Xiao Zining did not lower his guard. The calmer things were before a storm, the more massive that storm would be.
He did not slack off either, practicing without a moment's rest. He began slowly absorbing the sealed energy, but that energy was simply too colossal, and what he had absorbed over these past few days was merely a drop in the ocean.
If there was anything different about these past few days, it was that Xu Tiancai dropped by much more often. Once he came, he would stay for the better part of the day, and most of the noise in the courtyard came from him.
Chapter 797