My Co-renting Lady Boss
Chapter 293 - 0293: Half-step Martial Master!

Chapter 293: Chapter 0293: Half-step Martial Master!

"Hiss!"

Tang Ming gasped in surprise, his heart racing as if a stampede of divine beasts was within him: "I’m her fiance, and she actually wanted me to break my own three legs—that’s just too cruel!"

After settling affairs with Zhou Dafu, Tang Ming and his two companions returned to the villa. As soon as he entered, Tang Ming went straight to his room to begin his cultivation, refining the poison power!

"Zhou Haotian has really done me a favor, slipping me enough poison to kill a whale. Now I feel like I’m about to make a breakthrough!"

While training, Tang Ming excitedly thought to himself.

Over this period, Tang Ming had consumed a considerable amount of poison. His cultivation was on the cusp of a breakthrough, and the poison Zhou Haotian gave him that evening was the final straw needed to trigger a qualitative change through cumulative effect.

Today, Tang Ming was at the peak of the nine-star realm, and just one more step would take him into a major realm of martial artist’s cultivation—a transformative phase that clearly demarcated common martial artists, a boundary that many would strive for their whole lives and never break through, ending their days in regret.

The realm above nine-star martial energy is known as martial master, and although it’s only one word apart from a martial artist, the difference between the two is like that between heaven and earth!

Martial artists are just exceptionally strong ordinary people, but martial masters are considered grandmasters of martial arts.

Countless cultivating martial artists might produce just one martial master, and once someone enters the realm of martial master, it’s as if they were standing in the ranks of the most powerful forces of the worldly martial arts, even the Dark Group would be wary of them!

A martial arts family is called so because these families have martial masters presiding over them, and only those families with a martial master possess the credentials to be part of the martial arts hierarchy.

Even an ordinary family, should it produce a martial master, would see its fortunes rise dramatically, as if by gaining the Dao, not just that person, but the entire household, ascends to the heavens, ensuring the family thrives and prospers for generations.

The Qin family was originally a minor clan, but with the emergence of a martial master in recent years, it quickly rose to become one of Songlan City’s newly prominent martial arts families.

Sensing his impending breakthrough, Tang Ming began cultivating frenetically, refining the poison power within him, channeling his martial energy to break through the bottleneck in his body, but... he was still just a hair’s breadth away and failed to break through to the realm of martial master.

Tang Ming’s method of cultivation differed from other martial artists, as he practiced Poisonous Martial Arts, which had no bottlenecks or barriers. As long as he ingested enough poison, he could keep making breakthroughs. Sadly, the poison he had taken this time was just not quite enough to propel him to the realm of martial master. He was stuck in limbo, at half-step martial master, unable to advance or retreat.

"Ah, it was so close!"

After finishing his cultivation session, Tang Ming let out a frustrated sigh:

"Zhou Haotian is such a miser. If you’re going to poison me, at least get some strong poison from the Poison Sect. Whatever this is, though not bad, it’s still not as good as the Poison Sect’s poison pills. If I had taken a few of the Poison Sect’s Myriad Poison Pills, I would have definitely broken through to martial master."

But what Tang Ming didn’t know was that Myriad Poison Pills were exceedingly rare; the Poison Sect could only produce a dozen or so of them each year.

At this point, there was nothing Tang Ming could do. He got up and went to the bathroom to wash up.

On his drive back home, Zhou Haotian looked at the bill in his hands for over twenty thousand and grew angrier the more he thought about it.

In order to poison Zhou Dafu, he had spent a hefty sum to buy poison from the Sun Family. Then, he had acted subserviently in front of Zhou Dafu. Not only had he failed to poison the target, but he had also been swindled out of over twenty thousand. The frustration was enough to make him spit blood!

After returning home, Zhou Haotian hurried to the study and immediately knelt down in front of a middle-aged man with a square face who was reading. He began to cry.

"Haotian, what’s this all about?"

Zhou Xianren set down his book, looking at Zhou Haotian with confusion:

"The family already had Zhou Dafu apologize to you and Moli, didn’t he keep the appointment?"

"He did go, but he actually brought that Tang Ming with him!"

Zhou Haotian cried out, "That loser not only did not apologize to Moli and me, but he also forced me to apologize to him, and in the end, made me pick up the bill, costing me over twenty thousand dollars!"

"Dammit, that loser is rebelling against the heavens! The old man himself ordered him to apologize, and he actually dared to force you to apologize to him!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xianren became furious. He didn’t know about the plot hatched by Zhou Haotian and Moli to poison Zhou Dafu—to let Zhou Dafu issue an apology and then close the Chapter on the incident. Yet, he didn’t expect Zhou Dafu to be so disrespectful.

"Dad, you have to stand up for me!"

Seeing Zhou Xianren enraged, Zhou Haotian immediately said pitifully, "I would never have yielded to that loser, but I wasn’t prepared this time, and that Tang Ming is really powerful. I couldn’t beat him, so I had no choice but to... sob... Not only did that loser demand my apology, but he also insulted Moli in front of me. If I hadn’t fought desperately to stop them, Moli would have been ruined by them!"

"This is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous!"

Zhou Xianren trembled with rage and gritted his teeth, "Zhou Xianyi, you really raised a good son, daring to be so arrogant. If we don’t teach him a lesson soon, he might as well climb onto our necks and relieve himself!"

"Dad, I can’t beat that Tang Ming who is with him."

Zhou Haotian hurriedly explained his predicament.

"We’re all family; there’s no need for violence and killing!"

Zhou Xianren waved his hand dismissively, squinting as he said:

"In a few days, it will be your grandfather’s seventieth birthday. We can humiliate that good-for-nothing who can’t carry out martial arts training at the birthday feast, and then find a reason to kick him out of the Zhou family. As long as it seems justifiable, Zhou Xianyi won’t dare to object!"

"Good, that’s settled then. We must kick him out of the Zhou family!"

Zhou Haotian shouted bitterly, a glint of scheming success flashing in his eyes, "Once he is kicked out of the Zhou family, then I can use the family’s strength against him. By that time, no matter how powerful that Tang Ming is, he’ll be powerless before the formidable martial force of the Zhou family."

Zhou Xianyi is Zhou Dafu’s father and Zhou Xianren’s younger brother, but his birth was considered disgraceful, so he had little status in the Zhou family.

The lean Zhou Xianyi had been anxiously waiting for news, worried that Zhou Dafu’s handling of tonight’s issue with Zhou Haotian and Moli would cause trouble for his branch of the family. Unexpectedly, he received a call from Zhou Dafu’s mother saying that Zhou Haotian and Moli had taken the initiative to apologize to Zhou Dafu, admitted their mistakes, and were willing to let bygones be bygones.

"What’s going on here? Could it be that the old man intervened, asking the head of the family not to make things difficult for Dafu anymore?"

Zhou Xianyi was completely puzzled, unable to figure it out after a long time.

In the end, Zhou Xianyi laughed, thinking that he still had some status in the Zhou family, not as insignificant as he imagined.

"It seems that the old man still cares about my son. Maybe he has kept me at a distance because I was born from a concubine, and now when an issue arises, he shows that he still cares about me!"