Borrowing a sword

Chapter 66 The Evil Sword on the Mountain [Seeking First Subscription!]

Inside the secret realm, Xu Ziqing looked conflicted.

"My senior brother has given me a second life!"

"It is only reasonable to repay them with anything."

"But my whole family died because of it."

This was the most difficult decision for the handsome young man; he felt he couldn't make this decision on his own.

After much deliberation, Xu Ziqing came up with a compromise.

"You must all be watching me from heaven, right?"

The boy took out the third brocade pouch that Chu Huaixu had given him.

He carefully folded the note inside the pouch back up along the creases it had been folded before putting it back inside.

“If you have spirits in heaven, Ziqing will throw this brocade pouch.”

"If it's face up, it means you've agreed to this and consented to me giving that thing to my senior brother."

“If it is upside down, it means you do not wish to.”

Xu Ziqing took a deep breath and gently tossed the brocade pouch upwards.

The brocade pouch didn't fall to the ground and get dusty. He was sitting on the ground, spreading out his robes. He controlled the direction when he threw it, and the brocade pouch landed on his clothes.

—Face up!
Xu Ziqing's gaze sharpened, and she remained lost in thought for a long time, never expecting it to be the back.

But after a while, the handsome young man began to talk to himself, recounting how good Chu Huaixu had been to him.

"Father, Mother, Grandmother, Little Sister, you don't know, my senior brother..." He rambled on and on.

It's as if this time it's upside down because the deceased relatives knew too little.

After he finished speaking, he looked up again and said, "My senior brother is such a good person to me. If you are watching from heaven, I will throw the toss three times in total, including the time just now. If two out of the three times the toss lands heads up, then it means that you have agreed to this matter."

He lost it twice more, and both times it landed face up.

The handsome young man with rosy lips and white teeth wore a relieved smile.

"As expected! Father, Mother, Grandmother, Little Sister, I knew you all thought the same thing!"

"Don't worry, Ziqing will definitely cultivate diligently with the help of his senior brother and avenge you as soon as possible!" he said confidently.

After resting for a while, Xu Ziqing adjusted to her enhanced physique and then jumped back into the pool.

He can now clearly feel that the water jet doesn't hurt as much anymore.

As his physical fitness improved, so did his pain threshold, and he came to understand the profound mystery of the "Sword Refining Technique," which his senior brother called an unparalleled divine skill.

The handsome young man no longer felt that the slow, agonizing treatment in the pool was a form of torture.

This is a required course that my senior taught me!
He even wondered, "Could my senior brother have gone through the same process?"

"He must have trained here before."

At this thought, Xu Ziqing pictured Chu Huaixu's calm and collected demeanor.

"I am far inferior to my senior brother," the young man sighed.

Two days were moved forward.

Han Shuangjiang leaned against the door of the bamboo house, watching Chu Huaixu and Liu Chenggong spar in the distance.

She had gotten somewhat used to the noise outside.

The cold-faced girl has been cultivating more and more diligently these past few days, unwilling to be left far behind by Chu Huaixu.

Through her efforts, she has reached the level of the eighth aperture.

The Xuan Yin Body is indeed terrifying; its breakthrough speed is incredibly astonishing.

"I should be able to try to break through to the ninth aperture tomorrow," Han Shuangjiang thought to herself.

At that time, you can go to the library.

The girl had been looking forward to this day for a long time.

At this moment, she watched Chu Huaixu and Liu Chenggong fighting fiercely, feeling somewhat puzzled.

"Didn't he already understand the eight orifices a few days ago?"

"Why have we made no progress these past few days?"

"Are you busy with your sparring, or are you waiting for me?"

Han Shuangjiang couldn't come up with an answer.

Sometimes she feels like she knows him very well, but then she suddenly realizes that she only has a superficial understanding of him.

This man seems to harbor many secrets.

This low-grade spiritual embryo cultivates faster than my own high-grade spiritual embryo.

