Banshee Family Training Record

As he spoke, it was visibly obvious that the robber's pupils contracted, and his eyes were filled with uncontrollable greed: "Haha, you're so generous."

He took a deep breath. Three hundred spirit stones were an astronomical sum in his eyes. If he could obtain them, not only would he be free from the torment of his blood addiction, but he might even be able to advance even further!

"What can I do? I married a wonderful wife!" Yun Chuan said cheerfully, like a fool. "Now I basically don't have to do anything. I just eat, drink, and have fun with you guys every day. I have no worries at all. Ah, this is the life of an immortal. What I lived before was not even human life."

He muttered to himself, pulled up his pants and fastened his belt, then turned his back to the robber: "Let's go, let's go back and have a drink. Tonight, I'm going to win all of this back!"

As he said this, his back was completely exposed to the man. The latter, flushed from the alcohol, stared at Yun Chu'an with unblinking eyes.

Damn it, why does a man as awesome as me have to run around and be bossed around every day, while this good-for-nothing idiot with a brain full of mush can live so comfortably!

If I kill him here, steal his spirit stones, dump his body on the spot, and then make a quick getaway...

No one will find out until at least tomorrow morning. By the time Granny Huaishan finds out, I'll have already vanished!

With all of this, I can become a local tyrant wherever I go for the rest of my life. I won't need to stay here and listen to that one-eyed bastard yelling at me!

Damn it, fortune favors the bold, let's do it!

With a heavy heart, the bald bandit drew his knife, tiptoed, and silently approached Yun Chu'an from behind, ready to stab him.

However, he had no idea just how sharp the senses of a cultivator at the second level of Qi Refining were.

The moment his murderous aura was revealed, Yun Chu'an sensed it. A slight smile appeared on his lips, and his heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled back into his stomach because of the drawing of his sword.

Finally took the bait.

So, let's go!

He waited expectantly, and just as the bald bandit walked up behind him and swung his sword, he suddenly leaped and jumped onto a nearby tree—

scoff-

A sharp tearing sound rang out, and the bandit's eyes widened. He slashed at Yun Chuan's wide robe with his knife, but the other man had already dodged away.

Then, the robber saw the latter place his feet side by side on the tree trunk, his body completely sideways, then bend his knees, gather his strength, and leap out with a burst of speed—

boom--

A terrifying shockwave erupted from the tree trunk, and the immense recoil propelled his body straight towards himself like a cannonball. His clenched fist instantly swelled from a tiny dot to the size of a large cauldron, obscuring his entire vision, because…

That fist had already smashed into his face!

boom--

"Well--"

A terrifying force struck, the fist, imbued with a trace of spiritual power, was as heavy as a battering ram. The bones in his face were as crisp as freshly baked cookies, and with this punch, they caved completely into his face!

The immense impact caused him to lose consciousness instantly. His body swayed twice before collapsing to the ground, his fate unknown.

"call……"

Yun Chu'an landed on the ground, his face flushed and panting heavily. In both his past and present lives, this was the first time he had fought to the death with armed thugs, and the first time he had ever used lethal force against someone. It was impossible for him not to be nervous.

But now, looking at his victory, he was filled with excitement as he realized that a simple punch could knock out a fierce and burly man who had fought his way to the death.

These guys in front of me are nothing more than small fry that I can toy with at will.

He thought this through, but he wasn't blinded by victory. He then tested the guy and, after confirming that he wasn't breathing, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Death has no evidence.

Then, he sat cross-legged to the side, took out two spirit stones, and absorbed them on the spot.

He circulated his spiritual energy within his body for two cycles, generating energy that made his body warm and sweaty, completely dispelling any trace of alcohol – for a true cultivator like him, being knocked out by alcohol was absolutely impossible.

He did this simply to cover up some clues and facilitate the conversation that followed.

After doing all this, he stood up again, picked up a stone from the ground, wiped it clean, and then touched the only spot on his lower back where spiritual energy was not flowing smoothly due to the flaw in his cultivation technique, and slammed it down hard!

boom--

The dull thud of stone colliding with flesh rang out, and a sharp pain surged through his heart. His face turned deathly pale, and the spiritual energy that had been flowing smoothly within his body became disordered.

