Chapter 2 The Next Morning

The next morning.

Xu Jingming took off his virtual helmet and found that Li Miaomiao was not in bed.

"Did Miaomiao get up so early?" Xu Jingming got up and went to the living room on the first floor, where Li Miaomiao was sitting alone on the sofa in a daze.

"Miaomiao!" Xu Jingming called out.

Li Miaomiao then woke up with a start, looked up at Xu Jingming, and smiled, "Jingming, you're awake."

"What's wrong? You are also a Tier 3 expert, your senses should be very sharp. I walked to the living room and you didn't notice?" Xu Jingming smiled and sat down beside her. He walked normally at home, without deliberately restraining his footsteps, so his wife should have noticed.

Li Miaomiao looked at Xu Jingming with a smile, but said nothing.

"Miaomiao..." Xu Jingming said, "I have good news to tell you."

"You have good news?" Li Miaomiao asked doubtfully, "What good news?"

"I've reached Tier 5." Xu Jingming lowered his voice and said mysteriously.

Li Miaomiao was stunned.

"Tier 5?" Although Li Miaomiao had spent a great deal of effort, under Xu Jingming's personal guidance, to reach Tier 3, Tier 5 was still very far away. However, she was well-informed and knew through the live broadcasts of many top experts around the world...

It was very difficult to go from Tier 4 to Tier 5!

"Breaking through to Tier 5 is said to be very, very difficult," Li Miaomiao said. "Many experts around the world say so."

"It is very difficult," Xu Jingming nodded.

His own practice of enduring the bitter cold of winter and the sweltering heat of summer had tempered his will! Coupled with the torment of injuries and illnesses along the martial arts path, it could be said that when the virtual world opened, his mental will was already very high among normal people.

Even so, with the inheritance and the opportunity of possession, he was able to reach a state of mental fervor in the three major training methods of cold, heat, and pain. It took him so long to finally reach Tier 5.

Like his master, Liu Hai, after all, his master was over seventy years old, and his life experience was much richer. In his old age, he still insisted on half a year of hard training every year. Such self-discipline, such ruthlessness, being able to be ruthless to himself for a lifetime, one could imagine his mental will.

The cultivation he received was no less than Xu Jingming's, but he still encountered obstacles.

"With national cultivation, and sparring with my master," Xu Jingming said, "It wasn't until today that I finally broke through to Tier 5."

"Tier 5." Li Miaomiao felt proud and excited for her husband, and then said, "You said that when you sparred with Master Liu Hai before, you and Master Liu Hai both made breakthroughs, but in the end, you lost."

Xu Jingming nodded.

"Then Master Liu Hai, has he reached Tier 5 now?" Li Miaomiao asked.

"I don't know." Xu Jingming thought for a moment and said, "Master was confused at the time, so he sparred with me. His will should have improved slower than mine. But he made a breakthrough in that sparring session, and I also told him some of my experiences... plus, Master insisted on martial arts for a lifetime, and his mental will was already extraordinary. I can't say for sure when he will break through."

Li Miaomiao nodded and said happily, "Before, there were people outside who wanted to challenge you, thinking that you, Teagenov, and Liu Hai would be stuck at the limit of Tier 4 for a long time. Now that you, Jingming, have broken through, if it spreads, they will probably be dumbfounded."

"Master."

Suddenly the butler robot came over, "The test results are out."

Li Miaomiao was stunned.

A light screen appeared on the butler robot's chest, showing a test report.

"What's wrong?" Xu Jingming asked in confusion, also looking at the report.

"Pregnancy?" Xu Jingming looked at the two words on the report. Was it pregnancy? But he wasn't sure.

Li Miaomiao looked at Xu Jingming and said helplessly, "That's what it means!"

"Miaomiao, you're pregnant?" Xu Jingming was shocked.

"Yes."

Li Miaomiao nodded, "Today the virtual helmet reminded me to scan my body and determined that I was pregnant. I wasn't sure, so I got up early and had a blood test. The results of the blood test also show that I'm pregnant."

"So you're pregnant?" Xu Jingming was both surprised and delighted. "We only didn't use contraception for three months, and we're already pregnant? That's too fast."

They were careful to use contraception in the early days, but because they got their marriage certificate on New Year's Day, they stopped using contraception in December, and now it's only March... and she's already pregnant?

"Aren't you happy?" Li Miaomiao looked at Xu Jingming.

