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Chapter XVIII. The Return of the Father

Ling Feng continued to train in the training grounds every day, never stopping!

Ever since his blood energy had been activated, Ling Feng's strength had reached a new height. However, he did not break through to the Qi Condensation stage. Instead, he continued to cultivate in the Refinement Stage! After all, Ling Feng's current body strength had not reached its limit. Furthermore, he was over seven years old, so there was no need to be anxious at all!

Ling Feng roughly estimated that the limits of his own body should be able to reach around one hundred thousand Jin of strength!

If his physical strength reached 100,000 jins, he might not even have an average Qi Condensation cultivator! Such a powerful foundation ? only ancient Fiendgods would be able to reach such a level of power!

Another three months passed, but his father still hadn't returned home!

Ling Feng's strength had increased by a lot since he had activated his blood energy, reaching a strength of over 50,000 jin! Cultivating one's physical strength could increase quickly at the beginning, but it would become harder and harder the further one cultivates! It was because of this initial burst of power that Ling Feng was able to raise his physical strength to such a terrifying level in just a few short years!

Without his father by his side, besides practicing the "Heaven Battling Technique" every day, Ling Feng also modified the movement within the "Heaven Battling Technique" to become a boxing style that combined attack and defense!

Because Ling Feng had the memories of his previous life, he could be considered rather proficient in martial arts! After Ling Feng had modified the fist technique, it mainly used the movements of the? Heaven Battling?, and this set of movements was originally a little bit different, so the modified fist technique was called the Four Appearances Fist!

Four Divisions Fist was a technique that combined the knowledge from his previous life and the cultivation method of the? Heaven Battling Art?. Although it was not a profound fist art, it was a simple and orderly attack and defense technique. It could also be considered a top tier fist art!

As time passed, Ling Feng could also feel that the speed at which his strength was rising had slowed down! Therefore, Ling Feng spent most of his time on perfecting his fist art!

At this time, Ling Feng really hoped that his father would be by his side, giving him pointers! This was because his father's martial arts had been honed through many life-and-death battles. In terms of martial arts, he was countless times stronger than Ling Feng!

Time flew. In the blink of an eye, three months had passed! Three months later, on a certain day, Ling Xiaotian finally returned to Prince Jing's estate!

The first thing he did when he returned was to go to the martial ring. He wanted to see Ling Feng ?

When Ling Xiaotian saw that Ling Feng was indeed inside, he felt extremely gratified in his heart!

"Feng'er, Feng'er ?"

Hearing this voice, Ling Feng suddenly turned around and saw his father, whom he had not seen for nine months. His heart was filled with joy and excitement!

The neglect of kinship in his previous life allowed Ling Feng to know how precious kinship was, so in this life, Ling Feng valued the kinship between his parents more than anything else!

"Not bad, not bad, not bad ?" "As expected of my son ?"

Hearing his father's praise, Ling Feng's heart was filled with joy! However, Ling Feng had also noticed that behind his father's happiness, there was a hidden worry. His father's return this time made Ling Feng feel as if he had aged by more than ten years ?

"Father, you haven't come home for so long. Where did you go?" Ling Feng probed!

Hearing Ling Feng's question, Ling Xiaotian's memory was immediately brought back, and the expression on his face became even more serious!

Ling Xiaotian threw out his high-grade Earth Realm cultivation technique in the ancient ruins, attracting the attention of the surrounding people. However, there were still many people who chose to continue chasing after him, and in the end, Ling Xiaotian had to survive through a bloody battle before escaping from the ancient ruins!

After escaping from the ancient ruins, Ling Xiaotian immediately gave the order for all of the Ling Family's troops to retreat as fast as possible ? However, they were still a step too late. The Ling Family's most elite force was attacked by all the forces that had pursued them from the ancient ruins. They suffered heavy casualties ?

In this battle, the Ling Family had suffered a great loss of strength. They would not be able to recover in tens of years!

This was not over yet. After the Ling Family withdrew from the ancient ruins competition, the other two Eastern Sheng Kingdom foreign names, the Liu Family and Sun Family, began to fight. There were also many other small factions that participated! In just a short period of time, a third of the territories of North, West, and South of South Sea had been taken away!

The Ling Family had sunk into the lowest point in thousands of years!

As the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse! Ling Xiaotian relied on the Ling Family's thousands of years of history to defend two-thirds of the South Sea Region, but that was only to protect them. With regards to the one-third that he had lost, Ling Xiaotian could do nothing!

Furthermore, because Ling Xiaotian had overused his life force in the ancient ruins, he was already at the end of his rope. There wasn't much time left ?

Recollecting his thoughts, Ling Xiaotian said to Ling Feng, "Feng'er, it's best if you don't know about some matters first. Once you've truly grown up, father will tell you everything ?"

Ling Feng was a very smart person. Hearing his father's words, he knew that his father definitely had something on his mind, but since his father did not say anything, Ling Feng did not continue asking. In Ling Feng's opinion, his father would naturally tell him when it was time for him to know!

"Feng'er, this time, father will not go out when he returns. From today onwards, father will come over everyday to guide you ?" "Don't let Father down!" Ling Xiaotian continued.

"Really! "Father ?" Ling Feng could not believe it. As the father of the King of Jingnan, he could actually put down everything to guide him!

"Of course it's true! When has father ever lied to you!"

"That's great! I will definitely work even harder. I definitely won't let father down!"

After experiencing so many upheavals, Ling Xiaotian was on the verge of collapse. However, he had always believed in one thing, which was to keep Ling Xiaotian alive until now. That would be his youngest son, Ling Feng!

From Ling Xiaotian's point of view, Ling Feng was the future hope of the Ling family. As long as Ling Feng grew up, no matter what difficulties the Ling family faced, they would be able to easily resolve them!

Therefore, Ling Xiaotian made a decision, which was to use the last moments of his life to nurture Ling Feng with all his might, and allow Ling Feng to quickly grow up! He hoped that he would be able to avenge him in the future and lead the Ling Family to its peak!

Because Ling Feng lived in a courtyard specially arranged by Ling Xiaotian, Ling Feng did not know that right now, the Ling family was experiencing an unprecedented crisis. They did not know what had happened to the Ling family, and even more so, did not know that their father's life was coming to an end ?

He was the Ling Family's only hope!