I'll give it a try.

When Yang Ding and Fang Jing finished taking care of the child and returned to their room, Yang Ding's wife was already asleep.

Ye Rou's biggest pregnancy symptom recently has been excessive sleepiness.

The more she sleeps, the faster the baby grows. She's only been pregnant for a little over half a month, but the embryo is already the size of a melon seed. The growth rate is astonishing.

Yang Ding didn't wake her up to brush her teeth or take a bath. Instead, he covered her with a blanket and went to the rooftop to practice his martial arts.

Even if he could replicate his wife's cultivation level and techniques, he would still need to comprehend how to fight through cultivation.

On the rooftop, dozens of instructors' children were practicing intensely, each with a serious expression, their former sense of superiority gone.

Recruiting a new batch of lower-level cultivators and sending them down into the caves to their deaths to exterminate the alien demons—this was definitely the idea of ​​the Jiangling City leadership.

Yang Ding could only sigh, Zhou Ruoxi was really ruthless, he wondered which man could tame her.

Mao Jian's mother was personally instructing him, resorting to both hitting and scolding. Yang Ding didn't go over to greet her, but instead found a corner to practice his marksmanship.

He almost got caught by his counselor today, so he decided to practice swordsmanship during the day and spearmanship at night from now on.

Before acquiring the Ironblood Spear worth 500 million, his most lethal weapon was the Black Gold Sword, which was most effective against White Walkers.

After practicing for two whole hours, he checked his cultivation level panel, his forehead covered in sweat.

【Affection Level: 17%】

[Cultivation Progress: 17.6%↑]

[Cultivation Level: Lower Second Rank ↑, Punching Power: 4000 jin]

[The second level of the Soul-Severing Spear Technique, the Three-Step Shaking and Blocking Formation, has been unlocked, gaining 16.5% experience points, +0.5%.]

[The first move of the Nine Sword Styles, the Sweeping Sword Style, has been unlocked, with 13% experience points.]

Yang Ding thought he was practicing very late, but he didn't expect that the others had no intention of resting at all. It was almost 12 o'clock, and they were still practicing frantically.

Death is the best motivation.

Despite being severely scolded by his mother, Mao Jian resumed practicing the Thunderbolt Saber Technique without complaint.

Using the Half-Step Crushing Fist against White Walkers with claws would be very disadvantageous.

"If you can't break through the first level of the Thunderbolt Blade Technique by the end of this month, there's no need for me to take out a loan to buy you a good blade worth tens of thousands, since you'll die at the bottom of the cave anyway."

Mao Jian, who had always been afraid of his mother, finally snapped.

He threw the enforcement team's standard-issue knife on the ground and roared, "Even if I can't break through the first level, you still have to buy me one. You're the one who made me take some martial arts exam. I don't want to practice martial arts at all. I just like growing crops."

"What a good-for-nothing."

"I'm just useless, as long as my brother is successful."

Yang Ding passed by, not wanting to say anything, and quietly went home.

Covered in sweat, he wanted to take a shower, but his wife was already in the bathroom.

Yang Ding knocked lightly a few times, and Ye Rou, wrapped in a bath towel, opened the door.

"Honey, why are you knocking like that? You woke up Jingjie."

"I want to take a shower too, let's shower together."

"Are you crazy? I'm pregnant."

"The doctor said it's nothing."

Ye Rou didn't want Yang Ding to go in, but Yang Ding insisted on going in, and the two of them were pulling and tugging at each other.

Ye Rou, with a strength of over three million jin, was ultimately no match for her husband, who had a strength of 4000 jin, and was broken into by Yang Ding...

Fang Jing wasn't asleep; she had been suffering from insomnia for over a month. She could hear the sounds of the two of them pulling and tugging clearly from her bed.

The thought that she hadn't been with a man for two years made her feel even more uncomfortable.

She sighed deeply.

"Husband, are you still alive? I want to go beyond the Great Wall to find you, but the Empire is demanding that I have two more children."

