73: Chapter 73 Bronze Level 2
“It’s fine, you two just do your thing. I just came to see how you train.”
Xiao Xiuqin motioned for them not to mind her; she would just watch from the side.
Gu Yue naturally couldn't accept this, but she ultimately failed to persuade her mother to leave. Having no choice, she could only let her watch from the side.
“Hello, Auntie.”
Facing an elder, Fang Yuan offered what he considered a very proper and polite greeting.
He just couldn't quite understand why the auntie in front of him had such a strange look in her eyes, as if she wanted to devour him whole.
He didn't overthink it. After greeting Xiao Xiuqin, he began his training sparring with Gu Yue.
This time, Fang Yuan was the same as yesterday. Even with the opponent's mother watching from the side, he showed no restraint, his wooden saber repeatedly striking Gu Yue.
Each blow made the nearby Xiao Xiuqin's heart ache, but seeing that it was indeed beneficial for her daughter, she held back from rushing up and hitting Fang Yuan herself.
After yesterday's drills, Gu Yue's performance was much better this time. Originally, Fang Yuan could hit her several times a minute, but now he sometimes couldn't hit her at all in a minute... It was eleven at night.
“Auntie, Sister Gu Yue is in your hands.”
After the training, Fang Yuan dropped a sentence and hurried towards the residential area.
The strange gaze behind him made him quicken his pace, and he soon disappeared.
Xiao Xiuqin watched his disappearing figure in a daze. Everything over those four hours had been seen by her. The other party was indeed only drilling combat techniques with her daughter.
There was nothing bad done to her daughter. At this point, her resentment towards Fang Yuan had almost completely dissipated.
The last trace was simply her heartache over her daughter's injuries.
“Hiss~, that hurts!”
Just as she was in a daze, a startled cry reached her ears. Xiao Xiuqin, snapping back to reality, quickly withdrew her hand from her daughter's.
“Mom, what were you doing just now?!”
Gu Yue looked at her mother with a resentful gaze. She had just relaxed, and that sudden touch somehow felt even more painful than Fang Yuan's wooden saber striking her body.
Chided by her daughter, Xiao Xiuqin smiled awkwardly, then she and Gu Yue also left the square.
Without having to send anyone off, this time Fang Yuan only took half an hour to return home. After washing up, he could finally enjoy the dinner his mother had specially prepared for him.
Since her son returned home close to midnight every day, Lin Xia, as a mother, naturally had to prepare food to reward him.
It was already twelve o'clock after dinner. He still didn't rest at this time, casually taking out a crystal core to continue absorbing the unabsorbed energy within it.
Because of the training with Gu Yue, his energy absorption progress had been somewhat delayed, currently only at eighty-two percent.
Originally, the daytime combat had already allowed Fang Yuan to adapt to the energy absorbed yesterday. Now, with an additional task, it didn't help him much... Third day of training.
This time, Xiao Xiuqin was still present, but what was different this time was that she was now holding several food containers, which were dishes she had specially cooked for her daughter and Fang Yuan.
Her cooking skills were also very good. Gu Yue became an Imperial Chef because of her, and later even surpassed her, becoming a somewhat famous Imperial Chef.
After an hour of training, Fang Yuan stopped, and Gu Yue was now sitting on the ground, utterly exhausted.
“Fang Yuan kid, come and eat.”
Seeing them stop, Xiao Xiuqin called Fang Yuan to eat, and then she went to help her ungraceful daughter up to sit on the soft stool she had prepared.
Fang Yuan did not decline. More than ten hours had passed since he ate breakfast, and during that time, he had consumed nothing but water.
His stomach was empty now. He picked up a food container, smelled the aroma wafting from it, and began to eat heartily.
In just a few minutes, two full containers of food had entered his stomach.
Xiao Xiuqin had prepared dishes for both of them that contained a large amount of energy, and the ingredients had all reached the Silver Rank.
As two large boxes of energy-rich meals entered his stomach, Fang Yuan's body instinctively began to rapidly absorb the energy within them.
The result did not keep him waiting. Soon, his energy accumulation exceeded the one hundred percent threshold, and the next second, he smoothly broke through from Bronze Level One to Bronze Level Two.
As his Rank increased, Fang Yuan's strength entered a state of rapid increase, stopping only when it reached six thousand nine hundred points, close to the seven thousand point mark.
Nearly seven thousand points of strength was already close to the Bronze Rank Four limit of seven thousand five hundred points.
On the other side, Gu Yue, sitting on the cushion her mother had specially prepared, also received signs of a Breakthrough from her Fate's Guidance (Talent) at the moment Fang Yuan broke through.
Under her mother's astonished gaze, she also smoothly broke through to Bronze Level Three. Looking at Fang Yuan, who had broken through first, Xiao Xiuqin became more and more satisfied the more she looked.
In just a few days, he had already broken through two Ranks consecutively. Although this youth showed no mercy when training her daughter,
just seeing how he could break through in a short time and drive her daughter to level up quickly, Xiao Xiuqin now wished Fang Yuan would get better and better, preferably leveling up faster.
Soon, under the effect of Fate's Guidance (Talent), Gu Yue only took half a minute to successfully break through to Bronze Level Three, with her strength reaching around five thousand points.
As her Rank increased, her previously listless spirit immediately recovered significantly.
Seeing this, after she also finished eating, Fang Yuan continued to spar with her.
What awaited Gu Yue next was another round of difficult torment. The Breakthrough in Rank did not change the fact that her combat skills were very poor; she was still completely suppressed by Fang Yuan.
Perhaps because she had broken through another Rank, even when suppressed, she remained full of fighting spirit. Enduring the pain of being hit by the wooden saber, the long saber in Gu Yue's hand finally struck its target.
She gritted her teeth, ignored Fang Yuan's attack, and brought her wooden saber down heavily on his body.
This time, it was Fang Yuan himself who experienced the pain. This was the first time he had been hit by Gu Yue's attack; previously, he could easily dodge her very naive attacks.
“Very good, you actually hit me.”
Fang Yuan did not hesitate to praise her, even though she had used the edge of the wooden saber to strike him, not the flat, causing his ribs to ache faintly.
“Heh, Fang Yuan kid, you shouldn’t underestimate your Sister Yueyue…”
The achievement of her first battle result made the girl very happy, and her speech became much more arrogant, as if she were the one in the dominant position.
To this, Fang Yuan indicated that it was fine; he would let her be arrogant for a moment.
Afterward, Fang Yuan was incredibly careful, giving his opponent no chance at all, while still managing to hit the target repeatedly.
Finally, Gu Yue paid a heavy price for her arrogance, returning home with a body full of injuries, accompanied by her mother.
“I’ll get my revenge later!”
Gu Yue, who was in a worse state than the second day, left a remark, then slowly walked away under Fang Yuan's gaze.