Chapter 302 : Breaking the Record

Chapter 302: Breaking the Record

The body-training divine ability—【Flesh Becomes Saint】!

Chu Huaixu sat within the first Imperial Pool and directly activated the Saint Body state.

Back in the Dao Ancestor Secret Realm, when he had soaked in Han Shuangjiang’s leftover “bathwater,” he had relied on the Saint Body to absorb a significantly greater amount of medicinal power.

Thus, he felt that he could try the same method here.

And sure enough, events unfolded exactly as he had expected.

“The Dao Ancestor’s leftover blessings—I can absorb more of them with my own methods. And now you think I can’t absorb what the Founding Emperor left behind?”

A warm current surged within his body once more, and Chu Huaixu absorbed another 5,000 points of Cultivation Method Experience.

Lin Qingci swept her Divine Sense over him and could detect that his body was still absorbing the power of the Imperial Pool.

“This seems to be… a body-training divine ability?” she speculated inwardly.

Soon, the voice of the Ancestor Emperor echoed in her mind.

His words were essentially a confirmation.

“A body-training divine ability!”

“This boy has actually awakened a body-training divine ability at the Third Realm!?”

“Under normal circumstances, many high-level body cultivators can go their entire lives without ever awakening such an ability!”

This was one of the reasons why body cultivators were often given the nickname “crude body cultivators.”

Spirit Embryo divine abilities were far easier to awaken, whereas body-training divine abilities were as difficult as ascending to the heavens.

The Ancestor Emperor continued, “And what kind of body-training divine ability is this? It’s so strange and yet so powerful!”

“Even I have never seen a body-training divine ability with such might!”

“Hahahaha, what a flawless body!”

His voice once again revealed boundless greed and satisfaction.

Hearing this, Lin Qingci knew that he likely looked down even more now on Qin Xuanxiao as a Vessel.

“He’s clearly not a pure body cultivator—he cultivates both sword and body—yet he still awakened a body-training divine ability?”

As she looked at Chu Huaixu’s body, she found it incomparably powerful.

For some reason, at this thought, Lin Qingci’s delicate body trembled slightly.

After quite some time, Chu Huaixu finally rose with satisfaction and left the first Imperial Pool.

He exited the Saint Body state. The mark on his brow instantly vanished, and the golden flames in his eyes extinguished.

Wearing only a necklace, and due to his exceptional natural endowment, he was… swinging as he walked.

Soon, he arrived before the second Imperial Pool.

“There’s a faint trace of blood color,” Chu Huaixu muttered, glancing downward.

After immersing himself, he clearly felt that the water temperature was hotter.

Experience Points still came in batches of several hundred at intervals.

“Exactly double?” Chu Huaixu narrowed his eyes.

He speculated that if the total amount in the second Imperial Pool was also exactly doubled, then ten beads would equal precisely 10,000 points.

“Ten thousand points isn’t much.”

“But if the third Imperial Pool is 20,000, the fourth is 40,000, and it keeps doubling like this…”

“That would be quite substantial!” Chu Huaixu felt a surge of excitement.

More importantly, with his body-training divine ability, he could double it again!

After doing some quick mental calculations, he arrived at a specific figure.

Of course, the final harvest was still uncertain.

After all, he wasn’t sure if he could obtain ten beads in every pool.

“But even so, it’ll still be a huge amount of Experience Points!”

Moreover, Chu Huaixu had heard that the stronger one’s cultivation, the greater the gains from the Imperial Pool.

Now, he even felt a bit regretful—his cultivation was only at the Third Realm.

“What a pity the Imperial Pool is meant for realm advancement, so all it gives is Cultivation Method Experience.”

“In other words, I can only use it to upgrade the Dao Canon.”

“If it were free Experience Points, I could splurge a bit and try learning Myriad Swords Converge!”

As before, once all ten beads lit up, Chu Huaixu activated his body-training divine ability.

In the end, he gained 20,000 Experience Points in the second Imperial Pool.

He stood up immediately without any pause.

Feeling as though Experience Points were calling out to him, he even jogged toward the third Imperial Pool.

As a result… the swinging became even more pronounced.

Since no one else was around, he even did a swimmer’s pre-dive warm-up in front of the third Imperial Pool.

“Three, two, one!” Chu Huaixu counted down for himself.

Then, he leapt forward.

Lin Qingci and the Ancestor Emperor: “…”

Due to a “cultural difference,” neither of them could quite understand what this young man was doing.

The third Imperial Pool had an even deeper blood-red hue.

As Chu Huaixu soaked within it, the Experience gain exceeded a thousand points each time.

As expected, it increased by a total of 20,000 points. After activating his body-training divine ability, it rose all the way to 40,000 points.

His gaze shifted forward—to the fourth Imperial Pool.

“When Qin Xuanxiao first came here, starting from the fourth pool, he only obtained nine beads.”

“So what about me?”

Although Chu Huaixu’s current special attributes already surpassed those of his main account in 《Borrowed Sword》, he knew that compared to a true World Protagonist, he was still lacking.

Thus, he wasn’t certain whether he could achieve better results than Qin Xuanxiao.

He pushed off the ground with both hands, putting on quite a show of a handsome man emerging from the bath.

He circulated the Spiritual Energy within his body, evaporating all residual moisture.

Standing before the fourth Imperial Pool, he let out a long breath.

“Now, I’ll find out the gap between me and the World Protagonist,” he thought.

After immersing himself, the sensation within his body could no longer be described as a warm current—it was more like a heatwave.

He closed his eyes and began regulating his breath, coordinating with his body to absorb the energy.

At this moment, he was also feeling somewhat competitive.

Before long, the first bead began to glow faintly.

Then the second, the third…

Behind the hazy mist, Lin Qingci watched the beads on the stone platform, a trace of curiosity appearing in her eyes.

Normally, her heart was like still water, rarely stirred.

Yet for some reason, today, she felt a hint of curiosity toward Chu Huaixu.

There was even a trace of regret.

“A peerless genius like this truly deserves the title of Xuanhuang Champion.”

“But unfortunately, he is about to have his soul completely destroyed.”

“Even the cultivation he worked so hard for will end up… as a wedding garment for someone else.”

Perhaps because she herself was about to offer up both her body and cultivation, Lin Qingci felt a sense of shared fate with him.

One by one, the beads lit up on the stone platform, quickly reaching the ninth.

Yet Chu Huaixu still did not rise.

Because within his body, the heatwave was still intensifying!

On his Character Panel, Experience Points continued to rise!

Soon, the tenth bead also lit up.

This meant he had broken Qin Xuanxiao’s record.

“Hmm?” Lin Qingci was quite surprised.

After all, she was essentially half a teacher to Qin Xuanxiao.

She knew he had made extensive preparations before entering the Imperial Pool.

Unlike Chu Huaixu, who had come in great haste.

Yet even so, he had performed better than Xuanxiao.

The Heir of Prince Rui had once been the most talented person she had ever seen.

Sure enough, there is always someone better.

At that moment, however, the Ancestor Emperor’s voice echoed in her mind once again.

“The reason he can achieve this… is because of the Origin Power within his body.”