He trembled, gritting his teeth, thinking to himself that the flaws in this technique were truly formidable. He hadn't used much power, yet it had still caused such severe consequences. In truth, any ordinary person, if they knew this weakness, could probably exploit it and defeat him!

No, we must obtain the complete cultivation method as soon as possible.

If it doesn't work today, then I'm afraid I'll have to slowly save up 30,000 spirit stones and buy it from the system shop.

Thinking this, he looked down at the large knife in the bandit's hand, hardened his heart, picked it up, held it in his back, and stabbed himself hard in the back!

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He deliberately deactivated the automatic protection of his spiritual power, so the slash actually broke through the skin and cut into the flesh, causing his skin to split open and blood to gush out.

Despite the excruciating pain, he thought for a moment, then took the knife and stabbed the robber's corpse once more before dropping the knife, turning around, and running all the way up the mountain.

He didn't go home, but ran to a closer place, to the riverbank halfway up the mountain, which was where Liu Mengshen usually stood.

Chapter 21 The Flaws of the Pure Yang Technique

By the river, Liu Mengshen quietly basked in the moonlight while practicing the transformation technique taught to her by Hua Caiyan.

She is a plant, so she doesn't need to sleep 24 hours a day and can cultivate all day long. However, also because she is a plant, her cultivation efficiency is highest only during the day when she is bathed in sunlight. Therefore, the best option for her is to cultivate in the sun during the day and then study specific spells or produce spirit stones at night, and so on.

If she hadn't truly loved listening to Yun Chu'an's music, she wouldn't have gone to see him during the day. She also wanted to visit him at night, but unfortunately, he needed to sleep and rest, so their schedules had to be different.

Tonight, she had expected to spend another lonely night. But to her surprise, just as she was engrossed in studying the transformation techniques, an urgent call suddenly came from afar: "Sixth Sister! Sixth Sister!"

It's Yun Chu'an's voice!

Liu Mengshen was startled, then summoned a gale to blow through the space, sending her will into the distance to check what had happened to him.

However, what she saw terrified her so much that she almost lost her soul!

She saw that Yun Chu'an, her favorite new family member who had given her an unimaginably wonderful auditory experience, was now covered in blood and limping toward her!

If Liu Meng had a heart, she would probably have suffered cardiac and pulmonary arrest by now!

What's going on?! What happened to him?!

Unaware of this, she quickly stretched out a willow branch, instantly covering a distance of dozens of meters, wrapped it around his body, and then grabbed his entire body.

Then, several willow twigs were placed over the wound on his back, and a misty spiritual energy appeared, healing him. A willow leaf brushed against his ear, and Liu Mengshen's voice rang out, her childish voice urgent as if she were about to cry: "How...how did you get hurt like this? Who hurt you?"

Yun Chu'an was panting heavily, but his life was not actually threatened: "There are some bandits down the mountain, and it seems they are about to rebel. Someone suddenly attacked me."

"Quick, Sixth Sister, do you know how to contact Fifth Sister and Fourth Sister? I have something important to tell you!"

He urged her on, and Liu Mengshen naturally had such a method. She raised one of her willow branches upwards, pointing it to the sky, and a stream of pure spiritual energy shot into the air, then blossomed into a dazzling array of colors.

Inside the coffin, Qi Qiao, who had just woken up from her deep sleep, instinctively hopped towards Liu Mengshen's location upon seeing the scene.

Deep in the mountains, Hua Caiyan, a fiery red fox-like creature, is hunting a rare and exotic beast called the Soft-Boned Snow Rabbit, whose hind legs are a highly prized medicinal ingredient.

As the fireworks soared into the sky, her expression changed. She abandoned her prey, turned around, and headed straight for Liu Mengshen's residence.

Meanwhile, on another hilltop nearby, in a dark cave, lies Zhu Yunqing's current residence.

