Borrowing a sword

Chapter 57 Three Secret Pouches
"A cultivation technique! It's a cultivation technique!" Xu Ziqing's blood rushed to his head, and he already understood what was about to happen to him.

The door to spiritual practice is about to open for me!
With the cultivation method, once I master it, I will have embarked on the path of cultivation.

"Father, Mother, Little Sister, Grandma, can you see me from heaven?" Overcome with emotion, he began to think of his deceased relatives again.

When Chu Huaixu took Xu Ziqing as his servant, he had already thought that the "Sword Refining Manual" and his world protagonist, a pseudo-spiritual fetus and a sword genius, should be a good match.

This thought did not change even after he awakened the supernatural power of the spiritual embryo.

He himself guessed that this was mainly related to his [Spirit Embryo: Heart Sword].

The Sword Refining Manual may have played a role, even giving me a "sword spirit," but the two complement each other.

Everything was a coincidence, as if it were the best arrangement of fate.

“Xu Ziqing would definitely not be in this situation.”

"In my memory, he doesn't seem to have any spiritual fetus abilities?"

"This protagonist of the world seems to exist solely for the sword on Hidden Spirit Mountain!" Chu Huaixu thought to himself.

Of course, Chu Huaixu was also a man of vision. If the "Sword Refining Technique" could truly help this young man achieve his goals, he wouldn't have kept it so secret.

"I rely on the system to cheat, you rely on your own understanding, that way I can still use it as a reference."

Most importantly, it's better to share pain than to suffer alone!
"Senior brother, did you summon me here for some instructions?" Xu Ziqing asked respectfully.

"No need to ask the obvious." Chu Huaixu chuckled and pointed to the jade slips and booklets on the table.

"Keep these two things safe. I have already mastered this Qi Refining stage cultivation method, so it is no longer of any use to me. As for this booklet, it contains the insights left by our predecessors."

"If you have any insights, you can write them down for future generations to refer to," he explained.

"Thank you for passing on your skills, Senior Brother!" Xu Ziqing's face flushed with excitement, and his voice rose several decibels.

He even raised both hands to hold the jade slip and the booklet.

"I know you're probably eager to start cultivating right now," Chu Huaixu said with a smile, "but I still have a few words to remind you."

"Please speak, senior brother." The handsome young man looked serious and attentive, remembering every word he heard.

“Although I haven’t been cultivating for many days, I can already feel that cultivation is going against the heavens, and the journey is extremely difficult.” He glanced at the boy and hinted, “You should be mentally prepared.”

But the young man, eager to cultivate, was not intimidated by these words.

He came from a family of swordsmen in the martial arts world, and he had trained hard since childhood. He was not a pampered young master.

“Senior brother, Ziqing is not afraid of hardship,” he replied sincerely.

"Alright! Since you're still a newbie, I'll give you three extra brocade pouches as a bonus." Chu Huaixu took out the things he had prepared beforehand, looking every bit like Zhuge Liang.

"Newbie?" This was the first time Xu Ziqing had heard this term, but she could roughly guess what it meant.

"Cai (菜) probably means 'not very good' or 'bad'," he thought.

At that moment, he hurriedly accepted the brocade pouch with both hands.

In Xu Ziqing's eyes, he was nothing more than a worthless pseudo-spiritual embryo, while the person in front of him was a prodigy who was being watched by the higher-ups of the Daoist sect.

Chu Huaixu pointed to the three brocade pouches and said, "You can open the first pouch after you have completed one cycle of internal energy circulation for the first time."

"When you feel like you're not making any progress, open the second one."

"When you have achieved some success, open the third one."

He looked at the three brocade pouches with a smug expression, and snorted to himself, "Little brother, this isn't enough to win you over?"

Xu Ziqing quickly replied, "Yes!"

He could feel his senior brother's patient guidance, and he grew to respect him even more.

Before he left, he also heard Chu Huaixu's last words.

"Oh, right, practice your skills early, don't practice in the middle of the night." The dead fox could already guess what would happen. Don't disturb my sleep.

After the handsome young man left his room, Chu Huaixu sat cross-legged on the futon.

He opened his character panel and checked his current [Free Experience Points] and [Cultivation Skill Experience Points].

The former is a little over a thousand, and the latter is over two thousand.

Together, it's enough for him to advance two levels, and he'll still have a little left over.

"That deadbeat dog next door must be really annoyed by now." Chu Huaixu had recently noticed that Han Shuangjiang seemed rather eccentric.

What are you waiting for?
Roll this huge block of ice to death!

However, after much deliberation, he decided to level up tonight.

"With my current pain threshold and my amazing willpower, I should be able to hold back my screams if I go up one level."

"Two promotions in a row, the body will have a conditioned reaction, and it won't be able to withstand it. Xiao Xu will definitely hear it," he thought to himself.

He didn't want to ruin his shining image in front of Xu Ziqing. As a virtual male model, he still had some idol baggage to carry.

Upon realizing this, Chu Huaixu leveled up and opened the sixth acupoint in his body.

Endless pain struck, the kind of pain that felt like your whole body was being crushed.

He clenched his teeth, cold sweat poured down his body, he trembled uncontrollably, and his face turned deathly pale.

In the end, he managed to let out only a muffled groan, relying solely on his willpower.

And you know what? If that muffled groan were played on an ASMR channel, it would sound kind of seductive and would definitely spark the imagination.

After finally stopping his trembling, Chu Huaixu stood up, preparing to sneak into the cold pool in the dark.

He planned to explore the [Danwang Token] dungeon again to see if he could reuse the resources and use it to farm experience.

"This matter should be addressed sooner rather than later."

"As far as I know, after some secret realms have been explored, the sects will reclaim them and turn them into trial grounds for their disciples to go and train."

Chu Huaixu was already savoring the wonderful taste of the water jet and the body-tempering liquid.

But he's not in a hurry to set off now.

Because he was still waiting for something.

Chu Huaixu looked expectantly in the direction of Xu Ziqing's room: "Judging by the time, he should have read the 'Sword Refining Manual' several times from beginning to end by now, right?"

In the small room inside the bamboo house, Xu Ziqing sat on a futon, having already memorized the entire "Sword Refining Manual".

When he was at home, he could memorize any martial arts manual after reading it once, and then master it after learning it.

"The Sword Refining Manual" was the first cultivation technique he studied, so he read it three times to ensure there were no flaws.

Before starting his formal training, he focused his attention on the booklet.

"After all, this is a cultivation technique, and we cannot be as arrogant as when we practice ordinary martial arts."

"I should read the insights of those who came before me first," the handsome young man thought.

Xu Ziqing picked up the booklet.

"Don't practice!" Xu Ziqing turned to the first page, her brows furrowing slightly.

"Take my advice!" Xu Ziqing turned to the second page, her brows furrowing.

"Peerless Divine Skill!" Xu Ziqing turned to the third page, his brows relaxing.

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