Judging from the fighting power he's unleashing right now, if I were to spar with him, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to withstand more than a few moves.

She had an inexplicable curiosity about Chu Huaixu.

But she also remembered the teachings of the older sisters in the [Red Sleeve Pavilion].

"During the Frost's Descent, women must never be curious about men. Look at the women here, many of them initially only had fleeting encounters with their patrons. But they became curious and wanted to get to know each other, and then they gradually succumbed, eventually refusing to accept any money from them."

Han Shuangjiang didn't think what her sisters said was right, after all, that was a place of pleasure, but it seemed to make a little bit of sense.

Just as she was lost in thought, she heard Chu Huaixu speak.

"Senior Brother Liu, let's call it a day for now," Chu Huaixu said, raising his hand.

"Huh? Is it over so early today?" This surprised Liu Chenggong.

I'm so tired, these past few days have been incredibly exhausting.

This kid in front of me is like he's on drugs, full of energy and vigor!
No matter how hard they worked the day before, they're full of energy again the next morning.

As a normal person, Liu Chenggong's fatigue would accumulate. What else could he do? He could only grit his teeth and take the medicine!
Every day when he returned home, Liu Chenggong would have his Daoist partner prepare nourishing food for him.

Before going out, he would take a Qi and Blood Pill. Today, he felt it wasn't strong enough, so he took two in one go.

As a result, the effects of the medication haven't even worn off yet, and I'm still full of enthusiasm. You're telling me we're not going to take it anymore? What about my enthusiasm?

Little did they know that in Chu Huaixu's eyes, this tool had lost all its value.

Just now, he gained another 40 experience points, officially reaching the maximum of 1200 experience points.

Continuing to spar would be pointless, unless he suddenly gains a huge strength and can easily crush Liu Chenggong. In that case, he wouldn't mind giving him a few beatings.

"Alright, Junior Brother Chu, shall I come again tomorrow morning?" Liu Chenggong, the tool-like man, had gradually developed this habit.

"No need," Chu Huaixu said. "I plan to break through to the ninth aperture tonight. I'll probably have to go to the library tomorrow morning." Liu Chenggong's heart skipped a beat upon hearing this.

Listen to that tone; it seems like when he breaks through depends entirely on his mood.

Han Shuangjiang, who was standing to the side, got the answer: "He really did not break through on purpose, he was deliberately waiting for me."

The deputy captain of the enforcement team could only raise his hand in congratulations: "Then congratulations, Junior Brother Chu! I wish you success in finding your desired cultivation technique in the library."

"Thank you for your kind words, Senior Brother Liu," Chu Huaixu said with a smile.

After Liu Chenggong left, Chu Huaixu turned around and looked at the pretty figure in the bamboo house next door.

"You'll be able to break through tonight, right?" he asked.

"Definitely," the large ice block replied.

After returning to the house, Chu Huaixu took off his robes, which were filthy from the sparring match.

He habitually hung his dirty clothes on Xu Ziqing's door, waiting for him to return so he could wash them all at once.

"Little Xu, why aren't you back yet? If you don't come back soon, I won't have any clean clothes to wear," he muttered to himself.

So many days have passed in the blink of an eye, and Xu Ziqing is still absorbing the medicinal liquid in the secret realm.

This made Chu Huaixu even more convinced that this kid was a naturally gifted medicine-making genius.

"If I had this physique, I could easily gain an extra 2000 experience points in the secret realm. Why would I need to resort to such a stupid method as sparring?"

"Wouldn't it be better to swim naked in the pool?" he thought to himself, speechless.

After sitting cross-legged on the futon, Chu Huaixu was in no hurry to level up.

He was afraid that he would faint from the pain and miss his mealtime, ending up eating cold food.

Normally, he would choose to upgrade at night and then get a long, restful sleep.

The thought of becoming a Nine-Aperture Realm expert soon brought a smile to Chu Huaixu's face.

