Chapter 66: The Evil Sword on the Mountain [Requesting First Subscription!]
2025-08-18 Author: Kindergarten Leader
Chapter 66: The Evil Sword on the Mountain [Requesting First Subscription!]
Within the Secret Realm, Xu Ziqing’s face was filled with turmoil.
“Senior Brother has the grace of rebirth to me!”
“No matter what I offer in return, it’s only right.”
“However, my entire family died because of it…”
This was the most difficult choice for the refined young man. He felt he couldn’t make this decision alone.
After much deliberation, Xu Ziqing thought of a compromise.
“You must all be watching me from heaven, right?”
The young man took out the third brocade pouch Chu Huaixu had given him.
The note within this brocade pouch had already been carefully refolded along its original creases and placed back inside.
“If you have spirits in heaven, Ziqing will toss this brocade pouch.”
“If it lands face up, it means you grant your consent for me to give that thing to Senior Brother.”
“If it lands face down, it means you do not wish for it.”
Xu Ziqing took a deep breath and gently tossed the brocade pouch upward.
The brocade pouch did not fall to the ground and get dusty. He was sitting on the ground now, spreading out his robes. He had controlled the direction of the toss, and the brocade pouch landed on his clothes.
—Face down!
Xu Ziqing’s gaze sharpened, and he was lost in thought for a long time, not expecting it to be face down.
But after a while, the refined young man began to talk to himself, recounting Chu Huaixu’s kindness to him.
“Father, Mother, Grandmother, little sister, you might not know, but Senior Brother he…” He chattered on.
It was as if the face-down result was because his deceased family members knew too little.
After speaking, he looked upward again and said, “Senior Brother is so good to me. If you have spirits in heaven, counting the previous toss, I will have tossed it three times. If two out of the three times are face up, then you grant your consent for this matter.”
He tossed it twice more, and both times it landed face up.
A relieved smile spread across the refined young man’s lips.
“As expected! Father, Mother, Grandmother, little sister, I knew you felt the same way!”
“Don’t worry, Ziqing will diligently cultivate with Senior Brother’s help and avenge you soon!” he declared with ambition.
After resting for a while longer, Xu Ziqing adjusted to his enhanced physique and jumped back into the pool.
He could now clearly feel that the water blades were not as painful.
As his physical fitness improved, his pain threshold also increased. He understood the profoundness of the Sword Refining Art, which his Senior Brother called a peerless divine technique.
The refined young man no longer felt the slow torture of the water pool.
This is a required lesson from Senior Brother!
He even wondered, “Did Senior Brother himself go through this same process?”
“He must have trained here too.”
At this thought, Chu Huaixu’s indifferent demeanor appeared in Xu Ziqing’s mind.
“I am far inferior to Senior Brother,” the young man sighed.
Time moved forward by two days.
Han Shuangjiang leaned against the door of the bamboo house, watching Chu Huaixu spar with Liu Chenggong from afar.
She had grown somewhat accustomed to the noise outside the house.
The cold-faced girl had been cultivating more diligently in recent days, unwilling to be left far behind by Chu Huaixu.
With her efforts, she had also reached the level of the eighth acupoint.
The Profound Yin Physique was truly terrifying, and her breakthrough speed was astonishing.
“I should be able to attempt to break through to the ninth acupoint tomorrow,” Han Shuangjiang thought.
At that time, she would be able to go to the Scripture Pavilion.
The girl had been looking forward to this day for a long time.
At this moment, watching Chu Huaixu and Liu Chenggong spar with great enjoyment, she felt a bit perplexed.
“Didn’t he break through the eighth acupoint a few days ago?”
“Why has he made no progress these past few days?”
“Is he busy sparring, or is he intentionally waiting for me?”
Han Shuangjiang couldn’t find the answer.
Sometimes she felt as if she understood him well, but then she would suddenly feel that she only knew him superficially.
This man seemed to harbor many secrets.
Despite having a low-grade Spiritual Embryo, his cultivation speed was even faster than her supreme-grade Spiritual Embryo.
