Although he had experienced the danger of battling a fierce tiger, all the effort was worth it.

Getting up, opening the door, William Carter stepped out in one stride.

Although the stars still twinkled overhead, his excitement made it impossible for him to resist sharing this good news with his father.

The feeling was so intense that he simply couldn't suppress it.

Although there wasn't much true qi in his dantian, the birth of true qi seemed to have brought him into a brand new realm.

Under the faint starlight, he glanced around, and the surrounding environment came into view. The familiar road seemed strange, yet somehow even clearer.

Everything around him gave him an incredibly fresh feeling, as if the whole world had been given life and had become "alive."

Very soon, he arrived at his parents' bedroom door.

After a slight hesitation, William Carter raised his hand and knocked lightly on the door, producing a piercing sound in the darkness.

Chapter Five The Carter Family Main Family

"Who is it?"

A voice full of displeasure sounded from inside the room.

This was a voice William Carter had been extremely familiar with since childhood. It was under the lash of this voice that he had been able to practice boxing diligently for over ten years, accumulating a strong enough foundation to successfully condense a trace of true qi today.

A faint smile appeared on his face, and William Carter said softly, "Dad, it's me."

"Oh, William, wait a moment."

This entire estate belonged to the The Carter Family, and within a hundred miles, no other force dared to provoke them without reason. The fierce beasts in the back mountains also seemed to be restrained by some mysterious power and did not dare to invade the estate. So, for decades, Henry Carter had presided here without ever encountering any enemy attacks, and his lack of vigilance was understandable.

A moment later, Henry Carter and his wife came out together.

"William, coming to see me so late, what's the matter?" Henry Carter asked in a deep voice.

Meanwhile, William Carter's mother, Grace Bennett, looked at her only son with worried eyes.

William Carter's face was filled with barely concealed excitement. After all, he was just a boy not yet fifteen. Having suddenly condensed true qi, it would be strange if he could remain completely calm.

"Dad, Mom, I did it."

"What?" The two elders looked at each other in confusion.

William Carter glanced around, took a deep breath, and with one hand clenched into a fist, struck at a large wardrobe in the room.

At the moment he punched, the true qi in his dantian instantly surged along his meridians into his fist.

"Pa..."

As expected, the wardrobe couldn't withstand the impact of true qi and was instantly smashed into pieces.

"Ah."

Henry Carter and his wife exclaimed almost simultaneously.

However, the meaning behind their exclamations was completely different.

Grace Bennett was utterly shocked, not knowing what had gotten into her son—knocking on their door in the middle of the night and then smashing the wardrobe to pieces. She thought to herself, could it be that this child had been forced to practice boxing by his father for so long that he'd lost his mind?

But the effect of this punch was completely different in Henry Carter's eyes.

His lifelong dream had been to condense true qi, so he was very familiar with the effects true qi could produce.

Seeing his son casually unleash such power with a single punch, he immediately understood that the boy had almost certainly succeeded in condensing true qi.

Reaching out, Henry Carter's fingers trembled slightly as he pointed at his son, his voice filled with surprise and joy: "You... you succeeded?"

William Carter nodded vigorously and said, "Yes, Dad, I have lived up to your expectations—I succeeded."

"Good, good, good." Henry Carter said "good" three times in a row, each time with more weight and joy than the last.

A wish of decades had finally been fulfilled today, and it happened just when he was about to give up hope.

Regaining what was lost filled his heart with ecstasy.

Grace Bennett was stunned for a moment, then tentatively asked, "William, did you really condense true qi?"

After all, she was the woman closest to this father and son. Although she had never practiced martial arts, she was very familiar with their greatest and most persistent pursuit.

Now, seeing how happy they were, she naturally guessed most of it.

William Carter replied, "Mom, I really did condense true qi."

Grace Bennett's eyes lit up, and she said, "Master, this is wonderful news! William succeeded in condensing true qi before the age of fifteen, so he can become an inner hall successor of the family."

Henry Carter paced back and forth in the room, and after a while, he finally calmed down.

"Although William has condensed true qi, he only managed to do so just before turning fifteen," Henry Carter said slowly. "In our estate, that's unique, but in the whole family, it's nothing special. However..." A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. "As long as you can condense true qi and are a member of the family, you can join the inner hall. Heh, your future will be far brighter than mine."