A mere level 9 shouldn't have made him so happy.

The main point is that the Nine Apertures technique is the pinnacle of the Sword Refining Manual!

"This means I've successfully graduated! You stupid 'Menstrual Cramps' thing, get out of here!"

Having suffered greatly, Chu Huaixu felt that good days were about to begin.

"From now on, I'll just be watching Xiao Xu scream all by himself~" He thought that was just too awesome.

As night fell, Xu Ziqing still hadn't returned.

"Is he really that good at inhaling?"

Chu Huaixu was speechless. Why did the so-called scientific and moderate drug use not work on him?

You can become stronger by taking medication, right?

He cast aside these distracting thoughts, stopped envying the world's protagonists, and realized that he still needed to be down-to-earth, take one step at a time, and rely on his own efforts.

"System, upgrade me!"

In an instant, the extremely blocked ninth orifice in his body was completely cleared!
At this point, all nine orifices are fully opened, and the spiritual embryo's secret treasures form their own cycle. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth can now enter the body and, after passing through the nine orifices, can be transformed into spiritual power within the body!
The surrounding spiritual energy began to surge in wildly, constantly tempering and forging Chu Huaixu's physical body.

Before long, a wave of pain swept over them.

Even though his pain threshold is already so high, he still felt like he was going crazy at this moment.

The torment I'm experiencing now is comparable to the combined effects of opening those eight acupoints earlier!
The feeling of being crushed by a heavy object made him wonder if he was already a bloody mess.

He was no longer a person, but had been crushed into a pile of people.

"Damn it, it's the Great Fortune!" These were Chu Huaixu's last thoughts.

He suspected he was driving on a national highway and had been run over by the legendary "hundred-ton king" Yunyun truck.

Chu Huaixu collapsed onto the futon, convulsing violently, but his entire body was radiating a glow!
Within his sea of ​​consciousness, the sickly little black sword was surprisingly active at this moment.

It began to tremble, as if it wanted to be drawn from its sheath.

The next moment, the entire medicinal mountain began to tremble slightly, as if an earthquake had occurred.

Every mountain in the "Mountain Beyond Mountains" region where the Taoist sect is located is like this!

Many Taoist disciples were astonished; this was the first time such a phenomenon had occurred.

"Was there an earthquake outside?"

"Can there be earthquakes even in the mountains beyond?"

"Impossible! Even if there's an earthquake outside, the mountains outside are protected by a great array, so it's impossible for it to be affected!"

Unless the tremor originated from within the mountain-protecting formation!
The high-ranking members of the Daoist sect were also so shocked that they all rushed out and flew to the central area of ​​the [Mountain Beyond the Mountain] – Hidden Spirit Mountain!

Because the root cause of this earthquake lies here.

For some unknown reason, the sword on the top of Cangling Mountain began to vibrate and emit a series of sword cries!

At the top of the mountain, there is a stone platform.

Beside the stone platform stands a stone tablet, and in front of the tablet is a carving knife.

The stone tablet is very tall, with only two large characters on top: "君子" (Junzi, meaning gentleman).

These two characters are written vertically.

Below that are densely packed small characters, as if someone had filled in the blanks of these two characters to form a word or a sentence, and then carved them with a carving knife.

On the stone platform lay a sword sheath, its entire body jet black, exuding an ancient and rustic aura.

A pendant hung from the scabbard; it was a black bead with a black tassel attached to its base.

Above the scabbard, a sword floats.

The sword tip points downwards, and the hilt points upwards.

It was a bronze sword, but it was slightly longer and darker than ordinary bronze swords, with a bluish-black color.

At this moment, the bronze sword is trembling and emitting bursts of sword-like sounds!
As it trembled, the entire Hidden Spirit Mountain trembled along with it!

It is clearly suspended in mid-air, yet it can pull the entire mountain along.

It was as if an invisible force connected the sword to the mountain.

It's as if it's locked up on this mountain.

—The sword is in anger.

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