Judging by his current combat power, if she were to spar with him, she probably wouldn’t last more than a few moves.
She felt an inexplicable curiosity towards Chu Huaixu.
However, she still remembered the teachings of her sisters fromHongxiu Zhao.
“Shuangjiang, women must never be curious about men. Look at our sisters here. Many of their initial encounters with patrons were fleeting romances, just a night of passion. But it was the curiosity, the desire to understand the other person, that led them to fall step by step, eventually even refusing payment.”
Han Shuangjiang didn’t believe her sisters were entirely correct, as their establishment was a place of pleasure, but there seemed to be a sliver of truth to it.
Just as she was lost in thought, she heard Chu Huaixu speak.
“Senior Brother Liu, let’s stop here for today,” Chu Huaixu said, raising his hand.
“Hm? Ending so early today?” This surprised Liu Chenggong.
He was too tired. These past few days had been exhausting.
This brat in front of him was like he’d taken medicine, full of vigor!
No matter how hard he worked the previous day, he was bouncing around energetically the next morning.
As a normal person, Liu Chenggong’s fatigue would accumulate. What else could he do? He could only brace himself and actually take medicine!
Every day when he returned home, Liu Chenggong would have his Taoist companion prepare nourishing food for him.
Before leaving, he would take a Qi and Blood Pill. Today, he felt it wasn’t potent enough, so he took two pills at once.
As a result, the effect of my medicine hasn’t worn off yet, and I’m still feeling hot-blooded. You’re telling me we’re done fighting? What should I do with all this passion?
Unbeknownst to him, in Chu Huaixu’s eyes, this tool had lost all its value.
Just a moment ago, he had gained another 40 experience points, officially reaching the full 1200 experience points.
Continuing to spar would be meaningless unless he suddenly experienced a surge in strength and could crush Liu Chenggong on the ground; then he wouldn’t mind tormenting him a few times.
“Alright, Junior Brother Chu, I’ll come again tomorrow morning then?” Tool Liu Chenggong had gradually formed a habit.
“No need. I plan to break through to the ninth acupoint tonight. I’ll probably have to go to the Scripture Pavilion tomorrow morning,” Chu Huaixu said.
Hearing this, Liu Chenggong’s heart stirred.
Listen to that tone, as if breaking through whenever he wanted depended purely on his mood.
Han Shuangjiang, standing nearby, got her answer: “He really was intentionally not breaking through, intentionally waiting for me.”
The deputy captain of the enforcement team could only offer his congratulations: “Then congratulations, Junior Brother Chu! I wish Junior Brother Chu success in finding a cultivation technique he desires in the Scripture Pavilion.”
“I borrow your good words, Senior Brother Liu,” Chu Huaixu said with a smile.
After Liu Chenggong left, Chu Huaixu turned around and looked at the beautiful figure in the neighboring bamboo house.
“You can break through tonight, right?” he asked.
“Definitely,” the big ice block replied.
Returning to his room, Chu Huaixu took off his clothes, which were so dirty they were unusable from sparring.
He habitually hung his dirty clothes at Xu Ziqing’s door, waiting for him to return so they could be washed together.
“Little Xu, why haven’t you come back yet? If you don’t come back soon, Senior Brother won’t have any clean clothes to wear,” he muttered to himself.
So many days had passed in the blink of an eye, yet Xu Ziqing was still absorbing the medicinal liquid in the Secret Realm.
This further convinced Chu Huaixu that the kid was a naturally endowed Saint Body of Medicinal Absorption.
“If I had this physique, I could have at least milked another 2000 experience points from the Secret Realm. Why would I need to resort to stupid methods like sparring?”
“Isn’t it better to swim naked in the pool?” he thought speechlessly.
Sitting cross-legged on the cushion, Chu Huaixu did not rush to level up immediately.
He feared that he would pass out from the pain and miss dinner, having to eat cold food.
Usually, he would choose to level up at night and sleep soundly afterwards.
The thought of becoming a nine-acupoint expert soon brought a smile to Chu Huaixu’s face.
