Chapter 113 Refining the Heart

Countless viewers faced the dark live broadcast room, still savoring the scene of Xu Jingming easily slaying on the fourth floor of the Starry Sky Tower.

"Too strong."

"How much stronger is Xu Jingming's strength compared to half a month ago? Killing the Ape Monkey King is so easy?"

"And listening to him talk about shield techniques and spear techniques, they all seem quite easy."

The strong command instinctive conviction!

The sense of easy crushing that Xu Jingming displayed in clearing the fourth floor of the Starry Sky Tower easily conquered the hearts of many.

"I'm going to study his courses carefully. I don't ask for much, if I can have one-tenth of his strength, I'll be satisfied." After watching the live broadcast, countless viewers immediately flocked to the martial arts gym to learn Xu Jingming's martial arts courses.

In the stands, Miyagawa Akari sat in silence.

"I estimated that I'd have a chance to kill the Ape Monkey King in ten days or half a month," Miyagawa Akari thought. "I thought I was improving quickly, but the senior Tiger Furson broke through yesterday. Today, Xu Jingming killed the Ape Monkey King, even more effortlessly."

"I thought the gap between me and Xu Jingming could narrow a bit, but now it seems that the gap might be even bigger!"

Miyagawa Akari got up and returned to his personal space martial arts arena.

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"Although I am confident that I can pass the fourth floor of the Starry Sky Tower within three days," Akinov, currently the number one expert in Rakshasa Country, sat silently in the stands, "the gap between me and the three strongest in the world is still very large."

"But I believe I will catch up with them." Akinov got up and left.

...

"This kid is growing too fast." Liu Hai clicked his tongue. "If I fight him now, I have no confidence at all. I might even be defeated by him."

"I have to work hard. I'm also a two-time Starry Sky List number one, and his master!" Liu Hai continued to work hard.

Although the outside world felt that Liu Hai was invincible and that Liu Hai was very strong.

But Liu Hai himself felt a strong sense of urgency. Both Tiano and his apprentice Xu Jingming were improving too quickly.

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Fang Yu, still trapped at the third-tier limit, was in his quiet room at his home in reality, sitting cross-legged alone.

"I've listened to the courses of Liu Hai, Tiano, and Xu Jingming. Only Xu Jingming talked about refining the heart," Fang Yu thought. "According to Xu Jingming, refining the heart can greatly improve the neural network. Stronger nerve signals can naturally mobilize the body at a deeper level. This... maybe that's the difference between me and them."

"I received the seventh-tier complete inheritance bestowed by the country, which also contains a complete method of refining the heart, but I have been stuck in a bottleneck for many days. I began to doubt and reduced the time I spent refining the heart every day."

"According to Xu Jingming, I should practice for at least three to five hours a day, or even 12 hours."

"Then starting today, I will practice for 12 hours every day."

Fang Yu has always been good at learning since he was a child. When he was young, he learned from his elders, and now he is learning from 'Xu Jingming', because among the three strongest in the world... only Xu Jingming talked about the essence of martial arts and gave a clear direction.

The explanations of Liu Hai and Tiano were meaningless to Fang Yu, who had already reached the third-tier limit.

He had previously doubted the heart-refining method.

After all, he couldn't see any progress! And he always felt that 'refining the heart' was mysterious. Xu Jingming's 'neural network' explanation made him feel that the heart-refining method could be understood.

"Huff."

Fang Yu cultivated the evolution method, his only goal being to improve and strengthen his own neural network.

In fact, 'refining the heart' is a difficult task. After all, it requires staying still for a long time, and also requires the mind to be sufficiently calm… If there is progress, it is fine, but if there is no progress, many people will have all kinds of thoughts arising, too many thoughts, doubts, confusion, and even feel tortured…

In fact, Xu Jingming's 'neural network' explanation is still very superficial and is an experience at Xu Jingming's current level.

But it did give Fang Yu a 'convincing' goal! The seventh-tier inheritance heart-refining method is too profound, and Fang Yu's three views are difficult to fully agree with. Instead, he agreed with Xu Jingming's superficial explanation.

With inner conviction and a direction, the heart is settled.

Fang Yu practiced refining the heart for a full 12 hours before being awakened by the alarm clock.

"Feels pretty good." After Fang Yu woke up, he only felt energetic and his mind was empty and comfortable. This was an extremely wonderful state.

"Heart-refining method, I have found the direction, I will practice like this." Fang Yu smiled. At this moment, he was quite grateful to Xu Jingming, and he vaguely regarded Xu Jingming as a teacher. Since childhood, he has been learning from teachers one after another!

When he became the strongest and had no teacher, he was confused instead, not knowing how to move forward. The seventh-tier inheritance was placed in front of him, but he couldn't study it thoroughly.

Time passed.

Experts were growing.

Akinov, Haru Singh, Miyagawa Akari, Zhao Fan, and Merritt successively passed the fourth floor of the Starry Sky Tower in the following half month.

Fang Yu also finally broke through to the fourth-tier level half a month later, but he was obviously far behind the world's top level.

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December 1st.

"Dad." Pang Yun came to his father's personal space and handed his father a document. "I have analyzed Cheng Zihau's behavior in the past year! And I have also predicted his future fate."

