He nodded absentmindedly as he scratched Ruff's belly. The dog kicked his hind leg furiously and hit the bed with it several times.
Lady Vena exited his room and left him alone with his thoughts.
He was thinking about his situation, his plans, and how his future was almost derailed by some marriage arrangement.
He said to himself, "I can't let others decide my fate. I'll reach the fourth transformation soon. When I do, I'll have the strength of an eight-transformation body forger. That has to count for something in this world."
Then he thought about his plans to enter a sect. He has heard a lot of great things about them.
He doesn't know if those things are true or not. But he knows that if he wants the connection and resources to make full use of his potential, then he needs to join a sect.
He said to himself, "It has to be good if even the true sons and daughters of the family are trying their best to get in. I guess I'll just have to see what's so good about it when I finally enter it."
He has the utmost confidence in himself about his chances of getting into a sect. This confidence is not because of his current strength.
His current strength is nothing to write home about in the examination. His confidence mainly lies with his age and the time he has to prepare.
Even apart from his extraordinary strength at the sixth transformation due to Mountain Karma. It is still impressive that he has managed to achieve the third transformation at the age of seven.
Geniuses from wealthy families still need two to three years to reach the second transformation. But he is already working on the breakthrough to the fourth transformation.
These thoughts made him happy and his good mood return.
He smiled and said, "If I can't make it, then no one else can."
He had regained control of his body four days ago, but his mother wanted him to extend his absence to a full two weeks to really sell their story.
Now he has returned to the training facility with Ruff to resume his training.
He was standing in formation with the other trainees. They were waiting for instructor Canes to come and start their day.
He thought to himself as he looked around, "Who would have thought that it has only been three months?"
A lot of things have changed since his first day. The first most glaring change is that he is not the new guy anymore. So they are 139 in number now.
There is a new trainee among them. She is a new addition from the second class.
She has black hair, black eyes, and is about 1.6 meters tall, which means she is taller than him. She is also older than him at the age of 14. So she is twice as tall as him.
He is 1.4 meters, which is extraordinary for his age, but it still makes him the shortest one among all of them.
That is the second change that has happened in the past three months. He has grown very tall for a seven-year-old boy.
He has also put on a lot of weight in muscle mass. His chest has expanded and grown bigger, probably because of the ox lung pill.
Apart from his childish face, he has become a totally different boy than the one that started three months ago.
The third change is that Ruff has also become bigger. He is no longer a small, fluffy puppy after eating as much flesh as he had wanted to eat every day for three months straight.
Ruff has become bigger and stronger, as evident by its strength at the second transformation level.
The man and dog stood side by side waiting for the instructor while the new trainee, who was standing beside him in her black martial suit, was looking at him weirdly.
She kept staring at him, which made him sigh and say to her. "Go ahead. What do you want to ask?"
She looked at him for a while before she shook her head and looked away from him.
He shrugged and said, "Suit yourself."
They fell into relative silence as everyone chatted quietly amongst themselves.
Someone else beside him, who was the blonde girl that had asked if he was lost on his first day, said to him, "You look good for someone who just broke his arms."
He smiled and said to her, "Thanks. I think it is my lack of exercise for these past few days. It does wonders for your health when you don't have to punish your body every day."
She whispered at him, "I heard your mother spent a lot of money to have you healed. Is that true?"
He shook his head. "I don't know. All I know is that I broke my arm, a doctor showed up, my arm was set, and I was given some drugs. After a while, my arm healed. I don't know how much it all costs. Mother doesn't tell me things like that."
The girl's voice became lower as she said, "I heard that the medicine cost more than 100 gold coins. That's like 200 rank 1 major pills worth of money."
His face was skeptical as he said, "I think that's a rumor."
She shook her head. "Even if it is a rumor, it can't be far from the truth because any medicine that can heal the body and allow it to advance to the sixth transformation from the fourth transformation can't be cheap."
His face showed that he was surprised. He exclaimed and asked, "Is that true?"
The girl nodded. As for him, he didn't admit to any specific price. He always claimed that he didn't know how much the medicine cost or what the medicine is, no matter who asks or how many times they ask. He would always act as if he was learning about how expensive the medicine is for the first time.