During the non-stop training session, Liu Ji Ya fell off the cliff several times, and Chu Hao didn't help her, making her save herself every time.
This kind of extreme practice, while making Liu Ji Ya both miserable and overjoyed, caused her swordplay to improve significantly, becoming faster, more precise, and sharper.
"Okay, let's stop for now," Chu Hao said.
"I thought you were going to make me practice until I died," Liu Ji Ya said with a resentful look. Her entire body was powerless; she could barely hold her sword.
"It won't come to that. You've reached your limit, and now is the right time."
Chu Hao didn't mind her complaints.
"In everything, you have to know when to be firm and when to be gentle. If you draw a bowstring too quickly and too tightly, it will break. A person's spirit is the same. Today, you've kept your mind tense on the brink of life and death under enormous pressure. If I don't let you get enough rest, it will be counterproductive. Proper rest and nourishing your spirit are the right paths."
While Chu Hao was speaking, a maid ran over and handed Liu Ji Ya a gold-embossed invitation.
After reading it, Liu Ji Ya's delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly. "Liu Yun has broken through to the Great Grandmaster Realm and is holding a banquet tonight to invite the younger generation of the Liu family to celebrate."
In the younger generation, breaking through to the Great Grandmaster Realm was a major event. Originally, she was the only one in the Liu family's younger generation. Now, there was another, Liu Yun.
Chu Hao was not interested; this was a private matter for the Liu family.
"I will take my leave now," he said.
"Wait a moment. The invitation also asks for you. It says they want to resolve the misunderstandings at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion and hope to eliminate any grievances. What happened at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion?"
"Something did happen. Oh, fine, I'll go with you."
Chu Hao waved his hand.
Although it was said that a visitor with no good intentions would not come and a visitor with good intentions would not have to, he didn't care. Today, even the Liu family's ancestor had a request for him. What was a small banquet for the younger generation of the Liu family?
"Great. I'll go change my clothes first."
Liu Ji Ya looked at herself. The clothes on her body were almost soaked with sweat, clinging tightly to her soft body, highlighting her curvy figure. Her skin was faintly visible, adding a few points of allure.
Unfortunately, from beginning to end, Chu Hao didn't look at her at all, let alone show any desire. Only when he occasionally pointed out something to her did his eyes pay attention to her.
Those eyes were deep and serene. Apart from that, there were no other emotions.
Her beauty was like a rock in Chu Hao's eyes.
"Does this person like men?" Liu Ji Ya complained to herself.
Half an hour later.
Liu Ji Ya had washed up and changed her clothes.
The banquet was being held inside the Liu family's estate, in a bamboo forest with pavilions and a tower, decorated with lanterns and flowers.
As they walked, Liu Ji Ya also explained some of the Liu family's situation to Chu Hao.
For instance, their third generation, although they shared a surname, were actually in serious internal conflict and fierce competition.
This competition had begun with the Liu family's second generation, which consisted of Liu Long's sons and daughters. Although they had the same father, they basically had different mothers and did not belong to the same faction.
Liu Long was a Great Grandmaster Realm peak powerhouse. Having three wives and four concubines was a normal occurrence in the Yunmeng Nation. This kind of family structure was not uncommon.
As for the main character of this banquet, Liu Yun, he was the son of the Liu family's eldest, Liu Zhengkun.
According to Liu Ji Ya, Liu Yun was originally the Liu family's top prodigy, but she had surpassed him, being the first to enter the Great Grandmaster Realm and leaving Liu Yun far behind. Now Liu Yun had also entered this realm, becoming the second person in the Liu family's younger generation.
In addition, most of the Liu family's third generation had a strained relationship with her because Liu Long valued her too much. He even wanted to hand the Liu family over to her. As a woman, and one without paternal support, she naturally became an object of jealousy and alienation.
"I originally didn't want to come to today's banquet, but if I didn't come, people would secretly scold me for being cold and unapproachable, and acting high and mighty," Liu Ji Ya sighed. As the Liu family's top prodigy, she also had a lot of helplessness.
Liu Long's high regard for her caused many people in the Liu family to be dissatisfied. Although no one dared to question Liu Long, a junior like her was different and would be targeted quite a bit.
"If you can be in charge of the entire Liu family with a position of power, they naturally won't be willing to let you get it," Chu Hao said, shaking his head.
"Pursuing power and engaging in internal strife is foolish, a waste of time and life. Mortals are like this, wasting their time on sycophancy and worldly desires instead of using that time to increase their strength. In the face of strength, everything else is but a passing cloud."
At this point, Chu Hao remembered the Chu family of Baiquan Town.
Wasn't the Chu family's situation the same? His and Chu Ling Er's move to Jade City wasn't it also because of the targeting by some of the Chu family members?
The Chu family had made his and Chu Ling Er's hearts turn cold.
However, all open and hidden struggles, conspiracies, and schemes are baseless in the face of absolute strength.
At this year's Chu family annual meeting, he will return and then, with absolute strength, suppress everything!