Chapter 239 : Useless Little Xu Has a New Function Again

Chapter 239: Useless Little Xu Has a New Function Again

Chu Huaixu stood outside the bamboo house, using his Divine Sense to sense his surroundings.

He noticed that something filthy was flying toward him at a terrifying speed!

“So fast!”

So fast that it would reach him in just a few breaths’ time!

Two figures descended from the sky. Due to the extreme speed, Chu Huaixu could only make out two afterimages.

The newcomers were Jiang Zhi and Xu Ziqing.

Chu Huaixu glanced at them once and suddenly realized.

“So the filthy thing was Little Xu.” He thought.

The moment Xu Ziqing saw Chu Huaixu, joy surfaced on his face, and he respectfully called out, “Senior Brother!”

It had been a while since they last met, and he only felt that Senior Brother’s aura had become even more refined—his every gesture now exuded an even stronger presence!

“Oh? He’s already at Second Realm, Sixth Heaven. That’s a pretty fast cultivation speed. He must’ve popped quite a few pills.” Chu Huaixu thought.

Xu Ziqing had a Lower-grade Spirit Embryo and had chosen the painstaking Body Training path.

If he were cultivating normally, walking the “Natural Body Training” route, it would be impossible to progress this fast.

“Little Martial Uncle Ancestor.” Chu Huaixu first cupped his hands toward Jiang Zhi in salute.

Then, he looked Xu Ziqing up and down and said, “Little Xu.”

“Eh! Senior Brother!”

“You’ve awakened a Body Training Divine Ability?” he asked.

“As expected, nothing escapes Senior Brother’s eyes!” Xu Ziqing immediately replied.

Jiang Zhi, listening from the side, slightly twitched the corner of his mouth: “.”

“Then I’ll take my leave.” He prepared to depart immediately.

But just before flying off, he suddenly paused, looked at Chu Huaixu, and asked, “That day, the Jade Slip you acquired from the Kunlun Grotto-Heaven—any gains from it?”

“Not for now.” Chu Huaixu answered.

Regarding the Incarnation Outside the Body, he felt he needed to reflect further on it.

Since he couldn’t figure it out for now, he decided not to discuss it.

Little Martial Uncle Ancestor gave a slight nod, then soared into the sky and disappeared.

Hearing the commotion outside, Han Shuangjiang finally opened the door and peeked her head out.

“Senior Sister Han.” Xu Ziqing immediately greeted her obediently.

Seeing that Senior Sister Han was still living in her own bamboo house and hadn’t moved in with Senior Brother, Little Xu couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

On the way back, he had been quite worried that after becoming Dao Companions, Senior Sister Han and Senior Brother had already started living and eating together.

If a woman suddenly appeared in this bamboo house, then he’d have to be extra mindful in daily life—an awkward adjustment for a teenage boy.

Even if that woman was someone as familiar as Senior Sister Han.

“You’re back.” Han Shuangjiang gave him a gentle smile.

Xu Ziqing nodded seriously and said, “Mm! And Little Martial Uncle Ancestor told me there’s no need to return anymore—just head to Hidden Spirit Mountain periodically.”

He snuck a hopeful glance at Chu Huaixu’s face, looking for some hint of surprise.

But instead, he saw Chu Huaixu slightly frown and say, “You have to regularly go up the mountain to nurture that sword?”

“Yes.” The refined youth replied softly.

“What a hassle.” Chu Huaixu said with irritation.

After speaking, he had a change of heart. Although the title “Sword Attendant” sounded terrible, he could just think of it as Little Xu’s golden finger—a sort of cultivation chauffeur. With the right mindset, titles didn’t matter—he was the one who assigned them anyway!

“Forget it. As long as you’re back.” He said flatly.

Just those few words were enough to make Xu Ziqing beam with joy.

Chu Huaixu saw his happy face but didn’t understand what he was so happy about.

He simply said, “Show me your Body Training Divine Ability.”

Just as he finished speaking, he changed his mind again.

“Forget it, let’s just spar directly!”

“Bang—!”

Xu Ziqing, in his Fire God Body state, was sent flying by a single punch from Chu Huaixu.

The youth was knocked back several meters, skidding across the ground for a few more before slamming into a tree and cracking it.