"Happy, of course, I'm happy." Xu Jingming only felt dizzy. This feeling was so wonderful, even more exciting than breaking through to Tier 5.

Before, in this world, he was his parents' son! He was his wife's husband!

But from now on... he would have another identity.

The identity of a father! He was going to have his own child, he was going to be a dad.

"I, Xu Jingming, am going to have a child." Xu Jingming couldn't explain his feelings, only full of joy. He also felt that his life had changed and entered a new stage.

"I heard that you have to be very careful in the first three months of pregnancy," Xu Jingming immediately said. "Miaomiao, you have to be careful too."

"Don't worry, everyone is an evolved life now, and pregnancy is much safer," Li Miaomiao said confidently.

"Being careful is never wrong," Xu Jingming said.

...

From this day on, Xu Jingming had to be even more careful of his wife's mood, because he heard that a mother's mood might not be very good during pregnancy, possibly depressed? Xu Jingming didn't quite understand, it was all information he found, and he could only try to coax his wife.

He also took his wife for walks every day, and occasionally sparred with his wife in the virtual world, and even teamed up.

"Let's go, I'll take you to team up and participate in the Global Melee today." A few days later, Xu Jingming took his wife to participate in the Global Melee in order to make her happy.

"Global Melee?" Li Miaomiao was overjoyed. "You're taking me? Isn't that too much of a bully?"

"It won't be too much of a bully, just a little bit," Xu Jingming said. "I'll restrain myself."

"Wait for me."

Li Miaomiao immediately pulled people in.

Soon, Dai Xiaoqing, Sister Kong, and Wang Yi also joined the team.

"Jingming is going to take us to participate in the Global Melee," Li Miaomiao looked at her three best friends. "Do you want to participate together?"

"Yes, of course." Sister Kong and Dai Xiaoqing immediately said.

"Captain, you haven't participated in the Global Melee for a long time," Wang Yi also said with a smile. "Outside, they all say that you, Liu Hai, and Teagenov are all stuck at the limit of Tier 4. If you participate in the Global Melee and lose... it would be too embarrassing. So the three of you haven't been participating in the Global Melee recently."

"Don't listen to their nonsense," Xu Jingming said.

Having fought against his master, he knew very well that with his master's combat ability, even at the same limit of Tier 4, other experts around the world would be crushed.

"Let's start quickly," Dai Xiaoqing couldn't help but said, "Following Senior Brother to crush the weak is too enjoyable, quickly, quickly, quickly."

"Okay, let's start." Li Miaomiao immediately clicked to queue up.

The five were waiting.

One second, two seconds... twenty seconds passed, and Xu Jingming personally received a prompt from the virtual world: "Xu Jingming, among the players currently queuing, no one's combat strength reaches 30% of yours. Do you still want to proceed with the match?"

Xu Jingming did not hesitate and clicked confirm.

Whoosh—

Queue success!

Xu Jingming and his group of five entered the battle preparation area and immediately saw the five members of the opposing team, who were all from the Silla Kingdom. The leader was the Silla Kingdom's number one expert, 'Lee Mun-soo.'

Lee Mun-soo had been frequently participating in the Global Melee recently. With his Tier 4 limit strength, the Global Melee was still very exciting. Even when fighting against Miyagawa Akari and others, he had back-and-forth exchanges, and he had accumulated a lot of popularity because of this.

Accumulating enough popularity was good for competing for the annual martial arts hall total points, and Lee Mun-soo was ambitious.

Before, he had challenged Xu Jingming, Liu Hai, and Teagenov in order to generate buzz and accumulate popularity.

"They..." Lee Mun-soo looked at his opponents.

At a glance, he saw one man and four women!

Among the four women, he saw 'Wang Yi,' who was a Tier 4 archer! This made Lee Mun-soo's heart tighten. But when he saw the only male, Lee Mun-soo's scalp went numb: "Xu Jingming!"

But immediately after, Lee Mun-soo's eyes lit up and he became excited: "It's Xu Jingming, my chance has come!"

"Even if I lose, as long as I fight him evenly, my popularity will soar because of this." Thoughts flashed through Lee Mun-soo's mind. "If, if I can win... then it will really shock the world."

"He is at the limit of Tier 4, and I am also at the limit of Tier 4, maybe, I can win?" The possibility of winning made Lee Mun-soo unable to suppress his excitement and anticipation.

Losing was to be expected, winning would be a meteoric rise.

That was Xu Jingming! One of the three recognized strongest people in the world!