We made you practice martial arts, and you've mastered the Great Golden Body?

Chapter 9: Great Wall Watch
“Oh, right, Xianglin’s wife, isn’t your son a member of the city guard? Go back and ask him.” Another middle-aged woman suddenly spoke up.

"No." Xianglin's wife shook her head upon hearing this, glanced warily at everyone in the carriage, and said in a low voice, "They have a confidentiality agreement and can't say anything. If I ask, wouldn't I be harming my son?"

"Yes, you're so thoughtful. By the way, could you tell us how to raise our child? My son is always out fooling around, and we can't scold or criticize him."

As the topic came up, Xianglin's wife coughed twice, a proud look appearing on her face, and her voice rose slightly: "Let me tell you, my son has been sensible since he was little. He knew how to read books when he was three years old..."

The conversation then turned into casual conversation.

"One day, I too will become a god, or even surpass him..."

As Shen Bailian listened to the conversation of several middle-aged women, he thought to himself.

His original plan was to go home and rest for the night, but now he was filled with fighting spirit again. So he put on his headphones. There were still about twenty minutes left in the drive home, so he could take a nap and recover his energy.

In the new era, there are those who want to become gods, and naturally there are those who want to serve the gods.

Among these people, especially those from the major papal powers, the fanatical believers wept bitterly at the fall of the ancient gods, because that event proved the existence of the gods and confirmed that their faith over the past thousands of years was not illusory.

Those fanatical believers, within their original atheistic worldview, all demonstrated immense power, such as in the Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Taiping Rebellion at the end of the Qing Dynasty, or the Western concept of the divine right of kings...

However, with the development of technology, atheism gradually became the mainstream, and the Vatican changed its development strategy, moving from open to covert operations.

In the early years of the new era, the world was in chaos, and some fanatical followers of gods claimed to have received divine pronouncements—

Human activity led to the fall of the gods. As long as the divine essence is reconstituted, and the believers themselves are used as the coordinates, the gods can find their way back from the endless chaos of ignorance and restore the glory of the papacy.

In that catastrophe of the fall of the gods, of the more than two hundred countries in the world, less than one hundred remained. At that time, the world order still existed in the form of nations, after all, it was a matter of becoming a god, and no one wanted to share it with other countries.

Especially those small countries.

Therefore, in the beginning, many countries did not take those fanatical believers very seriously, until those papal fanatics, at the cost of sacrificing the entire population of two small Middle Eastern countries, awakened a wild god and destroyed several surrounding small countries.

Eradicating the cult of worship became the most important task openly discussed by various countries, since no one wanted to be sacrificed without knowing why.

It was at this time that the world order was completely changed, with small countries beginning to align themselves with large countries and forming joint theaters of war.

Among them, the three major war zones of Great Xia's Great Wall Watch, Vulture's Raging Seas, and Great Russia's Approaching Winter are the top war zones.

A grain of sand in the era becomes a mountain when it falls on an ordinary person.

When Shen Bailian returned home, it was already eight o'clock in the evening. Through the window, he could vaguely see Shen Zhenxing typing on the keyboard. He then lowered his footsteps, wanting to find out what was going on.

However, unlike usual, as he walked in, a machine voice suddenly announced "Welcome!"

As always, when Shen Zhenxing heard the lucky cat say "Welcome," he snapped the computer screen to a new page.

"Dad, is this really necessary?"

Shen Bailian glanced helplessly at the brand-new lucky cat on the counter and said with a wry smile.

He never expected that his usually frugal father would have to spend money on this.

"Ahem~" Shen Zhenxing didn't pick up on the topic, glanced at the boy indifferently, and said, "Why are you back so late?"

"I stayed in the practice room a little longer."

"Okay, if there's nothing else, go upstairs and rest."

have to.

He could see that his father was already urging him to leave.

Shen Bailian didn't press the matter further, knowing he wouldn't get any answers. He took a bottle of vitamin drink from the refrigerator and went upstairs.

As soon as he entered, he heard the sound of cooking coming from the kitchen. He quickly changed his shoes, washed his hands, and then naturally slipped into the kitchen, just about to grab a piece of braised pork. *Snap!*
"How old are you? Still eating with your hands, don't you feel hot?"

Aunt Shen glanced at Shen Bailian, pried open the boy's hand, and handed him a pair of chopsticks.

"No matter how old he is, he's still your son, hehe."

Shen Bailian chuckled, then picked up a piece of braised pork with alternating layers of fat and lean meat, put it in his mouth, and it melted in his mouth. It was fatty but not greasy, like a rich broth flowing freely between his lips and teeth.

"Mom, your cooking is delicious."

"Don't eat too much. Your dad specifically told you not to sneak any food today."

"Mmm," Shen Bailian mumbled between bites. The mention of his father reminded him of Shen Zhenxing's strange behavior, so he asked, "Mom, do you know what Dad's been up to lately, acting all mysterious?"

"Your dad? Writing."

"writing?!"

Shen Bailian, thinking of his father's rudimentary level of education, suddenly became interested and quickly asked, "What is it written?"

"What it says doesn't matter." Aunt Shen smiled slightly, a happy smile, and added a small spoonful of salt to the pot.

"The important thing is that your dad now has new goals and new motivation, instead of living with guilt."

"Oh, right." Shen's mother suddenly stopped and asked, "You've been out all day, have you finished your homework?"

Operation?!
Shen Bailian was taken aback. He then realized that he still had a stack of homework to do.

Although they are going to become martial arts students, academic grades still account for 30% of the total grade.

"I'll go write it now." Shen Bailian stuffed the last two pieces into her mouth and then ran to her room.

"Remember to come out for dinner later, the pork rib soup is almost ready."

Shen's mother said something from behind.

"understood."

……

Shen Bailian sat upright at his desk, his pen moving swiftly across the paper. In the quiet room, only the soft "shush" of the pen cutting across the paper could be heard.

More than an hour later~
"Whoo~"

"Finally finished."

Shen Bailian looked at the homework on the table and breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was a top student and could hardly think about simple questions, the sheer volume of homework was overwhelming.

On the panel in front of him, a series of notification messages that only he could see quickly appeared.

[You've been doing your homework intensely for an hour and a half, and your Iron Body skill has improved. Experience points +3, character level experience points +3]

【Iron Body LV1 (94/300)】

Buzz~buzz~
The smart bracelet started vibrating. Shen Bailian took it out and saw that it was a message from Wei Peng.

Wei Peng: Homework [Monkey Reaching Out.jpg].

Shen Bailian: Which one?
A few seconds later~
Wei Peng: Why don't you film all of them?

Shen Bailian: ...

(End of this chapter)