Chapter 40 - 40 0040 Peak of the Second Layer of the Qi Refinement Realm

40: Chapter 0040: Peak of the Second Layer of the Qi Refinement Realm 40: Chapter 0040: Peak of the Second Layer of the Qi Refinement Realm When Ye Xue found out that Ye Qiu hadn’t had dinner yet, she specially cooked a few family dishes for him at the porridge shop. Generally, those who run small restaurants eat directly at their own shop instead of going home to cook again. Also, eating at their own place lets other customers see that the food there is good, hygienic, and safe. After Ye Qiu finished eating, he wanted to help out, but Ye Xue told him to go back and review his studies instead of helping. Actually, now that He Xiaoqing stopped helping, Ye Xue’s workload had definitely increased a lot. But since the matter with Butcher He’s family was already clarified, He Xiaoqing naturally wouldn’t come over anymore. “Ye Qiu, I heard that Xiaoqing is dating the fishmonger’s son. How do you feel about that?” Chen Fang asked. The textile factory community was very small. Almost anything that happened in any household quickly spread to others. So now that Li Lanfang introduced He Xiaoqing to the fishmonger’s son, everyone in the textile factory knew. “Mom, isn’t that a good match? One sells pork, the other sells fish, perfectly matched.” Ye Qiu said. He didn’t mean to mock He Xiaoqing. From start to finish, you couldn’t blame He Xiaoqing; she was just someone without her own opinions. Chen Fang heard this and didn’t know what to say. She had expected some other reaction from Ye Qiu, but there was none, indicating that there were really no feelings between the two. Trying to force them together was useless. Ye Qiu helped until after ten o’clock in the evening, and then Ye Xue and Chen Fang both told him to go rest. Ye Qiu had no choice but to head back to the textile factory community. When he got there, he saw some other residents who used to be colleagues of Ye Weidong. When they saw Ye Qiu, they asked, “Ye Qiu, I heard you took the joint exams. How did it go today?” The residents of the textile factory were all around the same age, and their children were about the same age too. Some hadn’t gone to high school, some weren’t good students, and some were still in high school. This time, with so many key high schools in Jinling conducting a joint exam before the college entrance exam, the parents of other senior high school students were naturally very anxious. There were still other young people in the textile factory area studying in their senior year, but their grades were definitely much better than Ye Qiu’s used to be. It’s said that one of them even had the possibility of getting into a regular university. Even if they didn’t get into a regular university, a third-tier college was definitely no problem. “Uncle Zhou, I think it was okay.” Ye Qiu said. Zhou Weiguo said, “I heard from my son that this time the joint exam questions were harder than last year’s. Getting a total score of five hundred would already be impressive.” Although only the Chinese and math exams were taken today, the students were already quite aware of the difficulty level of this joint exam. Based on the estimated scores in these two subjects, and adding in tomorrow’s comprehensive arts and English, the students could roughly predict their total scores. “Uncle Zhou, your son is much better than me.” Ye Qiu said. He couldn’t quite figure out what Zhou Weiguo meant by asking him, given that everyone knew Ye Qiu’s original level in the textile factory area. Zhou Weiguo smiled, seemingly satisfied. After all, compared to Ye Qiu, his own son was indeed much more outstanding. At least his son had the potential to get into a regular university, while this Ye Qiu might not even get into a junior college. Ye Qiu went upstairs, went inside, directly took his clothes to the bathroom for a shower, then returned to his room, closed the door, laid out a mat on the ground, turned off the light, and started cultivating the “Primordial Five Emperors Technique” in a cross-legged position. The essence of the moonlight continuously transformed into spiritual energy, then into true energy flowing through his meridians, and finally stored in his dantian. Ye Qiu hadn’t been cultivating for a very long time, but through absorbing the essence of the sun and moon, he had already broken through to the peak of the second layer of Qi Refining. With his current strength, he knew it would still take a long time to ascend back to the Heavenly Court Imperial Medical Bureau. The next morning, Ye Qiu absorbed the sun’s essence, got up, dressed, washed in the bathroom, and found that his sister and parents were already busy at the porridge shop. It was just past seven in the morning, and his parents and sister, who had come home so late, had to go back early to open the shop. He knew he had to quickly change the family’s conditions so they wouldn’t have to work so hard. It was a small repayment for the original owner of this body, Ye Qiu. After all, it was the original Ye Qiu’s body. Besides, now that his parents and sister treated him so well, Ye Qiu knew that even a small kindness should be repaid with great gratitude. He would let his sister and parents live a good life as soon as possible. When he arrived at the porridge shop, Ye Xue, busy with an apron on, made him a bowl of beef noodles when she saw him. After eating, Ye Qiu rode his bike to Liu Lingshow’s house. Liu Lingshow had already finished breakfast and was waiting for Ye Qiu to come. Last night, she had made things clear to her parents. As long as her grades didn’t fall behind, they couldn’t interfere with her free interaction with Ye Qiu. Liu Daqing and Zhang Yuehong agreed because they could see that their daughter and Ye Qiu seemed to be getting closer. If they interfered harshly, it could affect their daughter’s studies instead. Liu Lingshow was sitting by the window, glancing around, but didn’t see Ye Qiu. It wasn’t until eight in the morning that she saw Ye Qiu coming. “Ye Qiu, have you had breakfast?” Seeing Ye Qiu, Liu Lingshow hurried out to ask. “I had breakfast before coming. Let’s go to school.” Sёarᴄh the nôᴠel Fire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. Liu Lingshow grabbed her study materials, then got on the rear rack of Ye Qiu’s bike, and he pedaled toward Jiangbei No. 3 Middle School. This morning from nine to eleven-thirty, the comprehensive arts exam was scheduled, and the English exam was in the afternoon from three to five. The comprehensive arts exam was worth three hundred points, comprising thirty-five multiple-choice questions worth four points each, totaling one hundred and forty points. The remaining six questions were worth one hundred and sixty points altogether, adding up to three hundred points. The comprehensive arts exam was easy to score but also easy to lose points, as it tested basic knowledge in geography, politics, and history. The previous Ye Qiu couldn’t do the big questions and could only guess at the multiple-choice questions, relying entirely on luck. If he was lucky, he might get ten of the multiple-choice questions right for forty points; if not, five correct answers would already be good. On the other hand, Liu Lingshow usually scored over two hundred and forty points in comprehensive arts, which was considered quite good. “Ye Qiu, just take your time with the comprehensive arts exam today.” “You know my situation. Whether I take my time or rush, it doesn’t make a difference.” Hearing Ye Qiu say that, Liu Lingshow thought he would rely on luck again. If that were the case, she felt it would be impossible for Ye Qiu to score higher than her in the joint exam. Given their past performance, her score in any subject was usually higher than the combined scores of Ye Qiu’s four subjects. So Liu Lingshow thought that the bet Ye Qiu made with her was just a joke, but she had taken it seriously.