He glanced at the clock and left the room to prepare the food for his daughter and himself. Yu Xiaogang returned to the room after a while with hot freshly prepared spirit beast meat and a few steamed buns. Yu Yan had woken up by the time he returned to the room.

Yu Xiaogang laughed after noticing her gaze at the food he brought with him. He sat on the chair and placed the food on his desk, gestured her to come and eat. Yu Yan happily jumped off the bed and sat opposite him ate her dinner.

After having dinner, Yu Xiaogang waved her to remain seated and took out the notebook from his storage tool. He had already noted down the content of the first stage of meditation in the notebook and placed it on the desk.

His expression changed, and Yu Xiaogang solemnly explained the " Martial Soul Visualization technique " and its benefits to his daughter, before he told her to read and learn the contents of the notebook thoroughly.

Yu Xiaogang sat on the side and waited patiently for little Yan to memorize all of the content. After confirming that she had thoroughly memorized the first stage of the technique, Yu Xiaogang began to teach his daughter the meditation posture and warned her not to meditate for more than a half-hour before the awakening ceremony.

From the next day, Yu Yan began meditating immediately after taking a medicinal bath.

" Six Months Later "

It has been six months since Yu Xiaogang and Yu Yan started living in the Nuoding academy. A lot has happened in the past six months; Yu Xiaogang turned 42 years old yesterday, and it has been one year since he got the black pearl. They decided to return to the Holy Spirit village today.

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Yu Yan changed the most in the past six months. Although the little girl is not even six years old, she looks like seven years old. She became taller than before, and she succeeded in practicing the first fifteen stances of the " Sage Physique transformation" with the help of regular medicinal bath and eating the spirit beast meat every day for the past six months. Yu Yan's current physical strength was comparable to a rank 11 spirit-master with a hundred-year spirit ring.

Yu Xiaogang mastered the foundational spear technique in the last six months and created his own spear move based on it, " Black Dragon rampages through the ocean. " Yu Xiaogang condenses his strength on the spear and thrusts it forward, and as the spear advances, a black dragon phantom engulfs the target.

Yu Xiaogang made this technique after combining all of his current spear knowledge. Although it can not be said as a self-made spirit skill, it can barely be considered as a prototype of a spirit-skill, and as Yu Xiaogang advances on to the next realm in spear cultivation, he can improve it.

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[ Back to Present ]

Few people were standing at the entrance of the academy, and a carriage was parked not far from the gate. Director Su personally came to see off both of them.

" When will you return? " Director Su asked him, and Yu Xiaogang replied, " I don't know. " This, in turn, made Director Su speechless; he did not continue to care about him and turned towards Yu Yan and said, " Don't learn from your father, okay? Be a polite person. "

" Un! " Yu Yan blinked and nodded. Yu Xiaogang suddenly remembered something and took out two notebooks from his storage tool and handed it over to Director Su. Yu Xiaogang said, " The black one is to return the favor to the academy, and the other one is a gift for you. " Director Su thanked him and took the books from Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Xiaogang had recorded the first level of both the meditation technique and body forging technique in the black notebook for the academy. He also wrote down all the suggestions on letting the students practice it before getting their first spirit ring, as it would make it easier for them to absorb the spirit rings, but it didn't matter to him if they did not follow his suggestions. The other notebook contained the second level in addition to the first level of both the techniques as a gift to Director Su.

Yu Xiaogang and Yu Yan walked towards the carriage and sat inside. The driver tapped the horse on its back with a wooden stick, and the carriage started to move.

Soon they left the Nuoding city. The journey was more relaxed this time, and they reached the Holy Spirit village after a few hours. Yu Xiaogang asked the driver to stop the carriage outside the village and paid him the already agreed amount.

Yu Xiaogang and Yu Yan walked into the village and soon felt the familiar, peaceful environment. " Oh! Xiaogang, you are back? " Old Jack, who was strolling around the village, spoke after he saw Yu Xiaogang and Yu Yan.

" Yes, we have just returned, " Yu Xiaogang replied.

" How have you been, Grandpa Jack? " Yu Yan, who was standing beside Yu Xiaogang, stepped forward and asked him. " I am fine, my dear. " Old jack happily spoke and patted Yu Yan's head.

Old Jack suddenly remembered and spoke, " Xiaogang, you have returned on time. After two days, the spirit-master from Spirit Hall will come for the awakening ceremony. " Yu Xiaogang nodded and really felt that they are lucky.

Yu Xiaogang and Yu Yan walked towards their house after chatting with Old Jack for a while, and both of them smiled after looking at the house. They cleaned the house and placed all the stuff back in its place. The sun had already set as they completed their work.

Yu Xiaogang quickly cooked a simple dinner for both of them and walked back to his room after eating the food.