Chapter 57: Three Brocade Pouches
“Cultivation Technique! It’s a cultivation technique!” Xu Ziqing’s blood surged, understanding what he was about to receive.
The door to cultivation was about to officially open for me!
With a cultivation technique, as long as I master it, I will be considered to have embarked on the path of cultivation.
“Parents, little sister, grandma… are you watching from above?” In his excitement, he once again thought of his deceased loved ones.
When Chu Huaixu took in Xu Ziqing as a handyman, he had considered that the *Sword Refining Art* would have a high compatibility with him, a False Spiritual Embryo and a genius of the Sword Dao, the protagonist of this world.
This thought did not change even after he awakened his Spiritual Embryo Divine Ability.
This was because he guessed that it was mainly related to his [Spiritual Embryo: Heart Sword].
The *Sword Refining Art* might have also played a role, even giving him a Sword Spirit, but the two were complementary.
Everything was a coincidence, as if it were destiny’s best arrangement.
“Xu Ziqing definitely won’t have this situation.”
“In my memory, doesn’t he have a Spiritual Embryo Divine Ability?”
“This protagonist of the world seems to exist solely for the sword on Hidden Spirit Mountain!” Chu Huaixu thought.
Of course, Chu Huaixu was also a man of vision. If the *Sword Refining Art* could truly fulfill this young man, he wouldn’t be stingy.
“I’m cheating with the system, and you’re relying on your own comprehension. In this way, I can still use him as a reference.”
The most important thing was – it’s better to suffer together than to suffer alone!
“Senior Brother, you summoned me, do you have any instructions?” Xu Ziqing asked respectfully.
“No need to ask what you already know.” Chu Huaixu laughed, pointing to the jade slip and booklet on the table.
“Keep these two things. This Meridian-Opening Stage cultivation technique, I know it by heart and it’s no longer useful to me. As for this booklet, it’s insights left by predecessors.”
“If you have any realizations, you can also write them down for the reference of future generations,” he explained.
“Thank you, Senior Brother, for passing on the technique!” Xu Ziqing’s face flushed with excitement, his tone rising a few decibels.
He even held out his hands to receive the jade slip and booklet.
“I know you’re probably eager to start cultivating now,” Chu Huaixu smiled again, “but I still need to give you a few words of advice.”
“Please speak, Senior Brother.” The refined young man looked serious and incredibly attentive, taking every word to heart.
“Although I haven’t cultivated for many days, I can already feel that cultivation is going against the heavens, and the path is extremely bumpy.” He glanced at the young man, implying, “You need to be mentally prepared.”
However, the eager young man wouldn’t be intimidated by such words.
He came from a family of swordsmen in the Jianghu, and he had endured hardship in practicing martial arts since childhood; he was not a pampered young master.
“Senior Brother, Ziqing is not afraid of hardship,” he replied sincerely.
“Good! Seeing that you’re still a little rookie, I’ll give you three extra brocade pouches.” Chu Huaixu took out what he had prepared, resembling Zhuge Liang.
“Rookie?” Xu Ziqing heard this word for the first time, but he could roughly guess its meaning.
“‘Cai,’ it should mean inferior,” he mused.
At this moment, he quickly took the brocade pouches with both hands.
In Xu Ziqing’s eyes, he was just a trash False Spiritual Embryo, while the person in front of him was a favored prodigy that even high-ranking members of the Daoist Sect paid attention to.
Chu Huaixu pointed to the three brocade pouches and said, “You can open the first brocade pouch when you complete the first cycle of internal energy circulation.”
“Open the second one when you feel stagnant.”
“Open the third one when you achieve minor success.”
He looked at the three brocade pouches with a smug expression, humming in his heart, “Little brother, can’t I win you over with this?”
Xu Ziqing quickly replied, “Yes!”
He could feel his senior brother’s earnest guidance and became increasingly respectful of him.
Before leaving, he also heard Chu Huaixu’s final instructions.
“Oh, right, practice your cultivation early, don’t do it in the middle of the night.” The sly fox could already guess what kind of scene would unfold.
Still don’t disturb my sleep.
After the refined young man left his room, Chu Huaixu sat cross-legged on the cushion.
He opened his character panel and checked his current [Free Experience Points] and [Cultivation Technique Experience Points].
The former was a little over a thousand, and the latter was a little over two thousand.
Together, they were enough for him to level up twice, with a little left over.
“The damned workaholic next door must be stimulated by now.” Chu Huaixu had noticed recently that Han Shuangjiang seemed quite competitive.
So what are we waiting for?
Let’s overwhelm this ice queen!
However, after much deliberation, he decided to level up just once tonight.
“With my current pain threshold and my astonishing willpower, I should be able to hold back my cries when I level up once.”
“If I level up twice in a row, my body will have a conditioned response, and I won’t be able to endure it. Little Xu will definitely hear it,” he thought.
He didn’t want to ruin his brilliant image in front of Xu Ziqing. As someone who worked as a virtual male model, he still had some star complex.
With this thought, Chu Huaixu leveled up once, opening the sixth acupoint within his body.
Endless pain surged, that familiar pain of being crushed all over.
He gritted his teeth, cold sweat broke out on his body, his body trembled uncontrollably, and his face turned pale.
In the end, relying on his willpower, he only let out a muffled groan.
Even so surprisingly, this muffled groan, if placed in an ASMR channel, would be quite alluring and suggestive.
After finally stopping his body’s trembling, Chu Huaixu stood up, preparing to sneak to the cold pond later under the cover of darkness.
He planned to explore the [Pill King’s Token] instance again to see if he could reuse resources and gain experience from it.
“This matter is best done sooner rather than later.”
“As far as I know, after some Secret Realms are explored, the sect will recycle them and convert them into trial grounds for disciples to gain experience.”
Chu Huaixu was already savoring the wonderful taste of water blades and Body Tempering Elixir.
But he wasn’t in a hurry to set off immediately.
Because he was still waiting for something.
Chu Huaixu looked expectantly towards Xu Ziqing’s room, “Calculating the time, he should have read the *Sword Refining Art* from beginning to end several times by now?”
InXu Ziqing’s small room within the bamboo house, he sat on the cushion, having already memorized the *Sword Refining Art*.
When he was at home, he could memorize any martial arts manual after reading it once, and master it after practicing.
The *Sword Refining Art* was his first cultivation technique, so he reread it three times, ensuring there were no oversights.
Before formally practicing, he focused his gaze on the booklet.
“After all, it’s a cultivation technique, so I can’t be as careless as when practicing ordinary martial arts.”
“I should read the insights of predecessors first,” the refined young man thought.
Xu Ziqing picked up the booklet.
“Don’t cultivate!” Xu Ziqing frowned as he opened the first page.
“Listen to advice!” Xu Ziqing’s frown deepened as he opened the second page.
“Peerless Divine Skill!” Xu Ziqing’s brow relaxed as he opened the third page.
