A few days passed,
Shen Yi used the force technique and pressured his physique a few times, but after reaching the first star of the dou disciple realm, his strength progress reduced.
'It took me almost ten limb movements to reach the first star, disciple. Now I can do almost a hundred movements at once. Although my physique is strengthening, the dou qi absorption requires more time as compared to before. It's been three days and I haven't reached the second star yet… Probably the dou qi is really not easy to practice, as shown in the novel.'
Shen Yi's thoughts flickered as he was lying calmly on the bed alone, then he started stacking the force in his body with his movements; just when his physique was completely pressurized and painful, he released all the force.
Two days later,
Midnight stars glittering in the sky, inside the courtyard room,
Shen Yi, lying on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes; at the same time, a mild popping sound spread toward the surrounding area, while his meridians and acupunctures were nourished by dou qi, which flowed through his veins. Now the qi in his body is twice the amount as before.
'It took me five days to reach the two stars of the dou disciple realm. As expected, my dou qi absorption reduced a lot because there was already dou qi in my body when I reached the first star of the dou disciple realm. That's why the injury was healed by internal qi, and absorption of external dou qi was reduced by almost half.'
Shen Yi thought of the reason behind his slow progress from before, then he glanced at his parents sleeping on both sides of him; they didn't notice any strangeness because of their deep sleep.
'Poor parents, they work really hard during the day and sleep deeply at night because of exhaustion.'
Just as he felt a little sympathy, the next moment his ears shook and his expression changed.
'There is someone invading our house.'
He hurriedly noticed a light sound and concentrated on the light footsteps noise coming from outside.
'Not just one; there are five people, and from their silent footsteps, I can infer that they are practitioners.'
Shen Yi glanced at his father sleeping on his left side, and then he glanced in the direction of the bracelet on his mother's wrist.
He grabbed a stone bead and snapped it off and threw it toward the door of the room, then rolled around and with a thud collided with his father.
"Oh, what!!!"
Shen Han's eyelid quivered, and he muttered groggily and sat up on the bed. He looked at his baby son attached to him.
After a little silence,
Tuk! Tuk!! Tuk!!!
Suddenly he heard the stone collision sound, and his pupils shrank, and he glanced in the direction of the door.
Outside the door, a few men in dark robes suddenly halted, hearing the collision sound from the room inside. Two of them stood on both sides of the door and gestured toward the remaining three.
On the other hand, Shen Han hurriedly picked up the baby and shook his wife; upon waking her up, he grabbed her mouth and gestured toward her to stay silent and then grabbed her hand and pulled her.
Shen Yi's expression became thoughtful seeing his father taking them toward the back window. While his mother followed him silently with confused expressions on her face. After collecting a pouch from the cabin.
They passed through the window and back down the narrow corridor and stopped beside a door leading toward the backside alley of the house.
'This father of mine is really intelligent; as expected of a businessman, he bought a courtyard with a backdoor.'
Shen Yi thought to himself as his parents passed through the alley and then moved toward the mountain far away.
"Husband, what happened?" Finally his mother broke the silence and asked curiously,
"It's that bastard Mo." Shen Han replied with a cold expression on his face; instantly, Shen Yue's face changed, and she anxiously asked, "Why are they still chasing us? They took our shop and house?"
Shen Han expression shook his head and replied with a sinking expression,
"The Mo clan is really ruthless; I heard rumors about them… They forced a lot of landowners to sign the land-selling deeds, and then these families disappeared. They probably also want to silence us."
Shen Yue froze, and a chill spread through her spine, then she asked hesitatingly, "What should we do now?"
While running toward the mountain, Shen Han's expression became thoughtful, looking at the baby son in his arms, and then he glanced at the Shen Yue beside her and spoke solemnly,
"I know that these Mo bastards won't give up chasing us, but we can't implicate our child. We have to leave him in a safe place as a last resort."
Shen Yue was startled, and then tears started flowing through her eyes, looking at her baby son while her husband was pulling her hand and running forward toward the mountain in front.
Back at the courtyard house, the five men stayed beside the door for a while.
After noticing the silence restored once again, they opened the door quietly and walked inside with swords in their hands.
The next moment everyone was startled, looking at the empty bed.
"Where are they?" One of them exclaimed in shock, looking at the empty bed.
"Young master, this Han bastard is really shrewd. Look at the window; probably they noticed our arrival and ran away from there."
Another one spoke, pointing at the window, looking at the person standing in the middle among the three behind him.
The young master Mo walked forward, pulling his cloth mask down, revealing his cold face. He walked forward and appeared beside the window and then passed by it and the narrow corridor, and all of them stopped beside the backdoor.
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