He opened his eyes, and the morning sunlight had already filled the windowsill.

"You're awake!" Xiu Ju, who had been watching over him, looked at Shen Qiang with surprise and excitement, "Quickly tell me, you've entered the Nascent Soul Stage, haven't you? I can clearly feel your change, but I'm not sure."

Hearing this, Shen Qiang smiled and nodded at Xiu Ju, "Yes, I've entered the Nascent Soul Stage."

Xiu Ju's eyes widened in astonishment and joy as she gazed at Shen Qiang.

Meanwhile, the Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing, also guarding by his side, looked at Shen Qiang with bright eyes full of joy, "Shen Qiang, I knew you could do it."

Shen Qiang smiled as he got up and hugged them.

The Beautiful Demon Fox, bashful and sweetly smiling.

The totally surprised Xiu Ju was also incredibly excited.

At that moment, a gold cicada rushed in from the corner and swooped into Shen Qiang's arms, excitedly shouting, "Master, master, you truly are the best!" But then, holding her nose, she flew up, "Master, how many days has it been since you bathed? You smell."

Shen Qiang just laughed.

Just then, the Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing gently pushed Shen Qiang and said, "Go take a bath, we'll wait for you in the living room."

Only then did Shen Qiang come back to his senses.

He gave an awkward smile, then went into the bathroom.

After days of relentless cultivation, Shen Qiang, having bathed and changed, entered the living room only to see the Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing excitedly on the phone, "Mom, Shen Qiang has made a breakthrough! He's entered the Nascent Soul Stage, he really did it!"

Xiu Ju, on the other hand, looked at Shen Qiang with eyes full of astonishment and exclaimed, "My heart is still racing. I really didn't expect not only for you to truly make it to the Nascent Soul Stage within a week, but you even did it two days ahead of schedule, only taking five days to achieve what takes others at least six months to do."

At that moment, the stunning gold cicada swooped into Shen Qiang's arms, hanging on the collar of his shirt and cooing, "Master is the most formidable, there's nothing you can't do."

Shen Qiang just smiled.

Watching Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing hang up the phone and come over joyfully, he then sat down on the living room's long bench and smilingly said, "Now that I've entered the Nascent Soul Stage, it's time to silence those who doubted me."

Hearing this, as Shen Qiang took a laptop out of his Storage Ring, Xiu Ju furrowed her brows slightly and said, "Shen Qiang, the Nascent Soul Stage is your trump card, do you think it's wise to reveal this?"

Shen Qiang chuckled, "As a powerful cultivator, would you care whether an enemy's cultivation is at the Golden Core Stage or the Nascent Soul Stage?"

Xiu Ju paused, then smiled, "Of course not, because in the eyes of the powerful, there's absolutely no difference between the two."

Shen Qiang laughed, "So making this public is all beneficial and not harmful. Since I'm not yet a top-level cultivator, most cultivators look down on the Shen Family, and many Loose Cultivators, because our family is not strong enough, would rather refuse a high salary than join us."

"But now things are different. I have entered the Nascent Soul Stage. Such a rate of cultivation will definitely shock them and might change the minds of many cultivators who are reluctant to join the Shen Family."

Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing, raising an eyebrow softly, said, "You speak truly. Whether it's a business or a family, to earn others' recognition, you need to demonstrate sufficient strength. Moreover, given the recent sway in our family's image on the Immortal Realm Forum due to those influenced by the Long Yan Sword Sect, I also think it's time to strike back."

Hearing this, Shen Qiang smiled, then opened the Immortal Realm Forum.

Shen Qiang then saw that a post he had sent in the forum a few days ago was now at the top of the homepage; the number of responses to it had even exceeded three thousand.

Upon opening the post and seeing the comments within, even the good-tempered Shen Qiang felt like his lungs were about to explode.

"Haha, you think you can reach the Nascent Soul Stage within three months? If you can do that, I'll achieve Dao Fruit in three days and ascend in five."

"I'm laughing my head off. I, Tao Feiang, am recognized as a genius. It took me two whole years to advance from the Golden Core Stage to the Nascent Soul Stage. With your trash skills, you dare to boast so wildly? You clearly have no idea about the heavens and the earth."

"Bullshitting to death, damn it. I've been at the Golden Core Stage for five years and am still there. What do you have, an antennae with thorns? The audacity of your speech, clearly from some backwater loose cultivator."

Responses like these spanned hundreds of pages.

Shen Qiang scrolled through many pages, and the general tone was the same.

There were only a few that seemed to think Shen Qiang might make it, but they too were sarcastically ridiculing him.

"Yo, that thing, others can't do it, but who is Shen Qiang? Isn't he the King of Demons? He's so awesome, maybe he really could make it."

"Hehehe, Shen Qiang's no ordinary person after all. If he says the moon is square, it probably is square."

"Hahaha, don't talk like that, folks; Shen Qiang is a man of dreams."

"Exactly, if he doesn't try, how will he ever know just how terrible his talent is, and how laughable his dreams are?"

After roughly scanning through these posts,

Shen Qiang closed his thread, then noticed that in the Immortal Realm Forum's Jianghu grudge section,

Xu Nan, Bai Jiao, and Ji Liangchuan were also being mocked similarly.

This made Shen Qiang frown, "Xiu Ju, what happened to those three?"

Hearing this, Xiu Ju sighed and then said solemnly, "Ever since your post was heavily mocked by people on the forum, Xu Nan, Bai Jiao, and Ji Liangchuan, who have verified accounts, stood up to speak for you. After that, they too were attacked by numerous anonymous accounts."

Shen Qiang's face darkened as he casually opened a post.

"Yo, is this how descendants of great families behave? Shen Qiang bullshits, and you all think he's capable?"

"Brainwashed by Shen Qiang, huh? As stupid as Shen Qiang."

"Never expected, the grand heirs to the top families of the Cultivation World could be as dumb as idiots."

Seeing this, Shen Qiang angrily closed the webpage and exclaimed angrily, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? Those assholes mocking me doesn't matter—I, Shen Qiang, can handle it. But the moment they use me to mock my friends, that's absolutely intolerable!"

Having said that, Shen Qiang began to prepare to post a reply. At the same time, to ensure the credibility of his claim of reaching the Nascent Soul Stage, Xiu Ju suggested that Shen Qiang record a video demonstrating his Nascent Soul Stage abilities to prove he indeed had achieved it.

Shen Qiang agreed without hesitation.

Because he couldn't allow his and his friends' dignity to be trampled like this!

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