Huyan Lanruo patted her head gently and spoke softly. "My strength 't be measured by the standards of your world. But if I have to give you an ahen I might be equal to the 14 Jewel Heavenly Jewel Master or above."

  *Sss*

  Xiao Ruse couldn't help but suck a cold breath, listening to her words. Acc to her knowledge, Admiral Zhou had 8 jewels and he was already very strong. In the Fei li Empire, they have a 10 Jeweled Master, their stro force.

  A, her seemingly sweet and flirtatious Master was actually even strohan them.

  "T-Then what about your husband?" Xiao Ruse gulped down in shod asked.

  Huyan Lanruo giggled and said. "He is strohan all of us and if I have to pare him, then a 15-16 Jeweled Heavenly Jewle Master might not be his oppo."

  Xiao Ruse was pletely speechless. She had never anticipated that the seemingly friendly people in the restaurant were monsters in terms of strength.

  Huyan Lanruo gently caressed her cheeks and tinued. "Also, the thing about giving birth to his child, don't take it seriously, okay? He was just teasing you back then. Oh well, but if you still insist then wait until you reach at least 11 jewels. I'm forbidding you from even thinking about that till then."

  Xiao Ruse blushed as she remembered about their bet and how Jason cimed that he owned her womb.

  It was so embarrassing for her!

  "N-No, I... I'm not..." Xiao Ruse waved her hand around in panic. Since she had accepted her as her master, she couldn't think about her husband like that.

  Huyan Lanruo giggled, not minding it at all. "It's alright. He is such a pyer and I'm already aced to it. But, I 't let you do that at least until you will pass my test. Anyway, fet about that stuff for now, let me give you pointers and guidance for your future cultivation. We shouldn't waste precious time like that."

  Xiao Ruse wao speak but decided to leave it to that. She listeo Huyan Lanruo's words attentively, taking notes of them in her heart.

  While Xiao Ruse was gaining new insights, iher part of the capital, a young man lying on the ground, his body vulsing in pain.

  Zhou Weiqing was feeling his body turning hot and cold randomly, at times feeling all numb and sore, and sometimes unbearably itchy, causing him to roll around in his room untrolbly. Layers of bck-grey dust kept seeping out from his skin, spreading around in the room until it was almost fully permeated in it.

  His eyes were turning more and more bloodshot, and his sciousness was fuzzy from the pain. In his mind's eye, he seemed to see a strange image, or perhaps to say a strange creature.

  The little rascal didn't heed Jason's advid pulled dangerous stuff in the absence of his father, Zhou Shuiniu by ing the Nucleus civen by Jason.

  A few hours earlier, Zhou Weiqiurned back to his home and realized that his father was not back, heaving a sigh of relief.

  He instantly locked himself in his room and began to cultivate, wanting to fool his father. He didn't want his father to learn that he had sneaked out behind his back.

  When it was te in the evening, he learned from his mother that his father might not be ing back tonight.

  So, the little rascal was excited and wao be zy when his hand mistakenly fell on the Nucleus core that was in his pockets.

  Zhou Weiqing first wao ig and even throw it away but who knew what the little rascal thought at that time and he directly put it into his mouth.

  Maybe, he was thinking that it was some kind of tasty thing or anything along those lines.

  Just as he did that, the Nucleus core came to life of its own aered his body, catg him off guard.

  And before he could react, a small stream of cold erupted from his lut again, as if a rge ice ball had shattered in his stomach, splitting apart into tless shards of ice arrows, shooting into his various meridian passageways crazily.

  A sed ago, Zhou Weiqing was floating around in pleasure, thinking of what to do , and the moment, he had fallen into an ice celr. The numb sensation was repced by an unbelievable cold. At this point, his heart was overwhelmed by a strong sense of bloodlust, his eyes turned bloodshot instantly, his short bck hair all standing up, and his body seemed surrounded by a greyish-bck aura.

  Zhou Weiqing's body began shaking untrolbly; the cold was not from the surroundings, but rather from deep within the bones, it permeated his bloodstream, down to the marrow of his bones. All he could feel was waves of cold emitting out from his body repeatedly, and along with the cold, he could clearly see a bck–grey yer of dust f around his skin. The extreme cold caused him to lose trol of his body, and he fell down to the ground, his mouth opened involuntarily, and every breath he took caused a gust of bck-grey airstream to gush out from his body, and it seemed like the outer yer of his skin was soon covered with 2 sets of tattoos – bd grey.

  Normally, Jason gifted him the pearl si was meant for him as Weiqing had his destiny with it but he also clearly waro e it in the presence of Zhou Shuiniu since his father might be able to help him guide the energy into his body and brought it under trol.

  But even he had hought that Zhou Weiqing would pull a stunt like that.

  An unspeakably evil presence seemed to swell up in his body, the ice-cold feeling was actually the bck pearl's immense energy; energy which was invading every er of Zhou Weiqing's body without aation – it was indeed domineering.

  If it were anyone else, perhaps he might have self-imploded by now, but Zhou Weiqing's body was greedily abs the energy of the bck pearl in a frenzy.

  Jason who was ing his k the restaurahe cold energy and raised his head abruptly, startling the girls beside him.

  "What happened?"

  "That brat!" Jason spat out from ched teeth. He warhe guy ahe result was the worst oute.

  "I've to go now," Jason said to everyone before he disappeared from the kit.