Chapter 86: The noble person employs things, not for things to employ
2025-08-18 Author: Kindergarten Master
Chapter 86: The noble person employs things, not for things to employ
The main hall of the Daoist Sect was silent.
The scene before them surpassed everyone’s expectations.
Could this still be a Sword Attendant?
After a long while, the squinting Fifth Elder, Zhao Shuqi, couldn’t help but open his mouth and repeat:
“The noble person employs things, not for things to employ?”
It was clear that when he spoke the same words, his tone was different from Chu Huaixu’s hysterical roar.
The hearts of these cultivators with profound cultivation stirred.
On the Gentleman Stele of Hidden Spirit Mountain, beside that peerless sword, such a sentence appeared!
Although the words on the stele were ugly, they “read” them over and over with their Divine Sense, and the turmoil in their hearts did not cease.
“Could Junior Uncle have found the wrong person? Is this really the Sword Attendant mentioned in the Dao Ancestor’s箴言?” Enforcement Elder Lu Pan couldn’t help but question.
“Yes, this is completely going against it!” Nangong Yue replied.
She had just been so startled that her mountain trembled like Hidden Spirit Mountain.
Chu Yinyin, bold and daring, spoke the most: “We can’t tell now. Anyway, the current situation is either the Dao Ancestor is wrong, or Junior Uncle is wrong!”
No one dared to respond to her words.
As a result, she was met with another reprimand from the Enforcement Elder: “Junior Sister, speak with caution!”
The mature young woman pouted and snorted, resolutely saying nothing!
“The noble person employs things, not for things to employ.” Sect Master Xiang Yan kept repeating the sentence in a low voice.
After a long while, Xiang Yan couldn’t help but speak softly, questioning his heart:
“Perhaps we really shouldn’t place all our hope of saving the world on one sword?”
What’s more, it was an evil sword.
As soon as these words were spoken, the Daoist Sect’s main hall fell into a long silence again.
At the foot of Hidden Spirit Mountain, Li Chunsong’s eyes narrowed, and he was speechless for a long time.
Chu Huaixu was teleported down by the teleportation array.
As soon as he landed, he felt his head spin, and his vision went black.
Although he had leveled up again, he had been under the spiritual pressure for too long and had forcibly endured the spiritual pressure to carve the words. Now that he relaxed, he staggered precariously.
The Sixth Elder flicked his sleeve and said, “Rest for a while.”
A cool and mysterious airflow washed over Chu Huaixu, and he fell asleep.
“To be in such poor condition and still persist, this kid truly has a Dao heart as firm as a rock, and is very stubborn!” he sighed.
Chu Huaixu slowly lay down, enveloped by Spiritual Power.
Han Shuangjiang immediately went to check on his condition and squatted beside him.
She looked up and asked, “Sixth Elder, is he alright?”
“Yes, his self-healing ability is very strange. He will be fine after resting,” he said.
This person, who had previously called it an evil technique, immediately changed his tune and began to praise it highly: “As expected of the ‘Dao Canon’ passed down by the Dao Ancestor!”
This made the “big ice block” stunned, thinking to herself: “Does the ‘Dao Canon’ have such an effect? I’ve never heard of it.”
Although everyone described the ‘Dao Canon’ with the four words “righteous and peaceful,” everyone knew in their hearts that this cultivation technique was actually unremarkable.
Li Chunsong looked down at Chu Huaixu and couldn’t help but sigh, “Shuangjiang, do you know what words this kid carved on the Gentleman Stele after climbing to the mountain peak?”
“Disciple doesn’t know, please Elder enlighten me.” She was immediately filled with curiosity.
The Sixth Elder’s voice deepened, saying: “The noble person employs things, not for things to employ!”
Han Shuangjiang seemed to understand but was also somewhat confused.
Li Chunsong smiled at her and said, “The sword left by the Dao Ancestor on the mountain wanted to control him. In fact, as long as he took it down, he could obtain a part of its power, but he refused.”
The “big ice block” finally understood and couldn’t help but lower her eyelids, taking a deep look at the sleeping Chu Huaixu.
For some reason, she thought: “This is the kind of person who would do such a thing.”
Inwardly, she knew she couldn’t do it.
If she had the chance to be chosen by a sword, she would also not be willing to become a slave to the sword.
Because Han Shuangjiang’s original intention in cultivating was to control her own destiny!
But to do something so reckless and youthful as Chu Huaixu, she was afraid she couldn’t.
At this thought, the cold and elegant girl suddenly felt like laughing.
“So it was for this that he sprinted up the mountain in such a hurry?”
“You are truly ‘vengeful’,” she thought.
Li Chunsong glanced at the young man and woman and said, “I’ll take you two back first. Please take care of him for now.”
“Yes, Sixth Elder,” Han Shuangjiang accepted the order.
She was already a bit used to taking care of this dead fox.
As for the degenerate gambler, he knew he had to return to the main hall to discuss important matters with everyone.
Of course, before that, he had to collect all the winnings from his bet!
As the sky gradually darkened, night fell.
Chu Huaixu slowly woke up in his bedroom.
The “big ice block,” sitting by the wooden table and toying with the ‘Partridge Heaven,’ was like a girl playing with her new toy, touching it here and there, drawing the sword out of its sheath.
Seeing that he was awake, she immediately put down the spiritual sword as if nothing had happened.