Pang Ze smiled and took it, looking at it with anticipation.

Pang Yun waited on the side.

"There are many problems with your analysis." Pang Ze shook his head gently. "You see it too superficially. But your conclusion is correct, Cheng Zihau will go bankrupt!"

"Out of 100 points, I'll give you 50 points," Pang Ze said. "The process has many fallacies, but the conclusion is correct, so you get 50 points."

"Only 50 points? Failing?" Pang Yun was a little unconvinced. "Dad, where exactly is my analysis not good enough? Tell me."

"It's like doing a problem, if the process is wrong, even if the answer is correct. Generally, no points are given." Pang Ze looked at his son with a smile. "Giving you 50 points is considered good."

"As for where it's not good enough?"

Pang Ze shook his head. "Don't worry, look ahead first. Look at Cheng Zihau's fate in reality. We'll see the results within a month. After we see the results completely, I'll explain it to you."

"Oh." Pang Yun nodded.

"Okay, you've finished the first file." Pang Ze waved his hand, and another file appeared next to him, handing it to his son. "This is Fang Yu's file."

"Fang Yu?" Pang Ze took it.

"Fang Yu's detailed information from childhood to yesterday is recorded." Pang Ze looked at his son with a smile. "I want you to carefully analyze Fang Yu's past successes and failures, and the reasons behind them. Also… predict Fang Yu's future fate."

"Okay."

Pang Yun eagerly took the file. Analyzing a person's life, life in front of him seemed to become clear, and he could predict what results many behaviors would have. He liked this feeling. When analyzing Cheng Zihau's life, he fell in love with this feeling.

"Go ahead." Pang Ze looked at his son's fighting spirit and was happy in his heart. It seemed that his son was still interested in this.

After all, he was his own son, and he also had a talent in this area.

Pang Yun left.

"My path, this is the first step of enlightenment. Even if you don't learn to the end, at least you can live your own life well." Although Pang Ze had expectations for his son, reason told him that it was too difficult for his son to grow to his level.

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Virtual world personal space.

Cheng Zihau sat in the immortal mansion, looking at the clouds and mist, with a cold and expressionless face.

Suddenly, a message connection.

"Hmm?" Cheng Zihau glanced at it. Although he was in a bad mood, he still squeezed out a smile and connected the message.

On the other side of the message appeared the figure of a middle-aged man. The middle-aged man frowned and said, "Young Master Cheng, I heard that the company's net loss in November reached 2.2 billion?"

"President Wang, your news is so well-informed?" Cheng Zihau said with a smile.

"Every month at the beginning of the month, you have to give me the financial report for the previous month. It's the 5th of this month, and your financial report hasn't come yet, so I know something is wrong." The middle-aged man said coldly. "Young Master Cheng, a loss of 2.2 billion, what explanation do you have?"

"You also know that at the beginning of the month, the Blue Star Alliance allowed the experts on the Starry Sky List to broadcast live globally. Those experts have a very high popularity, especially Liu Hai, Tiano, and Xu Jingming. Every live broadcast devours nearly half of the traffic of the entire viewing platform. Plus other experts broadcasting live… the live broadcast market is really miserable now." Cheng Zihau said, "In the early days of the virtual world's opening, in order to occupy the market, we had to spend money and sign a lot of big streamers. Many contracted salaries have to be paid out every month. November was a sudden situation, so the losses were very large."

"You have been losing money for the past few months," the middle-aged man said.

"Spending money to occupy the market," Cheng Zihau said. "If you don't spend money now, you won't be able to buy the market even if you spend ten times the money in the future."

"But your market share hasn't increased at all, but has shrunk," the middle-aged man shook his head gently. He was talking to Cheng Zihau to see Cheng Zihau's explanation.

If he could convince him, he could give Cheng Zihau another chance.

But now it seemed that Cheng Zihau would only make excuses!

"I'm informing you."

The middle-aged man said, "Within ten days, return the 5 billion loan from our company to your company, plus interest."

"The loan and interest can be returned at any time." Cheng Zihau said with a smile, "There's no need to be so anxious. It was agreed at the beginning that you can convert debt into equity at any time. How about lowering the 'stock price' for debt-to-equity conversion?"

"No need."

The middle-aged man said, "You only need to repay the money. If you don't repay it within ten days, see you in court! When your assets are frozen, don't blame me." With that, the message was cut off.

"I f**k your mother, a bunch of vampires who only add flowers to the brocade, not send charcoal in the snow! Giving me a knife in the snow, adding insult to injury." Cheng Zihau cursed angrily.

When the company borrowed money.

The huge loan also had the power of 'debt-to-equity conversion'. Now the other party didn't care about the company's shares and only demanded repayment of the debt.

How could the company's cash flow withstand it?

"Boss." Another message came.

"What's the matter?" Cheng Zihau looked at it.

"Young Master Qu has sued us." Zhou Feng said helplessly, "They are asking us to repurchase his shares in accordance with the contract's restrictions, and you personally have unlimited joint liability."

"Where do I have the money to repurchase!" Cheng Zihau gritted his teeth, "They are all a bunch of vampires, bastards, bastards!"

Covering his head, Cheng Zihau closed the message, not wanting to pay attention to anyone.