A mere level 9 shouldn’t have made him so happy.
The main reason was… the nine acupoints were the pinnacle of the Sword Refining Art!
“This means I’ve officially graduated. Screw you, stupid ‘Dysmenorrhea’!”
Chu Huaixu, who had suffered greatly, felt that good days lay ahead.
“From now on, I’ll be watching Little Xu cry out all by himself~” He found this prospect incredibly satisfying.
As night fell, Xu Ziqing still hadn’t returned.
“He can absorb that much?”
Chu Huaixu was speechless. Why didn’t the so-called scientific and moderate drug-taking work for him?
Just give him medicine and he gets stronger, right?
He discarded these distracting thoughts, no longer envying the protagonists of the world. He felt he needed to be down-to-earth, take it one step at a time, and rely on his own efforts.
“System, upgrade me!”
In an instant, the extremely blocked ninth acupoint within his body became unobstructed!
With the nine acupoints now fully open, the Spiritual Embryo Treasury formed its own cycle. Heavenly spiritual energy could now enter the body, pass through the nine acupoints, and transform into Spiritual Power within the body!
The surrounding spiritual energy began to surge madly, ceaselessly tempering and pounding Chu Huaixu’s physical body.
In less than a moment, overwhelming pain engulfed him.
Even though his pain threshold was already so high, at this moment, he still felt as if he was going mad.
The torture he endured now was comparable to the combined pain of opening the previous eight acupoints!
The sensation of his entire body being crushed by a heavy object made him doubt if his flesh and blood were already a bloody mess.
He was no longer a person, but rather a pulped mass of a person?
“Damn it, it’s a truck!” This was Chu Huaixu’s last thought.
He suspected he was walking on a national highway and had been run over by the legendary “Ton-and-a-Half” truck.
Chu Huaixu collapsed onto the cushion, convulsing violently, but a glow flowed across the skin of his entire body!
Within his sea of consciousness, the sickly black sword was surprisingly active at this moment.
It began to vibrate, as if wanting to be unsheathed.
The next moment, the entire Medicine Mountain began to tremble slightly, as if an earthquake had struck.
The “Mountains Beyond Mountains” area where the Daoist Sect was located, every peak experienced the same!
A large number of Daoist disciples were startled. This phenomenon had never occurred before.
“Is there an earthquake outside?”
“Can there be an earthquake in Mountains Beyond Mountains?”
“Impossible. Even if there was an earthquake outside, Mountains Beyond Mountains has a sect-protecting formation, so it shouldn’t be affected!”
Unless the tremor originated from within the sect-protecting formation!
The higher-ups of the Daoist Sect were also greatly alarmed and flew out in full force towards the most central area of “Mountains Beyond Mountains” – Hidden Spirit Mountain!
Because the source of this earthquake was from here.
For some reason, the sword on the summit of Hidden Spirit Mountain began to vibrate and emit bursts of sword hums!
At the summit, there was a stone platform.
Next to the stone platform stood a stone tablet, and in front of the stone tablet lay a carving knife.
The stone tablet was very tall, with only two large characters on it – “Junzi” (Gentleman).
These two characters were written vertically.
Below them were dense small characters, as if others had filled in the spaces beneath these two characters with a word or phrase and then carved it with the knife.
On the stone platform, a sword scabbard lay flat. It was entirely black, exuding an ancient aura.
A pendant hung from the sword scabbard, which was a black bead. Below the bead was a black tassel.
And above the sword scabbard, a sword hovered.
The tip of the sword pointed downward, and the hilt pointed upward.
This was actually a bronze sword, but it was slightly longer than ordinary bronze swords, and its color was darker, appearing greenish-black.
At this very moment, this bronze sword was vibrating and emitting bursts of sword hums!
And as it trembled, the entire Hidden Spirit Mountain also trembled!
Although it was suspended in mid-air, it could still influence the entire mountain.
It was as if an invisible force connected this sword to the mountain.
It was as if it were locked onto this mountain.
—The sword was furious.
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(End of this chapter)
