in iron cages—and then you punched his giant red lightning spear in half with one fist while Nuannuan sneezed it into candy!
When I finish my bowl of mung-bean soup at afternoon snack today, I’m going to practice my horse stance for two whole hours so I can be a hero like Class Monitor Nian!”
Down in the six-inch-deep rainbow dish-soap foam on Central Avenue, thirty-eight-year-old Battalion Commander Chen , at Rank 2 Peak. All three thousand Black-Armor Capital Guards sat frozen on their armored backsides in the soap-bubbles. Staring up at the nine-year-old boy and seven-year-old girl on the school balcony with their jaws hanging down to their breastplates:.
“Did... did I get soap in my eyes, or did a nine-year-old boy and a seven-year-old girl just release genuine Rank 3 Early Martial Grandmaster External Qi Projection. Obliterate Lord Envoy’s fifty-thousand-gold Rank 4 Blood-Lightning Spear?!”
“You didn’t get soap in your eyes, Commander Chen! Back in the Great Qian Royal Capital, His Highness the Second Prince’s twenty-year-old elite prodigies are still stuck at Rank 2 Mid—yet here in Azure-Cloud Prefecture. Protector Gu’s nine-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter are both Rank 3 Martial Grandmasters!”
“What kind of divine family did Envoy Zhao Kun provoke?! Look at Protector Gu Changsheng down on the pharmacy steps—if his nine-year-old and seven-year-old kids are already Rank 3 Martial Grandmasters, how terrifying is the father who raised them?!”
Every single eye on Central Avenue—forty thousand cheering citizens on the rooftops, three thousand trembling Capital Guards in the soap-suds. Six hundred wide-eyed schoolchildren on the balcony—turned simultaneously toward twenty-nine-year-old Gu Changsheng standing in front of the pharmacy.
On the pharmacy veranda right behind Gu Changsheng, twenty-four-year-aged Auntie Qin. Holding Rank 3 Early Martial Grandmaster, alongside sixty-two-year-old Grandpa Fu , at Rank 2 Peak, exchanged a look of boundless household pride. Three-hundred-and-eighty-year-old Grandpa Yao [Warmth: 92/100] hopped up onto the wooden railing in his two-foot [Jade-Turtle Plush Doll] body and shouted to the heavens:.
“Write this day down in the alchemical and martial annals of the continent, Butler Fu! In the second year of the Frost-Pine Gu Clan’s rise. Nine-year-old Young Master Gu Nian [Darkening: 10%] and seven-year-old Little Miss Su Nuannuan [Darkening: 8%] both stepped into the Rank.
3 Early Martial Grandmaster Realm on the same afternoon—making them the youngest pair of brother-and-sister Martial Grandmasters in ten thousand years! And look at the golden kinship threads of the [All-Family Shared Cultivation Link] above the street—both children’s pure Rank 3 breakthrough origin-qi is flowing straight back to their father and Auntie Qin!”
Indeed, as soon as nine-year-old Gu Nian’s [Righteous Chaos-Dragon Internal Qi] and seven-year-old Su Nuannuan’s [Ten-Thousand-Herb Dissolving Aroma Qi] stabilized at Rank 3 Early Martial Grandmaster. The passive law of the [All-Family Shared Cultivation Link] triggered a double 20% breakthrough backflow!
Two invisible, surging golden-jade dragon currents of flaw-free youthful origin vitality arched across the forty yards from the school. Balcony to the pharmacy steps—pouring simultaneously into twenty-four-year-old Auntie Qin’s meridians and twenty-nine-year-old Gu Changsheng’s Rank 3 Late dantian!
Up on the school balcony, nine-year-old Gu Nian and seven-year-old Su Nuannuan felt the warm golden link pulse in their chests and smiled brightly down at their father:.
Beside the stove, Gu Changsheng wiped his hands on his clean white apron and checked the simmering broth with a steady nod.
“Dad! Our [All-Family Shared Cultivation Link] is sending our new Rank 3 Grandmaster energy over to you and Auntie Qin!” nine-year-old Gu Nian called out happily.
“Dad, use Nuannuan’s and Big Brother Nian’s energy to give that bad flying uncle a super big spanking!” seven-year-old Su Nuannuan cheered, waving both small hands above her yellow straw sun-hat.
Then twenty-nine-year-old Gu Changsheng slowly turned his gaze upward toward the forty-five-year-old Imperial Envoy Zhao Kun hovering a hundred and twenty feet in the sky on his bronze disk—just. The double 20% breakthrough feedback from both of his children’s Rank 3 Grandmaster ascensions roared down the [All-Family Shared Cultivation Link] straight into Gu Changsheng’s own dantian!