Chapter 201 Good News

The next morning.

Xu Jingming removed 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 blankly on the sofa.

"Miaomiao!" Xu Jingming called out.

Li Miaomiao woke up with a start and smiled when she saw Xu Jingming. "Jingming, you're awake."

"What's wrong? You're also a third-realm expert; your senses should be sharp. How come you didn't notice me walking into the living room?" Xu Jingming smiled and sat down beside her. He had been walking normally in the house and hadn't deliberately muffled 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 for you."

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

"I've reached the fifth realm," Xu Jingming said, lowering his voice mysteriously.

Li Miaomiao was taken aback.

"Fifth realm?" Although Li Miaomiao had spent a great deal of effort and, with Xu Jingming's personal guidance, painstakingly reached the third realm, the fifth realm was still a distant dream. However, she was well-informed and, through the live broadcasts of many of the world's top experts, had long understood that…

The leap from the fourth realm to the fifth realm was extremely difficult!

"Breaking through to the fifth realm is said to be very, very difficult," Li Miaomiao said. "Many experts around the world have said so."

"It is indeed difficult," Xu Jingming nodded.

He had trained in the depths of winter and the height of summer, which had honed his will! Coupled with the torment of injuries and illnesses on his martial arts path, it could be said that when the virtual world opened, his mental strength was already very high compared to ordinary people.

Even so, with the inheritance and the opportunity to possess a body, and being able to achieve a state of mental heat in the three major training methods of cold, heat, and pain, it took him so long to finally reach the fifth realm.

Like his master, Liu Hai, who was already over seventy years old, had a much richer life experience and insisted on half a year of hard training every year. Such self-discipline and ruthlessness—being able to be ruthless to oneself for a lifetime—made his mental strength unimaginable.

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

"With the cultivation of the country and sparring with my master," Xu Jingming said, "I finally broke through to the fifth realm today."

"Fifth realm." 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 you ended up losing."

Xu Jingming nodded.

"Has Master Liu Hai reached the fifth realm now?" Li Miaomiao asked.

"I don't know," Xu Jingming said, thinking about it. "Master was initially troubled, which is why he sparred with me. His will should be improving slower than mine. But he made a breakthrough in that sparring session, and I also told him some of my experiences… Plus, Master has insisted on martial arts for a lifetime, so his mental strength is extraordinary. I can't say for sure when he will break through."

Li Miaomiao nodded and said happily, "Before, there were outsiders who wanted to challenge you, thinking that you, Di Tiannuo, and Liu Hai would be stuck at the fourth realm limit for a long time. Now that you, Jingming, have broken through, they'll probably be dumbfounded when the news gets out."

"Master."

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

Li Miaomiao was taken aback.

A light screen appeared on the butler robot's chest, displaying the 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 asked in surprise.

"Yes."

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

"You're pregnant just like that?" Xu Jingming was pleasantly surprised. "We only stopped using contraception for three months, and you're already pregnant? That's too fast."

They had been careful to use contraception in the early days because they got their marriage certificate on New Year's Day, so they stopped using contraception in December. Now it was only March… and she was pregnant?

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

"Happy, of course, I'm happy." Xu Jingming felt dizzy. The feeling was so wonderful, even more exciting than breaking through to the fifth realm.

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

But from now on… he would have another identity.

The identity of a father! He would have his own child; he would be a father.

"I, Xu Jingming, am going to have a child." Xu Jingming couldn't describe his feelings, only 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 lifeform now, so pregnancy is much safer," Li Miaomiao said confidently.

"It's never wrong to be careful," Xu Jingming said.

…

From this day on, Xu Jingming became even more careful about his wife's mood because he heard that pregnant mothers might not be in a good mood and might even be depressed. Xu Jingming didn't really understand it; he had only read about it, so he could only try to coax his wife.

He also took his wife for walks every day, and in the virtual world, he would occasionally spar with her or even team up with her.

"Let's go; I'll take you to team up and participate in the global skirmish today." Several days later, Xu Jingming brought his wife to participate in the global skirmish to make her happy.

"Global skirmish?" 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 started inviting people.

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

"Jingming is going to take us to participate in the global skirmish," Li Miaomiao said to her three best friends. "Do you want to join?"

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

"Captain, it's been a long time since you participated in the global skirmish," Wang Yi said with a smile. "Outside, they're saying that you, Liu Hai, and Di Tiannuo are all stuck at the fourth realm limit. If you participate in the global skirmish and lose… it would be too embarrassing. That's why the three of you haven't been participating in the global skirmish lately."

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

Having fought Master, he knew very well that with Master's combat ability, even at the same fourth realm limit, other experts in the world would be crushed.

"Let's start quickly," Dai Xiaoqing couldn't wait. "It's so much fun to follow Senior Brother and crush weaker opponents. Hurry, hurry, hurry."

"Okay, let's start." Li Miaomiao immediately clicked on the queue.

The five of them were waiting.

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

Xu Jingming didn't hesitate and clicked confirm.

Whoosh—

Queuing successful!

Xu Jingming and his team of five entered the battle preparation area and immediately saw the opposing team of five, who were all from the country of Xinluo. The leader was Xinluo's number one expert, 'Li Wenxiu.'

Li Wenxiu had recently been participating in the global skirmish frequently. With his strength at the fourth realm limit, the global skirmish was still very exciting. Even when fighting against Miyagawa Meixin and others, he could go back and forth, accumulating quite a bit of popularity.

Accumulating enough popularity would help him compete for the annual martial arts hall's total points. Li Wenxiu was also ambitious.

Before, he had challenged Xu Jingming, Liu Hai, and Di Tiannuo to create buzz and accumulate popularity.

"They…" Li Wenxiu looked at his opponents.

He immediately saw one man and four women!

Among the four women, he saw 'Wang Yi,' who was a fourth-realm archer! This made Li Wenxiu's heart tighten. But when he saw the only man, Li Wenxiu's scalp went numb. "Xu Jingming!"

But then, Li Wenxiu's eyes lit up, and he became excited. "It's Xu Jingming; my chance has come!"

"Even if I lose, as long as I put up a good fight, my popularity will soar," Li Wenxiu thought to himself. "If, if I can win… that would really shake the world."

"He's at the fourth realm limit, and I'm also at the fourth realm limit. Maybe, just maybe, I can win?" Li Wenxiu couldn't help but feel excited and expectant at the possibility of winning.

Losing was only natural, but winning would make him skyrocket.

That was Xu Jingming! One of the world's three acknowledged strongest!