Chapter 1220: Chapter 1220

"Hey, what time is it? You’re calling me now? Do you want me to sleep or not?"

After the call was connected, Tang Cha’s dissatisfied voice rang out.

"Master, I’ve been crippled by someone."

Tang Ming shouted with a sobbing tone. In the vast world, he only showed his vulnerable side in front of the old man.

"Hiss, what do you mean? Crippled again?"

Tang Cha became curious and suspicious.

"Yes, this time I’m really crippled, my dantian has been pierced."

Tang Ming said helplessly. For a martial artist, the dantian is like the engine of a car. Without the dantian, no matter how powerful the martial artist is, he becomes a cripple.

"That’s serious, how did you manage that?"

Tang Cha’s tone became heavy.

Then Tang Ming recounted what happened.

"Goddamn, you really know how to stir up trouble, don’t you?"

After listening to the story, Tang Cha complained speechlessly, "I told you to go to Songlan City to get married and have kids, live a good life. How did you end up offending powers like Rainbow Cloud Peak and Netherworld Road?"

"I didn’t expect things to develop . Last time, my meridians were destroyed, and this time my dantian is crippled. Do you have any way to repair it?"

Tang Ming asked expectantly.

"There’s naturally a way to repair it. You got your dantian pierced while unconscious. As long as you adjust yourself slowly, once the wound heals, the dantian can also recover."

Tang Cha explained leisurely, reminding, "But a person’s dantian is a complete entity. Once it has a crack, it’s like a patched tire. The damaged area becomes very fragile, and you never know when it might have issues again."

"Will I still have any cultivation?"

Tang Ming asked nervously.

Tang Cha gave a vague answer.

"What do you mean by yes and no?"

Tang Ming asked speechlessly, "In such matters, it either is or isn’t, how can it be so ambiguous?"

"Hey! Let me give you an example."

After a moment of silence, Tang Cha explained, "Let’s use the tire analogy. Suppose the limit of a complete tire is being able to hold the air of a full house while staying in perfect condition. When you slice a knife into the tire, leaving a crack on the wall, what happens if you try to fill it with the air of a house again?"

"Will it leak through the crack?"

Tang Ming asked uncertainly.

"Exactly, that’s it. Before, you were an eight-star peak martial master, your dantian’s limit could store the true qi of an eight-star peak, but now even if your dantian recovers, it can’t store that much true qi and energy. How much you can actually retain depends on your recovery condition, and..."

"And what? Don’t leave me hanging, Master."

Tang Ming urged nervously.

"And you won’t be able to enhance your cultivation for the rest of your life because the wound on the dantian will scar over, it can’t compress true qi like a normal dantian, or expand through impact. If you try to compress, it will leak."

Tang Cha sighed helplessly.

This is like the barrel principle; how much water a barrel can hold depends entirely on the length of the shortest plank. At this moment, Tang Ming’s dantian is like that, his future cultivation depends on how much the wound can recover.

"Then how long will it take for the dantian to recover?"

Tang Ming’s face looked extremely grim, he really took a hard fall this time.

"There’s no exact time, it depends on the constitution of different people, just like a wound on different people will take different times to heal."

Tang Cha yawned, "A dantian is more complex than a typical wound, it might take ten days half a month, or it might take ten years eight years, depending on your own physical fitness."

"I’m... this is too miserable."

Tang Ming sighed dejectedly.

According to the master, even if the dantian recovers, his cultivation might only restore to an eight-star martial master, but confronting experts like Mo Liuye and Ye Liuxing wouldn’t be possible, what will happen after a year?

"You’re already lucky enough."

Tang Cha snorted disdainfully and said gratefully, "Luckily you were stabbed while unconscious. If you were cultivating, with true qi and energy gathered in your dantian, and got stabbed, you would explode. Not just your cultivation being crippled, you would likely be dead."

Tang Ming nodded. If the dantian was severely damaged during cultivation, the best case would be having meridians completely severed and becoming crippled, the worst case would be exploding to death.

"Alright, since you have a year’s agreement with Netherworld Road, resolve the matters on hand quickly within a year, then come back home to accompany me."

Finally, Tang Cha said cheekily, "Remember to bring back all the money you’ve earned during this time, enough for us to live a free and easy life together, and if you happen to bring back a few girls, just give me a bunch of grandsons to enjoy family bliss."

"Master, can you be serious for once? If I can’t recover my cultivation, I’ll be killed after a year, and here you are making jokes."

Tang Ming complained speechlessly.

"How is that joking? I’m just caring for you, afraid you’ll get killed, so I asked you to come back for refuge."

Tang Cha said earnestly, "The people from Netherworld Road are very formidable, but your master here isn’t a pushover. As long as you come back, I can definitely keep you safe."

Hearing these words, Tang Ming felt a wave of warmth in his heart. Although the old man was very unserious, he still cared about his safety after all.

"Alright, you judge the importance of things yourself, no matter what, your safety is paramount."

Tang Cha concluded, "Initially, I wanted you to see the world, find a wife, but didn’t expect so many troubles. If I knew this would happen, I wouldn’t have let you go to Songlan City to mess around."

"So can I break off the engagement with Liu Mengting now?"

Tang Ming immediately asked with anticipation.

"No way! There’s no room for discussion on the marriage matter. If you’re coming back, bring Liu Mengting back with you too."

Tang Cha shouted decisively.

Tang Ming was extremely frustrated, really not understanding why Tang Cha insisted on pairing him with Liu Mengting. Is Liu Mengting actually his granddaughter?

"No why, anyhow, your marriage with Liu Mengting is set in stone."

Tang Cha commanded unrelentingly, "Even if you have no cultivation, you still have to marry that girl for me."

"Is she really your granddaughter? Otherwise, why do you insist on pushing us together?"

Tang Ming voiced his suspicion.

"Get lost. If I had such a granddaughter, I’d be set for life."

Tang Cha scolded angrily, snorting in displeasure, "If she were really my granddaughter, I wouldn’t need to rely on you for my retirement, her family is extremely wealthy."