When the electric bike stops, Gao Ge raises his head. He feels a bit confused at the building before him.

This is a quadrangle courtyard of antique flavor with a large floor area. The previous owner must be rich.

Yet, now the sign on the door has been changed into Treading Heaven Martial Arts Club.

"Are we at the destination?" Gao Ge asks in confusion.

"Go inside first." Gao Ming says.

Gao Ge nods his head and follows Gao Ming into the martial arts club. He wonders when such a grand martial arts club appears in Jiangnan City.

After entering the martial arts club, they can hear the shouting of the students there during practice. In the yard, tens of students dressed in the club clothes are standing in an organized and ordered way.

They vary in age. Some of them may be in their 20s and some are only 5 or 6 years old.

"Gao Ming, why are you here?" A middle-aged man suddenly walks towards them and greets warmly.

Gao Ming shakes hands with the man and says with a smile on his face, "Liu, this is my son."

"Oh!" Liu looks at Gao Ge and nods his head slightly, saying, "Does he want to have cla.s.s in our martial arts club? No problem. We are old friends. I will talk to my boss about it and give you a discount!"

He looks rather generous.

"Great. Ha ha!" Gao Ming is finally relieved and raises his eyebrows at Gao Ge. It seems that he is asking whether Gao Ge is happy and surprised at the result.

Gao Ge is so depressed.

What the h.e.l.l is going on?

So he comes all the way here only to learn martial arts in this place?

"Gao Ge, what are you doing? Come over and greet Uncle Liu." Gao Ming coughs and says.

Gao Ge feels a bit frustrated and yet, he still comes forward and greets the man.

"Ha ha, Gao Ge must have forgotten me. I hugged you in childhood!" Uncle Liu says smilingly.

Gao Ge frowns and whispers, "Uncle Liu, I was not born in your childhood."

Uncle Liu scratches his hair and feels awkward about Gao Ge"s reply.

However, what Gao Ge said is right indeed.

"Hmm, Uncle Liu, what do you teach in the martial arts club?" Gao Ge asks curiously.

"In fact, it is nothing much but teaching the students how to practice Qi and become a cultivator." Uncle Liu speaks with fervor and a.s.surance, "You must know about the Cultivation Academy. It hasn"t officially started to recruit students so people will come to the martial arts club to study in advance. In this way, they can stay ahead of others at the starting line. If they are admitted by the Cultivation Academy, they will have better chance of performing well so that they can earn the attention from the Academy management and learn more skills!"

Hmm.

He is even talking about staying ahead of others at the starting line.

It is like the students of the last year in primary school preparing lessons before getting into the middle school.

The children are faced with so much stress now. The martial arts club is nothing more like a Children"s Palace.

Gao Ge keeps looking around for a while and suddenly notices something wrong.

He looks at Uncle Liu and asks, "Are these people conducting Qi?"

"Yes!"

"But the Qi conduction method they are using is different from that of the Cultivation Academy." Gao Ge says in surprise.

"Ha ha, listen to yourself. How do you know what Qi conduction method the Cultivation Academy adopts?" Uncle Liu says disapprovingly.

Gao Ming says, "Gao Ge used to be a student of the Cultivation Academy…"

"Oh?" Uncle Liu is surprised and hastens to ask, "Then why does he come here to learn martial arts?"

"He has been expelled…" Saying that, Gao Ming heaves a sigh. Moreover, while he was saying that, he lowered his voice purposefully. He seemed to believe that it was an indecent thing.

Gao Ge admires his father"s ability of imagination very much.

Just like before, when he came back from Mount Duanlong, they thought he was going to jail so they cried so sadly.

Now he has come back from the Academy, they start to wonder whether he has been expelled by the Academy.

It should not be put in that way.

To be more exact, his parents believe that he has been expelled.

He fails to understand why his parents always think of him in this way…

He feels so sad.

To be honest, he feels this martial arts club is a bit weird.

Putting other factors aside, the Qi conduction method that the students are practicing, originating from nowhere, look rather tedious and useless. Besides, it may easily incur troubles during the cultivation. Why are they practicing it?

Of course, it may be because the Qi conduction method of the Cultivation Academy has not been popularized.

"Gao Ge, let"s go to sign you up." Gao Ming says.

Gao Ge is about to say something when an unpleasant voice comes from his back.

"Isn"t this my cla.s.smate, Gao Ge? Why is he here? I heard that he went to the Cultivation Academy!"

"He is your cla.s.smate? I heard them say that he seemed to be expelled by the Cultivation Academy."

Gao Ge turns around only to find a few boy students gesticulating at him.

Two of them are Gao Ge"s cla.s.smates indeed. It surprises him that they should be here too.

"Fei Yang, he is Gao Ge of the same cla.s.s with you indeed! He used to bully a lot of students at school."

"Hmm, every dog has its day. He could be arrogant in school but now we are all cultivators. Who will be afraid of him?"

Gao Ge narrows his eyes to look at Fei Yang. After thinking for a while, he says, "Fei Yang, as I recall, when we were at school, you were bullied by others for several times and it was me who helped you out, right?"

"Ah? Fei Yang, were you bullied by others before?"

"Fei Yang, according to Gao Ge, didn"t he get you covered?"

Fei Yang is tall and thin. At present, he blushes with embarra.s.sment as if being greatly disgraced.

"Cut it out! When did I need you to help me out?" Fei Yang says furiously, "You are so weak. How can you do that?"

Gao Ge shakes his head.

Gao Ge may punch him and teach him a lesson back in the old times but now that his father and his father"s friend are here, Gao Ge doesn"t feel like conflicting with him.

"Gao Ge, let"s go." Gao Ming also seems to worry that Gao Ge may cause trouble here.

He knows Gao Ge well, who has a bad temper just like him at the young age. He was often asked to the school by the cla.s.s teacher for Gao Ge fighting at school.

Moreover, all he wants now is to send Gao Ge into the martial arts club for study.

If Gao Ge has a conflict with the students now, it will be a th.o.r.n.y problem. The martial arts club won"t enroll a student who likes fighting. It is not different from asking for trouble themselves.

"Freeze!" Fei Yang suddenly shouts, "Gao Ge, make it clear to everyone here. When did Papa need you to help me out? Look at you. You have been expelled from the Cultivation Academy. Why are you still so arrogant?"

"Whose papa are you?" Gao Ge pulls a long face with cold eyes.

"Your papa, so what? Hmm. You were always at the edge of being expelled back in school. People thought that you might turn into somebody just like Cinderella after you entered the Cultivation Academy. How disappointing! You are still n.o.body and will never become Cinderella…"