Han Shuangjiang gave Chu Huaixu a mildly reproachful look, feeling he had gone too far.

It was just daily sparring—wasn’t a light tap enough?

She felt these two didn’t fear pain, and while their self-healing was excellent, there was no need to treat their bodies so recklessly.

Chu Huaixu, however, raised his own fist and glanced at it. His skin had been scorched—there was a burning sensation.

“Not ordinary fire. Interesting.” He commented.

If it had just been regular flame, it wouldn’t have harmed him at all.

The molten-looking patches of skin on Xu Ziqing’s body clearly had something special about them.

“What Second Realm technique are you cultivating now?” he asked.

“It’s the ‘Great Sun Annihilation Art’ selected by Little Martial Uncle Ancestor.”

“Heaven-rank?” Chu Huaixu pressed.

“Mm.” Xu Ziqing replied.

Chu Huaixu nodded slightly. He was beginning to see some complications in Little Xu’s future development.

The Body Training path had one major flaw: Heaven-rank Body Training techniques were incredibly rare.

There were relatively more available at lower realms.

But once you reached the Fifth Realm, Heaven-rank Body Training techniques weren’t just rare—they were nearly nonexistent!

Because very few had ever reached the level of Major Cultivator through Body Training alone.

Chu Huaixu even suspected that beyond the Seventh Realm, one would need to create their own techniques...

By comparison, the Dao Canon spared him a lot of trouble.

But then again, this guy had Comprehension 10. He could even fill in gaps in Earth-rank Techniques, so perhaps he’d be talented at inventing new ones too?

In truth, Dao Canon also had its issues.

“Aside from the Qi-opening Stage and First Realm, every cultivation method in it requires refining Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures beforehand.”

“Volume II of the Dao Canon was manageable, but Volume III demanded far rarer materials!”

“Even rarer than those needed for typical Third Realm Heaven-rank techniques!”

That meant cultivating it came with a steep financial price.

If it weren’t for Dao Birth One, Chu Huaixu probably couldn’t afford it.

“Aside from that, does your Divine Ability have any other traits?”

Xu Ziqing nodded.

“Yes. There’s something unique about it, so I borrowed a part of the ‘Sword Refining Art’ and named it ‘Furnace of Heaven and Earth’.”

“It speeds up the Body Tempering process, helping with daily training.”

Chu Huaixu found that reasonable and simply nodded casually.

That evening, the trio shared a simple dinner—just two extra dishes were added.

As usual, dishwashing was left to Little Xu.

No one hurried back to their rooms; instead, they chatted about their experiences from the past few days.

As night deepened, they finally returned to their rooms to cultivate.

Chu Huaixu, however, wasn’t cultivating. Instead, he took out a freshly refined pill from within Dao Birth One.

Besides that, he’d noticed something today.

“The ‘Power of Profound Crystal’ I refined—System shows its compatibility with me as 87%.”

“With Big Ice Block, it’s only 54%.”

“But with Little Xu, it’s 91%—even higher than mine.”

“Maybe it’s because I train both internally and externally, while he’s a pure Body Trainer?” Chu Huaixu speculated.

He did consider whether to just give the Power of Profound Crystal to Little Xu.

“Big Ice Block and I already possess the power of Dao Seal. Only Little Xu doesn’t.”

After thinking about it, Chu Huaixu decided there was no rush.

It wasn’t that he was unwilling to part with it.

He just thought the Power of Profound Crystal was barely equivalent to a two-character Dao Seal.

He was simply unimpressed.

The gap between two-character and three-character Dao Seals was enormous.

Still, just thinking “Dao Ancestor Bestowed a Seal, and I can too!” brought a smug joy to his heart.

That said, Chu Huaixu was advancing so rapidly now that Xu Ziqing, without the Bronze Sword, was already falling behind.

Little Xu was beginning to seem a bit useless.

But just then, he suddenly sensed the surrounding temperature beginning to rise.

“Is he tempering his body using the ‘Furnace of Heaven and Earth’?” Chu Huaixu wondered.

What was alarming, however, was that even his own room was being affected—the temperature was soaring rapidly!

After a while, Chu Huaixu couldn’t help but look down at his own body. A flicker of surprise passed through his eyes as he let out a:

“Hm?”