Here, a milky-white spider web, as large as a fishing net and tens of meters long and wide, is crisscrossed in this cave, forming platforms or staircases in the empty cave where only spiders can move freely.

One after another, enormous spider cocoons hung in mid-air, each containing an unknown object. On one of these webs, a gigantic blue spider, six or seven meters long and comparable in size to an elephant, lay motionless, its horizontal mandibles trembling slightly as it chanted an incantation, allowing spiritual energy to permeate the cocoons and gradually transform their contents.

That was the true form of Fourth Sister Zhu Yunqing.

She was creating a magical artifact with immense economic value. However, the sudden burst of light outside the cave interrupted her train of thought, forcing her to hastily seal the half-finished artifact. Her eight long spider legs hurriedly crawled outwards, and upon reaching the cave entrance, she leaped into the air, her body transforming into a wisp of green smoke as she drifted towards Liu Mengshen's location.

She was the last to set off, yet as a Foundation Establishment cultivator, she was the fastest. A wisp of green smoke descended, and her body transformed into human form, landing beside Liu Mengshen. Upon seeing Yun Chuan'an's condition, her expression changed: "What happened? Who injured you like this?"

Yun Chu'an made a pained expression, but in reality, the wound on his back had almost healed under Liu Mengshen's care: "It was a bandit from halfway up the mountain. One of the guys saw that I had spirit stones and became greedy. He tried to kill me and steal the treasure, but fortunately he did not succeed and was killed by me instead."

"However, I was so badly injured in the end that I barely managed to escape to my sixth sister's place..."

As he spoke, a fire appeared in the distance, and the sound of jumping came from the other side. Fifth Sister Hua Caiyan and his wife Qi Qiao also rushed over.

Sensing his injuries, Qi Qiao quickly jumped to his side, her expression pained, as if she was about to cry.

Upon hearing this, Fourth Sister raised an eyebrow and then angrily said, "How dare those bandits be so audacious as to attack members of the family?!"

On the other side, Hua Caiyan, who arrived before Qi Qiao, did not rush to speak. After hearing this, she raised her eyebrows and said, "Fourth Sister, wait a minute. I feel that there are many suspicious points in this matter."

Her eyes swept over Yun Chu'an: "Those bandits consider themselves mortals, while we are all cultivators. They are usually well intimidated by the old woman. Even if they had a lot of courage, they wouldn't dare to lay a hand on us."

As she spoke, she narrowed her eyes, her gaze becoming increasingly sharp: "Isn't there someone behind all this stirring up trouble?"

Yun Chu'an's heart skipped a beat. He thought to himself, "This damn woman is really sharp. Luckily, I'm more skilled and picked a time that no one else could have chosen."

“This is the wickedness of human nature; I never expected it,” he said. “Before that, we were drinking and gambling at the same table. Although I lost some money, we were still on the same side. When he attacked me, I was truly caught off guard…”

Hua Caiyan squinted at her, trying to find clues like guilt on his face, but unfortunately, she found nothing.

In reality, she loathed humans and had no liking for those bandits. In her view, people biting each other was normal; it was just that they were revealing their selfish and despicable nature.

However, since it was Yun Chu'an who was complaining here, she instinctively wanted to refute him to avoid him trying to gain sympathy.

“I won’t believe your side of the story,” she said. “I will investigate the truth myself.”

Yun Chu'an lowered her head, thinking to herself, "Go ahead and investigate. If the gamblers, drunkards, and misers I carefully selected still have flaws, then even Fourth Sister will doubt your judgment."

Before Hua Caiyan could even investigate, Zhu Yunqing couldn't stand it anymore and turned to the fox spirit, angrily rebuking her: "Caiyan! Yun Chuan has been honest and law-abiding ever since he came up the mountain. Why don't you believe him? Instead, you think those bandits who burn, kill, and plunder all day long are a group of loyal, trustworthy, and virtuous people?"

Hua Caiyan snorted coldly, turned her face away, and said no more. Zhu Yunqing didn't pursue the matter further, turned her head to look at Yun Chuan again, and said softly, "How many of them attacked you and injured you like this?"