After Li Chunsong sent them back, he also guarded Han Shuangjiang for a while, watching her recognize the ‘Partridge Heaven’ by dripping blood, and use her innate technique to refine it into a natal magical treasure.
After recognizing its master, the spiritual sword was no longer as fawning as it had been on the mountain.
“You’re awake. Are you hungry? Do you want me to make you something to eat right now?” The cold maiden immediately stood up and said.
“Yes, I am indeed very tired and hungry,” Chu Huaixu replied.
“Okay, I’ll go now.” Han Shuangjiang immediately walked out of the bedroom.
Chu Huaixu looked at her slender back, never expecting that the strong female lead in the ‘Sword Borrowing Art’ story would actually be quite the good wife and mother.
He sat down cross-legged and first looked outside the room.
“Why is that dead kid still in the cold pond? Another day has passed, and he still hasn’t come out?”
“I need to find time to check on him. What if he died in the Secret Realm?”
“What kind of crap physique is this? It takes so many days to absorb body-quenching liquid. Is there no limit?”
After envying him intensely, Chu Huaixu first opened his character panel to check the harvest from this trip.
“Two missions, a total of 60,000 experience points. The second time, no points were deducted; the value was the same.”
“I leveled up twice, costing nearly 18,000, leaving over 42,000.”
“I won’t continue leveling up tonight. It’s too torturous.” Chu Huaixu decided to take a breather and not push himself too hard.
In this situation, if he were to still race against time to level up, he would suspect that his preferences had changed, and he had been “disciplined” by the ‘Sword Refining Art’ and the ‘Dao Canon’.
He continued to look at the character panel and his gaze fell on the [Random Attribute Points].
“Fortunately, fortunately, for the second mission, I was also rewarded with attribute points!”
Chu Huaixu even began to feel regret because he couldn’t find another opportunity to go up the mountain.
“I still want to farm!”
“If there’s a chance in the future, I’ll go a few more times,” he thought to himself.
However, based on his understanding of the mission system, it was unlikely to be infinitely farmable, and there would probably be a reward cap.
At this moment, Chu Huaixu emulated the degenerate gambler Li Chunsong and vigorously rubbed his hands.
“Let’s draw lots, let’s draw lots~~~” He was in high spirits, sweeping away the gloom from the mountain.
The familiar big roulette wheel appeared before his eyes, and Chu Huaixu’s mindset was very good.
He was only in the First Realm, and his attributes were still very low. Any attribute addition would be beneficial, and he could accept any of them.
The big roulette wheel began to spin, and the pointer finally landed on [Comprehension].
“Oh, it’s actually Comprehension?”
“Not bad, not bad, it’s time to grow a brain!” He teased himself.
[Comprehension] was equally important to Chu Huaixu. If it didn’t increase, he wouldn’t be able to access many high-level [Skills], nor would he be able to continuously upgrade them.
“Looking at it this way, ‘Myriad Swords Return to the Origin’ is the most bizarre.”
“It’s the only Heaven-tier Spell that has no Comprehension threshold, it just costs a million experience points.”
“Tsk, the more I look at it, the more it seems like the system is trying to scam me.”
“But this also fits its characteristics. After all, after a thousand years, no one has figured out exactly how to learn it.”
Speaking of which, [Comprehension] was indeed a pressing need for Chu Huaixu at the moment.
“The higher the Comprehension, the less experience points are needed to learn and upgrade skills.”
“I haven’t learned any skills yet, so I can save some money.”
“Fortunately, I wasn’t impatient before!” He gave himself a silent compliment.
Immediately after, Chu Huaixu began to rub his hands again.
“‘Comprehension +2’, that’s enough for now. ‘Physique’! Give it to me!”
It was clear that he was becoming a bit reckless.
Since he was cultivating both internally and externally, and had already embarked on the path of Body Refining, what else could he do? Of course, he had to pile up [Physique].
But soon, Chu Huaixu’s eyes narrowed, and his breathing couldn’t help but falter.
“No way, am I hitting the jackpot today?”
The pointer landed in the smallest area on the roulette wheel.
This was [Spiritual Embryo Attribute]!
A divine power began to grow within him.
Chu Huaixu quickly calmed his mind, entered a state of meditation, and observed his [Spiritual Embryo Treasury], as well as the black sword in his sea of consciousness.
A warmth generated within him, somewhat similar to when he swallowed the Profound Heaven Fetal Respiration Pill.
They first surged towards Chu Huaixu’s limbs and bones, and then all poured into the Spiritual Embryo Treasury.
After the warmth was completely absorbed, he suddenly felt a surge of spirit!
The black sword in his sea of consciousness, although still a weakened sword, seemed to be in better condition!
This made Chu Huaixu somewhat regretful.
“If I could go up the mountain again now, I could definitely engrave those eight characters on the Gentleman Stele more beautifully!”
“Besides that, the spiritual pressure brought by the bronze sword would definitely be reduced significantly, and I would be able to withstand it even more!”
He let out a long sigh, got out of bed, and felt cheerful.
Chu Huaixu increasingly realized the terrifying power of the Heart Sword, which would be one of his greatest dependencies.
Tonight, he had finally shaken off the label of a low-grade spiritual embryo.
Heart Sword Spiritual Embryo, now mid-grade!
(End of this chapter)