"If—and I mean if—I found another man to father my child, would you hate me?"

……

Since the counselor announced that the monthly exam would be held in the cave, the martial artists in Class C and Class D have become more than ten times more motivated to train.

I practiced until I was exhausted almost every day, and I also ate White Walker sashimi with great gusto.

Yang Ding, however, was fed higher-grade cultivation ingredients by his wife every day, and he never tasted a single one.

He had already planned that when he went down into the cave, he would just bring some dry food; he didn't necessarily have to eat the flesh of the White Walkers.

The counselor was very satisfied with everyone's enthusiasm.

"Practicing blindly isn't enough; you also need real-world experience. Today, we'll do a small test: two people sparring together. Don't go all out; you can find someone to spar with."

As soon as the counselor finished speaking, Mao Jian said, "Yang Ding, how about we practice together?"

"No problem."

Soon, everyone was paired up, except for Xiang Tianyou and a pretty girl who hadn't found a match.

Xiang Tianyou is too strong; no one wants to be beaten.

The girl is too delicate and pretty; I'm too embarrassed to hit her.

The girl panicked immediately. "Counselor, Xiang Tianyou is a genuine Awakened One. I heard his punching strength is over a thousand jin, while I only have five hundred jin of strength. How could I possibly be his match?"

The counselor thought that made sense.

"Some boys in our class had a punching strength exceeding 600 jin during the last monthly exam. Could they switch with Huang Bingbing this time?"

Seeing that no one spoke up, the counselor cursed, "You guys are really spineless. It's not a life-or-death battle, what's there to be afraid of? How can Huang Bingbing, a girl, withstand Xiang Tianyou's battle axe?"

Still, no one spoke up.

Xiang Tianyou started to get a little cocky; he hadn't really taken the students in Class C seriously anyway.

"Counselor, I want to challenge Yang Ding. He chickened out last time, which caused me to fail the monthly exam. If he chickens out again this time, we'll call him 'Coward Dog' from now on, okay?"

The whole class started making a fuss.

Yang Ding's life is too good; since getting married, he has become the public enemy of the entire school.

Everyone was hoping he would make a fool of himself, to prove that they were more worthy of having a beautiful instructor like Ye Rou as their wife.

"That's a good idea."

"He's been taken to the instructors' canteen by Instructor Ye every day to eat high-grade cultivation ingredients, so he can't possibly lack even this much strength, right?"

The counselor also looked at Yang Ding, taking the opportunity to observe.

"Since your classmates all recommend you, I think you can give it a try. Just keep it brief and it won't hurt you."

Huang Bingbing tugged at Yang Ding's sleeve and pleaded in a coquettish voice, "Yang Ding, please, I'm really no match for Xiang Tianyou. You're the only one in our class qualified to challenge him."

Yang Ding disliked her manipulative voice, but he did want to teach Xiang Tianyou a lesson. Anyway, the matter of the breeding farm had already been closed, so there was no need to pretend anymore.

Stepping on Xiang Tianyou, an awakened individual, to gradually reveal his strength is a good way for Yang Ding to unleash his cultivation.

It would also make his wife and Sister Jing think more highly of him.

Xiang Tianyou sneered, "Bingbing, stop begging him. He's just a useless coward hiding behind a woman."

"Since it's the counselor's idea, I'll give it a try. I hope Brother Tianyou will be lenient with me later."

Xiang Tianyou was surprised that Yang Ding dared to agree, and he was immediately excited.

He could finally vent his anger.

"Don't worry, my big axe won't kill you."

Huang Bingbing jumped up with joy and said to Mao Jian, "Then the two of us are a team."

Mao Jian was very excited because he hadn't expected to suddenly have such good luck with women.

"Let's go to the playground and have a match."

To boost everyone's morale, the counselor gave out three meat coupons for the Class A students' cafeteria.

"Whoever comes in first place today gets these three meat tickets, which can be used to eat three servings of cultivation ingredients of the next higher level."