Yun Chu'an's heart skipped a beat, thinking, "It's finally here."

This is exactly the problem he's been waiting for.

"Reporting to Fourth Sister, only one person attacked me," Yun Chu'an said. "If there had been more people, I'm afraid I would have died there and wouldn't have been able to come to you."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yunqing raised an eyebrow: "Just one person, and you were injured like this?"

Yun Chu'an nodded and only said his own words: "There was indeed only one bandit who intended to ambush me."

"Weren't you already at the second level of Qi Refining?" Zhu Yunqing asked, puzzled. "Those bandits were just martial artists who used some special techniques, but at most they could only go toe-to-toe with a cultivator at the first level of Qi Refining. How could they possibly hurt you?"

Yun Chu'an was overjoyed, but ashamed, she lowered her head and said, "Fourth Sister, I am incompetent. They hit my weakness in the back."

Zhu Yunqing was even more puzzled: "Weakness? The Pure Yang Skill is the most upright and simple skill. Its greatest feature is that it has no flaws—although it also has no advantages—how could you have any weaknesses?"

Yun Chu'an reached his hand to his back, just above his tailbone, and said, "It's right here. I'm incompetent; I always fail to cultivate this area properly during my daily practice."

"When that bandit attacked me, he kicked me here, which caused all the spiritual energy in my body to become disordered, leaving me unable to exert any strength. That's why I almost fell for his trick. If it weren't for that kick, I'm confident that I could have dealt with even ten bandits."

His words surprised Zhu Yunqing. She frowned her beautiful brows and stretched out her hand: "Where is it? Point it out to me."

Hua Caiyan also came closer, her eyes filled with curiosity. Yun Chuan pointed to the spider demon's two fingers and placed them on it, saying in a deep voice, "Circulate your energy."

Chapter 22 The Complete Cultivation Technique

Yun Chu'an was excited, but he forced himself to calm down. He then silently recited the incantation and circulated his spiritual power throughout his body.

The spiritual energy circulated within his body, but a considerable portion of it did avoid the large area above his tailbone, where Zhu Yunqing's fingers were resting. He could feel it clearly.

Immediately, her expression turned to surprise and uncertainty. Hua Caiyan looked at her expression, puzzled, but dared not speak, waiting quietly.

A moment later, Yun Chu'an completed a full cycle of Qi circulation and looked at Zhu Yunqing with innocent eyes. He saw the latter frown and say, "Is this what you've been learning?"

“This is it.” He nodded.

“Then you’ve really missed quite a few things,” the spider demon said, frowning. “You haven’t mastered all the techniques, and you’ve missed a part in every area. All of that adds up to this flaw.”

"How foolish! Such a simple technique as the Pure Yang Skill could still have so many flaws."

Hearing this, everyone present knew at that moment that his technique was incomplete.

And this is also Yun Chuan's goal: what is the best way to deal with conspiracies and tricks?

It means to put it out in the sunlight, in full view of everyone, so that everyone can see it clearly!

Hearing Zhu Yunqing say this, Yun Chuan could hardly contain his joy and wanted to burst into laughter.

He struggled to hold it in, his expression gradually turning fearful. He shook his head and said, "I...I don't know. I just learned whatever my mother-in-law taught me..."

Zhu Yunqing frowned: "You've misunderstood. Don't you realize it yourself?"

Yun Chu'an's expression was bitter: "When my wife and I practice together, I do feel that the yin and yang heat in the area below the waist are out of balance, which is very uncomfortable. But I didn't know that there was a flaw in the technique, and I thought it was normal..."

As he spoke, he looked at Zhu Yunqing with pleading eyes: "Fourth Sister, is there any hope for me?"

Zhu Yunqing was initially a little angry, but upon hearing this, she was both amused and exasperated: "Are you stupid? How could you connect this to the fact that you're going to die?"

"You're perfectly fine now. There were just some minor flaws in your technique. Now that we've discovered them, we can fix them."